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Introduction Welcome to the first part of a multipart tutorial series on creating games using the Haxe programming language with the Heaps graphics engine. Heaps is under development by Nicolas Cannasse, the guy that created the Haxe language in the first place. In his own words: Heaps is a cross platform graphics engine designed […]
One of the major advantages to working in 3D is once you have your character modeled and rigged, creating new animations is simply a matter of defining a series of poses on a timeline. Animations are generally defined by moving a series of bones controlling your mesh, which in turn are powered by a […]
At GDC 2016, Autodesk have announced updates to the Stingray Game engine and MayaLT, a game engine and 3D application aimed at indie game developers. Unveiled this week at Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2016, Stingray v1.2 adds support for new VR platforms and improvements that speed up common tasks within the engine. Maya LT […]
In this next part in the ongoing Godot Tutorial Series we are going to begin looking at how you work in 3D in the Godot game engine. Today we are going to cover the basics of 3D, followed shortly by another tutorial on working with 3D models. As always I assume you have gone […]
Welcome to the Godot Tutorial Series Welcome to the GameFromScratch.com Godot tutorial series. The Godot Engine is an open source, C++ based game engine for making 2D and 3D games for most mobile and desktop platforms. The editor can be run on Windows, Mac and Linux. This series will hopefully cover all aspects of Godot […]
Let me start off by saying that exporting from Blender is always a pain in the ass. This experience didn’t prove to be an exception. I will describe the process in some detail. First and foremost, Blender 2.69 DIDNT work. At least not for me, not matter what I did, Blender 2.69 would […]
Now that Project Anarchy is out, I’ve decided to take a look at what you actually get. If you’ve never heard of it before, Project Anarchy is a collection of Havok game development tools made available completely free for mobile developers. In this post, we will look at exactly what those tools are composed […]
One man game development studios are becoming more and more common these days and plenty of them are having success. That said, what do you do when that one man doesn’t happen to be an artist? This post looks at some of the options the Indie game developer has for creating or acquiring art for […]
Autodesk 3ds Max The program most often used for creating game graphics, 3DS is probably the gold standard of 3D applications. In recent years Autodesk has been snapping up all the competition and slowly they are becoming very similar. Package does just about everything you could imagine, as well as having perhaps one of […]
