News : NeuMIP is a neural method for materials.

We propose NeuMIP, a neural method for representing and rendering a variety of material appearances at different scales. Classical prefiltering (mipmapping) methods work well on simple material properties such as diffuse color, but fail to generalize to normals, self-shadowing, fibers or more complex microstructures and reflectances. In this work, we generalize traditional mipmap pyramids to pyramids of neural textures, combined with a fully connected network. We also introduce neural offsets, a novel method which enables rendering materials with intricate parallax effects without any tessellation. This generalizes classical parallax mapping, but is trained without supervision by any explicit heightfield. Neural materials within our system support a 7-dimensional query, including position, incoming and outgoing direction, and the desired filter kernel size. The materials have small storage (on the order of standard mipmapping except with more texture channels), and can be integrated within common Monte-Carlo path tracing systems. We demonstrate our method on a variety of materials, resulting in complex appearance across levels of detail, with accurate parallax, self-shadowing, and other effects.

You can see more at this webpage.

A good demo can be found here.

News : Sketchfab and Epic Games family.

We are excited to announce that today Sketchfab has joined the Epic Games family. Sketchfab makes it easy to discover, edit, buy, and sell 3D content directly through their web-based service and is home to 4 million 3D assets. Their technology has integrations across every major 3D creation tool and publishing platform and is compatible across all major browsers and operating systems, on both desktop and mobile. By joining forces, Epic and Sketchfab will be able to make 3D, AR and VR content more accessible and grow the creator ecosystem, which are critical to an open and interconnected Metaverse.

You can read more at epic games official website.

Sketchfab is Joining the Epic Games Family by Sketchfab on Sketchfab

News : Frostborn from Kefir Games.

The russian game development named Kefir Games comes with a new game: Frostborn.

The Ice Abode, Treasures of the North, new camp buildings and chat improvements await in a new update, immortals!

News : $140,000 USD in prizes by Core Games.

Enter the Core Invitational game dev competition from July 29 to August 30 with $140,000 USD in prizes, including a grand prize Tesla Model 3! Visit https://invitational.coregames.com to download and create for free today!

Core is the easiest way to build, host, and run multiplayer games and worlds.

This team provide all you need to build a game from assets, servers, and all the code needed to get your first game built and published in minutes.

You can see more on the youtube official channel.

News : Paint With Music from Google Arts & Culture.

What if you can hear your painting? Turn your paint brush into musical instruments and compose on sensorial canvases!

, see this online tool here.

The Google Arts & Culture is a non-profit initiative with cultural institutions and artists around the world.

News : Another game engine Rogue Engine.

Another game engine for web games using three.js .

The official website tells us:

Rogue Engine is a powerful environment to create Web Games and Apps using three.js.

The author of this game engine is BeardScript.

You can see more video on the youtube channel.

News : Fallout 76: Beginner's Guide.

On Steam you can play for free! Ends in 5 days.

You can play this game from here.

News : 2021 COMPUTEX - ICT Expo.

The official webpage can be found here.

Dates: Tue, Jun 1, 2021 – Sat, Jun 5, 2021

Location: Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei, Taiwan

This is AMD video intro:

... NVIDIA intro video:

News : Unreal Engine 5 Early Access.

Unreal Engine 5 will empower game developers and creators across all industries to realize next-generation real-time 3D content and experiences with greater freedom, fidelity, and flexibility than ever before. Today, Unreal Engine 5 enters Early Access - providing you the first chance to get your hands on some innovative new tools for next-generation game development. see the youtube channel.

News : North Star - Operator Thunderbird on Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege.

This time, board the helicopter and meet Thunderbird, the new defender coming to Rainbow Six Siege. Fly over the northern prairies of the Nakoda territories with her, because sometimes a comforting presence is all you need to heal!

News : Android 12 from Google I/O 2021.

Android 12 Beta is now available for development, testing, and feedback! , see the official website.

News : EVE Online - 18 Years of Explosions

Celebrate EVE Online's 18th birthday with daily gifts in-game as well as new sites and challenges. Be sure to log in each day through to 18 May to earn up to 450k of Skill Points for Omega!

You can star play it on the official website.

News: HITMAN 3 – Season of Pride ...

HITMAN 3 comes new features ...

News: Elvenar Official the new old story ...

This online game is a game with interesting graphics with cascading and complex management.

Here is another old story transposed in this game.

News: News and Community Spotlight intro from Unreal Engine.

The well-known game engine called Unreal Engine comes in mid-April 2021 with a summary of its possibilities in a short introductory video.

The video deals with aspects related to game engine development in an elementary way.

News: Industrialists on EVE Online.

EVE Online is a community-driven spaceship MMORPG where players can play free, choosing their own path from countless options. Experience space exploration, immense PvP and PvE battles and a thriving player economy in an ever-expanding sandbox. Participate in many in-game professions and activities, including war, politics, piracy, trading, and exploration, across 7,000 star systems with hundreds of thousands of other players. 

Today this online game with the news:

Industrialists shape the universe of EVE Online, being responsible for supplying the ships, ammo, and equipment that fuel the biggest wars in gaming history. 

You can download it and play it from the official website.

Everything he touches into chickens!

The game Neverwinter come with this new feature:

... who has an unfortunate condition of turning everything he touches into chickens!

News : NeoAxis Engine 2021.1 Released.

On March 10, 2021 the well-known game engine NeoAxis came with a new release.

NeoAxis company releases a new version of NeoAxis Engine, an integrated development environment with built-in 3D/2D game engine. The environment can be used to develop all kinds of 3D and 2D projects such as computer games, visual trainers, VR systems, to visualize processes and develop windowed applications. NeoAxis 2021.1 includes improvements for ambient lighting, metal materials, rendering speed, rendering quality, basic content. Has been added a set of paid add-ons such as Industrial Kit, Pipe Constructor, Fence Constructor, Road Constructor.

See the full released article on the official webpage.

This is the full changelog of this relese:

• Significant improvements to the speed of the rendering pipeline.
• Industrial Kit.
• Pipe Constructor.
• Fence Constructor.
• Road Constructor.
• Basic Materials library has been updated.
• Now it contains 206 materials.
• Basic Environments library has been updated.
• Now it contains 27 skyboxes.
• World generator component to make environments procedurally.
• A new scene template with the generator has been added.
• A new forest scene template.
• Terrain and mesh layers:
• Now is not needed to configure Blend Mode and Mask manually for materials.
• This done automatically by the engine.
• Terrain: The curvature in the calculation of texture coordinates has been added.
• The curvature is intended to reduce the tiling effect.
• Material editor: Remove Texture Tiling parameter for samplers.
• Editor: Export component to file.
• To export use context menu for selected components.
• Outline screen effect.
• Outline selection mode for meshes and billboards.
• The starting scenes are better configured.
• The ability to configure the multiplier of affecting skybox color and scene background color to ambient lighting.
• Character: First person camera mode has been improved.
• Curve In Space: Support of geometry rendering, collision.
• Scene editor: The button to change rendering debug mode in the ribbon.
• Skybox: The ability to set special cubemap for ambient lighting has been added.
• Mesh: The ability to export to FBX has been added.
• More abilities for add-on creation of the scene editor.
• ComputeUsingThreads component has been added. It is an auxiliary class to make optimized calculations using threads.
• Sample scene - 'Samples\Starter Content\Scenes\Compute using threads.scene'.
• Reflection Probe: Camera settings fixes.
• The ability to set Rotation, Multiplier, RenderSky has been added.
• Rendering Pipeline: Per object cut volumes support.
• UIWebBrowser has been updated.
• Optimization: Faster FBX import.
• Optimization: Faster rendering pipeline.
• Bug fix: Flipped skyboxes which in 2:1 size format.
• Bug fix: Mesh collision shape works wrong on some meshes.
• Bug fix: Various minor bug fixes.

News: NVIDIA lets you access Clara Parabricks Pipelines.

It is very interesting and very useful news for those who process and process data.

Based on Broad Institute’s Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK), NVIDIA Clara Parabricks Pipelines is a ready-to-run, GPU-accelerated software suite for DNA Germline variant calling for population genomics, DNA Somatic variant calling for cancer genomics and RNA sequencing projects from whole-transcriptome to single-cell analysis. Optimized for speed, accuracy, and scalability, Clara Parabricks Pipelines can run the GATK4.1 Best Practices and is fully configurable, allowing users to choose which steps, parameter settings, and versions of the pipeline to run.

Huion contest : 2021 New Year’s Resolution .

A new year’s resolution means a lot, it helps you to accomplish a personal goal, or otherwise improve your life. It can be as simple as to read more books, save more money or maybe become more organized. Leon’s new year’s resolution is to become a better artist. He is planing to draw a sketch everyday and set up a daily workout routine. What is your new year’s resolution? Huion is holding a drawing contest as we would love to see your drawing of you achieving your final goal or the action you are taking to fulfill your goal. 

The first prize is the beautiful graphics tablet Kamvas Pro 24 with a 24-inch QHD drawing monitor, with a fully laminated screen and engraved anti-glare glass and a high price of 899.00 USD.

More information can be found at HuionNewYearResolution.