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When we last discussed the Lumberyard game engine, it was for the underwhelming 1.28 release, but we mostly talked about a number of great new features in development on the Lumberyard game engine. Today we learned another major milestone in the future of Lumberyard… it is no more. From this …
It’s the first Tuesday of the month, and that means it Unreal Engine marketplace giveaway time. Available until the first Tuesday in August, the following free Unreal assets can be “purchased” for free in July, at which point they are yours forever. On the topic of forever, they also added …
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There is a new Humble of interest to developers. The Humble Web & iPhone Mobile Apps by Manning Press bundle. This is a collection of ebooks on topics ranging from React and Flutter to JavaScript, Design and more. As with all Humble Bundles, this one is organized into tiers (interestingly …
GitHub have just launched an interesting new AI driven project, GitHub Copilot. GitHub Copilot is developed in collaboration between GitHub and OpenAI and is using artificial intelligence to support the developers. Instead of just being a better Intellisense, Copilot actually creates code dynamically using machine learning, based off comments or …
As we predicted several months ago when YoYoGames was acquired by Opera, a free version of GameMaker Studio has been released. We did a Closer Look at GameMaker several years ago, it is a long running 2D game engine that has been used to make dozens if not hundreds of …
The upcoming Godot 4.0 has tons of exciting new features (several of which we have previewed here on GameFromScratch), yet one of the most useful are the new GDScript 2 features. GDScript 2 is an unofficial moniker resulting from feature thread on GitHub, which has now officially been merged into …
It seems like every single major 3D application are getting behind Pixar’s USD format and NVIDIA have released Omniverse as an interconnect between all of these programs. The USD or Universal Scene Description is an open source standardized interchange format, described succinctly enough as: Universal Scene Description (USD) is an …
There is a “new” Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the aptly named Paint & Draw Bundle. This is a collection of art software and add-ons from Escape Motion. It is important to point out, while a new name, this exact bundle ran back in 2020 as the Natural …
Google Poly is yet another excellent service that Google are killing off prematurely, but thankfully a new effort, Poly.pizza has risen to take it’s place. Google Poly was launched back in 2017 and was an excellent resource for CC0 low polygon 3D models. Google killing off services isn’t new, in …
Blender 2.8x was a huge step forward from Blender 2.7x in almost every way. Almost. When it comes to mesh editing however there were some serious performance regressions (along with Boolean functionality, which was fixed in Blender 2.91). The Blender developers however were well aware of this and back in …
Blender 3 Performance Improves — Canonical Support — More Read More
