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In continuing not-GDC news, Unity have just released Unity 2020.1 beta. This beta continues the trend of moving more and more functionality into packages, including new code performance and analysis tools, support for Visual Studio and VS Code and more. Additionally 2D physics was improved, raytracing support was added and more.Details from the Unity blog:The […]
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Hot on the heels of Quixel Bridge 2020, Quixel have just released Mixer 2020. Just like Bridge 2020, Mixer 2020 has also been made completely free! This version contains a massively updated UI, a revamped 3D brush system, the Smart Material system and most importantly, the ability to directly paint on your own imported meshes, […]
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The BuildBox game engine is now available in a free version. Previously a rather expensive proposition, BuildBox Free enables a much larger portion of the developer community to access this no-code required game engine. Details of the BuildBox Free release from the BuildBox website:What is Buildbox Free? For the first time ever, we’re releasing a […]
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PixelORama is a free, open source (MIT licensed) pixel art application written using the Godot game engine in GDScript. Version 0.5 was just recently released with the following features:Choosing between 6 tools – pencil, eraser, fill bucket, lighten/darken, color picker and rectangle select – and mapping them to both of your left and right mouse […]
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Unity Technologies have just released an amazing new package for the Unity game engine that enable you to stream a Unity game to multiple browsers, all synchronized, powered by the WebRTC standard.Details from the Unity blog:The power of WebRTC technologies lets you run Unity projects with high-quality rendering through your browser. The framework can be […]
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After 4 years in development the biggest version of Blender ever has just been released, Blender 2.80! Blender is a comprehensive open source and free 3D graphics application with 2D, 3D, sculpting, texturing, rendering and compositing support. The 2.80 release brings massive new features to Blender including a complete UX redesign, a new real-time PBR […]
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Serif have just released version 1.7 of both of their flagship applications, Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer. These tools provide excellent alternatives to Adobe products such as Photoshop and Illustrator with a much lower, pay once price tag. The 1.7 update applies to all platforms, Windows, Mac and iOS.Affinity Photo changes:Big performance increases across Mac, […]
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GB Studio was just released. It’s an open source MIT licensed game engine for creating top down JRPG style games for the Gameboy. Capable of generating ROMs that can be run in an emulator, as well as playable web versions that can be uploaded to Itch.io. Summary details of GB Studio from their website:Visual game […]
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 […]
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Last month we reported that Blender Game Engine (BGE) was being removed entirely from the source code of Blender for the upcoming major 2.8 release. Judging by the comments section this was certainly a polarizing decision, with replies basically falling into two camps. On one side there was a lot of “good riddance to bad […]
Blender Game Engine In Blender 2.8–Life After Death Read More
