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InstaMAT is a new application from the makers of InstaLOD, that is used to create and layer procedurally generated textures in a manner very similar to Substance Designer and Quixel Mixer. InstaMAT is described as: InstaMAT lets you tap into unprecedented workflows when it comes to working with 3D materials […]
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Earlier this month the popular sprite painting an animation application Aseprite released version 1.3. This is a milestone release, as the last point release Aseprite 1.2 was released all the way back in 2017. Key features of this release include: Tilemap/Tileset functionalityDark themeSkew transformationText fields for the transformationResize tags dragging
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Are you interest in game development but what to use an entirely open source set of tools? In that case you are in luck as in this guide we list the best open source (not source available like Unreal, fully OSI compliant open source) game engines, graphics and audio tools
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Texture Paint Champ is a free tool that gives you the ability to paint directly on a 3D model, Substance Painter style, directly inside Unreal Engine 5. Details from the GumRoad page: In addition to Texture Paint Champ, the author also makes Decal Champ for Unreal Engine, which is also
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Photopea is a popular online Adobe Photoshop Clone that basically replicates a large percentage of Photoshop’s functionality in your web browser. It is ad support but otherwise free to use. The creator of Photopea just launched a new project in beta, Vectorpea. Vectorpea is to Adobe Illustrator as Photopea is
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Introduced at SIGGRAPH 2023 was a paper called 3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering that set the graphics world on fire. A technology for capturing the real world in 3D similar to NeRF (Neural Radiance Fields), Gaussian Splats have one major advantage that is especially important to game
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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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AMD have just released AMD FidelityFX SDK 1.0. AMD FidelityFX is a game development open source middleware for implementing common game development solutions in a GPU accelerate manner. The SDK works on all major hardware and includes Vulkan and Direct X 12 rendering back ends. The 1.0 release adds three
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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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