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Epic Games, the makers of the popular Unreal Engine, have just acquired another company, Capturing Reality. Capturing Reality are the makers of the photogrammetry software Reality Capture, that enables developers to create high detail 3D models from photographs. Just like their previous acquisition of texturing company Quixel, Epic Games immediately […]
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GodotShaders is a new portal for sharing and discussing shaders for the Godot game engine. At GodotShaders.com developers can share shaders (Spatial, Canvas and Particle) that are ready to use in the Godot game engine. There is also a section for Snippets in the Godot shading language. The GodotShaders site
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Monster Mash is a proof of concept web based tool for modelling and animating 3D models using a simple sketch based approach. It is based on the technique outlined in the paper Monster Mash: A Single-View Approach to Casual 3D Modeling and Animation that was presented in SIGGRAPH Asia 2020.
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Dem Bones is an open source animation skinning application from EA’s research division SEED. The source code is available on GitHub under the BSD3 open source license. Details from the EA news page: The state-of-the-art skinning decomposition solution was introduced in the SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 technical paper “Smooth Skinning Decomposition
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Houdini Engine is now available for free for Unreal and Unity game developers. Houdini is a popular long running 3D application from SideFX software that is known for it’s procedural approach to basically the entire 3D process. Houdini Engine is a runtime that enables you to run Houdini generated simulations
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KenShape is a brand new tool that makes it extremely easy to create 3D objects from simply drawing 2D pixels. It is from Kenney.nl, the person behind thousands of free game development assets, as well as the excellent Asset Forge 3D model creation tool. KenShape features include: Generate 3D models
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The Defold game engine and Rive 2D vector based animation application have announced a partnership. Rive may be a new name to you as it was previously known as Nima and Flare, the two products were merged as Rive. The partnership between Defold and Rive is going to bring the
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There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the Fresh Start Game Dev Assets Humble Bundle. This bundle is a collection of graphics, sprites, tilemaps and musical tracks released under a very reasonable license that allows commercial use in multiple projects. As with all Humble Bundles, this
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Serif have just released version 1.9 of Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer. Affinity Designer has long been one of my favourite applications and Affinity Photo is perhaps the best “Photoshop alternatives” you can buy today. Both applications got a decent number of new features in the free 1.9 update. Affinity
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Computer Graphics From Scratch is an upcoming book that takes a unique approach to teaching graphics programming. The book started life a few years ago as a free e-book that was picked up by No Starch Press. Even better, No Starch is permitting the author Gabriel Gambetta to host the
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