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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 […]
Substance Painter Alternatives 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 […]
Character Creator 3 Hands-On Read More
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
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 […]
Materialize Free Texture Map Generation Tool Released Read More
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 […]
Adobe Animate CC 2019 Released Read More
Autodesk Sketchbook, one of my favorite sketching applications, has just been made free. That’s actually free, not freemium or subscription based, just download it and start drawing. The one caveat is after 7 days you need to register an Autodesk.com account, but don’t worry, this is also free. Sketchbook is also now free on the […]
Autodesk SketchBook Now Free Read More
Welcome to the getting started tutorial in the ongoing BabylonJS Tutorial Series. Today we are going to look at creating our first simple Babylon application setup and running. As always there is a HD video version of this tutorial available here or embedded down below. To get started with BabylonJS, we need a […]
BabylonJS Tutorial Series–Getting Started Read More
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 […]
An Introduction To Spine–A 2D Bone Based Animation System Read More
I am currently embarking on a rather massive “from scratch” beginners game programming series over on YouTube. One thing that can make the process a hell of a lot smoother for a beginner or veteran alike is a good development environment. As a result I’ve created this page, a summary of the best editors […]
Editors and IDEs for Lua and Love Development Read More
So a lot has happened in the land of SFML since I created my SFML tutorial series and I decided to check out what’s new. I happen to be on my Macbook, so Visual Studio wasn’t an option. Time for a bit of a confession… I hate Xcode, especially for C++ development. I just find […]
Creating an SFML project on Mac OS using CLion and CMake Read More
