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With the recent Adobe acquisition of Allegorithmic, I researched alternatives to Substance Painter and Designer. One of the most prominent entries was Mixer by Quixel, which is currently available completely free while in beta form. Quixel Mixer is a PBR texture creation tool where you create textures using an easy to use layer based system. […]
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With the recent announcement that Allegorithmic is being purchased by Adobe suddenly one of the most asked questions is “what is the best alternative to Substance Painter”? Sadly, no direct replacement exists, Substance Painter was a pretty one of a kind program. Fortunately there are a number of other PBR texture painting packages available. We […]
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MakeHuman, an open source character creation software that started life as a Blender plugin, recently released 1.2.0 Alpha 2. With Manuel Bastioni Labs recently shutting down, MakeHuman has become the primary open source character creation software. Fortunately it is quite good and is getting better with more extensive community support. While no longer a Blender […]
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In modern AAA games you often have a staggering amount of control over your character’s creation. As a game developer you may think, “Why can’t we do this for creating game assets?”. Simple answer, you can and that’s exactly what Character Creator 3 from Reallusion enables you to do. Starting from a base mesh you […]
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Materialize was just released for free. What exactly is Materialize? In the creators own words:Materialize is a stand alone tool for creating materials for use in games from images. You can create an entire material from a single image or import the textures you have and generate the textures you need.Materialize is production tested, having […]
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Adobe have just released Adobe Animate CC 2019, the product previously known as Flash Professional. This vector graphics drawing and animation package gained a number of new features in the 2019 release including auto lip syncing, new free form mesh deformations, webGL gltf export (in beta), improved export options, a new launch window and more.New […]
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Looking for a small but full featured open source (LGPL) C++ 14 game engine with a built in editor? If so, the Limon Game Engine might be the perfect choice for you! Primary features of the Limon game are:Model loading using Assimp Skeletal animations Realtime shadows Rigid body physics 3D spatial sound Preliminary AI In […]
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The Toy Engine was just released yesterday. The Toy Engine is a cross platform modular C++ open source game engine currently available under the GPL license. The engine is quite young so you should expect some instability and missing features. The developer @HugoAM has been very responsive to feedback and has announced that the license […]
Toy Engine–Thin C++ Game Engine Released Read More
When I started GameFromScratch, by far and away the most common question I got was “what programming language should I use?”. It’s amazing how much the world has changed in the last decade! These days game engines are by far more important than programming language to the majority of developers, and one game engine has […]
Why Not Just Use Unity? Read More
GameMaker is a seminal game engine, with roots dating back to the late 1990s. It is a cross platform 2D game engine with tools that run on Windows and Mac machines while capable of targeting both desktop operating systems as well as Ubuntu Linux, Android, iOS, UWP, HTML5, XBox One and PlayStation 4 consoles. GameMaker […]
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