News: Godot's new renderer and JAM Game.

If you remember Godot - game engine, then we have new and exciting news on the official blog.
The open-source game engine Godot has been working to improve its 3D renderer.
The new todo for January 2017 come with this tasks:

• Implement Particle Shaders, with support for: Sorting, Collision and Soft Particles.
• Improve Culling: Portals (rewrite as polygon-based) and Rooms.
• Add Clustered lighting (before this all is forward).
• Add Layered/Stencil rendering
• Implement Decals.

 As you can see any changes are great into area of game engines and game programming.
The last released of Godot Engine 2.1.1-stable (2016/11/17) is also available on Steam and come from:
Linux 64-bit and 32-bit , Linux Server 64-bit , OS X (32-bit and 64-bit), Windows 64-bit and 32-bit. The Godot development is open and has many demos projects and tools to make a good game.

NOTE: The Godot Engine team are organizing a new Godot Community Game Jam that will run from 16 December 2016 to 31 January 2017.

News: 60% off for games from bigfishgames.

Is 7 day and 1 hour until  Christmas day.
If you don't try ever a game from bigfishgames then you lost something.
Now you have 60% off for games.
More detailed infos is on the official website.
For example:
I saw one game to be good for children and parents on Christmas day.

News: NVIDIA GPU Educators Program Overview.

The good news come from NVIDIA Developer about the new GPU Educators Program.
NVIDIA’s GPU Educators Program seeks to advance STEM education with accelerated computing by providing high-quality teaching materials and resources to educators, to help prepare today’s students for tomorrow’s computing challenges.
The goal come from official webpage.
NVIDIA’s Academic Programs Team is dedicated to empowering and collaborating with professors and researchers at universities worldwide. We aim to inspire cutting-edge technological innovation and to find new ways of enhancing faculty research as well as the teaching and learning experience. We achieve this through a variety of initiatives and programs.

Websites with comics and database - part 001.

Most comics can be found into shop or online but is hard to make a good choice.
Today I will show you a good website with a great artists database and also have a webshop.
This come with over 13,000 comic artists from around the world.
Shipping your order into Europe will give you a low cost. This website can be found here.

Your city to 3D with Esri software.

Your city can be put into 3D environment using Esri City Engine.
This software come for Windows , Linux and MacOS X and come from ArcGIS Software
I tested the free trial demo with Windows SO.
This free trial is just for 30 days andafter that you will need to contact your local Esri office.
When you download the trial one webpage come with one authorization number.
This is provided to you to deal with installation proces.
The idea is great because can help many people.
I deal with street features and come sized functions.
You can use also textures, and generate tools, objects to edit and many format maps files.
If you want to build your city from simple gamer, business, virtual maps and enviroment then is a good choice.
You can take a look to see how is working.

3D scientific website with good content.

Today I will told you about one great website with 3D content.
This website will have many 3D scientific objects.
You can see old building, old bones, old houses.
One good point to start also is the 3D view of Apollo 11 moon-landing mission command module. About this website the team tells us:

Smithsonian X 3D launches a set of use cases which apply various 3D capture methods to iconic collection objects, as well as scientific missions. These projects indicate that this new technology has the potential not only to support the Smithsonian mission, but to transform museum core functions. Researchers working in the field may not come back with specimens, but with 3D data documenting a site or a find. Curators and educators can use 3D data as the scaffolding to tell stories or send students on a quest of discovery.

The website can be found it here.

Unity 5.5 beta - news.

If you like the Unity game engine and game programming then the Unity blog come with news.
The new the list of features and improvements are huge but the most great part for me s the particle and effects. You can see the demo from the new Unity.

Google Earth VR - virtual reality free.

Google Earth VR lets you explore the world from totally new perspectives in virtual reality. Stroll the streets of Tokyo, soar over the Grand Canyon, or walk around the Eiffel Tower

This is a free virtual reality application. The goal is the 3D space of most known places from world. The application can be found here.

System Requirements - minimum:

• OS: Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1 or later, Windows 10
• Processor: Intel i5-6400 equivalent or better
• Memory: 8 GB RAM
• Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 970, AMD Radeon R9 Fury equivalent or better
• Network: Broadband Internet connection
• Storage: 4 GB available space

 

September event artwork - 256 byte, 64K and 4K graphics.

If you missed the event during September 9 - September 11 where they presented the artwork of 256 Byte, 64k and 4k, then you have the opportunity to see this user's channel.
See all 256 Byte  graphics:

Krita 3.1 beta available.

The Krita 3.1 beta come with a full features and fixes.
The most useful features can you be found into this 2D software for drawing:

• ffmpeg-based export to animated gif and video formats;
• the OpenGL canvas is fixed;
• will officially support OSX
• fixing bugs on Windows and Linux
• the beta still contains the colorize mask/lazy brush plugin
• expecting to experimenting with new algorithms, but with the next release 
• same splash screen like old version

You can read more abiut this here. 
Krita come with this free copyright for Krita

Krita is free software under the GNU Public License, Version 2 or any later version at your option. This means you can get the source code for Krita from . The license only applies to the Krita source code, not to your work! You can use Krita to create artworks for commerical purposes without any limitation.

Krita Shell Extension come with MIT copyright. Krita Shell Extension
The MIT License
Copyright (c) 2016 Alvin Wong
 

OpenVR for VR hardware under linux, windows and osx.

Is working with windows 64/32, linux 64 and osx 32. The github tells us about this development:

OpenVR is an API and runtime that allows access to VR hardware from 
multiple vendors without requiring that applications have specific 
knowledge of the hardware they are targeting. This repository is an SDK 
that contains the API and samples. The runtime is under SteamVR in Tools 
on Steam.
Documentation for the API is available in the wiki: 
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/openvr/wiki/API-Documentation
More information on OpenVR and SteamVR can be found on  

http://steamvr.com

Defold Engine with editor and lua scripting.

The new game engine come from Defold Engine and was released 31. May 2016.

The Defold is a cross platform 2D focused Lua powered game engine created by King and available for free. If you want to learn Lua programming language or you know this programming language, then is great.
About Lua:  is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. It supports procedural programming, object-oriented programming, functional programming, data-driven programming, and data description.
This game engine brings improved editor performance on OSX, Windows, Linux 32 and 64 with  GUI layer counts. It's working with your google account.
You can also have online tutorials.
This improved account management options, including the ability to delete your account if required. You can see the official playlist with some video tutorials:

News about Blender second release candidate and other projects.

The Chairman Blender Foundation and producer Blender Institute, Mr. Ton Roosendaal comw with this news about second release candidate and other projects:

Hi everyone,

Here are notes from today's 14 UTC meeting in irc.freenode.net 

#blendercoders.

1) Blender 2.78 RC2

- Second release candidate is out! 
http://download.blender.org/release/Blender2.78/

- Release logs are also taking shape:
https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.78
https://www.blender.org/features/2-78/

Based on tracker reporting and further testing we either do a RC3 or 

the actual release this week. Sergey Sharybin and Bastien Montagne are

 monitoring it closely.

2) Other projects and 2.8

- Currently Blender for OSX links to an Apple system library for 

quicktime (qtkit).
This has been deprecated for long, and will be removed from 

XCode 10.12.
We have to decide if we want to drop this, and make Blender for 

OS X use ffmpg for 
all codecs.

- Julian Eisel uploaded custom manipulators patch for review 
https://developer.blender.org/D2232
Code docs

https://wiki.blender.org/index.php?title=User:Julianeisel/Custom_Manipulators

- Mike Erwin is in Amsterdam, with Dalai Felinto and others 

he will do design sessions
on the 2.8 viewport. Expect interesting logs and docs!

Thanks,

-Ton-

Anime Studio is now Moho.

Anime Studio is now Moho.

Moho (Anime Studio) Animation Software – Coming Soon!

Moho™, the complete animation solution for professionals and digital artists, is coming soon. Moho is a new name and new version of Anime Studio. Moho delivers advanced animation tools to speed up your workflow with an intuitive new interface, a visual content library and powerful features such as a bone rigging system, Smart Bones™, frame-by-frame animation, and more exciting new features that will be announced at the product launch.
Get a first look at Moho. Webinar August 12th: What’s New in Moho 12 – Register Now! Go to register link, fill up and follow. You can get more infos from this link.

News: NeoAxis 3D Engine 3.5 Released.

The latest version of  NeoAxis Engine 3.5 it was announced today with new features:

• Graphic user interface of the tools has been updated.
• A tool to easily import 3D models from a file has been added.
• Example maps have been updated.
• Freeze Objects Manager has been added. The object is indended to optimize maps with big amount of objects on them. With this object the developer can make some objects on the map freeze to save resources.
• Streaming terrain has been improved. Better management of load/unload mechanism.
• The ability to skip mip maps during loading textures.
• Bug fix: Broken rendering with enabled SoftParticles parameter of the material.
• Bug fix: Broken decals on terrain.
• Bug fix: Broken export of 3D models from Map Editor to DAE.

Read more about this: NeoAxis 3D Engine 3.5 Released 

News: New Unity products and prices.

The development team announced new products that will launch in June.
As we can see with the new products you will benefit from:

• All platforms. No iOS or Android Pro add ons, everything’s now included
• All updates more regularly, with no extra costs 
• New features and tools – from performance reporting to new Analytics realtime and raw data to Asset Store project packs and more 

See more about this news here.

News: This game can help science of dementia.

The first mobile game where anyone can help scientists fight dementia.

 As well as navigating the icy Arctic Rivers and the glorious Golden Shores, you can also navigate your way around here to see how game developers, Glitchers, together with University College London, University of East Anglia and Alzheimer's Research came together to bring Sea Hero Quest to life. The game is made up of three main tasks; navigating mazes, shooting flares to test players’ orientation, and chasing creatures to capture photos of them. From the penguins, to the mammoth hidden in the ice, every element of the game was carefully crafted to be as fun and exciting as it is scientifically valid.

Try it from google play.
Read more about this game here.

Black Desert Online - great game with new classes.

If you like games, news, programming graphic and all you think is graphics then subscribe to my blog.
Black Desert Online is a sandbox-oriented massively multiplayer online role-playing game by Korean video game developer Pearl Abyss. The game has been in development since 2010, and entered closed beta testing in October 2013. Wikipedia
The game come with Daum Cash (DC) is the virtual currency. You can use to make in-game purchases in Black Desert Online and it starts from 10 euro.
We have new anticipated Musa and Maehwa classes.
The Musa is a melee class that relies on high speed and fast reactions like incredible mobility and a specialty for AoE - focused attacks.
The Maehwa is the female counterpart to the Musa class specializes in one-on-one combat with the impressive ability to lock down single targets for an extended amount of time.
You can see into the next video the Maehwa class:

Blender 3D for web.

I don't know if I told about Blender 3D software and web but seem the last demo has great.
So take a look at this website.
All of this demos was make with Blender 3D software.

News: 2016: E-ink Features 54 Inch - Display Solution