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Last year we took our first look at VRoid Studio, a 3D anime style character creator that had recently been translated to English. It works very similarly to Daz3D, Poser and MakeHuman, but is entirely dedicated to creating characters in the anime style. Using a simple set of sliders, you can quickly customize a character […]
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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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Today we are looking at WickedEngine, an open source C++ based 3D game engine with Direct 11/12/Vulkan rendering paths, an Entity Component System and Lua scripting available. It is inspired by the XNA programming model and has no external dependencies, making it incredibly easy (especially for a C++ project) to get started. Additionally there is […]
WickedEngine–Open Source C++ 3D Game Engine Read More
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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Meshroom is a new, free and open source photogrammetry software from AliceVision. Photogrammetry software enable you to create a 3D scene using a series of photographs, generally the more the merrier. Currently documentation is a bit lacking, so I’ve decided to create this quick tutorial. In this tutorial we are going to quickly walk through […]
Creating 3D Models From Photos Using Meshroom Read More
The academy award winning book Physically Based Rendering from Theory to Implementation 3rd Edition is now available free online in it’s entirety at http://www.pbr-book.org/. This book is hugely important to the game and film industry as this is where the expression Physically Based Rendering (PBR) was coined, and it is the underlying rendering technology behind […]
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One of the most challenging things when just starting game development is handling art in your game. Most programmers have the artistic ability of a slightly blind tree toad, so what are they to do? Well, you can scour the internet, tons of great free content out there, but there’s 100x more garbage as well. […]
Free Game Art Asset Packs Read More
Perhaps you are a bit artistically challenged, or you are looking for resources to prototype your 3D games? Where can you find the best free 3D models? This page is a collection of some of the best resources for 3D models with permissive licenses. If I’ve missed a resource you use, please let me know […]
Great Free 3D Model Sites and Resources Read More
The following is the table of contents for the complete BabylonJS tutorial series here on GameFromScratch. It covers (or will cover) all aspects of game development using the BabylonJS open source HTML5 3D game engine. Table Of Contents series introduction getting started cameras lights materials 3d models coming soon Videos YouTube Series Playlist Miscellaneous a […]
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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 […]
Haxe And Heaps Tutorial Series: Getting Started Read More
