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sâmbătă, 8 iulie 2017

The ShaderPlay Studios company.

About this company we can find out more on the official website:

ShaderPlay Studios is a software development company operating out of Playa Vista, California and founded on January of 2014 by Scott Bean, a veteran graphics engineer with 20 years of experience in the 3D software and gaming industry. The primary focus of ShaderPlay Studios is to give artists and engineers the tools they need to streamline their pipelines, iterate faster and ultimately create more meaningful digital content.
This development company come with tree software:

  • NodeFlex is a very powerful, programmable node-based data generator designed to greatly simplify any tedious, redundant and error-prone data authoring tasks.
  • ShaderFlex is a new breed of stand-alone code-based HLSL shader editors developed to take full advantage of DirectX 11/12.
  • RenderFlex is a real-time viewer for ShaderFlex users to distribute and showcase their shader creations without giving away any of their proprietary source code or assets.
You can see more videos on the youtube official channel:

vineri, 7 iulie 2017

News: New Unity 2017 beta version release.

This new release is beta 2017.2.0b2 version release from Unity development team.
Is full with new features like:

  • learn feature into started application;
  • introducing Unity Package Manager;
  • Services: Performance Reporting Service with support for native crashes on Android;
  • Timeline support for Avatar Masks on Animation Tracks;
  • Video with pixel aspect ratio support for non-square pixel;
  • WebGL come with  linear rendering to WebGL 2.0;
  • OSX: support for Retina in macOS standalone builds;
  • 2D: with Tilemap;
  • Editor: fix scripts editor, script compilation times and  splitting your project's scripts;
  • Graphics: Implemented Display-P3 color gamut support  for iOS and macOS;
  • VR: Updated Oculus to version 1.14;

...and more
 You can read one full page of changes and features from new Unity - here.

miercuri, 5 iulie 2017

The Jocly platform for games.

This web platform for game named Jocly can be found here.
The name is similar with another game platform - Jolt.
The most games are classic board games known by gamers.
All games come into large collection of abstract strategy games, 2D and 3D user interface, artificial intelligence to play against.
You can also deal with Jocly library and set of tools to integrate boards games into Web environments.
Users can play against the computer or other jocly users - includes chat and video chat.
You can use jocly on your own sites by using jquery.jocly plugin.
So the games can be integrated into any web page with minimum effort.
See the next video from official youtube channel of Jocly :

marți, 4 iulie 2017

A-Frame web framework for Virtual Reality.

As originators of WebVR, the Mozilla VR team developed A-Frame as a web framework for building virtual reality (VR) experiences.
The core of framework provides an declarative, extensible, and composable structure to three.js.
You can find some example with this framework here.
The blog of the development team and users come with useful articles.
A-Frame supports most VR headsets:
  • Vive
  • Rift
  • Daydream
  • GearVR
  • Cardboard
  • ... and can even be used for augmented reality
The framework come with aframe inspector the online tool for visual tool for inspecting and tweaking scenes.
The Sonar Systems youtube channel come with some video tutorials about A-Frame VR framework: