Elvenar - the online game.

The team comes with this intro for this online game:
Welcome to Elvenar! Elvenar is a free-to-play browser-based game, where you will build a flourishing city and discover a magical world full of mysteries. Build up the most beautiful city and establish the most efficient economic system that you can! In Elvenar you can upgrade almost every building, improving the productivity and the look of your city. Explore the vast World Map to acquire the knowledge of your wise ancestors and discover new technologies. Trade or fight over powerful Relics to boost your production. You can either become a skilled and well-known trader, refine your producing art or lead your troops to victory in 3D-animated battles, the decision is up to you.
You can see a video intro from the official youtube channel:

News : NVIDIA VMware Test Drive.

The NVIDIA VMware Test Drive gives you instant access to hours of accelerated, virtualized graphics—for free.
You can start with:

• FREE 90-DAY EVAL 
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Read more about this feature here.

Free textures from texturehaven .

The team from the texturehaven website come with this info:

100% Free 
All textures are licensed as CC0 and can be downloaded instantly, giving you complete freedom. 
No paywalls, email forms or account systems.

You can help this website:

With Patreon, you can contribute to help us pay the server cost and develop new texture scans.
When a goal is achieved, something new will come.
Think unlocking 8k textures, PNG files, increasing uploads and more.
Not only can you contribute financially, but you can get directly involved in the process, helping decide what textures we shoot, and ultimately the direction this site is going. 
Spendings of donation each month is verified by public finance reports.

Mythology : Contest created by HUION .

The contest is created by the HUION graphic tablet company.
The theme of the contest is Mythology.
Awards are in HUION products.
Subscription deadline: 15 November 2018.
See more detail here.

The Magicavoxel tool for your game development.

The development team tells us:
"A free lightweight 8-bit voxel editor and interactive path tracing renderer, made with love by @ephtracy. Available for PC and MAC. This is where it all begins.

This tiny light-weighted software is the core of voxelart, since it is capable of many things : just edit, paint and move your voxels in a cubic grid, then animated them and render them with the powerful integrated renderer.

License : feel free to use it for any project, no commercial licences required, credits are appreciated"
Let's see this video tutorial from youtube channel:

Smart tool - the online unknown tool.

I found this online tool for developing games.
The tool can:

• Load and Save image files;
• Change settings for a normal map texture;

I don't find the provider of this tool...
They say:
Error 404 - Not found 
Die angegebene Seite konnte nicht gefunden werden.
See the screenshot with this tool:

Thunkable : Create online mobile applications for iOS and Android.

Thunkable is the platform where anyone can build their own mobile applications for iOS and Android.
This online tool is free to use with a google account.
The Thunkable platform charges a maintenance fee for the use of certain components such as Ads by AdMob and Payment by Stripe.
You can start build your on an app is as simple as dragging and dropping your favorite components and connecting them together with blocks.
Learn how to make your first app from this video from official youtube channel:

Unity 3D : FBX Exporter asset.

Today I will show you how to use an asset in Unity Store named FBX Exporter.
A short video tutorial was presented at Siggraph 2018 de Liz Mercuri (Technical Evangelist, Unity Technologies), see this video tutorial:

Let's see how to use this asset.
First, you need to download and import it from Unity Store.
Search using the name of this asset FBX Exporter from Unity.

Use import option to use this asset.
To start this asset use from menu: Edit - Project Settings - Fbx Export.

This will open this asset into Inspector area:

You can use just Maya and 3D studio Max 3D software to work with this asset.

Noisli : an inspired editor.

This publisher is recommended to writers and those who need inspiration.
I found him present in the community for those who want to write.
It's a simple online editor with dynamic graphics and sound effects.
Practically you can hear different sounds combined and you can let and choose color combinations to inspire you.
The editor can save in text format  and export to your dropbox account or Google Drive.
Here's a screenshot of this editor:

The Figma App Design Workflow - online tool.

The development team come with this intro:
Figma is the first interface design tool based in the browser, making it easier for teams to create software.
The Figma pricing start with:

• Basic - free for individuals 
• Professional - $12*
• Organization - $45*

You can start with your your email or google account, see first page:
The interface is simple and colors are great.
The official youtube channel come with many videos about this online tool.
You can find any references and tutorials on web.
The CharliMarieTV channel come with this title about Figma : Sketch vs Figma - Why I switched!

Clay Viewer : editor and export 3D files.

You can use this editor tool online.
Another option is to download the application on Windows and macOS with FBX/DAE/OBj import and glTF2.0/GLB export from here.
This tool comes with ClayGL library to provide a python tool for converting FBX to glTF 2.0.
The ClayGL is a WebGL graphics library for building scalable Web3D applications.
You can read more about this A.P.I. library here.
The source code can be found on GitHub webpage.
This is a screenshot with default clay-viewer tool:

New codepen example - modal window.

In user interface design for computer applications, a modal window is a graphical control element subordinate to an application's main window. It creates a mode that disables the main window, but keeps it visible with the modal window as a child window in front of it.
This is my example with a modal window created on codepen website.
The example is very simple.
The html5 source code is created with classes and id's.
The css file make all style for this tags.
The javascript use all of this to open the modal window, use click to close the window.
The Cancel and Add buttons not work with the java script.

Meshroom 3D Reconstruction Software

The development team come with this infos about Meshroom 3D Reconstruction Software:
Meshroom is a free, open-source 3D Reconstruction Software based on the AliceVision framework.
The official website can be found here.

You can see a tutorial with Blender 3D - open-source software created by CG Geek:

VPaint software.

The development team of VPaint software come with this info:
VPaint was an experimental vector graphics editor based on the Vector Animation Complex (VAC), a technology developed by a collaboration of researchers at Inria and the University of British Columbia, featured at SIGGRAPH 2015.
You can use it with the following operating systems: Windows Vista, 7, 10, Max OS X and Linux.
I tested and is a good software with some important gaps for the user:

• you cannot copy frames;
• export is just for PNG and SVG file format;
• too few tools; 

The software can be improved and you can contribute here.

GIMP: extract still background and mask frames.

The issue is about BgMask: extract still background from video frames / mask frames against background , see Thread-extract-from-gif-with-BgMask-script.
The GIF file come from giphy.
I tested with the .scm script and working well with extract background and mask.
I have noticed that the differences are significantly positive when the background is static and the animation does not exceed the display area of ​​the GIF file, see the output result:
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Online effects in a single image .

This website allows you to draw more effects in one image:

Krita 4.1.1 : Comics Manager tool.

This tool can be activated from the menu: Settings - Dockers - Comics Manager.
This start into the docker a GUI that allow you to use this tool.

Select a empty folder and give the info for your project:
It's a tool helps you create and export comics in a defined format.
Select all you need and use wizard to the end.
This will make all folders and config files.
You can open the project with same Comics Manager and the JSON file from your project folder.
The wizard will let now to use the buttons that until now were inactive: Project Settings, Add Page, Export Comic and Copy Location.

Shadertoy: New shader example : Old watch (IBL) .

This is a great example at shadertoy website.
The example come with this link to this article into first comment.
The example is simple but impressive.
What is interesting to see how some objects are created.

float sdPlane( const vec3 p ) {
 return p.y;
}

float sdTorus( const vec3 p, const vec2 t ) {
  vec2 q = vec2(length(p.xz)-t.x,p.y);
  return length(q)-t.y;
}

float sdTorusYZ( const vec3 p, const vec2 t ) {
  vec2 q = vec2(length(p.yz)-t.x,p.x);
  return length(q)-t.y;
}

float sdTorusYX( const vec3 p, const vec2 t ) {
  vec2 q = vec2(length(p.yx)-t.x,p.z);
  return length(q)-t.y;
}
...

Find 735,802 icons / 2,458 iconsets .

This website can help you to find icons with extension like: .svg,  .ico, .png and .icns
Most of this icons are free to use.
They tell us :

Search through 735,802 icons / 2,458 iconsets

Rebelle 3 - the watercolor software .

The development team comes with this info about this software:
Rebelle is a unique digital painting solution for creating realistic art using watercolors, acrylics and any wet and dry media. Use of real-world color blending, wet diffusion and drying sets it apart from its competition.

• Real world simulation of paint diffusion ;
• Wet tools: Watercolor, Acrylic and Ink Pen ;
• Dry tools: Pencil, Pastel, Marker, Eraser ;
• Blend and Smudge tools ;
• Custom Brushes ;
• Wet, dry and blow the wet painting ;
• Tilt the canvas to get flow effects ;
• Pen pressure support ;

The digital copy comes with this price: $ 89.99.
Read more at official webpage about this software.