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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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Inworld is an interesting new service using AI and machine learning to power NPCs. You define characters by giving them a variety of character traits (anger, excitement, etc.), define relationships between characters and locations as well as populate a knowledge database characters may or may not have access to. Then
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On GameFromScratch we have covered dozens of programming tools, but today we are looking at the offspring of one of the oldest software applications still in daily use, Neovim. The great grand parent of Neovim is VI, a console based bare bones (compared to EMACS at least) text editor that
Scirra, the makers of the popular Construct 3 game engine, have just released a new product in beta form, Construct Animate. Construct Animate is a special version of the Construct 3 game engine specifically for creating 2D animations, which can be exported as web apps, ads or in video form.
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Kenney of Kenney.nl fame has just released a new free tool Avatar Mixer. This joins the previous Mixer projects such as Ship Mixer and Creature Mixer on Itch.io. These tools allow you to rapidly (or completely randomly), create sprite graphics using a mix and match approach of existing assets. You
Game Texture Viewer is a texture viewing and management application for game development that was just acquired by JangaFX and made available for free. If you are interested in trying out Game Texture Viewer, simply download the trial and activate with the product key: GPG7-33NS-KJ2K-CKGT. Game Texture Viewer is available
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Today we are checking out UE Viewer, a long running, but recently updated tool for exporting Unreal Engine assets that are stored in uasset format. One such example is exporting the contents from the Unreal Engine versions of the Synty POLYGON bundles, as the default FBX versions are ASCII encoded
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Plask is a new web based service for easily creating 3D animations from a simple video source. Simply upload the video (or record from webcam directly in Plask) and apply it to one of their rigged characters (or upload your own) and Plask will use AI to create a 3D
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Quixel have just acquired RD-Textures and have finished incorporating their library of scanned textures into the Megascans library. Epic Games acquired Quixel back in 2019 and since have made the entire Megascans library free for Unreal Engine developers (and cheaper for all others). In fact, Unreal Engine 5 has Quixel
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Kenney of Kenney.nl fame has released another tool, Ship Mixer. ShipMixer is a browser based application that enables you to quickly kit bash together SHMUP style jets and airplanes by mixing and matching different shapes of different colours. There is also Creature Mixer, we did a video on when it
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