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Effekseer 1.5

EDIT – It seems we have pushed the download server capacity.  If you want to download Effekseer, use this mirror instead.Effekseer is an open source particle effect creation tool we covered previously in this video.  They just recently released version 1.5:New features include:Material Editor A new node-based material editor has appeared. Further expression is possible […]

AssetForge Hands-On Review

Asset Forge 2 Review

Today we are going hands-on with Asset Forge 2.0 by Kenny.nl.  Asset Forge is an extremely easy to use 3D modeling application where you can quickly create models using building blocks.Details of Asset Forge:You’ll have access to a large library of pre-made blocks (about 600 currently), they’re each categorized in different categories. You can place […]

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TerreSculptor World Building Tool Hands-On

TerreSculptor is a free Windows based application for creating landscapes and terrains for games and other media.  Starting life in 2005 as a tool for creating maps for the Unreal Developer Kit, the tool has come a long way in the years since.On Demenzun Media homepage, TerreSulptor is described as:It all started back in 2005 […]

Normal Map Online Tool

NormalMap & Texture Generator Online

Instead of reporting the April 1st “news”, today we are instead going to look at a pair of excellent free texturing tools that run entirely in your browser, Normal Map Online and Texture Generator Online.  Normal Map online can be sued to create normal, displacement, ambient occlusion and specular maps from a simple height map […]

Character Creator 3 Review

Character Creator 3 Hands-On

In modern AAA games you often have a staggering amount of control over your character’s creation.  As a game developer you may think, “Why can’t we do this for creating game assets?”.  Simple answer, you can and that’s exactly what Character Creator 3 from Reallusion enables you to do.  Starting from a base mesh you […]

Adobe Animate CC 2019

Adobe Animate CC 2019 Released

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 […]

A Closer Look at the Godot Game Engine

  Gamefromscratch has a long running series taking an indepth look at various game engines available.  Today we are going to look at the Godot game engine, an open source C++ based game engine with a complete Unity-esque world editor.  Godot runs on Windows, Linux and Mac platforms and can target all of those, plus […]

Photoshop Touch for Android: Part 2 The Tools

      Now lets take a quick look at the tools available in Photoshop touch.  Obviously the tool bar is the ideal place to start.  It is fairly sparse but at the same time is the essence of Photoshop and I rather appreciate the streamlined nature.       Here is a graphic of […]

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