The batwerk online game.

This online game is a simple game with bats that must eat gifts.
Depending on this craving you will be rewarded with winnings.
A simple game that you can play in your free time.

Star Trek Online - Q's Winter Wonderland.

It is one of the best online games I have played and I still play it with the greatest pleasure, because it comes with many beautiful stories and worlds.
I like Star Trek movies and characters and now you can play them in Q's Winter Wonderland.
Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but the Kramp'Ihri is so...frightful. Come join the fun at Q's Winter Wonderland, live now on all platforms!

The new Unity version 2020.2 .

Unity 3D is getting better every day. The new version 2020.2 offers many functions.

Ubisoft - The Animus scene.

A Youtube video make by director Darby McDevitt about the technology that makes such historical tourism possible...

WebGL online game shooter named venge.

It is a very successful shooting game created with WebGL. I played it on an NVIDIA Corporation GT218 - GeForce 210 video card and it running fast.
It comes with several online servers with three types of players and four maps.
he players are very good.
You can test this online game at this webpage.
This is a video with this game build on WebGL from GenoPlays Youtube channel.

Blender 3D : addons from Chris Jones.

Chris Jones make a good job with Blender 3D addons.
You can see on the YouTube channel some example with these addons.
Let's see one example:

Tool with S.D.K. for your avatar .

This is a useful tool I discovered on web about avatars feature.
The development team comes with this infos:
We recommend trying Avatar SDK with a desktop/laptop browser. If you want to try Avatar SDK on a mobile phone, you can use the applications for iOS and Android. Also you can look at RemoteFace, our virtual camera for video conferencing that shows your avatar driven by camera and lipsync instead of the usual video feed.
Face capture SDK allows you to create facial animations with a web camera.
A good example to convert a simple 2D photo into 3D object can be found on this demo webpage build with Unity 3D.
You can see a video demo from YouTube:

You can read more on this webpage.

Animated Head 2.0 | Avatar SDK by itSeez3D on Sketchfab

AI-Based from Two Minute Papers.

An example of effects created using artificial intelligence from Two Minute Papers.

Shadertoy: Build a cross intersection - 001.

Based on this tutorial created by Inigo Quilez I created a new cross intersection shader:

The shader is very simple.
I created a black box and then colored all the areas in the corner of this box with black.
I left a white area to see the cross.
You can see better if you change this line of source code:

...into this:

p_m = 1.0-p_m/(p_m+0.1);

or this:

p_m = 1.0-p_m*10.0/(p_m*10.0+0.1);

The shader can be ru and testd here:

News: Cyberpunk 2077 coming to PC !

Cyberpunk 2077 was announced in May 2012.
The first signals about this long-awaited game were from the talented team at Platige Image, here it is:

Cyberpunk 2077 is an upcoming action role-playing video game developed and published by CD PROJEKT RED.
Will this be the future of evolution? Maybe in the games ...
Cyberpunk 2077, an open-world, an action-adventure story from CD PROJEKT RED, coming to PC on December 10th, 2020.
Pre-order here.

Shadertoy: Build a geometric pattern - 001.

In this tutorial I will show you a simple geometric pattern created with the dot, sin and values taken by the mouse.
This example was built using shader toy online editor.
The source basket contains four lines of code.
The last line of source code is the output with data to display.
The other lines of source code are very simple to understand.
The values of a and b are values created by dividing fragCoord to iResolution of window ...
The fragCoord contains the pixel coordinates of the pixel where the shader is being applied.
The sin_dot will compute the sin of dot from a , b and mouse position.

Ubisoft comes with Assassin's Creed Valhalla.

Assassin's Creed Valhalla will be available on 10th November, 2020 on Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, Xbox One, PlayStation®4, the Epic Games Store and Ubisoft Store on Windows PC, as well as on UPLAY+**, Ubisoft’s subscription service, and Stadia.
Pre-order now at www.assassinscreed.com/buy
The intro is simple ...
Ninth century AD. Driven from Norway by endless wars and dwindling resources, a Viking raider, Eivor, leads a clan of Norsemen across the icy North Sea to the rich lands of England’s broken kingdoms. Their mission: establish a new permanent home, no matter the cost. Wars will rage. Kingdoms will fall. This is the age of the Vikings.

New Krita 4.4.1 released.

Today, 29.10.2020, version 4.4.1 of the Krita drawing and animation program was launched.
You can download it and read more on the official website.
The development team comes with this useful information: Despite an extra-long beta period during which we got awesome feedback from our community, 4.4.0 was released with several regressions, that is, bugs that weren’t present in 4.3.0. So today we’re releasing Krita 4.4.1 with the following fixes: ... NOTE for Windows Users: Microsoft has changed the way applications signed with certificates are handled. Only Digicert certificates are automatically trusted, other certificates will only be trusted if enough people bypass smartscreen to run the signed application. If you see the “Windows protected your PC” screen, press “More Info”, then select “Run anyway”. The more people do this, the earlier Microsofts machine learning algorithm will learn Krita is perfectly fine.

About Phaser Editor 2D game editor.

Today I install Phaser Editor 2D on Fedora 32, you can download it from the official website. Phaser Editor 2D is a commercial IDE to develop video-games. It is delivered as an offline product and users can run it for free (with certain limitations) or can purchase a license key to unlock all features. Phaser Editor 2D version 3, the latest, is a complete new software based on web technologies. So we created Play Phaser Editor 2D, a small service to allow Phaser Editor 2D license owners, to run the editor and create small projects in the cloud. However, in the future, we will provide a different cloud service with options for storage, collaboration, publishing, integration with other services and payment. These are the Play Phaser Editor 2D available plans: Free Plan and Premium Plan About Free Plan: Running the FREE PLAN 0B/50MB of storage is used 59 days before expiration date The Premium Plan comes with these options:

• One Year License - 30$ Valid for one year after the purchase. Phaser Editor 2D Team email support. Write to developers@phasereditor2d.com. The option to refund in the first month after the purchase.
• Two Years License - 45$ Valid for two years after the purchase. Phaser Editor 2D Team email support. Write to developers@phasereditor2d.com. The option to refund in the first month after the purchase.
• Lifetime License - 75$ Never expires. Phaser Editor 2D Team email support. Write to developers@phasereditor2d.com. The option to refund in the first month after the purchase.
• Two Years Team License - 125$ 5 developers allowed. Valid for two years. Phaser Editor 2D Team email support. Write to developers@phasereditor2d.com. The option to refund in the first month after the purchase.

This is a video tutorial from official youtube channel:

Shadertoy: The sin math function - 002.

This is another shader example to draw a sine math function using a sine wave, see Wikipedia. I used shadertoy website and the mat sin function by time. The source code is commented for a better understanding of it.

// this size of line to paint each pixel from screen
const float size = 0.01;

void mainImage( out vec4 fragColor, in vec2 fragCoord )
{
    // Normalized pixel coordinates (from 0 to 1)
    vec2 uv = fragCoord/iResolution.xy;
    // resize uv 
    uv = uv  * 2.0;
    // translate normalized pixel coordinates uv from [0,1] to [-1, 1] with 
    uv = (uv - 1.0);

    // get uv.x aspect ratio
    uv.x *= iResolution.x / iResolution.y;
  
    // get simple sine 
    //float t = sin(uv.x);

    // get sine * 3 with same size uv will zoom the sine graphic
    // see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sine_wave
    float t = sin(uv.x * 3.0);
    
 // select domain area of sine and drwa yellow color 
    // else put an blue color on rest
    if (uv.y >= t - size && uv.y <= t + size) {
        // draw sine
     fragColor = vec4(1.0,1.0,0.0,1.0);
    } else {
        // draw background
        fragColor = vec4(0.0,0.0,1.0,1.0);
    }
}

The result of this shader is this:

NVIDIA Developer channel and Blender 3D.

The NVIDIA Developer youtube channel comes with this great intro for Blender3D software and RTX features.
Blender is an open-source 3D software package that comes with the Cycles Renderer. Cycles is already a GPU enabled path-tracer, now super-charged with the latest generation of RTX GPUs.
Furthering the rendering speed, RTX AI features such as the Optix Denoiser infers rendering results for a truly interactive ray tracing experience.
To try it yourself and learn more about NVIDIA RTX accelerated denoising inside of the Blender viewport, visit https://www.blender.org/download/rele...

Last Day on Earth – Hunting Season Pass Trailer and Season 10.

The game produced by Kefir development team comes with two videos about the Last Day on Earth game.
The game can be found at the google play.
Aug 25, 2020: Last Day on Earth – Season 10 Gameplay Trailer.

Aug 26, 2020: Last Day on Earth – Hunting Season Pass Trailer.

About ZBrush 2021 3D software.

ZBrush 2021 comes with many features like the Dynamics system.
This along with Controlled Cloth Sculpting and a revisiting of our Dynamic Subdivision feature.
A new feature to ZModeler, as well as introducing iMage 3D support to ZBrush.
This gives the ability to open native-format files created by ZBrushCoreMini.
The ZBrush engine itself has also been enhanced, finding ways to improve performance across the board.
The ZBrush 2021 sculpts more fluidly, as well as taking less time to perform other operations such as DynaMesh.
The price starts from $39.95 / Month, $179.95 / 6 Months, and $895 for SINGLE USER PERPETUAL LICENSE*.
The next video from askNK - youtube channel show us some of these features.

Multiple online tools on angrytools webpage.

The angrytools webpage comes with multiple online tools.
These tools solve multiple issues for you, like:

• Online CSS Gradient Generator;
• Gradient to Image Maker;
• Android Button Maker;
• Code for Email;
• CSS Generator;
• Android Pixel Calculator;
• Basic Commands - Ubuntu/Windows;
• CSS Animation Kit;
• Total Text Converter;
• Ultimate Bootstrap Editor;
• CSS Media Query;

Click on bottom button for each online tool.
A new webpage is open with the tool, make changes, and use the result.
For example, click on Gradient to Image Maker button to use this feature.
The new page is open with a gradient area and example.
Select your gradient from Presets and use generate source button to fill CSS code area with the CSS source code for that gradient.
You can copy this source code and use it in your project.

Figmin XR adds Sketchfab.

The Figmin XR AR/VR platform for creating and experiencing holographic content adds Sketchfab.
You can create your Sketchfab 3D models that can be converted to Voxels and remixed by Figmin XR’s built-in Voxel editor.
These models can be stored in your inventory and placed anywhere in your digital space.

CameraBag Photo 2020

Ultra-intuitive tools for filtering and editing photos and videos. Available for MacOS and Windows.
This product comes with a price of $30.00.
You can try CameraBag free for 7 days.
At any point, you can purchase a license to unlock the time restriction and register the program on your system.
Already own a CameraBag license and have purchased/renewed your upgrade period within the last year?
This download will upgrade you to the latest version.

System Requirements:
MacOS 10.12 or newer, 64-bit Intel
Windows 8 or newer, 64-bit
1GB RAM, 100 MB hard drive space

News: Blender released Alpha version 2.91.0 .

Yesterday, 23.07.2020 the Blender 3D team launched the Alpha version 2.91.0 of the well-known Blender 3D graphics program.
You can find it here.
The team completed the launch in the characteristic style with a joint meeting on the official youtube channel, see:

The new ManuelBastioniLAB is named MB-Lab.

The ManuelbastioniLAB add-on was a free and open-source character editor human and will reborn with the name MB-Lab.
Is working very well with Blender 2.90.0 and today I tested.
First if you want to used it then download it from the official website.
Open the Blender 3D software and from main menu: Edit - Preferences... select Add-ons and Install... button and select the downloaded zip file.
You can see in the next image the install of the Characters MB-Lab setting area where is need to be check.

Press the N key on your keyboard to see the all features of this add-on. This is the result of the default Create character button and you can tested with all of these settings.

Another online math editor named mathcha.

If you like math whether you are a student, teacher, or parent, then this online editor is very suitable for you.
Take a look at the official youtube channel:

Godot 4.0 : New feature SDFGI on Godot.

Another feature for Godot game engine:

• Godot 4.0 gets SDFGI stands for Signed Distance Field Global Illumination based real-time global illumination;

See this feature at Juan Linietsky official YouTube channel - the author of this good game engine.
Juan Linietsky is part of the development team of Godot game engine starts in 2007.

Unity 3D : Unity Learn Premium will be available to everyone at no cost.

Unity 3D team comes with many resources and features for game development and students:
Supporting our Community: We’re making Learn Premium available to all users in perpetuity. Start Learning.
You can find on the official webpage two :
Unity ML-Agents Hummingbirds
and
Unity ML-Agents Penguins
A short introduction by Jessica Lindl on June 23, 2020, can be found on the official Unity blog tells us:
... That’s why starting today, Unity Learn Premium will be available to everyone at no cost.
Now, let's see the video from the official Unity YouTube channel:

How to Create Variable Radius Bevel in Blender by Gleb Alexandrov.

With 157K subscribers, the author of this video tutorial comes with a good point to start learning Blender 3D software ...
Follow the channel to see more ...

News: Contest from Pixilart website.

Pixilart Speed Drawing Contest is the first of its type. A winner will be chosen on July 31st, 2020 at which time this contest will come to an end.
You need to draw something, record your drawing and upload it to youtube and put the link of the youtube video to the official website.
You can win an Artist Display 12 Pro tablet.
And that's not all, the website has an online tool for drawing and comes with these new features:

• online gallery;
• create an account, and share your drawings;
• every day this website comes with a daily challenge to test your skill;

News: The new release of GIMP version 2.10.20 .

This new stable release version 2.10.20 come at 2020-06-07 for all users.

The release can be download for GNU/Linux, OS X ,and Microsoft Windows on the official webpage.

The team development tells us about this release here:

GIMP 2.10.20 comes with new features as well as important bugfixes.

Release highlights:

    Tool-group menus can now expand on hover
    Non-destructive cropping now available by cropping the canvas rather than actual pixels
    Better PSD support: exporting of 16-bit files now available, reading/writing channels in the right order
    On-canvas controls for the Vignette filter
    New filters: Bloom, Focus Blur, Lens Blur, Variable Blur
    Blending options now built into filter dialogs
    Over 30 bugfixes

Shadertoy: A simple round square.

This is a simple tutorial about how you can create a simple round square build using the math function sqrt and the shadertoy web tool.

The source code is very simple and all the lines of source code come with explained comments

Let's see the source code:

// create a function for round square 
vec3 round_square( vec2 uv )
{
 // Set the size of the square, can be changed .01 6.
 float square_dimension = 6.;
 
 // Create math function for round sqare shape 
 float my_square = sqrt(length(pow(uv-vec2(.0,.0),vec2(square_dimension))))-.1;
 
 //Set default poz 
 vec3 poz = vec3(1.,1.,1.);
 
 // Return the result 
 return mix(vec3(0.1),poz*poz, smoothstep(0.,.001,my_square));
}

// Set color for the round square
vec3 color = vec3(.1, 76., 76.);

void mainImage( out vec4 fragColor, in vec2 fragCoord )
{
 // Normalized pixel coordinates (from 0 to 1)
 vec2 uv = (fragCoord-.5*iResolution.xy)/iResolution.y;
 // Set color 0,0,0,0
 fragColor = vec4(0);
 // u=Use for to build with round_square
 for (int i = 0; i < 10+int(min(0,iFrame)); i++) {
 // Set UV2 from basic UV
 vec2 uv2 = uv + 1. / iResolution.y * 1.25;
 // Create the round square
 fragColor += vec4(round_square(uv2) + color.xyz , 1.);
 }
 // show the square
 fragColor.xyz = (fragColor.xyz/fragColor.w);
}

This is the result:

Blender 3D : The new long-term support release version 2.83 LTS.

The Blender 3D team comes with this new release version 2.83 LTS and with this short intro:

With over 1250 bugfixes, and further critical fixes due throughout the next two years as part of the Long Term Support program, Blender 2.83 LTS provides the performance and stability needed for major projects. New features include VR support, OpenVDB import, OptiX viewport denoising and a powerful new physics-enabled Cloth Brush.

These features are show on the official website:

• OpenVDB files can now be imported and rendered with the new Volume object;
• Files may be generated by Blender’s fluid simulation cache or even other software such as Houdini;
• Blender now ships with the first milestone in VR support powered by OpenXR;
• Use the OptiX VIEWPORT DENOISER from NVIDIA;
• Sculpt realistic wrinkles with the new Cloth Brush;
• Sharpen mode in Mesh Filter;
• The new Face Sets system lets you control the visibility of individual parts of a mesh, or automatically mask parts of its surface for sculpting;
• Significant changes on the Grease Pencil;

All of these features and the download installer can be found at the official webpage.

Krita 4.3.0: Another released from Krita team.

On International Children's Day, the Krita graphics team came up with a new release.

Here are the new enhancements and features that this release brings.

This is the second beta release for Krita 4.3.0. It’s later than expected because our system for making release builds was temporarily unavailable.
Since the first beta, the following issues have been addressed:

Fix Color picking in freehand path and bezier curve tool (BUG:373037).
Fix zooming after changing the image resolution (BUG:421797)
Switch the stabilizer to always use scalable distance (BUG:421314)
Make sure channel thumbnails are not inverted when working with CMYK images (BUG:421442)
Make it possible to use save incremental and incremental backup on files in folders that are named to look like incremental saves or backups (BUG:421792)
The Python API for handling Document and Node objects is now synchronous: you do not have to add extra waitForDone calls anymore. (BUG:401497)
On macOS, support for using modifier keys with canvas input actions has been improved ( BUG:372646, BUG:373299, BUG:391088)
Implement touch support for Wacom tablets. Patch by P. Varet — thanks! (BUG:421295)
Fix issues with files taking a long time to save (BUG:421584)
Make the placeholder text in the text shape shorter and translatable (BUG:421663)
Shift-click on a layer to see the layer in isolation doesn’t change the visibility state of all layers anymore
Animation frames outside the requested range are no longer rendered
Make the autosave recovery dialog clearer (BUG:420014)
Properly play animations and show onion skins when viewing layers in isolation (BUG:394199)
Fix the position of the text shape editor on Windows (BUG:419529)
Fix gamut mask rendering (BUG:421142)
Fix artefacts when rendering the marching ants outline for small or complex selections (BUG:407868, BUG:419240, BUG:413220)
The animation timeline now correctly highlights the current frame after loading a file (BUG:403854)
Correctly align the onion skin after cropping an image (BUG:419462)
Fix rendering animations with odd render dimensions (BUG:396128)
Set the default values for the split layer dialog to something sensible
Fix eraser mode to be reset when the same color is picked from the canvas (BUG:415476)
Fix the aspect ratio of layer and channel thumbnails
Show the unsqueezed text of a squeezed combobox as a tooltip (BUG:415117)
Add more translation context in several places
Fix selecting colors in the stroke selection dialog (BUG:411482)
Fix the memory management of documents created from Python (BUG:412740)

This website comes with a lot of PNG images with transparency.

This website is a good database with images all into PNG format.

These images can be used in many tasks and are very helpful because has a background with transparency.

See this screenshot of the website:

News: The new Unity 2020.1 beta.

The new Unity 3D Beta 2020.1b has also appeared.

I've been waiting for some time to see the changes made by the Unity 3D development team.

I'm super happy with how it's progressing.

Here are some features and a video about these new changes:

Known Issues in 2020.1.0b10

• Animation: Editor crashes with Animator::CreateInternalControllerPlayable when GameObjects are mached (1245074)
  
• Animation: [macOS] Inconsistent crash in objc_msgSend/objc_retain when previewing
  
• Animations with Animator window open (1242026)
  
• Asset Import Pipeline: Unity YAML Upgrading project to 2019.3 Asset Database V2 makes the project crash on startup (1228192)
  
• Asset Importers: Crash when importing Elongata package from the Asset Store (1209240)
  
• Audio: Editor crashes on changing 'System Sample Rate' when Audio track preview is being played in Timeline window (1232743)
  
• Audio: [Windows] Editor uses one CPU Logical Processor at 100% while the game is in Pause Mode (1219619)
  
• Collab: Collab re-enables itself after being turned off (1244885)
  
• GI: Fixed GI baking in batchmode when using Scriptable Render Pipelines. (1211448) Fixed in 2020.1.0b11.
  
• GI: Fixed the lightmapper sometimes getting stuck, especially on undo after moving instances or changing resolutions. (1144403) Fixed in 2020.1.0b11.
  
• Global Illumination: Crash with empty stacktrace when starting bake in the new scene after baking previous scene with GPU PLM (1244384)
  
• Global Illumination: [OSX][GPUPLM]OS Kernel Panic crash with 'Thread may have been prematurely finalized' after baking the scene with AMD GPU (1160419)
  
• Global Illumination: [URP] Transparencies are ignored because URP uses _BaseMap as main texture identifier (1246262)
  
• Global Illumination: [macOS] BugReporter doesn't get invoked when the project crashes (1219458)
  
• Global Illumination: gi::InitializeManagers() takes 0.6s during Editor startup (1162775)
  
• Graphics - General: AsyncGPUReadback.Request never releases unused allocated memory (1234193)
  
• Graphics - General: Crash on startup when Shader Variant with Standard ForwardAdd DIRECTIONAL is assigned and SourceAssetDB present in Library (1235969)
  
• Graphics - General: Plugging time into a master node on HDRP crashes Unity (1246991)
  
• Graphics - General: [Performance Regression] AssetBundleLoadAllAssets -
  
• Load_Prefabs_AllAssets is significantly slower than 18.4 (1203512)
  
• Graphics - General: [Performance Regression] AssetBundleLoadSingleAssets :
  
• LoadAsync_Prefabs_SingleAssets is significantly slower than 18.4 (1203511)
  
• Graphics: Crash on PrepareShadowMaps when entering Play Mode (1233829)
  
• This is a change to a 2020.1.0 change, not seen in any released version, and will not be mentioned in final notes. Fixed in 2020.1.0b11.
  
• IAP: Unity purchasing gives error on project upgrade due to failing to find UnityEngine.UI assembly (1193773)
  
• IL2CPP: Fix JSON exception when building project with large number of scenes (1240780) Fixed in 2020.1.0b11.
  
• IL2CPP: Fix a severe performance regression in UnityLinker when building a player for UWP. (1229420)
  
• This is a change to a 2020.1.0 change, not seen in any released version, and will not be mentioned in final notes. Fixed in 2020.1.0b11.
  
• IMGUI: Editor crashes on StageUtility::IsGameObjectRenderedByCameraAndPartOfEditableScene when calling Undo.PerformUndo() method (1242926)
  
• Linux: Selection frame drawn in Scene view when a GameObject is selected while Alt and left mouse buttons are pressed (1239227)
  
• MacOS: Unity kernel crashes Mac with OpenGL when only Intel Graphics are present (1225380)
  
• MacOS: [HDRP][Metal][macOS 10.14] Unity freezes the whole OS or crashes when opening prefab (1219198)
  
• MacOS: [macOS] Mac crashes when opening the project with m_APIs under WindowsStandaloneSupport with only integrated Iris GPU (1232673)
  
• Mobile: [iOS] Debug .pdb files are added to iOS release builds (1232798)
  
• Mono: Crash with various stack traces when exiting Play Mode after recompiling scripts (1238859)
  
• Packman: [PackMan] Search results for "My Assets" don't match the package count displayed below and neither do they refresh (1222784)
  
• Scripting: Intellisense does not work when External script Editor is changed and set back to Visual Studio 2019 (1249626)
  
• Scripting: Entering Playmode with Scene Reload disabled crashes when DestroyImmediate is used in OnDisable (1250550)
  
• Scripting: Script importing no longer fails when method is called on integer literal. (1247409). This is a change to a 2020.1.0a7 change, not seen in any released version, and will not be mentioned in final notes. Fixed in 2020.1.0b11.
  
• Scripting: [SerializeReference] non-serialized Initialized fields lose their values when entering and during play mode. (1193322)
  
• Scripting: [SerializedField] fields produce "Field is never assigned to..." warning (1080427)
  
• WebGL: Using XElement.Load(string uri) causes an uncaught abort exception when using dlopen() dynamic linking in Emscripten (1192963)
  
• Windows: Cannot activate license within a docker container (1193364)
  

Aladin lite version of Aladin Sky Atlas.

Aladin lite is a lightweight version of the Aladin tool.

Aladin lite is powered by the HTML5 canvas technology, currently supported by any modern browser.

Aladin lite is easily embeddable on any web page and can also be controlled through a Javacript API.

This running in the browser and geared towards simple visualization of a sky region.

Read more on the official webpage.

This is a short intro from the official youtube channel of CDS - Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg.

Another topographic map.

This time, I found another website with topographic maps.

You can see my location on the map online.

Hubs the online VR platform by Mozilla team

Today I will show you a great social environment build on VR platform by Mozilla team.

They tells us about this online web tool named Hubs:

Hubs is a social VR platform that runs right in your browser.With Hubs you can create your own virtual space with a single click and invite others to join using a URL. No installation process or app store required.

Watch videos with friends, give presentations, or meet with colleagues remotely.Hubs makes it easy to connect with others and share images, videos, 3D models, and more.

Hubs works across platforms.Got a VR headset? Awesome! If not, you can use your desktop computer, laptop, tablet, or mobile device.

Hubs is open source and customizable.You can choose how you represent yourself by uploading your own avatar, and build your own world using Hubs' environment editor Spoke.

This great online tool and you can read more about the whats-new webpage.

Spoke is an online 3D scene editor developed by the Mozilla Mixed Reality team and let you to build your own scenes for Hub.

You can test my chat room I build it.

To custom your avatar use the template from the GitHub project and this online tool.

Godot 4.0 : New features for godot game engine.

I used this game engine with the property scripting code GDScript and is easy to learn.
This is an procedual programming scripting language without OOP features.
The Godot game engine can be used with C# programming language.
Now, the author of this article name Juan Linietsky comes with news:
Yes, indeed. Godot 4.0 will also have a very cool Voxel based real-time GI.

Still, that is a different technique aimed at different use cases. Lightmaps offer significant advantages over any other technique when the following requirements are met:

• Performance above anything else (for mobile, lightmaps are still a must-have)
• Quality above anything else (no light leaking, ideal for architecture)
• Lighting will not change (lights won't move)

If these requirements are met, then lightmapping is probably the best for you.

On this official youtube channel the author show us the result of these features.
You can download this engine from the official webpage.

ISS Docking Simulator.

SpaceX's Crew Dragon is set to launch on its first crewed mission to the International Space Station on May 27th.
The full article about Crew Dragon mission can be found here.
Crew Dragon’s system includes touch screens and physical manual control options with robust fault tolerance built into the system.
he touch screens have been tuned to operate with and without the SpaceX spacesuit gloves to high reliability.
Behnken and Hurley have used same SpaceX docking simulator for training.
You can test this simulator here.

Unity give us the Heretic asset.

As you know already, the Heretic - Unity Short Film.
This movie has 1,534,208 views from date when was released Jan 22, 2020 by Unity 3D.
Now, they tell us:
When we revealed our short film The Heretic, the question you asked the most was, “Are you going to release this?” We’re happy to tell you that one of the most requested elements of this production – the Digital Human Character and Technology stack – is now available for you to download.
The full article with the link to the Heretic asset from Unity team can be found here.
The full movie can be see on youtube.

The new video tutorial about how can be used can be see on youtube.

Fantasy-Map-Generator online tool.

This online map generator is a simple way to generate maps.
The full source code is free and can be found at this GitHub project.

You can test it at Fantasy-Map-Generator online tool.

Star Trek Online from Arc Game.

When I have time I play this game named Star trek Online.
You can find it on the  store steam and is not very easy but with a good story.
One difficult mission is the The Valut, I don't finished yet because is a circular encrypted random code.
The developer come with this intro:
In Star Trek Online, the Star Trek universe appears for the first time on a truly massive scale.
Players take the captain's chair as they command their own starship and crew.
Explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations, and boldly go where no one has gone before.
Recent Reviews:
Mostly Positive (269)
All Reviews:
Mostly Positive (12,376)
Release Date:
2 Feb, 2010
Developer:
Cryptic Studios
Publisher:
Perfect World Entertainment

Blender 3D : Use Text FX addon for your text effects.

The Text FX addon is a addon to animate text and numbers.
After install press the N key and you will see a TextFX tab in the right area of Object Mode.
You can start add text Simple or Advanced and then select the effects for this text.
Pretty easy to use it.
This addon can download it from blenderartists.org.
A simple video tutorial from the New Media Supply channel.

Blender 3D : Create a desert camouflage material with nodes.

Today I will show you how you can create new material like a Desert Camouflage Mosaic.
Open your Blender 3D and remove the default cube and add a plane.
You can use the default cube if you want.
Go to the main menu and select the Shading tab.
Using the keys Shift+A and Search option add these nodes to your 3D object (plane or cube).
Link with the mouse by drag and drop each node and change values like in my screenshot.
Don't forget to save the blender file with the keys Ctr+S.

Roblox Studio : the hat tutorial.

Today I create a video tutorial about how you can add an object into your game created with Roblox Studio.
The full tutorial and all information can be found on description on my video tutorial:

Testing the ACE embeddable code editor.

Topday I try to use the ACE editor.

This is an embeddable code editor written in JavaScript with many features:

• Syntax highlighting for over 110 languages (TextMate/Sublime Text.tmlanguage files can be imported)
• Over 20 themes (TextMate/Sublime Text .tmtheme files can be imported)
• Automatic indent and outdent
• An optional command line
• Handles huge documents (four million lines seems to be the limit!)
• Fully customizable key bindings including vim and Emacs modes
• Search and replace with regular expressions
• Highlight matching parentheses
• Toggle between soft tabs and real tabs
• Displays hidden characters
• Drag and drop text using the mouse
• Line wrapping
• Code folding
• Multiple cursors and selections
• Live syntax checker (currently JavaScript/CoffeeScript/CSS/XQuery)
• Cut, copy, and paste functionality

You can read more at the official website.

See the Pen ace_editor_001 by Cătălin George Feștilă (@catafest) on CodePen.

Buy my Straw hat for Roblox game.

This is my Straw hat for the Roblox game and you can buy it from sketchfab website.
It will help me maintain my online activities and websites.

Straw hat for Roblox game. by catafest on Sketchfab

The RenderHub store rejects Roblox 3D lowpoly models.

The famous RenderHub website does not accept templates for Roblox users.
Here is my attempt to introduce a 3D model that respects the lowpoly conditions of this wonderful game.

Sell your 3D products on renderhub website.

Payments to our artist can be made several ways.
You can choose from several payment methods including:
Read more on the official website.

• PayPal
• Venmo
• Payoneer
• Skrill
• Bitcoin
• Litecoin
• Ethereum
• Send Check to My Address
• US Bank Transfer (ACH)

Another Ct.js game engine.

This is a game engine build and run with javascrip.
You can used on these operating systems: Windows, Linux and Mac OS.
Download the archive for your operating system and unarchive.
Start the ctjs application.
Into the main window you have some editbox for Name, Author name, Homepage and Version.
This window comes with buttons for play, stop ... many tabs: Settings, Rooms, UI, Sound ...
First, you need to fill the Settings with your Name and all data, and add Actions.
This engine game comes with examples to see how good is.
Let's see a video tutorial from Gamefromscratch user:

Character Creation, Headshot Plug-in and me.

News: Character Creation features over time.

Today I will comes with news from reallusion development team. Character Creator 3 is a full character creation solution for designers to easily create, import and customize stylized or realistic looking character assets for use with iClone, Maya, Blender, Unreal Engine 4, Unity or any other 3D tools. It connects industry leading pipelines into one system for 3D character generation, animation, rendering, and interactive design.
The development team comes with new features for this 3D software and suport the families and people around the world:
During these challenging times, the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is impacting families and people around the world. At Reallusion, our focus is to provide a safe and productive working environment for our communities and our employees. In response to many of our communities’ inquiries and immediate needs to remote access software, we are implementing a few friendly options through our COVID-19 Care Program which include FREE Academic and Corporate Workgroup access from home, and 50% discounts on our Software Store. Reallusion will continue to monitor the situation and provide updates over time. Please stay safe, connected and creative!
See the video with this message and get the special price

About the new features, one is very good and is named the Headshot Plug-in.

1. the price start from $199;
2. you can test with a trial;
3. the trial don't let you to save anything;
4. you can create your 3D avatar with a simple image;
5. the software comes with many features for create a 3D human body;
   

You can try the trial version and read all this new features at the official webpage.
This is a simple test with an image with me from the instagram account.

News: The store from Marvelous Designer website.

The news in the field of 3D graphics and development come from the best clothing creation program for the production industry.

Now you can try out for free or buy 3D clothing from the store opened by the developers of this program called Marvelous Designer.

The download files used file type ZPAC format.

You can find the store at this web link.

Create anime characters with VRoid.

This Japanese company comes with software that covers the modeling part on anime.
Here are the features listed on the official website:

1. VRoid Mobile
2. VRoid Studio
3. VRoid Hub
4. VRoid SDK
5. VRoid WEAR

The VRoid Mobile is an avatar camera app that allows you to create 3D characters, change clothes, and take photos.
You can create anime models using the VRoid Studio.
All new characters are shown on this webpage named VRoid Hub.
The SDK of this project can be followed at VRoid SDK.
In this video tutorial made by askNK, you can see how can work with Visual Studio.

Sketchfab comes with new upload limits.

The new upload limits for this online tool named Sketchfab  are based on credits.
An upload credit is used when a model is uploaded to the Sketchfab website.
The Sketchfab plan determines the number of models you can upload and publish each month:

• Free Basic: 1 upload credit per month;
  
• Plus: 10 upload credit per month;
  
• Pro: 30 upload credit per month;
  
• Premium: 200 upload credit per month;
  
• Business: 500 upload models credit per month;
  
• Enterprise: Custom;

The prices for the Sketchfab plan can be found on this webpage.

Krita 4.2.9: The RGBA brushes.

In this long video tutorial from the official YouTube channel you can learn about RGBA brushes.
This video tutorial shows us how to change colors for RGBA brushes, see the minute 9:54 from the tutorial:

Krita 4.2.9: How to add brushes on Krita.

You can add new brushes on the Krita application using the Main menu - Settings - Manage Resources...

One good option is to use free brushes from KDE website, see this web page.

This will open a new window and use Import Brundles to import the brushes into Krita.

Krita 4.2.9: Another new released Krita.

This new released of Krita 4.2.9 was made on March 26, 2020 comes with new fixed options and .
The full released note for versions 4.2.x can be found at this webpage.
All download versions: Windows Installer 64-bit (106MB)
Windows Installer 32-bit (105MB)
Windows Portable 64-bit (146MB)
Windows Portable 32-bit (145MB)
Mac OSX Installer (186MB)
Linux 64-bit Appimage (198MB)
You can used with these operating systems:
Operating System: Windows 8.1 or Higher, OSX 10.12, Linux
RAM: Recommended 4GB or higher
Optional GPU: OpenGL 3.0 or higher
Graphics Tablet Supported: Wacom, Huion, Yiyinova, Surface Pro
You can find many options to learn to use the Krita software.
The good one is the official youtube channel comes with news, see for example the RGBA brushes how works and is fixed:

News: About the NVIDIA DLSS 2.0

This past week, NVIDIA announced an update to its Deep Learning Super Sampling technology, aptly dubbed DLSS 2.0.
Deep Learning Super Sampling named DLSS is an NVIDIA RTX technology that uses the power of AI to boost your frame rates.
DLSS essentially takes lower-resolution imagery, and intelligently upscales it to looks like native, higher-resolution output.
Performance was universally improved to varying degrees since the game was being internally rendered at a lower resolution, but image quality wasn’t always optimal and sometimes resulted in unwanted artifacts.
The old DLSS 1.0’s effect on game visuals and performance was a mixed bag, that varied from title to title.
The new DLSS 2.0 comes with DLSS 2.0 improved the quality, balanced, and performance by leveraging the Tensor cores available in its GeForce RTX-series GPUs.
Let's see one example:

Unity 3D : About VFX Graph.

The official webpage of the VFX Graph for Unity 3D comes with a short intro.
The install steps can be seen on this webpage.
I started today to follow one video tutorial about fire and smoke from youtube channel named Brackeys.
This video tutorial can be seen here:

Some conclusions about my test with an old video card:

• you need a good video graphic card;
• you need a unity version with Package Manager;
• I found some new changes using with the Unity 3D version 2019.3.5f1;
• many changes in the 
• the one is the Output Particle Quad with many changes into variables;
• I cannot set the TotalTime, this crash it all;

The result is this:

The settings for this smoke effect using the Visual Effect Graph Asset can be seen in the next image:

Partsim online circuit simulator.

PartSim is a free and easy to use circuit simulator that runs in your web browser.
I create today my account to see how better is this online tool.
You can build, test and simulate your e with a SPICE Simulator, AC/DC/Transient Sims and Waveform Viewer.
The Arrow Integration lets the PartSim include an integrated Bill-Of-Materials manager that lets you assign Arrow Part Numbers to your models.
You can see many examples on the official website:

• Bipolar Differential Amplifier;
• Simple CMOS Inverter;
• OpAmp Transient Full-wave Rectifier with Smoothing;
• Capacitor;
• Passive Low Pass Filter;
• RC Charging Circuit;
• Differential Amplifier

You can see many video tutorials on the official website:

Firebase and Unity 3D.

Even is an old feature the Google team comes with this new option for the new developers and show how to use them.
The goal is to add Firebase to your Unity project.
The Google webpage tells us:
Power up your Unity games with our Firebase Unity SDKs. To show how easy it is to plug Firebase into your Unity project, we made a sample game, MechaHamster, that you can download from GitHub, the App Store, and the Google Play Store.
... and show a short video about how can be used to create a application named Mecha Hamster, see the GitHub webpage project:
You can import the project with GitHub commands:

https://github.com/google/mechahamster.git
...

The game is pretty funny, see the Youtube channel from Firebase:

The content of the folder downloaded ...

$ ls
Assets   CONTRIBUTING.txt  LICENSE.txt      readme.md  UnityPackageManager
console  docs              ProjectSettings  Resources

Predator: Hunting Grounds.

Predator: Hunting Grounds is an action video game developed by IllFonic and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment is schedule ...

You can play this game free from 17:00 PST on March 27 to 23:59 PST on March 29 in the Predator: Hunting Grounds Trial. The game price is 32.99 euro.

Paladins is free on the Epic Games Store.

This game is for free and is named Paladins.
I play this game online and is a great game.
The team from the Epic Game Store tells us:
Join 30+ million players in Paladins, the free-to-play fantasy team-based shooter sensation. Wield guns and magic as a legendary Champion of the Realm, customizing your core set of abilities to play exactly how you want to play.

Unity 3D : Fix error "Failed executing external process for 'Bake Runtime' job."

If you want to remove the error show on the Unity 3D console:
Failed executing external process for 'Bake Runtime' job.
... then go to Main Menu - Lightning - Settings and uncheck the Auto Generate checkbox.
See the screenshot shown below:

Unity 3D : Use Quick Fix on Visual Code for Unity and Linux.

Because I don't use Unity 3D with Linux and Visual Studio today I solve another issue for the development area.
This is the quick fix option for Visual Code that helps the user to add source code.
For example, you can add source code for the implement an abstract class PlayerBaseState:

using UnityEngine;

public abstract class PlayerBaseState 
{
    public abstract void EnterState(PlayerController_FSM player);
    public abstract void Update(PlayerController_FSM player);
    public abstract void OnCollisionEnter(PlayerController_FSM player);
}

Create a new C# script named PlayerIdleState. The script needs to be changed into this source code:

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerIdleState : PlayerBaseState
{
    
}

Select the PlayerIdleState and use these keys: Cmd or Ctrl and . (the point key) .
This will show a menu named Generate overrides... and help the developer to generate the new code:
The result is this source code with all new override for each of methods of PlayerBaseState class:

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerIdleState : PlayerBaseState
{
    public override void EnterState(PlayerController_FSM player)
    {
        throw new System.NotImplementedException();
    }

    public override bool Equals(object obj)
    {
        return base.Equals(obj);
    }

    public override int GetHashCode()
    {
        return base.GetHashCode();
    }

    public override void OnCollisionEnter(PlayerController_FSM player)
    {
        throw new System.NotImplementedException();
    }

    public override string ToString()
    {
        return base.ToString();
    }

    public override void Update(PlayerController_FSM player)
    {
        throw new System.NotImplementedException();
    }
}

SpriteStack online tool for sprites with 3D features.

This is an awesome online tool to create sprites for your game named SpriteStack.
You can find this online tool on this web page.  
SpriteStack is a 3d pixel art editor based on the sprite stacking technique. Similar to voxels it's a fun and simple way to draw low-resolution 3d objects that can be later used in games or submitted to the online gallery.
The tool is easy to use and the output is good.
I use the free preview of Sprite Stack Studio but you can get one of the options to unlock all features from Steam or Itch.io website. If you want to have full online access to the editor and exporter at a low price then use the Patreon website with just 2$ per month.
I find a good tutorial on youtube but you can see the videos from help webpage:

Unity 3D : Setup Visual Code for Unity and Linux.

The tutorial for today will cover the settings of Visual Code and Unity into a Linux distro.
First, you need to install the Visual Code into your Linux distro.
You need to have the Unity 3D software working well into the Linux distro.
Open the Unity 3D software and create a new script using the main menu: Assets - Create - C# Script.
Open into Unity 3D from the main menu: Unity - preferences - External tools.
Select the Visual Studio Code like into the next image:

Double click on the newly created C# script.
This will open the Visual Studio Code and will ask you to install the C# feature using the Install button, see the next image:
 
This will install the C# extension for Visual Code.
The last step is the install of DotNet for Visual Code.
Use the button with the name Get the .Net Core SDK to install the Net CORE.
This will redirect to a webpage where you find the commands to install for your Linux distro.
After these steps, you can use Unity 3D software with Visual Code.

Unity 3D : Settings for Android build game.

If you try to set the Android SDK on Unity 3D using the Linux O.S. then you can have a problem.
After you set the name of the package and the default android settings you can use External Tool from menu Edit - Preferences to set paths for Android SDK, NDK, and more.
This is the path I used to build with Android:

• /home/catalin/Unity/Hub/Editor/2019.3.5f1/Editor/Data/PlaybackEngines/AndroidPlayer/OpenJDK
•  /home/catalin/Unity/Hub/Editor/2019.3.5f1/Editor/Data/PlaybackEngines/AndroidPlayer/SDK
• /home/catalin/Unity/Hub/Editor/2019.3.5f1/Editor/Data/PlaybackEngines/AndroidPlayer/NDK
• /home/catalin/Unity/Hub/Editor/2019.3.5f1/Editor/Data/PlaybackEngines/AndroidPlayer/Tools/gradle

You can see the android SDK, NDK and Gradle is set on the Hub Editor This is my External Tools configuration for that build game:

Unity 3D : The new learning area ...

The Unity 3D game engine comes with significant improvements in the learning area.
If you know nothing about Unity Editor and C # then this area has a simple and efficient introduction for new developers of this game engine.
For example , see the Creator Kit: Beginner Code.
You can start with John Lemon's Haunted Jaunt: 3D Beginner or with the Ruby's Adventure: 2D Beginner.
I am starting to see how deep and good these tutorials are and for me it was quick to follow them and use them.
This is an more advance learn step from Unity 3D using the Creator Kit: Beginner Code.

Another form of art: Deep Dream Generator tool.

Deep Style. The technique is a much more advanced version of the original Deep Dream approach. It is capable of using its own knowledge to interpret a ... We are just a small team of enthusiasts who are trying to build something cool. Our goal is to make the latest developments in AI widely and freely accessible.
This online tool lets you use the power of the computer to lineup the images into a new form of art.
See all artwork of the online tool on this website, where you can test it.
Create your account, upload your photo to create your new art image.

Contest from HUION.

Another contest from HUION with the theme named Distant Worlds in 2020.
The HUION team comes with this intro:

We all love good novels and movies. Those wonderful stories show us possibilities that happen far in the future or adventures happen in distant worlds. But sometimes the stories set in a certain year. There was a space odyssey happened in 2001, Harry Porter sent little Albus to school in 2017, Roy Batty the android passed away in 2019… And now the Year 2020 is here. What will happen in 2020, what will the world looks like in 2020, join in #Huion2020 drawing challenge, draw your imagination down!

The contest can be found here.

Unity 3D on Fedora 31 Linux distro.

First, you need to have good hardware to run the Unity 3D software on Fedora 31 Linux.
To install on Fedora 31 Linux is easy to do. You need to download the Unity beta application from this website.

[mythcat@desk ~]$ cd Downloads/
[mythcat@desk Downloads]$ chmod +x UnitySetup-2018.2.7f1 

You need to install this package for this file: libgconf-2.so.4

[root@desk Downloads]# dnf install GConf2-devel.x86_64

The next step is simple run the installer and follow the interface...

[mythcat@desk Downloads]$ ./UnitySetup-2018.2.7f1 

If you want to use a free license then you need to save the license from application into the file named Unity_v2018.2.7f1.alf .
Using the Unity website manual activate the free license and download the file named Unity_v2018.x.ulf. You can use the UnityHub.AppImage from Unity official website to install any Unity 3D version:

[mythcat@desk Downloads]$ chmod +x UnityHub.AppImage 
[mythcat@desk Downloads]$ ./UnityHub.AppImage 

See the screenshots:

The new Huion Sketch application for drawing.

The development team from Huion comes with this intro:
 Huion Sketch is an intuitive drawing app with a palette icon and notebook icon for sketching and noting. The interface of the notebook is in a minimal design with several brush and color options on the top. The art canvas boasts a range of drawing features while maintaining a minimalistic interface.
Huion Sketch offers you more creative possibilities with 18 brush options, layers, and many tools.
You can use multi-touch gestures with your workflow.
All Huion tablet models with the firmware upgrade, including H320M, HS64, HS64 SE, HS610, and Q620M are all compatible with Huion Sketch.
The official webpage can be found at this website.
The application for android O.S. can be downloaded from Google Play.
You can see a video tutorial from the official youtube channel of Huion.

PicsArt is the best application for edit photos.

This application lets you create quick and amazing photo edits in your browser for free.
You can use it with the IOS, Windows or Android applications on your device.
The development team come with this intro:
Download PicsArt and enjoy our tools, effects, collage maker, free clipart library, custom stickers, double exposure & drawing tools. PicsArt’s all about making awesome pictures and having fun by remixing free-to-edit pictures into awesome collages.
This is a video tutorial from official youtube channel about how to create your own T-Shirt with PicsArt.
This online tool can be found at the official website.

New features for vimeo website.

The VIMEO website comes with new features for video editing.
These features for users can be used with these steps:

• Simple start with custom video templates; 
• Use colors, fonts, layouts, music, and more;
• Use the smart editor to turn your clips into a published video;
• Finally, share your videos across all social platforms.

See these features on the official website.

AI Dungeon 2 a game based on OpenAI.

The OpenAI is a toolkit for developing and comparing reinforcement learning algorithms.
It supports teaching agents everything from walking to playing games.
The AI Dungeon 2 is an online game run by a text generation program.
This program is capable of responding to basically any command with a coherent response built on OpenAI’s text production system.
You can start by selecting the game genre: fantasy, mystery, apocalyptic, zombies, custom.
The creator Nick Walton is running a Patreon campaign so he can work on the project full time and add new features like voice support.
It’s currently raising around $15,000 a month.
You can try it online on this webpage.
If you have an apple device then use the App Store.
If you use an Android device then you can download it from Google Play.
This is a screenshot from this game ...

Copernicus Open Access Hub online tool.

Looking at our planet and its environment For the ultimate benefit of all European citizens... The Open Access Hub provides complete, free and open access to Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, Sentinel-3 and Sentinel-5P user products... 
Copernicus builds on a constellation of satellites making millions an impressive number of daily observations, as well as on a global network of thousands of land-, air- and marine-based sensors to create the most detailed pictures of Earth. The technological evolution, especially in terms of availability and accessibility, has made Copernicus the largest space data provider in the world, currently producing 12 terabytes per day. 
The vast majority of data and information delivered by the Copernicus Space infrastructure and the Copernicus services are made available and accessible to any citizen and any organization around the world on a free, full and open access basis. You can access Copernicus Data and Information Services through the DIAS or the Conventional Data Hubs...
See this online tool scihub.copernicus.eu with data and maps from satellites...

The home build tool with Planner5d.

This online tool lets you build into 3D space.
The development team comes with this intro:
Create your dream home An advanced and easy-to-use 2D/3D home design tool. Join a community of 47 217 259 amateur designers.
The online tool can be found at this website.
This is a screenshot with this tool from the website:

Shadertoy: The sin math function - 001.

Another example with shadertoy online tool.
The example come with all comments to understand how the sine function is show on shadertoy website.