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It seems like every single major 3D application are getting behind Pixar’s USD format and NVIDIA have released Omniverse as an interconnect between all of these programs. The USD or Universal Scene Description is an open source standardized interchange format, described succinctly enough as: Universal Scene Description (USD) is an …
Google Poly is yet another excellent service that Google are killing off prematurely, but thankfully a new effort, Poly.pizza has risen to take it’s place. Google Poly was launched back in 2017 and was an excellent resource for CC0 low polygon 3D models. Google killing off services isn’t new, in …
Today Adobe announced the creation of the Adobe Substance 3D collection as well as the launch of an all new 3D modeling application. The Substance 3D collection is a subscription package built heavily around Allegorthmic products acquired by Adobe in 2019, specifically Substance Painter, Substance Designer and the now rebranded …
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Game publisher Activision have just released an open source project USD Shell Extension. The project is available on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 open source license and enables Windows users to interact with USD files, a increasingly industry standard interchange format created by Pixar. Details of the Activision USD Shell …
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MagicaCSG, a free signed distance field 3d modelling and rendering application was just released by ephtracy, the maker of the popular voxel application MagicaVoxel. The development of MagicaVoxel ended in September of 2020 and this appears to be the authors new project. EDIT — 6/15/21 — MagicaCSG can now export …
Silo, a 3D modelling application I’ve been following on this channel for a long time, has had a rocky development history. Starting out as a promising light weight 3D modelling application, development was seemingly abandoned in favor of developing mobile applications, then later the PixelMash 2D graphics application. Then in …
First announced back in February, MetaHuman Creator is a new online service for creating life like digital humans quickly and easily. Starting today, MetaHuman Creator is now available in early access. Using MetaHuman Creator you essentially create life like characters in a similar manner to creating your avatar in many …
Today we are checking out picoCAD, a free minimalist 3D modelling application written entirely in PICO-8. PICO-8 is a fantasy console (click here to learn about it and other virtual consoles) that provides a complete virtual computing environment with massively restrained, generally 8bit style features, as well as a Lua …
Photogrammetry is becoming increasingly common in the world of game development, cumulating in Epic Games recent acquisition of Capturing Reality, creator of Reality Capture. Photogrammetry is essentially the process of recreating 3D objects and textures from a series of images and is a technique used to capture many of the …
Hero Forge is an online tool that is used to create miniatures for table top and digital RPGs, that has the potential to be an amazing game development tool. Hero Forge runs entirely in your browser and enables you to create a wide variety of character models. They also enable …
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