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Game publisher Activision have just released an open source project USD Shell Extension. The project is available on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 open source license and enables Windows users to interact with USD files, a increasingly industry standard interchange format created by Pixar. Details of the Activision USD Shell …
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Mixcraft is an excellent DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) that is currently featured in HUMBLE SOFTWARE BUNDLE: MEGA SOUND DESIGNER LOOP CRATE VOL 2. The software was previously released in the first volume in 2020. In addition to Mixcraft the bundle also included several VSTs including Pianissimo Virtual Grand Piano, Surrealist …
MagicaCSG, a free signed distance field 3d modelling and rendering application was just released by ephtracy, the maker of the popular voxel application MagicaVoxel. The development of MagicaVoxel ended in September of 2020 and this appears to be the authors new project. MagicaCSG is a very new release, in fact …
Material Maker is an open source project that recently released version 0.95. We have been monitoring the development of Material Maker for a few years now and it’s amazing how far this program has come in a very short period of time. Material Maker enables you to create materials using …
Quixel Mixer, which was acquired by Epic Games back in 2019, just released version 2021. This free (yes, actually free) 3D texturing tool gained several new features in the 2021 release including: support for UDIM textures ability to create and edit multiple texture sets which can be painted across seamlessly …
Camtasia is an all in one screen capture and video editing package and is the tool I use to create 95% of the tutorials you see on this channel. Today, Camtasia 2021 was just released by Techsmith and you can try it with a free full featured 30 day trial …
Silo, a 3D modelling application I’ve been following on this channel for a long time, has had a rocky development history. Starting out as a promising light weight 3D modelling application, development was seemingly abandoned in favor of developing mobile applications, then later the PixelMash 2D graphics application. Then in …
Cascadeur, the unique physics based AI assisted animation tool, released in beta last July, is now available in early access. With this announcement, we finally have the pricing structure for Cascadeur, which is currently available for 50% off. The Basic version has limitations on the export, limiting you to 300 …
Today we are checking out picoCAD, a free minimalist 3D modelling application written entirely in PICO-8. PICO-8 is a fantasy console (click here to learn about it and other virtual consoles) that provides a complete virtual computing environment with massively restrained, generally 8bit style features, as well as a Lua …
Itch.io have a new bundle of interest to game developers, the Game Making itch.io Selects Bundle. This is a collection of tools aimed at indie developers, 6 applications in all for a total of $15USD. The contents of the bundle include: SpriteStack Create 3d models by drawing layers of sprite, …
