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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Skybox AI is a free to use tool, powered by a modified Stable Diffusion, from Blockade Labs. It is used to create game ready Skybox textures from text prompts. Skybox AI is described as: The most recent release added several interesting new features: With Sketch mode, we’re introducing a new …
There are a pair of Humble Bundles of interest to game developers today, the Doomsday Creation Kit bundle and the Computer Graphics and Data Imaging Bundle. The Doomsday Creation Kit Bundle is a collection of game resources for creating a post apocalyptic game (in the style of Fallout 2). This …
AMD have just open sourced the Capsaicin framework. Capsaicin is their development testbed for creating and testing new graphics techniques and algorithms. Along side the release of Capsaicin they have also released implementations of Real-Time Global Illumination as well as a Path Tracing implementation. The Capsaicin framework is open source …
Plask, the makers of an AI powered 3D animation from video tool, have applied that capability to the open source Stable Diffusion AI image generator. We covered Stable Diffusion (along with Dall-E and MidJourney) here. The system works by posing a 3D model then giving it the traditional Stable Diffusion …
Plask Pose Based AI Art Powered By Stable Diffusion Read More
DPaint.js is a free and open source pixel art application heavily inspired by Deluxe Paint. Deluxe Paint was the most common painting application for game art in the 80s-90s, used by studios such as iD Software, Lucas Arts, Sega and more. DPaint.js as the name implies is written in Javascript …
DPaint.js — Modern Deluxe Paint Inspired Pixel Art App Read More
Godot 4 was recently released and contains an all new renderer and plenty of new graphic features. Today we are going to look at 3 free and 1 commercial scenes for showing off the graphic capabilities of the Godot Engine. Godot Third Person Demo (TPS-DEMO) Available open source on GitHub, …
