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  Ever heard of FMOD?  As far as game libraries go, FMOD is perhaps one of the most ubiquitous libraries in existence.  It is a low level audio library and the question isn’t really who uses it, but who doesn’t.  FMOD is integrated into just about every game engine you can think of including CryEngine, […]

  Yesterday the Blender Foundation announced the release of Blender 2.7 RC, a preview build of the upcoming full 2.7 version.  This release is going to jump out at you immediately as they have started refining the UI.  Now sidebar actions are group in context sensitive tabs making the bar much less cluttered.   This […]

  If you’ve been a regular reader of my blog you will probably know that I am not Eclipse’s biggest cheerleader.  “I hate it” might be a bit strong, but not by much.  Recently though, I’ve been forced to use it more and more.  Frankly, if you want to work in cross platform Java, especially […]

  New install here and I am having a bit of an issue with Live Writer.  Normally, each of these style headings will show a preview of what each one should look like.  This is what it currently looks like, and yeah, this is very much not right.     So, this is a test […]

You can head over to their website and download it completely free.  RenderDoc in their words is: Renderdoc™ is a standalone program that can be used to capture and replay frames from any Windows application using Direct3D 11.0 or 11.1, and provides tools for deep analysis and graphics inspection, as well as detailed examination of […]

  Last month I wrote about creating and exporting a model from Blender to LIbGDX.  Part of the process involved exporting to FBX then running fbx-conv.  Wouldn’t it be nice if you could export directly from Blender?  Thankfully you can!  A week or so back @Dancovich told me about his Blender plugin on Twitter.  I […]

I literally spent hours on this and it didn’t work.  So I decided to strip it down to absolute basics, create a barebones solution and figure out exactly what is going wrong.   The kicker is, the answer is nothing, it works exactly as expected.  Want to manipulate a bone in a Model in LibGDX […]

  About a month ago I reported that the Godot game engine was going open source.  Today it finally has.  In their own words, Godot is: Godot is a fully featured, open source, MIT licensed, game engine. It focuses on having great tools, and a visual oriented workflow that can export to PC, Mobile and […]

This is one of those things I’ve been fighting with for the past few days so I thought I would share a bit.   First a bit of a primer for those of you that aren’t all that familiar with bones yet.  Bones are a common way of animating 3D geometry.  Essentially you add an […]

So i’ve posted a lot lately about my recent experiences with working with bones exported from Blender to LibGDX.  I encountered two problems, first only the base of the bone was available once exported.  Second, bones that were external to the mesh weren’t being updated.  The first isn’t really a big deal, except the solution […]