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So there is a blog post up on Unity3d.com showing what’s coming down the pipeline. There’s some pretty interesting stuff on there. Apparently Unity 3.4 is at the release candidate stage and there are a few major announcements. Terrain support in iOS and Android is a biggy, execution order on scripts, procedural texture support […]
The Unity 3.4/3.5 roadmap revealed Read More
One of the nicest features of going with Blender is the fact that it is open source. One of the nicest facts of open source is you don’t have to wait for a vendor to release a new version, you can go get the cutting edge version at any time. That said, building Blender […]
Taking a walk on the wild side Read More
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Cocos2D book round-up Read More
So, until this point I have been using Microsoft’s Expressions Encoder to do video capture for tutorials on this site. I am an MSDN subscriber and already had the Expression Studio installed, so even though I was really (…….. really ) pushing the bounds of my license I went ahead and used it. Then […]
A little video capturing SNAFU Read More
Well here is one out of nowhere. StudioGPU have released their flagship product MachStudio Pro 2 for free. Real free too so far as I can tell, not free with an asterisk free. For those of you that have never heard of MachStudio, it is in very rough terms a near to realtime renderer […]
We all like free right? Read More
Chapter One covers a trip down the pipeline, starting off with a set of terms you should know, followed by some basic modeling, then we take that model into Unity. Lots of this chapter is aimed at the very beginner, so if you are knowledgeable on a covered topic, feel free to skip ahead. […]
Chapter One – 3D Basics Read More
As YouTube allows videos up to 1080p in size and does a very good job of providing downsampled versions, from now on I will try to publish all future videos in 1080p. The only exception are videos capture on my 720p laptop…. which will obviously be 720p. Only downside is, some of these can […]
Letting someone else do the heavy lifting Read More
I am struggling a bit on how to format a “book” in blog terms. What is the best way for me to get information across. One of the big goals of this site is to guide a beginner through the entire process of creating a game. At the same time however, as I come […]
You bet your ass it does! When moving between applications, each has it’s own unit of measure and frankly 1 has a very different meaning from application to application! In Wings, a Wings “unit” is completely arbitrary. So for example if you make a cube 1 by 1 by 1, the “1” means […]
Size doesn’t matter? Read More
We are all familiar with 2 dimensional Cartesian coordinates for describing positions in 2D space, often used to represent pixels on screen, but ultimately the very foundation of algebra. The two values, x and y can be thought of to represent Left <-> Right and Up <->Down respectively, at least when dealing with two […]
Why up? The joys of 3D coordinate systems. Read More