I was recently working with a tool that exported it’s level data as a directory full of obj files, literally hundreds of them.  You can import them into Blender using File->Import->Obj, unfortunately there is no way to do a select all.  Apparently in Blender 2.4x if you held SHIFT while selecting OBJ import, it […]

  A reader wrote in to share this bundle currently running on BundleStars, and I am glad they did.  Somewhat similar to a humble indie bundle from a few months back but containing a great deal more art assets.  I’ve actually used the tilesets from the earlier humble bundle several times here on GFS, so […]

  When I set up the news monitoring on GameFromScratch.com I noticed that Ogre3D hadn’t had an update since June and was somewhat concerned that the project was dying off.  Thankfully today there were signs of life over at ogre3d.org.  If you have never heard of it, Ogre3D is a C++ based renderer and scene […]

  GarageGames have just released Torque2D version 3.2.  Torque2D is 2D game engine built over the Torque 3D engine, which is now open source and MIT licensed. From the release: While you were singing carols door to door and sipping eggnog by the fireplace, the T2D Steering Committee was hard at work wrapping up one […]

  So over the holiday I joined the VR revolution with a Samsung GearVR while I wait for the Oculus Rift to be released.  The good news is, it’s really quite cool, except a full review shortly.  However, one of the challenges of reviewing something like the GearVR on the web is taking a screenshot…  […]

  A couple months back I got sick of having to wear a headset when doing video recording.  I had been using a set of Astro A30 headphones which gave solid results, but I found them uncomfortable after extended periods of recording and didn’t like being tethered to my machine.  So I decided to try […]

  This series is a recap of GameFromScratch’s previous week activity on YouTube.   This week was pretty sparse because it was the week of the Christmas holiday.  Happy holiday folks!  There were however still four videos this week:   A Completely Random Look at 123D Sculpt a freely available tablet based sculpting application from […]

  Care of /r/gamedev, Ultraviolet released version 1.3.  In their own words, Ultraviolet is: Ultraviolet is a cross-platform, .NET game development framework written in C# and released under the MIT License. It is heavily inspired by Microsoft’s XNA Framework, and is intended to be easy for XNA developers to quickly pick up and start using. […]

  ShiVa, a 3D WYSIWYG game engine, just released ShiVa 2.0 Beta 4.   From the release: Beta 4 features When we changed the rendering pipeline with Beta 3, we intended to move ShiVa into a better, more future-proof direction, that would give us lots of room for exciting new features in the future. Unfortunately, […]

  Unity just released the first patch for Unity 5.3. From the release notes: Improvements (706098) – Compute: Improved compute shader import times, particularly on Windows (since 5.1 we were always compiling them for GL4.3+GLES3.1 too, while most people only need DX11). (754898) – GI: Light probes and ambient (everything with SH calculations) match ground […]