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duminică, 30 decembrie 2018

VIKINGS: WAR OF CLANS from Plarium.

I'm not a fan of Vikings, but this game is awesome.
It comes with many effects, many development options, simplicity, and good game management.
I started playing while working on my computer and I was not bored with the game's tasks.
The game starts with a tutorial that guides you and then you will make your own decisions.
Tasks are multiple, starting with the development of the village with materials, human and other complementary resources.
You can create and customize your own hero.

The game can be found here.
This is one of the videos from official youtube channel:

marți, 25 decembrie 2018

News: Re-release of 0 A.D. Alpha 23 Ken Wood.

The development team of 0 A.D.game, tells us:
Wildfire Games, an international group of volunteer game developers, is happy to announce the re-release of 0 A.D. Alpha 23 “Ken Wood”, the twenty-third alpha version of 0 A.D., a free, open-source real-time strategy game of ancient warfare. 

This version is a maintenance release. Blocking bugs were fixed and security and legal issues were addressed. The gameplay remained untouched, and both versions of Alpha 23 are multiplayer-compatible; however we advise you to upgrade to benefit from the following fixes. 

The team wishes to apologize for the delay in re-releasing. We have addressed other issues whenever we couldn’t make more progresses on the game itself, so the re-release has not been a completely negative procedure.
You can read this from the official website.

vineri, 21 decembrie 2018

Create textures with Materialize.

The development team comes with this great tool named Materialize:
Materialize is a stand alone tool for creating materials for use in games from images. You can create an entire material from a single image or import the textures you have and generate the textures you need.
You can use this tool for:
What can this tool do?
  • Diffuse -> Height 
  • Diffuse -> Metallic
  • Diffuse -> Smoothness
  • Height -> Normal
  • Height + Diffuse -> Normal 
  • Normal -> Edge 
  • Normal -> Occlusion 
  • Normal + Height -> Occlusion 
  • Normal -> Height 
  • Seamlessly tile your textures. 
  • Save and load in a variety of formats. 
  • Automate many processes with clipboard commands in XML format.
You can find video tutorials created by Michael Voeller:

joi, 20 decembrie 2018

News: Anisotropic Material Demo: Christmas Baubles.

The new feature maned Anisotropic Material comes on sketchfab website.
The website comes with this demo: Christmas Baubles.
This demo can be found here.
The model information is a blend file this means is created with Blender 3D software created by an original model by Nehon.

The development team tells us:

A new 3D feature: introducing Anisotropy
We’re proud to introduce yet another rendering option for all Sketchfab community members today: Anisotropy (pronounce as: an-eye-sott-row-pee). A new material option that allows you to create directional reflections. Useful for rendering hair and metal materials.

miercuri, 19 decembrie 2018

The best online font creator - calligraphr.

This website named calligraphr is an online tool for creating fonts.
The development team comes with these features:
  • Create your templates with much more comfort and options.
  • You don't need a scanner anymore. Just take a pic of your template with your mobile phone.
  • Draw different variants of each character, which are then used randomly to give your font a more authentic look.
  • Create your ligatures and add them to your font.
  • No need to start over again if you don't like a character.
  • Just edit it with our included tools.
  • Take all the time you need to work on your fonts.
  • They are stored on your browser and can be edited in more than one session.
You can use many templates (from default templates to any languages).
Use these steps:
  1. Create a template;
  2. Fill it out with your font;
  3. Use the result and upload it into fonts page;
The template can be download into PDF or archive of PNG files.
This is a default language font to create a template, see screenshot:

MAVO : Create webpages with HTML and CSS .

A start intro into MAVO can be found here.
The MAVO is a simple way to create good design and graphics for your website.
The development team tells us: What if I told you, that you can do these things (and more!), just with HTML and CSS? No programming code to write, no servers to manage.
A demo page shows us how good is this system, see here.

duminică, 9 decembrie 2018

Brackets - another editor for development.

This is a modern, open source text editor with a great design that understands web design and is named Brackets.
Is created with JavaScript and you can contribute and create your extensions.
The team development comes with this intro:
Brackets is a lightweight, yet powerful, modern text editor. We blend visual tools into the editor so you get the right amount of help when you want it without getting in the way of your creative process. You'll enjoy writing code in Brackets.
This editor can be found at the official webpage.
See this screenshot with this editor:

News : The new Blender 3D.

The new Blender 3D software is a good way to design and create media content.
Now is better and come with a lot of features and options.
This software can be found on the official website .

You can read all info and documentation about how to use this 3D software.
Anyway, you can also take a look at youtube for tutorials.
I can recommend this tutorial by Blender Guru :

And step by step development by the Blender Developers channels :
In my opinion is more complex that Blender 2.7 version.

sâmbătă, 8 decembrie 2018

YouTube - Premiere feature.

It's an older feature that YouTube has been releasing two months ago.
The YouTube comes with a new feature named: Premiere.
The goal for YouTube users is to be able to organize and distribute video content on a specific date and on a specific target.
What's interesting about it?
Once a premiere is scheduled, a shareable and public watch page is created. This page shows the video metadata, including title, description, and thumbnail. In addition, the video will eventually premiere on this watch page URL. Viewers can start interacting through Comments and Live Chat before and during the premiere.
A very good part for the target is raising money for the Premiere feature.
You can read more about this feature here.

joi, 6 decembrie 2018

The NOX emulator player release version 6.2.6.0

On December 3, 2018 a new release of the NOX player is available for Android users.
The Nox App Player is the latest Android emulator released recently.
An android emulator or app player is the software that allows users to install android app and game on PC or Laptop.
NoxPlayer 6.2.6.0 Release Note: 
What’s New: 
1. Optimized the keyboard control, add long-press continuous click mode; 
2. Optimized synchronization function of multi-instance, virtual location can be synchronized now; 
3. Optimized interaction and visual design of toolbar for easier operation; 
4. Optimized the start response and restart time; 
5. Optimized the Theme Center in NoxPlayer; 
6. Fixed the macro button configuration failure in the keyboard control; 
7. Fixed the minimization problem of multi-instance manager; 
8. Fixed the crash problem caused by keyboard configuration and some graphics card models.
More about this on the official webpage.

luni, 3 decembrie 2018

Star Trek Online Age of Discovery by Arc Games.

This is the best free online play of an MMORPG game.
If you play the old games like Freelancer or Librelancer then this game is more advanced and with many goals.

The development team comes with this intro:
  Explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations, and boldly go in this expanding vast universe.

What I liked is the gradual ship-to-staff development system.
The story is beautiful, but sometimes it can happen to get the story back.
However, these small impediments do not take them out of the beauty of the game.
It is a game with many video scenes and nicely arranged spaces that will surprise you.
I was amazed at how much information I was able to put into this game, making it huge and non-monotonous.
I try to find a good video for this article but I don't find it on the official youtube channel.
Anyway, I select this to have a simple into:

vineri, 30 noiembrie 2018

News : Cesium World Terrain update the United States Terrain up to 0.5m .

Fresh high-resolution terrain across the United States was added to Cesium World Terrain. 

New 3m terrain now covers large sections of the United States, including major cities such as San Francisco, Washington DC, Portland, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Philadelphia, Raleigh, and New Orleans, to name just a few.

The quarry near San Francisco shown below highlights how the new high-resolution terrain (left) brings the hills, roads, and steps into focus. Try the slider to see how the new terrain also better matches the high-resolution imagery. 

New 0.5m terrain now covers the entire West Coast of the US, from the Mexico border all the way up to the Canada border. 

This coastal shot shows the old terrain (right); the rugged nature of the coast becomes clear with new high resolution terrain (left).

Read more at official blog.

joi, 29 noiembrie 2018

News : Blender 3D the beta version.

In this video, Pablo Vazquez presents the 5 major updates in Blender 2.8 Beta.
As you already know, the Blender 3D is free and you can support core Blender development here.

vineri, 23 noiembrie 2018

Use offline Slate editor.

Named Slate this software is a simple editor.
This editor can be easily used to create drawings and simple art like pixelart.
The good part of this editor is simple to use and can be used offline.
This is a screenshot of this software:

More about this editor can be found at GitHub website page.

sâmbătă, 10 noiembrie 2018

Make online sprite with pixilart.

This is a simple drawing tool with simple features like an editor with some basic features.
This tool comes with a community art online.
This online tool comes with an application on google play.
Create pixel art on the go. Pixilart is a community of passionate art enthusiasts who enjoy pixels. Easily make pixel art, and then share your art and even follow others who have created their own pixel art creations.
You can test your 2D drawing skills here.

joi, 8 noiembrie 2018

Unity 3D : Unity 2D Challenge.

Here's an unexpected opportunity for Unity 3D game developers to develop 2D games.
About this challenge the Unity team come with this info:
The prizes:
1st - $2000
2nd - $1000
3rd - $500
Special Mention - $500
Join the Unity 2D Challenge to become part of an exciting community journey exploring the possibilities of our new 2D tools.
How to participate 
Create a small piece of content using Unity’s 2D tools. It can be anything from pixel-perfect retro-style art to a snippet of hand-drawn platforming gameplay or a thin vertical slice of a 2D competitive brawler. Anything goes, as long as it’s 2D. See the FAQ at the bottom for more info.
See this video intro:

luni, 5 noiembrie 2018

Online Fishing Planet game .

If you are a fishing enthusiast, this game is a pleasant and relaxing realism.
It is a manager where you will spend your money on fishing gear and you will find world-class competitions.
The development team comes with this intro:

  Fishing Planet is a FREE to play unique and highly realistic online first-person multiplayer fishing simulator developed for anglers to bring you the full thrill of actual fishing! Choose your lures, make your trophy catches, discover new possibilities and sharpen your real angling skills anywhere, anytime 

Features:
72+ species of fish, each with its unique behavior and AI.
12 scenic waterways with multiple locations, various climatic conditions, bottom terrains and vegetation.
Thousands of tackle combinations with unique physical and hydrodynamic properties.
Superb dynamic water graphics with ripples and surface that changes depending on wind, current and depth.

You can play this game on Windows od Linux (Ubuntu) with this system requirements:

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
OS: OS Version - Windows 7, 8, 10 x64
Processor: Dual-Core 2.4 Ghz
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Graphics Card Intel HD4600 or higher DirectX: Version 11
Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 12 GB available space
Additional Notes: External mouse or compatible Xbox controller required 
Read here.

joi, 1 noiembrie 2018

The cubebrush website accepts bitcoin.

As you know already the Cubebrush website is the first and largest marketplace for digital art resources.
Now the Cubebrush website team accepts cryptocurrency as a payment method.
Read about the new option here.
We're extremely excited to inform you that as of today, we now accept Bitcoin (plus Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum & Litecoin) as a payment method. 

Bitcoin is a decentralized P2P currency that enables instant payments. You will now be able to use cryptocurrency to purchase curated CG tutorials, 3D/2D assets and much more on Cubebrush.

luni, 29 octombrie 2018

OpenProcessing website.

You can create an account on this website to test your skills with processing programming language.
About OpenProcessing then this programming language uses some awesome Licensed and Open Source components.
You can see my working sketches here.

joi, 25 octombrie 2018

Castle Clash: Heroes of the Empire US.

The IGG team comes with this info about this game:
...Castle Clash is a game of epic kingdom wars! Hire powerful Heroes and equip them with legendary weapons to lead your mighty army of mythical creatures. Fight your way to become the world's greatest castle warlord. Put your strategies to the test in dungeons, raids, wars, arenas, and missions!...

marți, 23 octombrie 2018

Elvenar - the online game.

The team comes with this intro for this online game:
Welcome to Elvenar! Elvenar is a free-to-play browser-based game, where you will build a flourishing city and discover a magical world full of mysteries. Build up the most beautiful city and establish the most efficient economic system that you can! In Elvenar you can upgrade almost every building, improving the productivity and the look of your city. Explore the vast World Map to acquire the knowledge of your wise ancestors and discover new technologies. Trade or fight over powerful Relics to boost your production. You can either become a skilled and well-known trader, refine your producing art or lead your troops to victory in 3D-animated battles, the decision is up to you.
You can see a video intro from the official youtube channel:

miercuri, 17 octombrie 2018

News : NVIDIA VMware Test Drive.

The NVIDIA VMware Test Drive gives you instant access to hours of accelerated, virtualized graphics—for free.
You can start with:
  • FREE 90-DAY EVAL 
  • PURCHASE NVIDIA VIRTUAL GPUs:  just for these countries: Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Latin, Poland, Russia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom.
Read more about this feature here.

luni, 15 octombrie 2018

Free textures from texturehaven .

The team from the texturehaven website come with this info:

100% Free 
All textures are licensed as CC0 and can be downloaded instantly, giving you complete freedom. 
No paywalls, email forms or account systems.

You can help this website:

With Patreon, you can contribute to help us pay the server cost and develop new texture scans.
When a goal is achieved, something new will come.
Think unlocking 8k textures, PNG files, increasing uploads and more.
Not only can you contribute financially, but you can get directly involved in the process, helping decide what textures we shoot, and ultimately the direction this site is going. 
Spendings of donation each month is verified by public finance reports.

sâmbătă, 13 octombrie 2018

Mythology : Contest created by HUION .

The contest is created by the HUION graphic tablet company.
The theme of the contest is Mythology.
Awards are in HUION products.
Subscription deadline: 15 November 2018.
See more detail here.

marți, 9 octombrie 2018

The Magicavoxel tool for your game development.

The development team tells us:
"A free lightweight 8-bit voxel editor and interactive path tracing renderer, made with love by @ephtracy. Available for PC and MAC. This is where it all begins.

This tiny light-weighted software is the core of voxelart, since it is capable of many things : just edit, paint and move your voxels in a cubic grid, then animated them and render them with the powerful integrated renderer.

License : feel free to use it for any project, no commercial licences required, credits are appreciated"
Let's see this video tutorial from youtube channel:


duminică, 7 octombrie 2018

Smart tool - the online unknown tool.

I found this online tool for developing games.
The tool can:
  • Load and Save image files;
  • Change settings for a normal map texture;
I don't find the provider of this tool...
They say:
Error 404 - Not found 
Die angegebene Seite konnte nicht gefunden werden.
See the screenshot with this tool:

miercuri, 3 octombrie 2018

Thunkable : Create online mobile applications for iOS and Android.

Thunkable is the platform where anyone can build their own mobile applications for iOS and Android.
This online tool is free to use with a google account.
The Thunkable platform charges a maintenance fee for the use of certain components such as Ads by AdMob and Payment by Stripe.
You can start build your on an app is as simple as dragging and dropping your favorite components and connecting them together with blocks.
Learn how to make your first app from this video from official youtube channel:

Unity 3D : FBX Exporter asset.

Today I will show you how to use an asset in Unity Store named FBX Exporter.
A short video tutorial was presented at Siggraph 2018 de Liz Mercuri (Technical Evangelist, Unity Technologies), see this video tutorial:

Let's see how to use this asset.
First, you need to download and import it from Unity Store.
Search using the name of this asset FBX Exporter from Unity.

Use import option to use this asset.
To start this asset use from menu: Edit - Project Settings - Fbx Export.

This will open this asset into Inspector area:

You can use just Maya and 3D studio Max 3D software to work with this asset.

marți, 25 septembrie 2018

Noisli : an inspired editor.

This publisher is recommended to writers and those who need inspiration.
I found him present in the community for those who want to write.
It's a simple online editor with dynamic graphics and sound effects.
Practically you can hear different sounds combined and you can let and choose color combinations to inspire you.
The editor can save in text format  and export to your dropbox account or Google Drive.
Here's a screenshot of this editor:

duminică, 16 septembrie 2018

The Figma App Design Workflow - online tool.

The development team come with this intro:
Figma is the first interface design tool based in the browser, making it easier for teams to create software.
The Figma pricing start with:
  • Basic - free for individuals 
  • Professional - $12*
  • Organization - $45*
You can start with your your email or google account, see first page:
The interface is simple and colors are great.
The official youtube channel come with many videos about this online tool.
You can find any references and tutorials on web.
The CharliMarieTV channel come with this title about Figma : Sketch vs Figma - Why I switched!

duminică, 9 septembrie 2018

Clay Viewer : editor and export 3D files.

You can use this editor tool online.
Another option is to download the application on Windows and macOS with FBX/DAE/OBj import and glTF2.0/GLB export from here.
This tool comes with ClayGL library to provide a python tool for converting FBX to glTF 2.0.
The ClayGL is a WebGL graphics library for building scalable Web3D applications.
You can read more about this A.P.I. library here.
The source code can be found on GitHub webpage.
This is a screenshot with default clay-viewer tool:

duminică, 2 septembrie 2018

New codepen example - modal window.

In user interface design for computer applications, a modal window is a graphical control element subordinate to an application's main window. It creates a mode that disables the main window, but keeps it visible with the modal window as a child window in front of it.
This is my example with a modal window created on codepen website.
The example is very simple.
The html5 source code is created with classes and id's.
The css file make all style for this tags.
The javascript use all of this to open the modal window, use click to close the window.
The Cancel and Add buttons not work with the java script.

sâmbătă, 25 august 2018

Meshroom 3D Reconstruction Software

The development team come with this infos about Meshroom 3D Reconstruction Software:
Meshroom is a free, open-source 3D Reconstruction Software based on the AliceVision framework.
The official website can be found here.

You can see a tutorial with Blender 3D - open-source software created by CG Geek:

VPaint software.

The development team of VPaint software come with this info:
VPaint was an experimental vector graphics editor based on the Vector Animation Complex (VAC), a technology developed by a collaboration of researchers at Inria and the University of British Columbia, featured at SIGGRAPH 2015.
You can use it with the following operating systems: Windows Vista, 7, 10, Max OS X and Linux.
I tested and is a good software with some important gaps for the user:
  • you cannot copy frames;
  • export is just for PNG and SVG file format;
  • too few tools; 
The software can be improved and you can contribute here.

joi, 23 august 2018

GIMP: extract still background and mask frames.

The issue is about BgMask: extract still background from video frames / mask frames against background , see Thread-extract-from-gif-with-BgMask-script.
The GIF file come from giphy.
I tested with the .scm script and working well with extract background and mask.
I have noticed that the differences are significantly positive when the background is static and the animation does not exceed the display area of ​​the GIF file, see the output result:
.

marți, 21 august 2018

Online effects in a single image .

This website allows you to draw more effects in one image:

duminică, 12 august 2018

Krita 4.1.1 : Comics Manager tool.

This tool can be activated from the menu: Settings - Dockers - Comics Manager.
This start into the docker a GUI that allow you to use this tool.

Select a empty folder and give the info for your project:
It's a tool helps you create and export comics in a defined format.
Select all you need and use wizard to the end.
This will make all folders and config files.
You can open the project with same Comics Manager and the JSON file from your project folder.
The wizard will let now to use the buttons that until now were inactive: Project Settings, Add Page, Export Comic and Copy Location.

sâmbătă, 11 august 2018

Shadertoy: New shader example : Old watch (IBL) .

This is a great example at shadertoy website.
The example come with this link to this article into first comment.
The example is simple but impressive.
What is interesting to see how some objects are created.
float sdPlane( const vec3 p ) {
 return p.y;
}

float sdTorus( const vec3 p, const vec2 t ) {
  vec2 q = vec2(length(p.xz)-t.x,p.y);
  return length(q)-t.y;
}

float sdTorusYZ( const vec3 p, const vec2 t ) {
  vec2 q = vec2(length(p.yz)-t.x,p.x);
  return length(q)-t.y;
}

float sdTorusYX( const vec3 p, const vec2 t ) {
  vec2 q = vec2(length(p.yx)-t.x,p.z);
  return length(q)-t.y;
}
...

joi, 9 august 2018

Find 735,802 icons / 2,458 iconsets .

This website can help you to find icons with extension like: .svg,  .ico, .png and .icns
Most of this icons are free to use.
They tell us :

Search through 735,802 icons / 2,458 iconsets

marți, 7 august 2018

Rebelle 3 - the watercolor software .

The development team comes with this info about this software:
Rebelle is a unique digital painting solution for creating realistic art using watercolors, acrylics and any wet and dry media. Use of real-world color blending, wet diffusion and drying sets it apart from its competition.
  • Real world simulation of paint diffusion ;
  • Wet tools: Watercolor, Acrylic and Ink Pen ;
  • Dry tools: Pencil, Pastel, Marker, Eraser ;
  • Blend and Smudge tools ;
  • Custom Brushes ;
  • Wet, dry and blow the wet painting ;
  • Tilt the canvas to get flow effects ;
  • Pen pressure support ;
The digital copy comes with this price: $ 89.99.
Read more at official webpage about this software.

luni, 6 august 2018

Testing CopperCube with my android emulator.

Today , I tested the example make by CopperCube - version 6 named  with android installation.
This example can be found when you start the CopperCube at Open Example App - First Person Shooter.
If you want to try another example, you may be asked to buy the license if you try post effects.
You can find my complete tutorial with the settings here.
The result works great and is a little slow for my android emulator.
See the result of this test can be see in the next screenshot:

marți, 31 iulie 2018

Using Coppercube game engine with android.

Today I will start this tutorial about Coppercube and android.
First you need to know the CopperCube is free but can also buy it, see this link.
For CopperCube, you need the Android 2.2 (Froyo / API Level 8) and Android 8.0 (O) SDK packages.
You need to install all of this SDK packages with the Android Studio - using SDK Manager.
You need to have install the JDK (Java SE Development Kit) - most users already have it in the operating system.
NOTE: The Android Studio SDK can be found at : c:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk and you need to create a keystore. Follow the next images to see the steps how to make all settings to test your android output:





luni, 30 iulie 2018

The gamefroot online HTML5 game engine.

This game engine use HTML5 and come with default templates , default sprites to test it.
You can follow the tutorials online and you can try a search on web for video tutorials.
This HTML5 engine use blocks for scripting area. Start with a account and test the tutorials.
You can used free with this option:
  • Publish to Gamefroot.com
You can also use two prices (from $15.00 and $49.00) to unlock the next features:
  • Educational Resources
  • Export to IOS and Android
  • Customer Support
  • Classroom Management
You can test it at official webpage .
The official youtube channel come with many video tutorials, just take a look:


duminică, 15 iulie 2018

Microsoft Azure Batch and Blender 3D addon .

You can use Azure Microsoft account to render your Blender 3D files.
First you need a Azure account. Download the Blender addon for azure from here.
Unzip the addon and copy the content of Blender.Client into addon folder.
I try to use the install option from Blender 3D - User Preferences but not working.
You need to use pip3 tool with python from Blender 3D.
Download the pip3 tool from here into python Blender 3D folder and run this commands:
C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.79\python\bin>python.exe get-pip.py
...
Successfully installed pip-10.0.1 setuptools-40.0.0 wheel-0.31.1

C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.79\python\bin>cd ..
C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.79\python>cd Scripts
C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.79\python\Scripts>
pip3.exe install credentials
pip3.exe install azure-batch-apps
This will install the python modules for the Blender addon for Azure Microsoft.

Login with your Azure account and create your batch service:


I try to use a free account with $200 credit but the Azure Microsoft come with this note:
You cannot  use your Azure monetary commitment funds or subscription credits ...

vineri, 13 iulie 2018

Kraut - the procedurally tool .

Kraut is a program to procedurally generate plants, especially trees. Through a set of parameters you specify how a tree is supposed to grow. Various different, but similar trees can be generated from the same specification. Additionally there is a manual editing mode, which allows to easily paint branches by hand, such that very unique trees can be created.
They come with this features:
New Features in BETA 2
  • Flares along branches: deform the mesh to imitate strong roots or bulges. 
  • Billboard Leaves: Leaves that rotate towards the viewer to achive more densly looking trees with few polygons. 
  • Frond and Leaf color variation: More natural looking trees through easy to use color variation per leaf. 
  • Convert to DDS: All textures that are exported as TGA can now additionally be converted to DDS format. 
  • LeafCards: Top-Down mode to create leaf textures for billboards. 
  • Visual Tree Component Editor: Much improved UI for editing tree components and reusing them in other trees. 
  • Generally much cleaned up UI. Added progress bars for longer operations. 
  • Fixed broken FBX export. Improved smooth vertex normals. 
  • Several improvements to the tree generation. Branch width is now absolute, Trunk types can be spwaned with more control. 
  • Added Billboard and Impostor LOD types. 
  • Export to custom format, which supports all the features that are required to fully render a Kraut tree. 
  • Added program "Kraut Viewer" with full source, which demonstrates how to load and render a kraut tree.

miercuri, 11 iulie 2018

Krita 4.0.1 : Supported tablets.

I used a good graphic tablet from Huion and works great with Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10.
The new software from Huion let you to make settings and changes for your graphic tablet.
The Krita development team come with this web page for supported tablets.
They do not guarantee that all tablets are compatible.
For those who want to buy a graphics tablet, they should make sure they are compatible with the Krita software.

luni, 9 iulie 2018

The ThreeNodes tool .

The ThreeNodes.js tool is a good example to see how the three.js libs can be used.
Is a good tool to create and use it, see online tool:

duminică, 24 iunie 2018

The COLOR online tool.

This COLOR online tool help you to create, share, and apply color palettes to your UI, as well as measure the accessibility level of any color combination.
Select your color palette r create a custom one.
The next step is to export the output to Android , iOs or CodePen website.

joi, 21 iunie 2018

News : Get up to $311 in free assets.

News for Unity 3D users and development teams.
The Unity 3D team come with this new feature to have more assets into your game development:
  Spend between $50 and $250 in the Unity Asset Store during the month of June 2018, and get up to five free assets, worth $311 in value. Activate now by submitting your Asset Store login (your email) here.*
Read about this here.

luni, 18 iunie 2018

Blender 3D : Tutorial about Sketchfab online tool and Dandelion model .

This is a simple tutorial about how to create transparent area into your texture.
In my example is about Dandelion model.
The model is created with Blender 3D software and is upload with Sketchfab blender 3D addon.
Next use Manage button to edit all your materials and textures.
You need to select just the OPACITY with the texture for transparent area like flowers or for each leaf.
For example in this screenshot is not selected the texture, but you can select for each area of 3D model.

This is result of my work with Dandelion 3D model:

duminică, 17 iunie 2018

Blender 3D : Blender 2.8 Code Quest .

Named the Blender 2.8 Code Quest this is a new way for Blender team to upgrade the Blender 3D software.
They tell us about the mission and goals of the team:
Workflow is the main theme for the Blender 2.8 project. Many complex architectural changes are required to achieve this goal. The current team of core developers working on Blender 2.8 is distributed over multiple continents and collaborates online, using chat and emails, which is not always efficient. It was known that the project would take 2 or 3 years to complete, but to keep momentum it shouldn’t take much longer. Everyone wants to get Blender 2.8 done this year!
The Blender 3D team come with two tasks :


The official youtube channel come with this video about the Code Quest:

miercuri, 13 iunie 2018

The Xenko game engine .

The Xenko Beta version is available for free .
This is old news from Xenko game engine team:

Long time no see!

The Xenko promotion period has ended, and we’ve made some changes to the license plans.

As of 1 April 2018, Xenko Pro and Xenko Pro Plus are no longer available.

Xenko Personal is still free for personal use and for businesses of less than $200,000 US in annual revenue. If you don’t meet the Xenko Personal criteria, contact us for a custom plan.

If your business makes over $200,000 US in annual revenue, and you downloaded Xenko before 1 April 2018, you can continue to use Xenko until 1 April 2019. If you want to use Xenko after that, you need to contact us to create a custom plan before 1 April 2019.

miercuri, 6 iunie 2018

News: Great discount and video tutorial .

Today I got an email from the Marvelous with a big discount :
85% OFF for Marvelous Designer 6 License Holders
75% OFF for Marvelous Designer 4,5 License Holders
I don't used this software into my game development and rendered.
The main reason is the big data output of this software.
You can used the fbx file output if you need with Blender 3D or default render of Marvelous software.
They also come with a tutorial about UV :

miercuri, 30 mai 2018

New features for EVE online .

The development team come with this into named : EVE Online - Into the Abyss Feature Tour
The most part of this feature is focus on Planetary Colonies.
The EVE Online tell into Steam area of game with this intro:
  EVE Online is a community-driven spaceship MMO where players can play for free, choosing their own path from countless options. Experience space exploration, immense PvP and PvE battles, mining, industry and a thriving player economy in an ever-expanding sandbox.
This new features can be show at official youtube and the full official article :

marți, 29 mai 2018

Blender 3D : Distorted texture wallpaper tutorial .

This is a simple tutorial about how to make a noise wallpaper.
You need just the Camera object.
The texture is default and is add to camera with the distorted texture.
Set the render to Cycles and use the Node Editor with this parameters into the next screenshot.

luni, 28 mai 2018

GDevelop - game programming tool .

A quick introduction to this online tool comes from the official website , see this:

GDevelop runs on Windows, macOS and most recent Linux distributions.
You can also try it online using Chrome, Firefox or another recent web browser. 
... 
GDevelop is an open-source project.

This is tool can be used on your desktop with most operating systems but also online.
I tested it and it's easy to use and come with default examples and sample.
The result can be used on web or like application.
For Android applications you need to install it on your desktop.

miercuri, 23 mai 2018

Online tool with millions of satellite images of the Earth’s surface .

This website come with this great tool for aerial photographs to millions of satellite images of the Earth’s surface into great archive from 1937.
They tell us:
The U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Long Term Archive (LTA) at the National Center for Earth Resource Observations and Science (EROS) in Sioux Falls, SD is one of the largest civilian remote sensing data archives. It contains a comprehensive record of the Earth's changing land surface. Scientists from around the world depend on this archive to conduct research on changes that affect our environment, resources, health, and safety. Time series images are a valuable resource for scientists, disaster managers, engineers, educators, and the general public. USGS EROS has archived, managed, and preserved land remote sensing data for more than 35 years and is a leader in preserving land remote sensing imagery. USGS EROS has a mandate to provide access and data preservation support for its land remote sensing data archive.
The tool simple to use just select your area from Search Criteria - use the points lat/long and the use the Data Set(s) to select by your options.
You can use more than one data set to search into your area and the result will be show like a log.
This online tool can be found here.
This is a screenshot with this online tool:

sâmbătă, 19 mai 2018

News: 0 A.D. Alpha 23 .

Today the Wildfire Games announces the new release of 0 A.D. Alpha 23 named Ken Wood.
Is a great and free game for many operating platforms like: Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
You can read more about this news here.

joi, 17 mai 2018

The Vectr online and desktop tool.

With this simple tool you can manage tasks and solve issues with vector graphics - SVG file format. The team development tell us:
Vectr is a free vector graphics design software which runs on web and desktop platforms Mac, Windows, Linux and Chromebook.
You can start to work with a temporary file, but is more easy to create a simple account.
The tool come with simple features to create your design.
This tool come with a good learn area and a official youtube channel, just take a look:

marți, 15 mai 2018

News: Construct 2 Release r259.

The development team come with this new release for Construct 2 game engine.
This is a stable update to incorporate fixes from r256, r257 and r258. As noted previously, we are only maintaining Construct 2 with bug fixes at this point. New features will only be added to Construct 3.

Since r255 the main improvements are:

  • Better handling of video and audio autoplay. This includes updates to work around Chrome 66's changes to autoplay policy which can prevent audio playback in old content. If you find your old games are muted in Chrome, export them again with this update and they should play audio correctly once the user has interacted with the page (i.e. a click, touch or key press). 
  • Support for Xbox Live Achievements. This should allow games on the ID@Xbox programme to meet the publishing requirements. In addition to that there are also a range of bug fixes, notably for a crash using savegames with Physics, and ensuring long-press on Android no longer triggers vibration.

Prices for Construct 2 licenses vary and are not very cheap (monthly or start from €159.99) .
The types of licenses used and sold for Construct 2 are:

  • Personal License 
  • Business License 
  • License Upgrade 
  • Educational Licenses
They also let you to test a free edition:
Download the free version today and give it a go! You're just about to discover a new, exciting way to teach.

luni, 14 mai 2018

My first 3D product.

This is my product I want to sell oncgtrader website
This is the description of my 3D model:

female clothes 001

3D model Create with Blender 3D 2.79b version and Marvelous designer.
One rigged character with four clothes: three dresses, bath suit.
The clothes are tested with cloth tool from Blender 3D 2.79b and working good.
You can see my 3D product here.The default character is Caucasian with no hair and no animations.

duminică, 13 mai 2018

Export to Blender 3D from the Marvelous Designer .

The Marvelous Designer 3D software is a great tool for creating 3D clothing.
Many users use Blender 3D to create 3D content and need a good way to create clothes.
One good way to export clothes to Blender is FBX format file.
This tutorial is simple one.
Just Import your 3D model into Marvelous Designer create clothes and export to Blender 3D like FBX file.
This is a screenshot with settings for export the FBX file:

sâmbătă, 12 mai 2018

The editSDF online tool .

The editSDF is a project to experiment with raymarched signed distance field.
You can test with some 3D primitives : Sphere, Box,Torus, Capsule, Ellipsoid.
You can change parameters, combine all and export the output like a GLSL shader.
The tool is very good and easy to use.
You can test it here.
This is a screenshot with the editSDF online tool:

vineri, 11 mai 2018

The LibreCAD open-source CAD application.

The development team tell us about this software:
  LibreCAD is a free Open Source CAD application for Windows, Apple and Linux. Support and documentation is free from our large, dedicated community of users, contributors and developers. 
... 
LibreCAD (originally CADuntu) is a free and open-source 2D CAD application, which uses Qt (a cross-platform application framework). The project started around 2010 as a fork of QCAD 2.0.5.0.
The official blog can be read here.
This software can be used on Windows, Linux and macOS, take a look here.
This is a screenshot with this software:

joi, 10 mai 2018

News: Krita 4.0.2 released.

The Krita development team come with this news:

  Today the Krita team releases Krita 4.0.2, a bug fix release of Krita 4.0.0. We fixed more than fifty bugs since the Krita 4.0.0 release! See below for the full list of fixed isses. We’ve also got fixes submitted by two new contributors: Emmet O’Neil and Seoras Macdonald. Welcome! 

Please note that: 
  •  The reference image docker has been removed. Krita 4.1.0 will have a new reference images tool. You can test the code-in-progress by downloading the nightly builds for Windows and Linux. You can also use Antoine Roux’s reference images docker python plugin. 
  • Translations are broken in various ways. On Linux everything should work. On Windows, you might have to select your language as an extra override language in the Settings/Select language dialog. This might also be the case on macOS 
  • The macOS binaries are now signed, but do not have G’Mic and do not have Python scripting. 
The full article can be found here.

duminică, 6 mai 2018

Blender 3D - EasyFX addon .

About this addon you can read and download it from here :
This addon come with this intro:
This is a free add-on for Blender which allows you to do post-production directly from the image editor, and EasyFX will automatically build your composition node tree.
  • Automatically builds your composition node-tree
  • Beginner friendly
  • Advanced users have the possibility to continue working on the generated node tree
  • Create stunning looking renders and animations!
Take a look to see how is working :

sâmbătă, 5 mai 2018

Unity3D : The Obi 3.4

This new release come with this news and features:
Obi is the first CPU-based real time unified physics framework:
  • Unified framework for character and interactive cloth, fluids, ropes...
  • Advanced editor tools
  • High performance multithreaded solver
  • Two-way interaction with rigidbodies, supports all collider types
  • From low budget, simple effects to extremely complex behavior
The main goal of this release is focuses on rendering particles and fluids.
The youtube channel can be found here.
You can see into the next video the good start of this asset into cloth simulations :

vineri, 4 mai 2018

The Tinkercad with 3D features.

This website come with this features:
Tinkercad is a simple, online 3D design and 3D printing app for everyone.
The development team try to help:
  • designers;
  • hobbyists;
  • teachers and kids
  • to make toys
  • prototypes
  • home decor
  • Minecraft models
  • jewelry 
  • ... the list is truly endless!
Take a look at this intro from official youtube channel :

joi, 3 mai 2018

The online tool for diagrams.

With this online tool you can start making flowcharts, charts , many type of diagrams and much more.
The goal of this tool is the online integrated features for diagrams with flexible share options.
You can try draw.io online tool for free and save your diagrams to Google drive , OneDrive or Device.
You can start by select your default diagram area from this list of option and create new diagrams:

  • Basic (1)
  • Business (11)
  • Charts (3)
  • Engineering (3)
  • Flowcharts (5)
  • Layout (3)
  • Maps (2)
  • Network (18)
  • Other (7)
  • Software (8)
  • Tables (4)
  • UML (8)
  • Venn (7)

This is the official youtube channel.
Take a look at this quick start video tutorial for a first impression :

luni, 30 aprilie 2018

The Marvelous Designer 3D tool .

The Marvelous Designer 3D software tool allows you to create clothing.
This tool use a cutting-edge design software , simulation , export and import files.
The base of this tool is patterns and simulation.
Also , this software come with this ranges of prices:
  • MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION $ 50.00 Billed monthly Subscription users are eligible for the latest version from Archive
  • ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION $ 300.00 arrow Save up to 50% Billed annually Subscription users are eligible for the latest version from Archive 
  • PERPETUAL $ 490.00 
A simple overview of this tool can be read here.
You can try it with a trial version.
I tested the trial version to see if this can be used into game programming area. It and here are some advantages and disadvantages:
  • advantages 
  1. this software can be used in the business area ;
  2. is simple to use to create cloths;
  3. the learning area is well documented;
  4. the store area comes with free prices;
  • disadvantages
  1. I did not find technical specifications for business area ;
  2. the export / import files has few options;
  3. is not focused on the game development side;
  4. the software is not often upgraded;

vineri, 27 aprilie 2018

News: The new release of GIMP 2.10 .

This new release come with this news: GIMP 2.10 is the result of six years of work that originally focused on porting the program to a new image processing engine, GEGL. However the new version ships with far more new features, including new and improved tools, better file formats support, various usability improvements, revamped color management support, a plethora of improvements targeted at digital painters and photographers, metadata editing, and much, much more.

This release include features that users have been asking the team all along:
  • New Unified Transform (rotating, scaling, perspective etc. in one go), Handle Transform, and Warp Transform (think Photoshop's Liquify) tools;
  • Processing with 16/32-bit per color channel precision, integer or float;
  • Gradient tool now allows on-canvas editing;
  • Digital painting improved with threaded painting, canvas rotation and flipping, new MyPaint Brush tool, symmetry painting;
  • Performance improvements for some filters thanks to multi-threading;
  • Improved support for TIFF, PNG, PSD, PDF, FITS;
  • Pre-processing of raw digital photos with darktable or RawTherapee at your preferences (more processors can be plugged);
  • Over 80 GEGL-based filters with on-canvas preview, including custom split before/after preview.
  • Exif, XMP, IPTC, DICOM metadata viewing and editing;
  • Newly added support for WebP, OpenEXR, RGBE, HGT;
  • Optional linear RGB workflow;
  • 15 new blending modes, including Pass-Through;
  • Color management rewritten and now a core feature, all color widgets are now color managed, ICC v3 profiles supported;
  • CIE LCH and CIE LAB color models now used in a few tools;
Read more about this news here.

The new Live Home 3D home build tool.

The development team come with this intro about this software:
Evolved from Live Interior 3D, the new Live Home 3D is advanced home and interior design software. Ever wished to design the house of your dreams on your Windows 10 device? Live Home 3D can deliver! This interior design software can assist both homeowners planning some home renovations and interior design professionals visualizing their projects.

The application can be used with this operating systems: iOS, Mac, Windows 10.
If you have another Windows OS the application cannot be downloaded.
You can read more about this software on official website.

Introducing Live Home 3D for Windows from BeLight Software on Vimeo.

marți, 24 aprilie 2018

Unity3D : ProBuilder tool .

The development team tell with this shot intro:
Prototype Rapidly: Build basic or advanced geometry, right in Unity, with zero creative barriers. Play Instantly: Playtest at any time, then edit immediately, and never leave Unity. No time (or sanity) wasted.
You can see many tutorials on official youtube channel, see this:

The install work into Asset Store tag area into your Unity 3D game engine.
You need to search with the word ProBuilder then use Download and Import buttons.
Next, You will see a window with all scripts and objects to import it ( use All and Import buttons).
After the tool is install you can see a folder into Asset area and you can use this tool from: Main menu - Tools - ProBuilder . This tool come with default 3D primitives and many features.

sâmbătă, 21 aprilie 2018

The new Blender 3D version 2.79b .

Today I tested the new Blender 3D software versin 2.79b and is working well.
I think the development team has worked hard and has done a great job with this version of Blender 3D software.
Here are some of the issues solved:
The new 2.79b is a Corrective Release
This corrective release only fixes a few serious bugs/regressions introduced in 2.79a fixes.
  • Due to various issues with drivers for AMD GCN 1.0 architecture, those cards are no longer supported for Cycles rendering
  • When using add-ons in Blender 2.79 that take advantage of the new data-block pointer properties, the resulting .blend files can't be opened in earlier versions of Blender. Attempting to open such .blend files in Blender 2.78c and earlier may crash.
  • Some Interface Themes may need to be reloaded to work properly.
  • The text color contained in layout.box() is now defined in User Preferences, Themes, Box section
  • Rig compatibility:
    • Changes to IK snapping may affect rigs that use non-uniform IK scaling. (rigs created in the 2.78 builds.)
  • During the 2.78 series: IK snapping was partly broken.
    • This has been fixed for Blender 2.79
    • Rigs created in Blender 2.78 may not be compatible with 2.79.
    • Rigs created in Blender 2.77 may still work.
  • When using the add-on Rigify, please note:
    • Compatibility is broken for this release. There's no guarantee rigs created in previous Blender versions will work correctly.
    • Rigs created in Blender 2.78 may not be compatible with 2.79.
    • Rigs created in Blender 2.77 may still work.
    • Save your work before attempting upgrading your rigs.

marți, 17 aprilie 2018

Hero - Grease Pencil 2.0 project of Blender team.

This video is made by the Blender team and is result of 2D graphic tool named Grease Pencil.
They presents a 3 minutes short film showcasing Blender’s upcoming Grease Pencil 2.0.
This tool works like a pen in the 3D area.
At the end of this video you can see the combined effects of 2D and 3D.
Now, 2D and 3D animations benefit from advanced technology that complies with the basic animation rules.
You can see it on official youtube channel :

vineri, 13 aprilie 2018

Using p5.js to create a progressbar .

This is an old tutorial about how to create a progressbar with processing.
To convert to p5.js you need to change the processing source code to javascript.
You can read about this conversion here.
In my example I change all variable types to var and I remove the frame.setTitle.
If you using the processing I.D.E. then you need to change from the right area from java to p5.js.
This will make a index.html file ( don't change this file).
This is the source code for p5.js and is working well:
// example progressbar 
// default variables for progressbar
// start the time for progressbar
var startTime; 
// counter progressbar 
var counter;
// maximum time progressbar
var maxTime; 
// boolean for the end progressbar 
var done; 
// settings for this example
function setup() { 
// set title of window
//frame.setTitle("Example progressbar | free-tutorials.org");
// window size and background color
// p5.js
createCanvas(640,130);
 
//size(640,130);
background(25); 
// set variables of progressbar
counter = 0; 
startTime= millis(); 
maxTime=int(random(1000,1976)); 
done=false; 
//end settings
} 
// draw all text and progressbar
function draw() { 
  // set same background color
  background(255); 
 
  // check end of progressbar fill
  if (counter-startTime < maxTime) {
  counter=millis();
  }  else { done=true;  }
  // create the color for fill progressbar
  fill(110,110,255);
  // no stroke for draw
  noStroke();
  // show all text variables and progressbar
  text("Progress bar blue - size 620", 230, 20); 
  rect(10,30,map(counter-startTime,0,maxTime,0,620), 30 );
  text("counter- startTime "+int(counter- startTime)+" ",10,80);
  text("maxTime "+ int(maxTime) +  " ", 10,100);
  text("map converted counter-startTime"+ int ( map(counter-startTime,0,maxTime,0,200)), 10,120);
  noFill();
 
  }
// reload the draw of progress bar 
function mousePressed () { 
  if (done) { counter = 0; startTime= millis();
  maxTime=int(random(1000,1976)); 
  done=false;
  }
}

joi, 12 aprilie 2018

The Sploder online game engine.

This online game engine named Sploder use Flash plugin to create and play 8 bits games.
Is very use to create games because has templates for 2D games:.
You can play many type of games like: RPG Games, Defense Games, Girls Games, Crafting Games, Puzzle Games and more.
The development team come with this infos about this game engine:
Sploder is a place where anyone can make games online and share them with the world. Make your own platformer games, space-themed shoot-em-ups, retro arcade games, and even complex physics-based puzzle games. No programming skill is necessary. All you need is a good imagination and a desire to be creative.

miercuri, 4 aprilie 2018

About Blender 3D and python API versus learners.

The last version of Blender 3D API come with many features and option to solve your issues.
Too many for a normal user.
For example: if you want to add some images into SEQUENCE_EDITOR this will help you.
From starting you need to know the last API and this may not be the last option.
The BlendDataImages(bpy_struct) - version 2.79 and can be used.
Another option is this function on the version 2.78 the scene.sequence_editor.sequences.new_image.
The good way is to have a good area of examples and tutorials into documentation.
This will solve many post on Blender 3D community area.

What I want to say is the desire of the developers to manifest themselves and not to maintain the user learning process.
Most API learners do not have the same speed of processing and learning as developers, especially if there are multiple and frequent changes.

marți, 3 aprilie 2018

News : The WAVE ENGINE 2.0 .

This is a old news.

The development team of game engine come this text about the old game WAVE ENGINE :

WAVE ENGINE 2.0 HAS ARRIVED! NOW WITH A NEW VISUAL EDITOR AND AVAILABLE IN WINDOWS, MAC OSX AND LINUX. YOU CAN ALSO VISIT OUR GITHUB PAGE WHERE YOU CAN FIND TONS OF SAMPLES, QUICKSTARTERS AND COMPONENTS SOURCE CODE. ENJOY!

You can read more about WAVE ENGINE at official page.
You can see all about WAVE ENGINE on youtube official channel

luni, 2 aprilie 2018

News : Online tool for CSS web development.

This is online tool named animista is a tool for web development and you can used to create source code for animation and CSS.
The tool come with beta version but works very well.
You can try this online tool here.

duminică, 1 aprilie 2018

The Construct game engine.

The Construct game engine is an HTML5-based 2D game editor features and improvements like: multi platform, event sheets, layout wiew, multi language, steamlined interface and more.
Is simple to use and has a good learning area.
You can try new Construct 3 or old Construct 2 version .
You can read more about this game engine at official webpage .
Here is a video tutorial from official youtube channel.

vineri, 30 martie 2018

News : About Google Design .

Google Design is a cooperative effort led by a group of designers, writers, and developers at Google. We work across teams to create content and produce events that showcase Google’s design work and champion innovators in our field.
This website is a great option to learn and take a look at google design area.
The website share us this infos and data:
  • LIBRARY
  • NEWS
  • RESOURCES
  • JOBS
  • ABOUT
Because I'm into EMEA easten part area I don't think I will find jobs.
The job area is a redirect to google careers page .
Very good website with news and resources from google team.

duminică, 25 martie 2018

Create a shadow text effect with HTML5 and CSS .

This tutorial is simple because I used HTML5 and CSS.
The CSS source code is simple (see: font-size:13px or you can use any size, colors , background).
I used my jsfiddle account to test and run it.
Create a project into jsfiddle editor and add this source code.
Into HTML5 area the source code can start with your text into div tag and named class font_001.
You can add span tag to have display block CSS style.
Into CSS area the source code is this:
@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Work+Sans);

body {
  line-height: 2.5;
  margin: 0;
  background: #1F4C6F;
  font-family: 'Work Sans' sans-serif;font-size:13px;
}

.font_001 {
  max-width: 50%;
  margin: 0 auto;
}

h1 {
  color: #fff;
  font-weight: 810;
  padding-top: 4rem;
  margin: 0;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  font-size: 3em;
  line-height: 1.8;
  color: #3C6FB0;
  text-shadow: 20px 5px 30px rgba(0,0,0,.2), -30px 10px 30px rgba(0,0,0,.1), 
-40px 10px 30px rgba(0,0,0,.1), -3px 2px 5px #1F4C6F, 3px -2px 5px #3C6FB0;
}

h1 span {
  display: block;
  
}

Using processing.js to create a progressbar .

Today I tested the processing version 3.3.7 .
The example I make is a progressbar with a blue color and some text to show info.
The source code is very simple and result is this:

This is the source code:
// example progressbar 
// default variables for progressbar
// start the time for progressbar
int startTime; 
// counter progressbar 
int counter;
// maximum time progressbar
int maxTime; 
// boolean for the end progressbar 
boolean done; 
// settings for this example
void setup() { 
// set title of window
frame.setTitle("Example progressbar | free-tutorials.org");
// window size and background color
size(640,130);
background(255); 
// set variables of progressbar
counter = 0; 
startTime= millis(); 
maxTime=int(random(1000,1976)); 
done=false; 
//end settings
} 
// draw all text and progressbar
void draw() { 
  // set same background color
  background(255); 
  // check end of progressbar fill
  if (counter-startTime < maxTime) {
  counter=millis();
  }  else { done=true;  }
  // create the color for fill progressbar
  fill(110,110,255);
  // no stroke for draw
  noStroke();
  // show all text variables and progressbar
  text("Progress bar blue - size 620", 230, 20); 
  rect(10,30,map(counter-startTime,0,maxTime,0,620), 30 );
  text("counter- startTime "+int(counter- startTime)+" ",10,80);
  text("maxTime "+ int(maxTime) +  " ", 10,100);
  text("map converted counter-startTime"+ int ( map(counter-startTime,0,maxTime,0,200)), 10,120);
  noFill();
  }
// reload the draw of progress bar 
void mousePressed () { if (done) { counter = 0; startTime= millis();
  maxTime=int(random(1000,1976)); done=false; }
}

sâmbătă, 24 martie 2018

News : CRYENGINE V show us the HUNT game development .

In this period of the year developers meet at GDC - Game Development Conference.
The game engine named CRYENGINE V is proven in AAA production and come with one of latest rendering and game design features into the known game HUNT.

miercuri, 21 martie 2018

News : Unreal Engine come with new youtube videos.

The development team tell us:
Unreal Engine 4 is a complete suite of real-time 3D tools made by developers, for developers.
The new videos from official youtube channel shouw us the last presentation from GDC 2018.
I like the 3Lateral, Cubic Motion, Tencent and Vicon features to take live captured digital humans and create new real-time digital character.
Take a look at Siren a high-fidelity, real-time digital character based on the likeness of Chinese actress Bingjie Jiang.

marți, 20 martie 2018

News : Sketchfab with new features.

Some features about Sketchfab come today from development team issues:
Since we started Sketchfab in 2012, we’ve been on a mission to help democratize 3D, and make it accessible everywhere. The first step in that mission has been provide a best in class 3D viewer, offering all 3D creators an easy and reliable way to publish and share their 3D content on the web.

The development team come today with this news about Sketchfab : We will become the de facto search bar for the 3D world.

If you are an application developer, you can check out our documentation here.

The new blog post with examples can be found on official blogger.

luni, 19 martie 2018

Character Augmented Reality BTS.

Character Augmented Reality BTS is a ne real-time VFX advertising ... You can read the full article here.

News : Roblox movie into dark style.

Today about design, marketing and art in the evolution of children's movies.
I'm not agree with this style. Roblox is a best game for all ages !
In a dark style, here is a new trailer for children all over the world:

duminică, 18 martie 2018

How to create t-shirts and clothes in the Roblox game.

A very nice thing is when you create your own creations and objects in the game you play.
The Roblox multiplayer game can do this easy.
You need to download the template on the development page.
You can modify it as you wish and then put it through your account to other users or sell it with roblox money.
The most interesting part is that you can show up with your new creations and the other players in the game.
Another tutorial can be found at wiki roblox webpage.
It your work don't show good try the shirt upload page.
You have to wait a few minutes for your avatar to show your creation correctly.
Some of my work can be found with my user : catafest .
You can get a t-shirt with Fedora linux user design from here, take a look:

vineri, 16 martie 2018

News : The Blue Stacks emulator comes with prizes

This is a good news about the Blue Stacks emulator.
Now the Blue Stacks emulator comes with prizes.
Just play the games show by the new management for games and players named Pika World.
The Pika world come like another tab into window area of this emulator.
Take a look at this screenshot:

sâmbătă, 10 martie 2018

The Ren'Py visual novel engine .

Today I tested the Ren'Py visual novel engine.
The development team tell us:
  Ren'Py is a visual novel engine – used by thousands of creators from around the world – that helps you use words, images, and sounds to tell interactive stories that run on computers and mobile devices. These can be both visual novels and life simulation games. The easy to learn script language allows anyone to efficiently write large visual novels, while its Python scripting is enough for complex simulation games. Ren'Py is open source and free for commercial use.
For android development and emulation you need to install Java SE Development Kit.
The base of engine is a application named renpy.
This allow us to update , build and make emulation ( phone, tablet and television) for your game.
You can test all of this by starting one default game.
I don't make a tutorial about how to create a new game, just how to deal with this engine.
You can create a new game by using: + Create New Project.
This will create a new project to start you 2D game novel with your questions and answers , GUI and images.
This can be see on the next screenshot work with this engine: