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Visual Studio Code for the Mac, once known as Mono Develop then Xamarin Studio, is being shut down by Microsoft. Visual Studio for Mac will continued to be supported with bug fixes and Apple platform updates for one more year. Details from the announcement: Today we are announcing the retirement …
AIbstract is an online service using artificial intelligence (AI) to compose music that can be used in your game or other project royalty free, with you owning the music’s rights. Unlike many recent AI tools, this one seems to be composing the tracks “from scratch” and not stealing from the …
At their recent BUILD developer conference, Microsoft launched a new open source project into preview release, Dev Home. Dev Home is aiming to be a portal or control center for Windows based developers to organize all their development tasks in a single place. This includes an interface to quickly configure …
Cargo is a new application from KitBash3D that works a great deal like Quixel Bridge does for it’s MegaScans assets. Cargo gives you access to the entire library of 3D models and materials in the KitBash repository. It has plugins for most major commercial game engines and DCC tools including: …
F3D is a free and open source, cross platform (Windows, Mac and Linux) minimalistic 3D file viewer with a surprising number of features hidden below the surface. In addition to being able to display a variety of file formats (including glTF, STL, STEP, PLY, OBJ, FBX, Alembic and more), it …
DPaint.js is a free and open source pixel art application heavily inspired by Deluxe Paint. Deluxe Paint was the most common painting application for game art in the 80s-90s, used by studios such as iD Software, Lucas Arts, Sega and more. DPaint.js as the name implies is written in Javascript …
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Silo 2023 was just released by Nevercenter. First released all the way back in 2007, Silo is a subdivision surfaces based polygonal modelling tool ideal for creating low polygon count models. Unfortunately Nevercenter ceased Silo development for several years, allowing the project to languish with no new features or bug …
Long running open source Windows-based graphical application Paint.NET just released version 5. The Paint.NET 5 release contains several new features, but the biggest among them is massively increased GPU support, pressure sensitive brushes and a new plugin system (which also takes advantage of the new GPU functionality). New features of …
The popular open source drawing/paint application Krita has come a long way over the last few years, but using the add-on Shortcut Composer it can be made so much better. Shortcut Composer is a free and open source source extension for Krita written in Python that make several UI improvements …
If you are looking for a replacement for the recently shuttered Clara online 3D modelling application, WOMP may be a good option. WOMP is a browser based 3D modelling application that uses SDF or Signed Distance Fields to create an easy to use 3D application where you model by adding …
