News : Godot 4.3 new released.

With over 3,500 commits authored by over 500 contributors, the latest Godot Engine release comes packed full of new features and

Read more on the official webpage.

How to make a 3D Portal Effect in Godot 4 in 10 minutes.

News : Geographical-Adventures game.

A little work-in-progress geography game about delivering packages to different countries around the world.

This intro come from the GitHub project page.

Today the author of this project build with Unity game engine come with new video:

News : JAM Winter 2022 for development.

Here's a new opportunity for developers who know or want to develop games named Winter 2022 and is a JAM.

In this case JAM the official website tells us "A game jam is an event where participants try to make a video game as quickly as possible." or "Just a minute (JAM)".

Looks like there are no severe restrictions on this JAM.

I also wrote on my blog about the well-known python pygame package.

You can find more about this JAM on the official webpage.

The Matrix Awakens from Unreal Engine.

The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience’ here!

To download this new UE5 tech demo on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.

Unity 3D : Unity for Humanity Summit 2021.

On October 12, 2021, we held the second annual Unity for Humanity Summit to connect, learn, and get inspired. This fully virtual, one-day summit celebrated creators around the world who are using real-time 3D (RT3D) to make a positive impact on society and the planet.

Unreal Engine and Aaron Sims Creative .

... The final frames were entirely rendered in Unreal Engine 5, with assets from the Unreal Engine Marketplace for ambient effects—such as dust and particles; sky and clouds; and smoke—adding the finishing touches.

...

Created in just six weeks with Unreal Engine 5 Early Access, MetaHuman Creator, and a small team of artists, THE EYE: CALANTHEK is an enigmatic and suspenseful short film by Aaron Sims Creative. The alien character from the film, Teuthisan, is now available to download for use in UE5 Early Access free of charge...

As part of the project, Aaron Sims Creative is making the alien, whom they named Teuthisan—derived from the Ancient Greek for ‘squid’—available to download for use in Unreal Engine 5 Early Access free of charge.

Windwalker Echo from Unreal Engine 5 and a speak demo from askNK.

Windwalker Echo Epic Games - Aug 30, 2021

Windwalker Echo, fresh off her starring roles in Lumen in the Land of Nanite, Valley of the Ancient, and Slay is now available as a standalone character asset for both Unreal Engine 4 and 5., see this webpage.

You can see a speech demonstration from askNK with this character.

Unity 3D : Photo Mode project.

The Photo Mode demo project serves as a guide for implementing virtual photography features within your PC or console Unity projects, enabling players to capture and customize in-game screenshots. It includes examples for handling camera positioning, photo adjustments, filter effects, and more.

Photo Mode download and documentation from here.

Unity 3D : Another official 2D sample project.

It is one of the most permissive game engines I have used and here it comes with news.

The Unity 3D team keeps its form of punctual learning and comes with another sample for developers.

I tested the learning platform and I am very satisfied with the free courses done in C # with this game engine.

Dragon Crashers is an official sample project made in Unity 2020.2 that showcases Unity’s native suite of 2D tools and graphics technology. The gameplay is a vertical slice of a side-scrolling Idle RPG, popular on mobile platforms today.

Unity 3D : SUA Face Close-Up.

A few years ago, game engines evolved with new features.

There is also the example of Unity 3D versus Unreal Engine 5 with new features like Nanite.

Now the example provided by Unity 3D game engine with a simple example to understand:

Unreal Engine 5 and Nanite.

Nanite, is a virtualized micropolygon geometry system that will enable you to create games with massive amounts of geometric detail.

Unity 3D : Procedural animation features.

Unity 3D game engine comes with procedural animation features.

Procedural animation is a type of computer animation, used to automatically generate animation in real-time to allow for a more diverse series of actions than could otherwise be created using predefined animations.

The Unity learn area comes with a full course and project files.

You can read the full article on the Unity blog, and see the video tutorial:

Godot 4.0 : New feature SDFGI on Godot.

Another feature for Godot game engine:

• Godot 4.0 gets SDFGI stands for Signed Distance Field Global Illumination based real-time global illumination;

See this feature at Juan Linietsky official YouTube channel - the author of this good game engine.
Juan Linietsky is part of the development team of Godot game engine starts in 2007.

News: The new Unity 2020.1 beta.

The new Unity 3D Beta 2020.1b has also appeared.

I've been waiting for some time to see the changes made by the Unity 3D development team.

I'm super happy with how it's progressing.

Here are some features and a video about these new changes:

Known Issues in 2020.1.0b10

• Animation: Editor crashes with Animator::CreateInternalControllerPlayable when GameObjects are mached (1245074)
  
• Animation: [macOS] Inconsistent crash in objc_msgSend/objc_retain when previewing
  
• Animations with Animator window open (1242026)
  
• Asset Import Pipeline: Unity YAML Upgrading project to 2019.3 Asset Database V2 makes the project crash on startup (1228192)
  
• Asset Importers: Crash when importing Elongata package from the Asset Store (1209240)
  
• Audio: Editor crashes on changing 'System Sample Rate' when Audio track preview is being played in Timeline window (1232743)
  
• Audio: [Windows] Editor uses one CPU Logical Processor at 100% while the game is in Pause Mode (1219619)
  
• Collab: Collab re-enables itself after being turned off (1244885)
  
• GI: Fixed GI baking in batchmode when using Scriptable Render Pipelines. (1211448) Fixed in 2020.1.0b11.
  
• GI: Fixed the lightmapper sometimes getting stuck, especially on undo after moving instances or changing resolutions. (1144403) Fixed in 2020.1.0b11.
  
• Global Illumination: Crash with empty stacktrace when starting bake in the new scene after baking previous scene with GPU PLM (1244384)
  
• Global Illumination: [OSX][GPUPLM]OS Kernel Panic crash with 'Thread may have been prematurely finalized' after baking the scene with AMD GPU (1160419)
  
• Global Illumination: [URP] Transparencies are ignored because URP uses _BaseMap as main texture identifier (1246262)
  
• Global Illumination: [macOS] BugReporter doesn't get invoked when the project crashes (1219458)
  
• Global Illumination: gi::InitializeManagers() takes 0.6s during Editor startup (1162775)
  
• Graphics - General: AsyncGPUReadback.Request never releases unused allocated memory (1234193)
  
• Graphics - General: Crash on startup when Shader Variant with Standard ForwardAdd DIRECTIONAL is assigned and SourceAssetDB present in Library (1235969)
  
• Graphics - General: Plugging time into a master node on HDRP crashes Unity (1246991)
  
• Graphics - General: [Performance Regression] AssetBundleLoadAllAssets -
  
• Load_Prefabs_AllAssets is significantly slower than 18.4 (1203512)
  
• Graphics - General: [Performance Regression] AssetBundleLoadSingleAssets :
  
• LoadAsync_Prefabs_SingleAssets is significantly slower than 18.4 (1203511)
  
• Graphics: Crash on PrepareShadowMaps when entering Play Mode (1233829)
  
• This is a change to a 2020.1.0 change, not seen in any released version, and will not be mentioned in final notes. Fixed in 2020.1.0b11.
  
• IAP: Unity purchasing gives error on project upgrade due to failing to find UnityEngine.UI assembly (1193773)
  
• IL2CPP: Fix JSON exception when building project with large number of scenes (1240780) Fixed in 2020.1.0b11.
  
• IL2CPP: Fix a severe performance regression in UnityLinker when building a player for UWP. (1229420)
  
• This is a change to a 2020.1.0 change, not seen in any released version, and will not be mentioned in final notes. Fixed in 2020.1.0b11.
  
• IMGUI: Editor crashes on StageUtility::IsGameObjectRenderedByCameraAndPartOfEditableScene when calling Undo.PerformUndo() method (1242926)
  
• Linux: Selection frame drawn in Scene view when a GameObject is selected while Alt and left mouse buttons are pressed (1239227)
  
• MacOS: Unity kernel crashes Mac with OpenGL when only Intel Graphics are present (1225380)
  
• MacOS: [HDRP][Metal][macOS 10.14] Unity freezes the whole OS or crashes when opening prefab (1219198)
  
• MacOS: [macOS] Mac crashes when opening the project with m_APIs under WindowsStandaloneSupport with only integrated Iris GPU (1232673)
  
• Mobile: [iOS] Debug .pdb files are added to iOS release builds (1232798)
  
• Mono: Crash with various stack traces when exiting Play Mode after recompiling scripts (1238859)
  
• Packman: [PackMan] Search results for "My Assets" don't match the package count displayed below and neither do they refresh (1222784)
  
• Scripting: Intellisense does not work when External script Editor is changed and set back to Visual Studio 2019 (1249626)
  
• Scripting: Entering Playmode with Scene Reload disabled crashes when DestroyImmediate is used in OnDisable (1250550)
  
• Scripting: Script importing no longer fails when method is called on integer literal. (1247409). This is a change to a 2020.1.0a7 change, not seen in any released version, and will not be mentioned in final notes. Fixed in 2020.1.0b11.
  
• Scripting: [SerializeReference] non-serialized Initialized fields lose their values when entering and during play mode. (1193322)
  
• Scripting: [SerializedField] fields produce "Field is never assigned to..." warning (1080427)
  
• WebGL: Using XElement.Load(string uri) causes an uncaught abort exception when using dlopen() dynamic linking in Emscripten (1192963)
  
• Windows: Cannot activate license within a docker container (1193364)
  

Unity give us the Heretic asset.

As you know already, the Heretic - Unity Short Film.
This movie has 1,534,208 views from date when was released Jan 22, 2020 by Unity 3D.
Now, they tell us:
When we revealed our short film The Heretic, the question you asked the most was, “Are you going to release this?” We’re happy to tell you that one of the most requested elements of this production – the Digital Human Character and Technology stack – is now available for you to download.
The full article with the link to the Heretic asset from Unity team can be found here.
The full movie can be see on youtube.

The new video tutorial about how can be used can be see on youtube.

Unity 3D : About VFX Graph.

The official webpage of the VFX Graph for Unity 3D comes with a short intro.
The install steps can be seen on this webpage.
I started today to follow one video tutorial about fire and smoke from youtube channel named Brackeys.
This video tutorial can be seen here:

Some conclusions about my test with an old video card:

• you need a good video graphic card;
• you need a unity version with Package Manager;
• I found some new changes using with the Unity 3D version 2019.3.5f1;
• many changes in the 
• the one is the Output Particle Quad with many changes into variables;
• I cannot set the TotalTime, this crash it all;

The result is this:

The settings for this smoke effect using the Visual Effect Graph Asset can be seen in the next image:

Unity 3D : Fix error "Failed executing external process for 'Bake Runtime' job."

If you want to remove the error show on the Unity 3D console:
Failed executing external process for 'Bake Runtime' job.
... then go to Main Menu - Lightning - Settings and uncheck the Auto Generate checkbox.
See the screenshot shown below:

Unity 3D : Use Quick Fix on Visual Code for Unity and Linux.

Because I don't use Unity 3D with Linux and Visual Studio today I solve another issue for the development area.
This is the quick fix option for Visual Code that helps the user to add source code.
For example, you can add source code for the implement an abstract class PlayerBaseState:

using UnityEngine;

public abstract class PlayerBaseState 
{
    public abstract void EnterState(PlayerController_FSM player);
    public abstract void Update(PlayerController_FSM player);
    public abstract void OnCollisionEnter(PlayerController_FSM player);
}

Create a new C# script named PlayerIdleState. The script needs to be changed into this source code:

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerIdleState : PlayerBaseState
{
    
}

Select the PlayerIdleState and use these keys: Cmd or Ctrl and . (the point key) .
This will show a menu named Generate overrides... and help the developer to generate the new code:
The result is this source code with all new override for each of methods of PlayerBaseState class:

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerIdleState : PlayerBaseState
{
    public override void EnterState(PlayerController_FSM player)
    {
        throw new System.NotImplementedException();
    }

    public override bool Equals(object obj)
    {
        return base.Equals(obj);
    }

    public override int GetHashCode()
    {
        return base.GetHashCode();
    }

    public override void OnCollisionEnter(PlayerController_FSM player)
    {
        throw new System.NotImplementedException();
    }

    public override string ToString()
    {
        return base.ToString();
    }

    public override void Update(PlayerController_FSM player)
    {
        throw new System.NotImplementedException();
    }
}

Unity 3D : Setup Visual Code for Unity and Linux.

The tutorial for today will cover the settings of Visual Code and Unity into a Linux distro.
First, you need to install the Visual Code into your Linux distro.
You need to have the Unity 3D software working well into the Linux distro.
Open the Unity 3D software and create a new script using the main menu: Assets - Create - C# Script.
Open into Unity 3D from the main menu: Unity - preferences - External tools.
Select the Visual Studio Code like into the next image:

Double click on the newly created C# script.
This will open the Visual Studio Code and will ask you to install the C# feature using the Install button, see the next image:
 
This will install the C# extension for Visual Code.
The last step is the install of DotNet for Visual Code.
Use the button with the name Get the .Net Core SDK to install the Net CORE.
This will redirect to a webpage where you find the commands to install for your Linux distro.
After these steps, you can use Unity 3D software with Visual Code.