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Godot 4.7 beta has been released, this follows on the earlier Dev1/Dev2 and Dev3/Dev4 releases we covered, as well as the Dev5 release. The Godot 4.7 beta represents feature freeze and from this point on it will only be hardening and bug fixes going forward. This means what we see […]
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With the recent release of Godot Dev1, Dev2 and then Dev3 one of the major new features in each release was the addition of HDR support for different platforms, specifically Windows, MacOS and Linux/BSD (Wayland). HDR or High Dynamic Range is a technology for TVs and monitors that attempts to
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The excellent Godot powered free and open-source procedural texture generation application Material Maker just released Material Maker 1.6. Material Maker is about as close as you can get to a free version of Adobe’s popular Substance Designer application. The 1.6 release is jam packed with great new features: Controlled Variations:
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RayLib, one of my favorite game development open source projects, just had a milestone release – RayLib 6 is now available. This popular and incredibly modular game development framework written in the C language continues to become even more modular with the 6.0 release. There is a new completely software
We have 3 new huge asset bundles for Unreal Engine, Unity and the Godot game engine. The bundles are hosted on Gumroad and be sure to use the code SP60 at checkout to reduce the price by $60 to $39. The bundles consist of the following: Godot Spring Time Bundle
New 3D Asset Bundles for Unreal, Unity and Godot Read More
The number of options when moving away for Adobe continues to grow every day and in the last year several new major alternatives have appeared. These new options are also often free and recently some traditional strongholds such as Lightroom and After Effects now have some major competition. Lightroom Lightroom,
Leaving Adobe Keeps Getting Easier Read More
It’s time for the Epic Games bi-monthly asset giveaway on the Fab marketplace, with 3 free assets from April 21st – May 5th. Once “purchased” the assets are yours free to keep forever. This giveaway contains only Unreal Engine assets, but as you can see from the video you can
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Guassian Splats are an interesting graphics approach enabling the near flawless capture and recreation of real-life scenes and objects. They are increasingly being used in media and television applications, but what about games? We look at how you can use the new Godot Gaussian Splatting add-on (GDGS) to easily display
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Adobe After Effects now has not only one, but TWO major competitors… that are now both available for free! Canva acquired motion graphics software Cavalry back in February and much like they did with the Affinity suite of products, they have announced that Cavalry is now available for free! There
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Chaos V-Ray, a popular 3D renderer for applications such as 3DS Max, Maya, Cinema4D and more has recently added Blender to the list of supported applications. Even better, they just launched V-Ray for Blender Community Edition, which is a free but somewhat restricted version of V-Ray that can even be
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