News : ThreeJS comes with new spotlight example.

New exameple with spotlight from ThreeJS, if you use the web development tool from browser then you can see the source code.

News : Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord - Slimer Hunt Update Trailer | PS VR2 Games

Blender 3D : Multiple non-destructive bevels in Blender 4.1! ...

You can find some video tutorials on the Michael Jared youtube channel .

News : PARTICLES - Introduction to Simulation Nodes with CG Matter - Tutorial Trailer.

Blender 3D : ... about the simulated air bubbles!

Today I saw this video from CG Cookie, is seams a little fantastic :

I think the Blender Guru is more realistic on the size of the simulated air bubbles ... obviously the simulations are different per action.

News : Alone in the Dark - Everything You Need to Know in 60 Seconds .

News : PlayCanvas new release v1.68.0.

PlayCanvas is used by studios large and small to make lightweight messenger games, online multiplayer games, extraordinary product configurators, architectural visualizations and more.

PlayCanvas can be used for free and has a paid area.

Today, PlayCanvas comes with a new release version 1.68.0, see the GitHub project.

News : crazygames - online gaming platform.

Another online gaming platform named crazygames for gaming:

The go-to browser game platform. Just play!

News : FASM graphics with DirectX ...

It is not mandatory to use a game engine, access to the graphic resource of the computer can also be done through FASM.

An example of a website from asmgges.chez.com with source code in assembler that you can reuse !

News : Terra Memoria - Release Window Trailer

News : Capture Window with OpenCV in C++ ...

... more on casualgamer1791 youtube channel.

News : REVEALING A NEW BLOCK ...

Minecraft Monthly returns despite numerous sabotage attempts! This month, Vu is once again here to entertain and walk us through some very important events (and some nightmare fuel) ...

News : Nova Hearts: The Spark - Official First Chapter Release Trailer.

Join Luce and her friends in this FREE first chapter: The Spark! A mysterious force transforms you and other residents of Vermillion into heroes and villains. TEXT, DATE and FIGHT in this turn-based combat dating adventure!

News : Interaction Isn't Explicit trailer.

News : Godot free nintendo switch support !

Seams the Godot will get free support from Nintendo Switch, see more on the Gamefromscratch YouTube channel.

News : Enshrouded - Official Early Access Launch Trailer.

News : News and Community Spotlight | January 25, 2024 | Unreal Engine.

News : ASA Cross-Platform Mods Spotlight, Jan 22 - Jan 26, 2024.

Black pen drawing of crumpled water bottle from HOME SKILL ARTS.

You can find it on video channel from HOME SKILL ARTS.

Star Trek Online : I played the event of Both Worlds today.

Today we played this month's event which contains a number of 40 days to play to get a prize as we are used to from this game.

It's a real interactive movie and I was amazed by the approach to the story it took.

It's surprising, at some point you become a Borg and have to do a mission.

It's gorgeous and I wouldn't want to spoil the surprise for the players.

News : Torn Away - Launch Trailer

News : CGI Animated Film Trailer: "Star Chaser" by Barajoun

News : The Gap - Epic Games Store Launch Trailer

News : Stilt - Reveal Trailer ...

News : Outcast - A New Beginning - Culture and Exploration Pre-Order Trailer ...

News : For Honor : Varangian Guard Hero ...

Another two videos from Ubisoft with Varangian Guard Hero:

News : Skull and Bones: Endgame & Year 1 Roadmap Trailer

News : Realtime cloth physics with Proxy Mesh of Blender addon Vmd Retargeting.

This blender addon will import motion from mmd's .vmd file onto Daz or CC models, with or without mmd model.

News : Timberborn Update 5

Timberborn Update 5 is now live, featuring the dangerous badwater, new production chains, reworked maps, extra attractions, QoL tweaks, and more!

News : Reinventing Retail with AI | I AM AI.

As far as I know, NVIDIA is the only company that is involved in development in many fields and offers very pragmatic solutions.

I have not done a case study that is reliable, but I suspect that it can also be applied to small entrepreneurs or small businesses.

Improve Forecasting. Increase Revenue. Reduce Shrinkage.

Leading retailers are tapping into AI to automate warehouse logistics, determine in-store promotions and real-time pricing, enable customer personalization and recommendations, deliver better shopping experiences, and more—both in stores and online.

See What’s Included in This Report.

Dive into the data compiled from a survey of over 400 professionals—including executives, data scientists, developers, engineers, and IT specialists—from around the world. This year’s results reveal the trends, challenges, and opportunities that define the state of AI in retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) in 2024.

News : Nuclear Blast Record Experience Out Now!

News : From Blank Canvas to Digital Art: Krita Fundamentals - Part 1.

The ScriptedSprite youtube channel comes with new video tutorials for Krita software.

Star Trek Online : Both Worlds Launch Trailer

News : Starpets | Early Teaser | Ubisoft Film & Television

News : Pacific Drive - Surviving the Zone Gameplay Summary

News : Expeditions: A MudRunner Game - Gameplay Overview

Godot : 25 (more) advanced tips and tricks | Godot 4

... do you know this YouTube channel named Octodemy? Let's see this video intro tutorial:

News : From Shadertoy to Godot 4: Learn to convert the shader code (tutorial) !

... this is not current news, but it is informative and, you can see more on youtube channel named FencerDevLog.

LibreOffice 7.6: New Features

News : REVEIL first-person psycho-thriller game released on March.

REVEIL will launch on PC, PS5 & XBOX on March 6, 2024.

REVEIL is a narrative first-person psycho-thriller game that focuses on story, puzzles and exploration. Find out what’s going on inside Walter Thompson and what his dark past at the Nelson Bros Circus has to do with it.

About Daedalic Entertainment : We are a videogame developer and publisher from Hamburg, Germany. We offer a diverse line-up of high-quality titles, including classic adventures, RPGs, strategy and multiplayer games..

News : Palworld and dedicated server tutorial.

This game named Palworld from Pocket Pair, Inc. was released on 19 January 2024.

See this video from the official YouTube channel:

How To Set Up Dedicated Server In Palworld by DustyPorter.

News : Introducing Expression Wrinkles in Character Creator | ZBrush Face Tools Tutorial ...

News : Official Gameplay Reveal Trailer: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.

News : How to Draw Super Easy Mannequins for Cartoons.

News : Sugardew Island - Teaser Trailer.

Sugardew Island is a simulation video game developed and published by rokaplay.

The rokaplay is a video game developer headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany.

News : Notion Calendar

News : "Ballad of Chaos" Version Trailer丨Snowbreak: Containment Zone.

News : ... horror games from GameV.

Horror games are not very good for me from a health point of view.

The degree of involvement of the subject and the reaction of the subject matter.

Obviously, they can be a very good indicator for creators and artists who produce them.

Here is a youtube channel called gg that presents all kinds of such games.

From there I chose two videos to present as better made.

Dead MARS™ LOOKS ABSOLUTELY TERRIFYING | Ultra Realistic Graphics Gameplay [4K 60FPS HDR]

The Ring™ LOOKS ABSOLUTELY TERRIFYING | Ultra Realistic Graphics [4K 60FPS HDR] SUPERNORMAL

News : Lunar Lander Beyond - Cinematic Trailer | PS5 & PS4 Games.

Godot : Simulating 100K Boids with Compute Shaders in Godot - Part 1 from niceeffort1.

This confirms the Godot team's effort to implement new features and users are increasingly interested in the development area.

Check out this video tutorial from niceeffort1.

GodotOS - The Godot Powered Operating System! from Gamefromscratch.

While a "fun" project, it's also an interesting learning opportunity for people looking to learn how to use the Godot game engine to create non-gaming applications. You can also write and contribute your own "GodotOS" powered apps to the operating system.

News : Planet Earth III – Official Minecraft Trailer.

News : Frostpunk 2 - Gameplay Trailer

News : Shaderfrog online tool new updates.

This tool can help you edit online and you can see the differences of shader and glsl type source code and now it comes with news.

I also presented this tool last year in April, it is quite old as an online tool.

The author of this online tool tells us:

Hi, my name is Andy. Almost 8 years ago, I created a tool called Shaderfrog. Shaderfrog is a Three.js shader editor and ‟composer.” Shaderfrog lets you author shader GLSL in nodes, and then combine them together using a graph editor.

See this online screenshot:

Star Trek Online : The King And Collective Event!

New event on Star Trek Online game:

They are as follows:

• “Taken by Surprise” (episode)
• “Scorpion’s Abyss” (new episode)
• “Guillotine” (space TFO)
• “Battle of Wolf 359” (new space TFO)
• “Omega Particle Stabilization” (minigame)

News : How to create 3D charater in Tripo AI and Rig in Mixamo ...

Perplexity online tool with extensions in browser.

Perplexity is your AI-powered Swiss Army Knife for information discovery and curiosity. It's not just about answering questions; it's about empowering you to do more—whether you're looking to summarize content, explore new topics, or even get a little creative.

Combine it with the top AI models on the planet, you're bound to discover something you haven't been able to with a traditional search engine.

You can use a limited version or pay for Pro versions: MONTHLY $20 billed per month, YEARLY Save $40 a year $200 billed per year ...

See how works on my browser:

See this video from the official youtube channel:

News : Learning VULKAN by Rendering a GALAXY.

A simple galaxy renderer/simulation written in C/C++ with Vulkan from the VkGalaxy GitHub repo.

The user named Daniel Elwell with the nickname frozein comes with this video intro about this project on this YouTube channel:

News : Phaser Editor 2D v3.66.0 released.

We're pleased to announce the immediate availability of a brand new version of Phaser Editor 2D.

One of the most important features is the new Script Node libraries. Script Nodes are a powerful way to add logic and behaviors to Game Objects and Scenes. For example, do you want to destroy a Game Object based on a physics collision and play a sound at the same time? Just chain together some of the new nodes to achieve this. The new libraries contain lots of helpful nodes to speed-up your development process.

You can download it from the official webpage.

News : Prison Architect | A New Chapter?

News : Braveboy — Teaser Trailer by Thomas Brush.

The Ren'Py visual novel engine .

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 free to use with commercial and non-commercial games and you can find on the official website.

This run's on Android 5.0+,HTML5/Web Assembly (Beta),Linux x86_64/Arm,Windows 7+,Mac OS X 10.10+ and iOS 11+.

This is last video tutorial from RenPy start tutorials but you can find more on web.

News : Introducing SharePoint Premium for IT Admins.

News : NBA 2K24 - Season 4 | PS5 & PS4 Games

News : What’s New in Google Accessibility | Episode 4 | American Sign Language !

News : Where’s that DAM asset? Bringing order to your content chaos | Unite 2023

In this video, we discuss the unique challenges of 3D digital asset management (DAM) and how the new Unity Asset Manager can help organize your content across the studio and get great-looking games to market faster.

CodePen: CodePen Home WebGL Flower Pattern (Voronoi diagram GLSL)

You can find good web development with a great graphics on Ksenia Kondrashova codepen account.

See this example named: CodePen Home WebGL Flower Pattern (Voronoi diagram GLSL):

News : Hidden Through Time 2: Myths & Magic - Release Date Announcement | PS5 Games.

Embark on a mythical adventure like never before with Hidden Through Time 2: Myths & Magic! Coming to PlayStation®5 on January 25th, this enchanting puzzle game invites players to explore the depths of human history and mythology.

News : Ubisoft | GG to You All for 2024 .

News : Unreal Editor and learning video features ...

It seems that marketing from the Unreal team is targeting developers with demo videos of the Unreal editor interface, see an example:

News : Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden - Love, Death and Sacrifice .

News : Example with kaolin on NVIDIA.

NVIDIA Kaolin library provides a PyTorch API for working with a variety of 3D representations and includes a growing collection of GPU-optimized operations such as modular differentiable rendering, fast conversions between representations, data loading, 3D checkpoints, differentiable camera API, differentiable lighting with spherical harmonics and spherical gaussians, powerful quadtree acceleration structure called Structured Point Clouds, interactive 3D visualizer for jupyter notebooks, convenient batched mesh container and more ... from GitHub repo - kaolin.

See this example from NVIDIA:

NVIDIA Kaolin library has introduced the SurfaceMesh class to make it easier to track attributes such as faces, vertices, normals, face_normals, and others associated with surface meshes.

About Omniverse USD Composer ...

Universal Scene Description is a framework for interchange of 3D computer graphics data, see wikipedia article.

This use defined file formats like: .usd, .usda, .usdc, .usdz.

NVIDIA team use this definition particularly for Universal Scene Description: Universal Scene Description describes geometries, materials, physics, and behavior representations of 3D worlds and is the best open and extensible standard ....

The platform for connecting and developing OpenUSD applications is NVIDIA Omniverse.

NVIDIA Omniverse™ foundation apps are best-practice implementations of native Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD) apps for 3D data aggregation and large-scale world simulation. Users can easily extend and customize the apps with custom-built extensions, or use them out-of-the-box.

What is 3D data aggregation:

A process in which data is searched, gathered, and presented in a summarized, report-based form, data aggregation helps organizations to achieve specific business objectives or conduct process/human analysis at almost any scale.

Let's a simple and good example by sending data from one external program like Mineways to export physically based materials and use them interactively at high quality in the free Omniverse Create program:

News : Updates in Mineways software.

Mineways is an open-source GUI program that exports Minecraft maps into 3D models for use in 3D software, printing and rendering. Mineways supports most Minecraft: Java Edition versions and offers many settings and functionality to customize the map export to your needs. See the GitHub repo from Eric Haines known as erich666.

You can download it from the official webpage.

Mineways now exports using photorealistic resource packs to Pixar's USD format, which can be displayed in the free Omniverse USD Composer program, Houdini, Cinema 4D, and others.

About voxel and voxel tools.

In 3D computer graphics, a voxel represents a value on a regular grid in three-dimensional space ..., see Voxel.

You can use these online editors:

• Kenny shape
• megavoxels
• minddesk
• voxedit

News : Video tutorial with artist work for Horticular.

You can see the artist work for Horticular game.

Blender 3D : Creating Ancient Temple | Cinematic Shot | Blender 4.0

News : DreaMoving AI customize your video.

... DreaMoving, a diffusion-based controllable video generation framework to produce high-quality customized human videos.

You can read more about this artificial intelligence on this official webpage.

If you want to test this feature then you can use the huggingface website.

News : Shivering Stone

Shivering Stone is an environmental sliding puzzle where you take the role of a young man as he journeys across snowfields and frozen forests.

News : Sims Romantic Garden Stuff free pack.

The Sims™ 4 Romantic Garden Stuff. Build a lush Victorian garden for your Sims and get ready for romance with The Sims™ 4 Romantic Garden Stuff.

This pack is free until January 9.

News : Free Krita Brushes.

I looked around the web a bit to see what's new in the Krita software and found a bunch of brushes.

In your Krita workspace, click on your Settings tab at the top of your screen. Scroll down to select the Manage Resources menu, then use Import Resources option.

See some bruses for Krita:

• deevad-bundle_23-01 zip archive
• krita watercolor set - github repo
• Krita minimalist brush pack updated from deviantart
• krita brushes charcoal pencils from davidrevoy
• Krita cheat brush pack heads
• Hair and Smudge Brushes for Krita
• Custom Grass Brushes
• Concept Art & Illustration Brush Pack
• Comics and Cartooning Bundle
• Jackpack Realwater
• Pesi’s Watercolors
• Zer0Coil Krita Brushes
• Modular Brushset V5
• GDQuest’s Free Brush Set
• Floral and Smudge Krita Brushes
• Krita Leaf/Colouring Brush
• Environments 2
• Nylnook V2 Art Pen
• Brush Pack
• Brushes by Baukjespirit

Intro to LaTeX : Learn to write beautiful math equations || Part 1 .

News : Marvelous Designer 12.2: Summer Vibes Unicorn Inner Tube!

News : Vercel - Unity/WebGL from kishimisu.

Another web game with Unity/WebGL from kishimisu, see this webpage.

How to draw a portrait using Loomis method.

The Loomis Method is a drawing technique that uses grids to represent the human head from various angles accurately. This technique was developed by the American Illustrator Andrew Loomis in the 1940s. See one example on hamedelshal youtube channel.

News : KRITA 5 2.2 NEW features. UPDATE NOW!! in 2024

News : Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy on Epic Games.

You are Star-Lord. The fate of the galaxy and the Guardians is in your hands. Time to show the universe what you’re made of. You got this. Probably.

This game developer and publisher by Eidos-Montréal can be found on stream on this webpage.

News : The Making of Big Inflatable Deathrun with UEFN.

Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) is a new PC application for designing, developing, and publishing games and experiences directly into Fortnite ...

Let's see a new video with this ...

News : excalidraw tool let export your work.

If you like the online tool named excalidraw, then you can export your work with a right click.

The X-Icon Editor - online tool.

X-Icon Editor is an HTML5 application based on Canvas that allows you to create high resolution icons that lets your sites shine. With X-Icon Editor you can quickly get your site ready with a large icon which will be available for pinned sites and the new tab page.

You can find this online tool on this webpage.

News : Another free game from Epic Games.

Follow the grim tale of young Amicia and her little brother Hugo, in a heartrending journey through the darkest hours of history. Hunted by Inquisition soldiers and surrounded by unstoppable swarms of rats, they will come to know and trust each other ...

You can find it on steam.

News : How to make Boss Drop Rates/Spawn System in Roblox! (Roblox Studio Scripting Tutorial 2024)

News : Batman: The Animated Series - Batman and Gordon's Holiday Tradition | Super Scenes | DC

News : How To Draw Caine | Amazing Digital Circus ...

News : Escape Academy free on Epic Games.

Welcome to Escape Academy. Train to become the ultimate Escapist. Solve Puzzles. Hack Servers. Meet the Faculty. Brew the perfect cup of tea. Escape Rooms in single player or co-op with a friend - local or online!