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Effekseer is a powerful and free open source particle effect creation too that just added Godot Engine support. Effekseer (which we previously covered here) already has run-times for several popular game engines including Unity, Unreal, WebGL and Cocos2d-x, just added Godot Engine support to that list. The new runtime is …
The excellent book 3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development is now available for free online. Authored by Fletcher Dunn (currently a game developer at Valve) and Ian Parbery, this is by far and away one of the most approachable books I have ever encountered to learn the fundamental …
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Arrow is a new free open source game narrative design tool built on-top of the Godot game engine. Arrow is available on GitHub under the MIT open source license. You can use Arrow to model game narratives, to create nonlinear interactive story telling and you can even export to the …
LDtk, or the Level Designer Toolkit, is a powered 2D world creation kit from the creator of Dead Cells. We looked at it in 2020 when it was first released as LEd, but today we are going to go hands-on and show you how this powerful tool can be used …
GodotShaders is a new portal for sharing and discussing shaders for the Godot game engine. At GodotShaders.com developers can share shaders (Spatial, Canvas and Particle) that are ready to use in the Godot game engine. There is also a section for Snippets in the Godot shading language. The GodotShaders site …
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Checked C is a research project from Microsoft research that attempts to make the C programming language safer for developers. Checked C is implemented as a Clang compiler for Windows and Linux. It provides a series of extensions to the C programming language that make it safer to use pointers …
It is time for the Unreal Engine marketplace giveaway for March 2021. Epic Games are offering up five assets that are yours free forever so long as you “purchase” them before the first Tuesday of next month. In addition to these five assets, there is one additional asset added to …
Monster Mash is a proof of concept web based tool for modelling and animating 3D models using a simple sketch based approach. It is based on the technique outlined in the paper Monster Mash: A Single-View Approach to Casual 3D Modeling and Animation that was presented in SIGGRAPH Asia 2020. …
Dem Bones is an open source animation skinning application from EA’s research division SEED. The source code is available on GitHub under the BSD3 open source license. Details from the EA news page: The state-of-the-art skinning decomposition solution was introduced in the SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 technical paper “Smooth Skinning Decomposition …
Today we are taking an early look at currently in beta Unreal Engine resource service Unreal Bucket. Unreal Bucket is a collection of 3D model assets that are ready to use in Unreal Engine, sometimes preconfigured with dynamic Blueprints, other times with predefined Unreal materials that can be easily customized. …
