Game Development News, Tutorials and More
Instead of reporting the April 1st “news”, today we are instead going to look at a pair of excellent free texturing tools that run entirely in your browser, Normal Map Online and Texture Generator Online. Normal Map online can be sued to create normal, displacement, ambient occlusion and specular maps from a simple height map […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This video covers 2D graphics in Godot 3. We start by looking at the 2D editor tools then move on to create a Sprite, including covering the process of importing textures into the Godot engine. We then look at scripting Sprite objects, covering tasks like pivot points, translating, rotating and scaling. We then move […]
Introduction Welcome to the first part of a multipart tutorial series on creating games using the Haxe programming language with the Heaps graphics engine. Heaps is under development by Nicolas Cannasse, the guy that created the Haxe language in the first place. In his own words: Heaps is a cross platform graphics engine designed […]
Right off the hop for my new game I have to deal with a problem that many games have to deal with but one that could have a huge impact on how my game is structured, so I am going to address it with a proof of concept right up front. That thing, as […]
One man game development studios are becoming more and more common these days and plenty of them are having success. That said, what do you do when that one man doesn’t happen to be an artist? This post looks at some of the options the Indie game developer has for creating or acquiring art for […]
Autodesk 3ds Max The program most often used for creating game graphics, 3DS is probably the gold standard of 3D applications. In recent years Autodesk has been snapping up all the competition and slowly they are becoming very similar. Package does just about everything you could imagine, as well as having perhaps one of […]
