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This is a casual, slightly unstructured tutorial covering the task of lighting in the Godot 4.x (Godot 4.2 specifically in this example) game engine. We cover topics including lighting and shadows, world environment, emissive textures, global illumination and more. The tutorial is video only and uses assets from the GameMasters […]
Godot 4.x 3D Tutorial: Lighting, Shadows and Global Illumination Read More
The Flax 3D game engine just released Flax Engine 1.8. This release adds several new features including .NET 8/ C#12 support, a new integrated UI building tool and much more. Details of the Flax Engine 1.8 release from the Flax blog: We’re happy to release Flax 1.8! It brings lots of great
Flax Engine 1.8 Released Read More
Former EA CEO John Riccitiello was at the helm of Unity for almost a decade and during that time Unity have made several major moves. Among the highlights of the Riccitiello era include: So… how did these acquisitions and developments turn out? Well: So… not great. Although they still have Ziva
The De-Riccitiello-ification of Unity Read More
The popular Babylon JS Game Engine for creating 3D games that can run on the web just released Babylon 7. Key features of this release include: Key Links BabylonJS Homepage Babylon 7 Release Notes GitHub Repository You can learn more about Babylon 7 watching the following video or clicking the
BabylonJS 7 Game Engine Released Read More
It is time for the first Epic Games Unreal Engine asset giveaway for April 2024. The first Tuesday of every month Epic Games give away a number of Unreal Engines from the UE Asset Marketplace and April is no exception. This month we have 5 “Free for the Month” assets,
Unreal April 2024 Asset Giveaway Read More
Meshcapade is an interesting new free* online service for creating digital avatars MetaHuman style, then animating them using a massive animation library in a Mixamo like manner. There are also tools for creating avatars by uploading images or scanning from webcam as well as for creating animations by uploading a
Meshcapade – Mixamo x MetaHumans Read More
In the wake of yesterday’s news that Canva had acquired Affinity/Serif many in the GFS audience were rightly concerned that Canva were going to make Affinity subscription based software. Thankfully, the combined teams just emailed out the following pledge to several Affinity customers (but oddly, not everyone): The Affinity And
Affinity and Canva Release Pledge Read More
GDC has wrapped up and although a pretty quiet even from Unity, they did release the Unity 6 and beyond development roadmap. Unity describe the roadmap session as follows: Looking toward the future, we dedicated a session to the roadmap for not only Unity 6, but all of the complementary
Unity 6 Roadmap at GDC 2024 Read More
Scheduled for release last week, Blender 4.1 was unfortunately delayed a bit to fix some last minute issues. Thankfully the wait is over and Blender 4.1 is here. The wait was worth it though as Blender 4.1 adds several new features including: Key Links Blender Homepage Blender 4.1 Release Notes
Blender 4.1 Released Read More
Canva have just announced they are buying Affinity, the makers of some of the best Adobe alternatives available including Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo. Unlike Adobe, Affinity applications are available under a very reasonable one time purchase price with no subscriptions in sight. Details of the Canva Affinity acquisition from
