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Sponza, one of the most famous sample scenes in the world of computer graphics and game engines, just got a massive upgrade thanks to Intel. First released by CryTek all the way back in 2010, Sponza has long been used to showcase graphical and lighting capabilities of game engines since. …
Cascadeur, a unique 3D animation software that first hit beta back in 2020 just released version 2022.1 EA. The EA stands for early access, which mostly just means the software is available with a 50% discount until full release. Cascadeur uses a combination of physics and machine learning to make …
Top popular open source vector based graphics application, Inkscape just released Beta 1.2, the first major release in almost a year. Inkscape is available for free download on Linux, Mac and Windows. The 1.2 beta release is packed with new features, fixes and improvements, including: Inkscape documents can now hold …
New updates of popular 3D packages 3ds Max and Maya 2023 from Autodesk as well as brand new logos for the entire Media & Entertainment product suite have been released. First, the new logos: New Autodesk Logos I’m fairly sure they will be… polarizing. Now in terms of the updates. …
NVIDIA just released the KickstartRT SDK as an easier way to add raytracing functionality to your game engine or game without having to make extensive changes. It is a cross platform open source API that brings real-time ray-traced reflections, shadows, ambient occlusion and global illumination to game engines, without requiring …
Today at the Game Developer Conference (GDC and GTC… yeah, there are two developers conferences going on right now!) NVIDIA announced OMNIVERSE for game developers, with new tools and an Unreal Engine 5 connector. NVIDIA OMNIVERSE can be thought of as glue between various developer pipelines with a layer of …
PixelOver is a Godot Engine powered pixel art tool we previously covered in July of last year. In the time since we last looked at this application, a lot of functionality has been added, including 3D support! PixelOver originally was for creating pixel art versions of normal images, but since …
Plasticity is an in development 3D modelling application based around NURBS or Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines. NURBS is a mathematical way of describing smooth surfaces using shapes built of curves and was a popular way to model organic shapes. Plasticity uses NURBS curves and shapes in an attempt to create a …
Just over a year since the release of the Vulkan 1.2 specification, the Khronos Group today announced the release of Vulkan 1.3. This release focuses heavily on eliminating fragmentation by consolidating several popular extensions into the core specification as well as introducing device profiles. Additionally new extension support for VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering …
Today we are checking out Goxel, a free and open source Voxel editor. Voxel is available for Linux, Mac and Windows, as well as Android and iOS and even can be run in your web browser. Additionally Goxel is available in source code form under the GPL v 3 license …
