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  PBR, Physically-Based Rendering, is the new hotness in the CG world, especially with the increasing popular of Substance Painter.  The end result of that process is a number of textures specifically for channels such as Roughness, Metallic, etc.  Taking the results from Substance to Blender however hasn’t always been the easiest.  Now there exists […]

  Wave Engine, the cross platform C# based 2D/3D engine we looked at a while back, just released version 2.0.5.  The following new features were added in this release:   Viewport Manager is now VirtualScreenManager Per Scene View Configuration Anchors – position elements using screen coordinates 64 bit support   You can read more details, […]

  Kha is a cross platform, open source, cross platform game engine for Haxe developers.  Also, as was just recently covered, they also launched Kode Studio, an IDE for Kha and eventually Haxe development.  With all of these recent launches, they also just relaunched their website at kha.tech.  The new design is much cleaner and […]

  NeoAxis, a C# based game engine with a rich tool suite including a full map editor, just released version 3.4.  A somewhat minimal release in anticipation of version 4. Features from the release: Updated tools skin. Latest PhysX 3.3.4. Works faster and is more stable. Good character physics, improved car physics, fixed terrain problems. […]

  Tiled, the open source map editor, just release a minor update in the form of 0.15.1.   This release added/fixed/changed the following features: Fixed adding/removing object name labels when set to always visible (#1171) Fixed a problem with ‘Execute in Terminal’ on OS X Fixed mouse coordinate conversion for hexagonal renderer Fixed image layer offset […]

  Gdx-ai, an artificial intelligence library (steering, formations, pathfinding and more)  for LibGDX just release version 1.8.  From the change log: [1.8.0] – Updated to libgdx 1.9.1 – API Change and Addition: Pathfinding API * Added method getIndex to the interface IndexedGraph. * Removed classes DefaultIndexedGraph and IndexedNode. – API Change and Addition: Behavior Tree […]

  Title pretty much says it all.  Unity just announced device support for the New Nintendo 3DS (that is actually the name, called the 3DS LL in Japan).  In case you are wondering, yes Unity already supported the 3DS as a platform, this announcement is specifically about the new model.  It appears to be a […]

  Continuing in their weekly release schedule, a new preview release is available for Unreal 4.11.  As always, these preview releases are very much in development and should be used only by the brave of heart of weak of mind! 😉 In this release we get: Fixed! UE-25870 Crash opening level blueprintFixed! UE-25927 Crash upon […]

  Another week another Unity patch.  Windows version available here, while the Mac version is available here.  This one is composed of the usual assortment of bug fixes and improvements: Improvements IL2CPP: Removed warnings from generated C++ code when compiling with clang. Fixes (754282) – 2D: Fixed memory leak when applying changes to sprite. (741003) […]

  AMD announced the launch of the GPUOpen initiative.  It is essentially a collection of code, documentation and tools for accessing modern day GPUs.  Although they may not be winning too many battles on the silicon front, AMD’s software initiatives have certainly had an impact, such as Mantle essentially becoming Vulkan, the next version of […]