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There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the Low Poly 3D bundle is a collection of 3D models in a low polygon art style from GameDev Marketplace. While targeted primarily at Unity developers, the assets are downloaded directly from Humble and should be usable in any …
KitBash3D, a popular 3d model kit vendor, have released free sci-fi assets in a pack called Mission to Minerva. KitBash3D packs are available for a variety of game engines and content creation tools including Unreal, Unity, Mac, Maya and Blender and can be easily used in any 3D game engine. …
Autodesk have just launched a new version of Maya, Maya Creative. This version of Maya contains the vast majority features included in the “full version” of Maya with a few features ( mostly dynamics and API access, as well as some gamedev features such as Substance and Unreal integration) missing. …
Today we are checking out Spline, an extremely easy to use 3D modelling application. Spline can run in your browser or can be installed on Windows, Mac (M1 & Intel) and Linux. Spline has an incredibly generous free mode and could be a very good introduction to 3D modeling. Features …
There is a new interesting service for artists and game developers, TheBaseMesh.com. The new site contains 250+ base mesh 3D models in FBX and OBJ format all under the CC0 open source license. These can be used as the starting point for a sculpt or in a kitbashed 3D project. …
Epic Games, the makers of Unreal Engine, have just announced the release of RealityScan in “first come first serve” beta on iOS, with Android support coming soon. RealityScan is a mobile application that enables you to create 3D objects using a sequence of photographs, a process known as Photogrammetry. A …
LÖVR is an open source 3D framework that specializes in easily creating VR applications using the Lua programming language and the high performance luaJIT compiler. It is heavily inspired by LÖVE, an open source 2D game framework (complete tutorial series including Lua tutorial available here) and takes a very similar …
The Machinery, a game engine by Our Machinery, has just left beta and is now available in early access. What exactly does this mean? You can now license the engine for commercial use and we have detailed pricing details, which includes a 50% discount for early adopters. The pricing of …
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 …
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 …
