Blender Geometry Nodes 3.3 - Organic Mesh Chair

... this is a good video tutorial on how geometric knots can create organic meshes ... in this particular case, it's a chair.

News : Gotham Knights | This is HUGE for fans.

... from SuperRebel youtube channel.

News : Batman: Mask of the Phantasm - Happy | Super Scenes | DC - Kevin Conroy.

Bruce Wayne can anticipate almost everything, but even he couldn't anticipate being happy.

Kevin Conroy gives a career-defining performance in BATMAN: MASK OF THE PHANTASM. Kevin Conroy (November 30, 1955 – November 10, 2022) was an American actor.

News : Crisis Core: Final Fantasy 7 Reunion - Official Launch Trailer.

The trailer for Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion to learn more about the story, see combat, and more. Get ready to play as SOLDIER operative Zack Fair and trigger the events that lead up to Final Fantasy VII.

Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion will be available on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and Steam on December 13, 2022.

Designeri: Tetsuya Nomura, Yoshinori Kitase, Takeharu Ishimoto, Kazushige Nojima, Hajime Tabata, see wikipedia article.

News : IAE 2952: Part 9.

Having crashed his trusty Drake Cutter, participated in a “friendly” buggy race, and presumably lived to tell the tale, will Jax finally get back on track and make it to Stanton before the end of the IAE? And speaking of the Expo, where has Jimmy gone? Will Whitley’s Guide be able to bounce back from a lackluster Jaxless special? There’s only one way to find out.

Discover More at: https://iae2952.com from Star Citizen youtube channel known with youtube handle RobertsSpaceInd.

News : Jurassic World Evolution 2: Dominion Malta Expansion | Announcement Trailer from Epic Games.

Set before the dramatic events of Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment’s Jurassic World Dominion, you’ll head to the warmth of the Mediterranean and attempt to manage multiple dinosaur facilities across three persistent locations. Coming 8th December!

News : I AM JESUS CHRIST PROLOGUE Official Trailer (2023) 8K.

SimulaM and PlayWay S.A. will come with this game.

I Am Jesus Christ Official Trailer New in remastered/upscaled 8K ULTRA HD for PC and smooth 60 FPS. Release Date: Q2 2023 Walk in the footsteps of Jesus in this incredible first-person retelling of the story of Christ from birth to resurrection. Perform amazing miracles, interact with a cast of biblical figures and travel around the Holy Land from Jerusalem to the Galilee. Become the Messiah in ‘I Am Jesus Christ. The game is being developed by SimulaM and published by PlayWay S.A., SimulaM for PC (Steam).

News : Surviving The Abyss Announcement Trailer - Paradox Arc

Paradox Interactive is a Swedish company that produces video games. Games based on the Europa engine are known for their specific interface.

It is 1976, at the height of the Cold War. You have been tasked with the construction and management of a deep-sea research facility and team deep on the ocean floor. Your mission: to perfect and weaponize human cloning using the various biological wonders of the ocean. Your challenge: to survive in the oppressive abyss long enough to complete your mission while something sinister lurks in the shadows beyond the perimeter for your facility.

News : USD in Unreal Engine.

USD is being used throughout the production world, but how do you integrate it into Unreal Engine? This session will explore three specific aspects of this workflow, including how you get data in, how you get it out, and how to use the USD stage window directly in UE.

Universal Scene Description (USD) is an easily extensible, open-source 3D scene description and file format developed by Pixar for content creation and interchange among different tools. As a result of its power and versatility, it’s being widely adopted, not only in the visual effects community, but also in architecture, design, robotics, manufacturing, and other disciplines, see more on NVIDIA developer web page.

News : New default skins in Minecraft game.

Minecraft is getting seven new default skins – meet Makena, Efe, Noor, Kai, Ari, Sunny, and Zuri! Just like Steve and Alex, the new default skins will help you tell your Minecraft stories whether you are exploring the Overworld, heading into an SMP adventure, or creating the build of your dreams! The new default skins will be available when you launch Minecraft from November 29.

Architect reacts to 5 famous Sci-Fi movies.

This is a very very good video for anything that does graphic content, design of any kind... from DamiLee youtube channel.

News : The Sandbox Game - New Experience K-Verse Mini Event.

"Watch Joseph Madding (@TheVisionEx), PandaPops, and Alex Florez (@KamiSawZe) play The Sandbox Alpha and teach you everything you need to know about The Sandbox Metaverse, VoxEdit, and The Sandbox Game Maker! Also news, updates and NFT giveaways!

News : Starship Troopers: Extermination - Official Announcement Trailer.

Starship Troopers: Extermination is a co-op FPS that puts you on the far-off front lines of an all-out battle against the Bugs! Squad up, grab your rifle, and do your part as an elite Deep Space Vanguard Trooper set to take back planets claimed by the Arachnid threat!

... the trailer is from the ING youtube channel and the developer is Offworld Industries.

News : Fall Guys World Warriors Cinematic Trailer.

Classic combos are coming to Fall Guys, and, no, we’re not talking about special moves. The stage is set for the perfect Cammy-o, as three Costumes and a number of other goodies from Capcom land in the Fall Guys Store…

News : Nico TV - Prequel Shorts | Marvel's Midnight Suns

Nico might be the youngest on the team, but she is the heart and soul of the Midnight Suns. She is THE glue that keeps this team together. Watch how Nico unites the team in our final Prequel Short, Nico TV.

News : NVIDIA Omniverse and AI by JSFILMZ.

NVIDIA Omniverse™ is a scalable, multi-GPU real-time reference development platform for building and operating metaverse applications and based on Pixar's Universal Scene Description and NVIDIA RTX™ technology.

... this video shows us that ordinary people can use artificial intelligence and NVIDIA Omniverse... from JSFILMZ's channel

News : A new game from Code Monkey.

The well-known youtube channel of CodeMonkey, in addition to the classic content, announces the personal development of a game called TOTAL WORLD LIBERATION. More information on the official channel and in this video clip:

News : Cyberpunk 2077 youtube channel content.

This youtube channel comes with some new content for Cyberpunk 2077 users.

About this youtube channel: Welcome to the official YouTube channel of Cyberpunk 2077 — an open-world, action-adventure story set in Night City, a megalopolis obsessed with power, glamour and body modification. Developed by CD PROJEKT RED.

I would mention some quite interesting videos for users of this range.

This Fffire by Franz Ferdinand | Music Video

Ending Theme | Let You Down by Dawid Podsiadło | Netflix

Phantom Liberty — Official Teaser

News : Marvel's Avengers - Official The Winter Soldier Combat Trailer.

News : How To Make A Game Alone by Thomas Brush.

News : Most Anticipated Space Games For 2023 from Stealth17 Gaming.

I haven't really presented games that will appear until now, but as I prefer this kind of complex game that requires resource management, here's what I found on the web...

The youtube channel is called Stealth17 Gaming

News : Unreal Engine 5.1 feature highlights.

Unreal Engine 5.1 builds upon the work delivered with UE5, making the process of creating next-generation real-time 3D content and experiences even easier and more efficient. With 5.1, we are bringing the features we introduced in UE5 to the next stage of development for users across industries, making them more robust, workflow-friendly, and versatile.

News : FiberShop software and last video tutorial about Furball Project.

FiberShop is a standalone tool specially developed for creating high-quality hair and fur for games. Workflow in FiberShop is super fast and easy to learn. All boring and time-consuming tasks will be done automatically and you only work on your design. FiberShop is a mix of powerful procedural modifiers and hand drawing brushes. You can control the hair by changing the parameters or directly drawing the hairs by brush or mixing both.

You can download this software from here.

... and the last video tutorial from FiberShop about Furball Project.

News : ... from old games ships to new ships in Star Citizen.

I have to admit that I like ships, because I imagined them from books and I am always amused when I find incompatibilities in the field of creation.

Do you remember this old game?

The games I play are Star Trek Online and StarCraft Online and there the ships are supported by the story.

There is a difference, today I found a video showing the ships from Star Citizen on this youtube channel, here is the video:

News : OpenAI’s Whisper Learned 680,000 Hours Of Speech! from Two Minute Papers.

I'm already used to the great videos of the youtube channel TwoMinutePapers.

In this video I'm not showing you anything about graphics, from my point of view I'm rather showing you what there is in the level of artificial intelligence - good design in the field of algorithms.

Whisper is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual and multitask supervised data collected from the web. We show that the use of such a large and diverse dataset leads to improved robustness to accents, background noise and technical language. Moreover, it enables transcription in multiple languages, as well as translation from those languages into English. We are open-sourcing models and inference code to serve as a foundation for building useful applications and for further research on robust speech processing., see Open AI blog page.

News : another video from Vancouver Film School.

...as expected, after a few months another video appears from the YouTube channel Vancouver Film School !

News : Battlefield 2042 | Season 3: Escalation gameplay trailer.

Call the shots with Battlefield 2042 – Season 3: Escalation. Come face to face with the enemy in the northern Swedish wilderness and dominate ground warfare with the new technological weaponry, a new railgun tank, and Vault weapons.

You can see this video on both youtube channels: the Epic Game youtube channel or the Battlefield youtube channel.

At the end of this trailer we saw that the game will be free at the beginning of December.

Shadertoy: matrix rotation for uv.

Today I wrote a simple example in shadertoy about how to apply a rotation using rotation matrices with sin and cos for a uv, see wikipedia.

For uv I used already defined uv. I created a stripe using the modulo function to make rotation visible and completed the rotation with the iTime variable defined in shadertoy to rotate it continuously.

Here is the created source code:

void mainImage( out vec4 fragColor, in vec2 fragCoord )
{
    //set the uv to a proper size on the center of screen 
    vec2 uv = (fragCoord - 0.5 * iResolution.xy) / min(iResolution.x, iResolution.y);
    // set rotation angle value
    float rot = radians(0.0);
    // this set rotation by time and 
    rot = iTime;a
    // algebra formula for rotation by matrix , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotation_matrix
    mat2 m = mat2(cos(rot), -sin(rot), sin(rot), cos(rot));
    // rotation of uv with matrix algebra formula where is set the rotation angle 
    uv = m* uv;
    // define float by function module from 1.0 and uv.x - uv.y
    float d = mod(uv.x - uv.y, 1.0);
    // color for fragColor is value of fload d by module function
    vec4 col = vec4(vec3(d), 1.0);
    fragColor = vec4(col);
}

Here is an example share from my shadertoy account.

News : Cygnus Enterprises trailer.

Cygnus Enterprises is a sci-fi base-management and action Role-playing PC game developed by Team Miaozi, a NetEase Games studio.

The official webpage of the NetEase Games studio can be found on this webpage.

Stable Diffusion Mocap Visualizer in Houdini by Sascha Robitzki.

A demonstration video that shows us the current possibilities of current graphic and algorithmic processing.

News : RECAP - Blender Conference 2022.

I always liked open-source development, because it was more subjective and I guess more soul was put into it. But the development of the Blender 3D software in recent years has led to a remarkable improvement and a real community. Here is the video of the participation in the 2022 conference.

News : StarCraft II: Free to Play.

Free to play is here, bringing a wealth of options for new and returning StarCraft II players. Wings of Liberty, the first chapter of the epic sci-fi saga, is now free. Those with a desire for competition can unlock the ranked ladder for free simply by playing and winning games. Finally, Co-op blends elements of campaign and versus for an experience that is truly unique. Choose from iconic characters like Alarak and Nova who break the rules of StarCraft II and provide gameplay that can suits your style. There’s never been a better time to jump into StarCraft II, now free-to-play.

News : Ballads of Hongye trailer.

Ballads of Hongye is a unique city-builder strategy game. As the local magistrate, you must carefully plan and act to complete the various challenges in different environments to earn the right to rule the lands. Build a thriving city and revive Hongye County as you discover a unique story. The game will be available on November 30th.

News : Krita 5.1.3 Released.

A recent news informs us that the open source program Krita has reached a new release with version 5.1.3 .

From my experience I can say that it is the best program that includes enough features for those who want to use 2D graphics. From simple tasks, simple modifications, painting or animation, this program does it all.

You can se how you can set your brushes from the youtube official channel.

You can add your name and contribute to this open-source app that works on multiple operating systems with a contribution on their official page.

You can find more information about what fixes and changes have appeared on the official website.

News : World of Warcraft new trailer and live event ...

If you like this old game: World of Warcraft then you can see it live on the official youtube channel and see the trailer for this event bellow:

The stage is set. The first Wrath Classic Arena Tournament starts November 11! Watch this weekend as the Wrath Classic Arena Champions are crowned in EU & NA. Meanwhile, @IKedit takes us on a cinematic tour of the player's preparations ahead of the main event. #wrathclassic #warcraft

News : Rainbow Six Siege: Nighthaven Labs Map Trailer

News from this old shooter game...

Apparently Epic Games doesn't agree to share this video outside of the YouTube channel and show me the default message: This video is age-restricted and only available on YouTube. Learn more Watch on YouTube.

Thank you Ubisoft, I can share to see it here ...

News : NVIDIA and Transformer AI models.

This is just a brief introduction to the capabilities of the technology from the NVIDIA team...

Transformer AI models are powering a new era of life sciences, helping researchers encode the structure and function of biology and chemistry, making sense of unstructured patient data, and improving detection and diagnosis in #medicalimaging. At the same time, advances in digital twin technology are powering researchers and clinical teams to simulate cells, organs, and surgeries to better understand workflows and improve patient outcomes. ...

News : Affinity Designer 2.

Affinity Designer is a vector graphics editor developed by Serif for macOS, iPadOS, and Microsoft Windows. It is part of the "Affinity trinity" alongside Affinity Photo and Affinity Publisher. Affinity Designer is available for purchase directly from the company website and in the Mac App Store, iOS App Store, and the Microsoft Store., see the wikipedia webpage page.

Shader Editor - example 003.

Today I will show you how to change a shader from shadertoy website to a shader for Shader Editor android aplication.

Open my shader example from shader toy website.

#define f length(fract(q*=m*=.6+.1*d++)-.5)

void mainImage( out vec4 fragColor, in vec2 fragCoord )
{
    float d = 0.;
    //vec3 uv = vec3(fragCoord.xy / iResolution.xy,iTime*.2);
    vec3 q = vec3(fragCoord.xy/iResolution.yy-13., iTime*.2);
    mat3 m = mat3(-2,-1,2, 3,-2,1, -1,1,3);
    vec3 col = vec3(pow(min(min(f,f),f), 7.)*40.);
    fragColor = vec4(clamp(col + vec3(0., 0.35, 0.5), 0.0, 1.0), 1.0);
}

In order to use it in the Shader Editor android application you need to make these changes:

#ifdef GL_FRAGMENT_PRECISION_HIGH
precision highp float;
#else
precision mediump float;
#endif

uniform vec2 resolution;
uniform float time;
uniform vec4 mouse;
uniform vec4 date;

#define f length(fract(q*=m*=.6+.01*d++)-.5)

void mainImage( out vec4 fragColor, in vec2 fragCoord )
{
  float d = 0.91;
  vec3 q = vec3(fragCoord.xy/resolution.yy-13., time*.2);
  mat3 m = mat3(-2,-3,6, 3,-1,1, 0,3,1);
  vec3 col = vec3(pow(min(min(f,f),f), 7.)*40.);
  fragColor = vec4(clamp(col + vec3(0., 0.35, 0.5), 0.0, 1.0), 1.0);
}

void main() {
vec4 fragment_color;
mainImage(fragment_color, gl_FragCoord.xy);
gl_FragColor = fragment_color;
}

You can see these changes are n the first part of the source code and just one on time.

You can play with this source code then use the option Set as wallpaper to have it on your phone.

Blender 3D : Grease Pencil Reel

News : Theatre.js helps three.js development.

Theatre.js is an open-source and hackable motion design library with a visual interface. It helps you animate THREE.js scenes, SVG trees, or even choreograph light shows.

Apple software : CozyBlanket.

CozyBlanket is a retopology app for the iPad designed as an accessible and relaxing experience. Its minimalist UI packs a fully featured mesh editor that can be used by directly drawing on the high poly mesh. CozyBlanket focuses on presenting retopology as an enjoyable, game-like process similar to solving a puzzle.

You can fins this application from the official website.

Blender 3D : Simplicage addon for animation.

This addon named Simplicage let you to improuve your animation.

Shader Editor - example 002.

This post is just one simple example, you can find many tutorials if you search on web for my work ...

If you don't have enough time to test my last shader source code then you can test now with another source code to have a beautiful blue effect.

Let's see the source code for this shader:

#ifdef GL_FRAGMENT_PRECISION_HIGH
precision highp float;
#else
precision mediump float;
#endif

uniform vec2 resolution;
uniform float time;
uniform vec4 mouse;
uniform vec4 date;

//#define time  iTime
#define R resolution.xy
void mainImage( out vec4 fragC, in vec2 fC)
{

//   vec2 pos = (fragCoord.xy/R.xy) * 8. - 4.;
   vec2 pos = (fC.xy/R.xy) * 8. - 4.;
    pos.x *= R.x / R.y;
    float s = .25, f = .0, k = f;
    vec3 p = vec3(pos, sin(time * .4) * .5 - .5)* s;

    for( int i=0; i< 9; i++ )
    {
           p = abs(p)/dot(p,p)- 1.5;
           k = length(p) ;
           p = p*k+k;
   }

   f = dot(p,p)* s;
   fragC= vec4(f*.5, f *1.2, f * 5., 0.111);;
}

void main() {
vec4 fragment_color;
mainImage(fragment_color, gl_FragCoord.xy);
gl_FragColor = fragment_color;
}