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I have long been a fan of the open source free RayLib game development framework. With bindings for just about every programming language ever, tons of examples and support for most major platforms, Raylib is a versatile toolkit for building games using code. What has always shined about RayLib though […]
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There is a powerful new tool for Godot Engine game developers, called appropriately enough Unreal to Godot Exporter. I covered the authors previous tool Unreal to Unity (available on Unity asset store here) and it was by far the best way to get assets from Unreal Engine to Unity. I
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Cascadeur 2024.2 was just released. This powerful animation application is an example of AI and machine learning done right, in that it is there to assist the artist, not replace them. The 2024.2 of Cascadeur adds several new features including: Key Links Cascadeur Homepage 2024.2 Release Notes You can learn
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We first covered the Game UI Database in April of 2023 and at the time it was one of the single best resources for game UI/UX designers, with a massive database of game user interface elements. Today, Game UI Database 2.0 has been released, a massive (ironically enough) user interface
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Skybox AI is a free to use tool, powered by a modified Stable Diffusion, from Blockade Labs. It is used to create game ready Skybox textures from text prompts. Skybox AI is described as: The most recent release added several interesting new features: With Sketch mode, we’re introducing a new
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LDtk, the Level Designer Toolkit (previously known as LeD) is a free and open source map editor from one of the creators of Dead Cells. LDtk has received several improvements since we last looked at it, including the addition of MacOS support. Another new recent feature is the addition of
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Today Adobe have announced Firefly, a family of creative generative AI models coming to Adobe products. In other words, this is Adobe’s answer to A.I image generators like DALLE, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion (learn more about these 3 tools here). Adobe need to walk a fine line here as their
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The popular open source drawing/paint application Krita has come a long way over the last few years, but using the add-on Shortcut Composer it can be made so much better. Shortcut Composer is a free and open source source extension for Krita written in Python that make several UI improvements
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NVIDIAs popular physics middleware just released PhysX 5.1 and it is once again open sourced under the BSD 3 license. PhysX 4 was released under the same license, but with the initial announcement of PhysX 5 in 2020, it was only available as part of NVIDIAs Omniverse project (learn more
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CLion is an IDE from JetBrains, the makers of IntelliJ IDEA, Rider, Fleet, WebStorm and several other programming tools. While the recently released Fleet is aimed at Visual Studio Code, CLion is aimed more at the full version of Visual Studio, or more specifically Visual C++. It is built on
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