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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 […]
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Godot has come a very long way in a very short period of time, but until recently I don’t believe many would believe that Godot was capable of creating photorealistic graphics. The release of Ella: A Study in Realism by Andres Hernandez illustrates just how graphically capable Godot has become.
Photorealistic Ella Demo For Godot 3.4 Read More
Today we are going to do a quick tutorial showing you about the easiest way to create game ready 3D animated anime characters using a pair of programs, VRoid Studio and DeepMotion Animate 3D. If you can create a character in a video game and are able to record video
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Pixologic, the creator of 3D sculpting software ZBrush has just been acquired by Maxon, the makers of Cinema4D. The deal is still subject to regulator approval and is expect to close the end of this month. Details of the acquisition from the ZBrush announcement: Since 1997, ZBrush has introduced innovations
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Today we are checking out NVIDIA GauGAN2 online demo as well as NVIDIA Canvas, a downloadable AI art creation tool powered by machine learning. GauGAN is named after artist Paul Gauguin and GAN, or generational adversarial network, a popular machine learning algorithm. We looked at the first iteration of GauGAN
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