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Gaussian Splats are increasingly popular in the world of computer graphics (see our recent coverage of Gaussian Splats in Godot), yet they have traditionally been a poor fit for game development for a variety of reasons including the lack of collision data, file sizes and other issues compared to a
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The excellent Godot powered free and open-source procedural texture generation application Material Maker just released Material Maker 1.6. Material Maker is about as close as you can get to a free version of Adobe’s popular Substance Designer application. The 1.6 release is jam packed with great new features: Controlled Variations:
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The number of options when moving away for Adobe continues to grow every day and in the last year several new major alternatives have appeared. These new options are also often free and recently some traditional strongholds such as Lightroom and After Effects now have some major competition. Lightroom Lightroom,
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Guassian Splats are an interesting graphics approach enabling the near flawless capture and recreation of real-life scenes and objects. They are increasingly being used in media and television applications, but what about games? We look at how you can use the new Godot Gaussian Splatting add-on (GDGS) to easily display
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Chaos V-Ray, a popular 3D renderer for applications such as 3DS Max, Maya, Cinema4D and more has recently added Blender to the list of supported applications. Even better, they just launched V-Ray for Blender Community Edition, which is a free but somewhat restricted version of V-Ray that can even be
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Cascadeur 2026.1 has just been released. Cascadeur is a powerful animation software available for Windows, Mac and Linux that makes animation incredibly easy while providing a large swath of features. There is a nearly fully functional (export limited) free version of Cascadeur available for download if you wish to check
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Boris FX have just acquired 3 decades old applications – Vegas Pro, Acid Pro and Sound Forge from German audio software company Magix. This is the 3rd time these applications have changed hands, from their creators Sound Foundry, to Sony, then Magix and finally Boris FX. Vegas Pro is a
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The popular open source image manipulation application GIMP has just released GIMP 3.2. This release contains an impressive amount of new features, foundational improvements like non-destructive filter improvements as well as two new non-destructive layer types – link layers and vector layers. Highlights of the GIMP 3.2 release: Key Links
A few years back Canva acquired Adobe alternative provider Serif/Affinity bringing them in closer competition to the near monopoly Adobe holds on graphics software. Yesterday Canva acquired another company called Cavalry, creators of an Adobe After Effects alternative for creating motion graphics. They also announced the acquisition of MangoAI. Details
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Unity have just made a major announcement on the futures of Unity graphics pipelines, specifically the Built-In pipeline and the HDRP. In a nutshell the Built-In pipeline is about to be marked as deprecated and the HDRP is effectively as good as dead. Details from the Unity community forums: Key
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