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In 2017 Adobe announced the End Of Life for the Flash browser plugin was coming at the end of 2020. Flash developers still had the ability to deploy their applications to desktops and mobile devices using Adobe AIR technology. Today, Adobe announced the EOL for that platform as well.As of June 2019, Adobe is transitioning […]
GB Studio was just released. It’s an open source MIT licensed game engine for creating top down JRPG style games for the Gameboy. Capable of generating ROMs that can be run in an emulator, as well as playable web versions that can be uploaded to Itch.io. Summary details of GB Studio from their website:Visual game […]
GAEA (not to be confused with GAIA for Unity), is a newly released terrain generation tool from QuadSpinner. They describe GAEA as:Gaea takes terrain design toe-to-toe with the rest of the CG landscape. Designed with artists and their vision in mind, Gaea brings together advanced toolsets in an easy-to-use package where you can get Hollywood […]
Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code is one of the most popular cross platform open source code editors available today and for good reasons. It’s fast, free, expandable and incredibly well supported. Have you ever wanted to run Visual Studio Code remotely or perhaps host it as the editor in your own cloud based product? Well now […]
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. […]
With the recent announcement that Allegorithmic is being purchased by Adobe suddenly one of the most asked questions is “what is the best alternative to Substance Painter”? Sadly, no direct replacement exists, Substance Painter was a pretty one of a kind program. Fortunately there are a number of other PBR texture painting packages available. We […]
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 […]
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 […]
Materialize was just released for free. What exactly is Materialize? In the creators own words:Materialize is a stand alone tool for creating materials for use in games from images. You can create an entire material from a single image or import the textures you have and generate the textures you need.Materialize is production tested, having […]
Adobe have just released Adobe Animate CC 2019, the product previously known as Flash Professional. This vector graphics drawing and animation package gained a number of new features in the 2019 release including auto lip syncing, new free form mesh deformations, webGL gltf export (in beta), improved export options, a new launch window and more.New […]
