Testing CopperCube with my android emulator.

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

Using Coppercube game engine with android.

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

The gamefroot online HTML5 game engine.

This game engine use HTML5 and come with default templates , default sprites to test it.
You can follow the tutorials online and you can try a search on web for video tutorials.
This HTML5 engine use blocks for scripting area. Start with a account and test the tutorials.
You can used free with this option:

• Publish to Gamefroot.com

You can also use two prices (from $15.00 and $49.00) to unlock the next features:

• Educational Resources
• Export to IOS and Android
• Customer Support
• Classroom Management

You can test it at official webpage .
The official youtube channel come with many video tutorials, just take a look:

Microsoft Azure Batch and Blender 3D addon .

You can use Azure Microsoft account to render your Blender 3D files.
First you need a Azure account. Download the Blender addon for azure from here.
Unzip the addon and copy the content of Blender.Client into addon folder.
I try to use the install option from Blender 3D - User Preferences but not working.
You need to use pip3 tool with python from Blender 3D.
Download the pip3 tool from here into python Blender 3D folder and run this commands:

C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.79\python\bin>python.exe get-pip.py
...
Successfully installed pip-10.0.1 setuptools-40.0.0 wheel-0.31.1

C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.79\python\bin>cd ..
C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.79\python>cd Scripts
C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.79\python\Scripts>
pip3.exe install credentials
pip3.exe install azure-batch-apps

This will install the python modules for the Blender addon for Azure Microsoft.

Login with your Azure account and create your batch service:


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

Kraut - the procedurally tool .

Kraut is a program to procedurally generate plants, especially trees. Through a set of parameters you specify how a tree is supposed to grow. Various different, but similar trees can be generated from the same specification. Additionally there is a manual editing mode, which allows to easily paint branches by hand, such that very unique trees can be created.
They come with this features:
New Features in BETA 2

• Flares along branches: deform the mesh to imitate strong roots or bulges. 
• Billboard Leaves: Leaves that rotate towards the viewer to achive more densly looking trees with few polygons. 
• Frond and Leaf color variation: More natural looking trees through easy to use color variation per leaf. 
• Convert to DDS: All textures that are exported as TGA can now additionally be converted to DDS format. 
• LeafCards: Top-Down mode to create leaf textures for billboards. 
• Visual Tree Component Editor: Much improved UI for editing tree components and reusing them in other trees. 
• Generally much cleaned up UI. Added progress bars for longer operations. 
• Fixed broken FBX export. Improved smooth vertex normals. 
• Several improvements to the tree generation. Branch width is now absolute, Trunk types can be spwaned with more control. 
• Added Billboard and Impostor LOD types. 
• Export to custom format, which supports all the features that are required to fully render a Kraut tree. 
• Added program "Kraut Viewer" with full source, which demonstrates how to load and render a kraut tree.

Krita 4.0.1 : Supported tablets.

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

The ThreeNodes tool .

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

The COLOR online tool.

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

News : Get up to $311 in free assets.

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

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

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

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

Dandelion by catafest on Sketchfab

Blender 3D : Blender 2.8 Code Quest .

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

• the official blog , see this website;
• the support work of the team , see this website;

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

The Xenko game engine .

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

Long time no see!

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

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

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

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

News: Great discount and video tutorial .

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

New features for EVE online .

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

Blender 3D : Distorted texture wallpaper tutorial .

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

GDevelop - game programming tool .

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

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

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

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

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

News: 0 A.D. Alpha 23 .

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

The Vectr online and desktop tool.

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

News: Construct 2 Release r259.

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

Since r255 the main improvements are:

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

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

• Personal License 
• Business License 
• License Upgrade 
• Educational Licenses

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