Game Development News, Tutorials and More
Today we are going hands-on with Asset Forge 2.0 by Kenny.nl. Asset Forge is an extremely easy to use 3D modeling application where you can quickly create models using building blocks.Details of Asset Forge:You’ll have access to a large library of pre-made blocks (about 600 currently), they’re each categorized in different categories. You can place […]
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Hot on the heels of Quixel Bridge 2020, Quixel have just released Mixer 2020. Just like Bridge 2020, Mixer 2020 has also been made completely free! This version contains a massively updated UI, a revamped 3D brush system, the Smart Material system and most importantly, the ability to directly paint on your own imported meshes, […]
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PixelORama is a free, open source (MIT licensed) pixel art application written using the Godot game engine in GDScript. Version 0.5 was just recently released with the following features:Choosing between 6 tools – pencil, eraser, fill bucket, lighten/darken, color picker and rectangle select – and mapping them to both of your left and right mouse […]
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Although it has a misleading name, Godot Game Tools is a very cool Blender addon that makes working with Mixamo animations in Blender 2.8x extremely easy. This includes the ability to easily import and merge multiple animations from Mixamo, an otherwise frustrating task. Features of Godot Game Tools include:- Batch Animations Bake In A Single […]
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.This is a very common question, so this guide and video is setting out to answer why *I* might choose to use Godot over those other engines. Keep in mind, this isn’t me saying Godot is better or worse than those engines. Additionally, I have a video on Unreal vs Unity in the works, so […]
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EDIT – 2019 Version is now live and AVAILABLE HERE.Back in 2015 I found myself in the market for a new laptop for game development and I put together this guide on how to chose a laptop ideally suited for game development. Fast forward to today and it’s time to choose another, so I’ve decided […]
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Released a few weeks back, SHADERed is a free and open source editing environment for developing shaders, both HLSL and GLSL. SHADERed enables you to create shaders on the fly with a real-time view of the results. Currently it is Windows only, but the code is currently being ported from D3D to OpenG+SDL so this […]
SHADERed Free GLSL/HLSL Shader Editor Read More
Over on the Godot website and update on the status of the Vulkan renderer that is the marquee feature of Godot 4.0. Vulkan is the Khronos Group’s new low level rendering alternative to OpenGL, that enables developers to get much closer to the metal than previous graphics APIs. Development of the new Vulkan renderer was […]
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Instead of reporting the April 1st “news”, today we are instead going to look at a pair of excellent free texturing tools that run entirely in your browser, Normal Map Online and Texture Generator Online. Normal Map online can be sued to create normal, displacement, ambient occlusion and specular maps from a simple height map […]
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Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code is one of the most popular cross platform open source code editors available today and for good reasons. It’s fast, free, expandable and incredibly well supported. Have you ever wanted to run Visual Studio Code remotely or perhaps host it as the editor in your own cloud based product? Well now […]
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