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Last year Unity acquired Artomatix creators of the AI assisted Art Engine application. This program aims to make the process of making game ready textures easier by automating tasks such as removing seams, creating mutated versions and more. At GDC 2021 this year Unity announced that ArtEngine is available until …
Hands-On With Unity’s ArtEngine AI Powered Texturing Tool Read More
Photogrammetry is becoming increasingly common in the world of game development, cumulating in Epic Games recent acquisition of Capturing Reality, creator of Reality Capture. Photogrammetry is essentially the process of recreating 3D objects and textures from a series of images and is a technique used to capture many of the …
Storm Engine, the game engine behind the Sea Dogs and Pirates of the Caribbean games, was just open sourced under the GPLv3 source license. This is the source code for the game engine alone, and does not include the source code for the game. This release is primarily intended to …
Tiled, the most popular 2D open source map editor, just released version 1.5. If you are interested in learning more about Tiled, we have a multi-part tutorial series available here. The 1.5 release includes the following features: Wang and Terrain tools unified into a single toolset Terrain tools now support …
Autodesk have just released 2022 updates of their flagship products, 3ds Max, Maya and MotionBuilder. Of the three products, Maya got by far the most love in this release window. Apparently Autodesk have decided that skipping 2021 is a good idea, something I’m not sure I disagree with at this …
Unity have just released two new versions of the Unity game engine, the 2021.1 Tech Stream release and the 2020 LTS version. The LTS release stands for Long Term Support and will continue to see bug fixes and security patches, but otherwise remains stable. The Tech Stream contains more new …
Unity 2021.1 Tech Stream And Unity 2020 LTS Released Read More
There is a new Humble of interest to game developers, the Game Dev, Design & Graphics by Mercury bundle. It’s a collection of ebooks around the topics of game development, graphics and design from Mercury Press. Be careful though, several of these books have been in previous bundles. As with …
Hero Forge is an online tool that is used to create miniatures for table top and digital RPGs, that has the potential to be an amazing game development tool. Hero Forge runs entirely in your browser and enables you to create a wide variety of character models. They also enable …
Hero Forge — This COULD Be An Awesome Game Development Tool Read More
Rootex is an open source C++ based game engine. Rootex is available under the MIT open source license on GitHub. The engine is Windows only, using DirectX 11, and is implemented as an Entity Component System. Scripting is done using the Lua programming language, and is described in the online …
There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the 2021 Intro To Code by Zenva Bundle. A collection of courses on topics including Unreal, Unity and the Godot game engine. As with all Humble Bundles this one is organized into tiers. 1$ C++ Foundations Intro To Web …
