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Microsoft recently announced they are killing off Visual Studio for Mac and the replacement is clearly the C# Dev Kit and updated Unity extension for Visual Studio Code. The C# Dev Kit is actually a collection of tools, the C# Dev Kit, Intellicode for C#, the C# services and the
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Open source vector graphics application Inkscape just released version 1.3. This release follows the 1.2 release back in May and adds several new features. Highlight new features in the Inkscape 1.3 release include: Key Links Inkscape 1.3 Release Blog Detailed Release Notes You can learn more about the Inkscape 1.3
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Aseprite is a popular pixel art creation tool and it works incredibly well with the Godot game engine. A few months back we covered the Aseprite Importer for the Unity Engine. Today we are going to look at the process of natively supporting Aseprite (ase format) in Godot using the
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While Adobe is a powerhouse in the graphics industry with programs like Photoshop and Illustrator being considered standards, there are several alternatives out there in 2023, both free and commercial. In this guide we will look at my personal recommendations for several Adobe products, with both a commercial and paid
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The Rider IDE from JetBrains is increasingly becoming their go to IDE for game developers, with Unreal Engine, Unity and now Godot Engine support. Rider is a cross platform (Windows, Mac and Linux) IDE build on their Resharper refactoring tools, originally for .NET development, but increasingly focusing on game development.
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Microsoft have proposed a series of user interface updates for Visual Studio 2022. When Visual Studio 2022 was launched, the UI got a decent update over 2019. This proposed user interface update is much smaller in scope, mostly dealing with changes in spacing and contrast to bring Visual Studio more
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Plasticity, a hybrid between CAD-style NURBS modelling and traditional polygon tools, just released Plasticity 1.0. We first covered Plasticity a little over a year ago when it was first released in beta and it has come a long way since. It is now commercial software available for Windows, Mac and
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The following is a quick round-up of freely available applications for 3D game development available in 2023. This includes modelling, sculpting, texturing and animating applications. If we have featured the application in the past, there will be a link to the right of it in the list below. This time
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It would appear that Mixamo has a new competitor in the auto-rigging game, accuRIG from Reallusion (makers of Character Creator and iClone). It is a free download, available for Windows only, that is completely free, although an account is required to download. You can then import your own 3D model
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The 10x Editor is a new (currently in beta) code editor for the C++ language. It is only available for Windows right now, with other platforms intended to come later, you can download it for free during the beta process. The entire mantra of C++ is performance and simplicity. It
