News : King Arthur: Knight's Tale from NeocoreGames.

It seems that the Hungarian team from NeocoreGames played a pretty good game.

NeocoreGames is an indie game developer studio based in Hungary. We have years of experience in making strategy and ARPG games, and we are currently working on King Arthur: Knight's Tale, a tactical game with RPG elements. Our main titles include Warhammer 40.000 Inquisitor, The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing, and the King Arthur series.

You can find this game on steam for 44 euros and need a huge space on hardware 122.45 Gb.

This is the official trailer:

If you want to know more about this game take a look at this video review.

News : How to best support your fellowship.

If you want a complex and quieter game for work breaks then try this game.

Elvenar is a free-to-play browser-based game, where you will build a flourishing city and discover a magical world full of mysteries.

You can see this video intro here.

This is my city from the brotherhood named Tărâmul liniștit:

News : The new inkscape released version 1.2 .

The new Inkscape 1.2 was released on May 16, 2022.

Inkscape is the latest major release that brings you many fresh new features and functionality and comes with bug fixes and so much more, see the official webpage.

You can see a video intro from Davies Media Design's youtube channel.

Online tool webglstudio.

WebGLStudio (formerly known as WebGLStudio) is a platform to create interactive 3D scenes directly from the browser. It allows to edit the scene visually, code your behaviours, edit the shaders, and all directly from within the app.

You can find this online tool on this webpage.

This video from Vimeo Javi Tamat channel shows how this tool works.

WebGLStudio Coding Demo from Javi Tamat on Vimeo.

Blender 3D : The new hair system from Blender 3.3.0 alpha.

There are some requirements that the user wants from 3D software.

Today I present a tutorial on the hair system integrated into version 3.2.0 of Blender 3D software.

I tested today this video tutorial with the last version 3.3.0 alpha and I found some changes in the add menu but works well.

I must remind you that in the last two years the development team has worked on and modified a lot of this software.

Online tool ZapBG.

ZapBG is a brand-new background removal tool based on AI and ML algorithms that will help you remove background from your graphic assets at lightning-speed!

It’s 2020. You don’t need to manually remove left-out parts. We want you to spend your time doing the most important things.

You can test this online tool on the ZapBG webpage.

Animated desktop wallpapers with Lively.

Lively is a Free and Open Source Software - FOSS project to bring your desktop to life using animated desktop wallpapers starting with Windows 10.

You can see how this software works on the next video from youtube:

You can see how can be used Blender 3D to create your own animated wallpaper from Polyfjord youtube channel:

Online tool badge builder.

Badges or logos are often required in design and graphics.

An intermediate solution to a company logo or badge is to use a tool to create or generate it.

This is an online tool that can be used quickly with a very good output.

Extract pantone colors from image.

The colors in the design and their significance, especially in the pantone colors, say a lot about design.

Short introduction:

Pantone LLC is a limited liability company headquartered in Carlstadt, New Jersey.[1] The company is best known for its Pantone Matching System (PMS), a proprietary color space used in a variety of industries, notably graphic design, fashion design, product design, printing and manufacturing and supporting the management of color from design to production, in physical and digital formats, among coated and uncoated materials, cotton, polyester, nylon and plastics.

Here you will find an online tool that extracts this type of colors from images ...

Use the scoop to install UFO: Alien Invasion game.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to use the scoop tool to install a game.

First, you need to add the bucket with the games.

C:\>scoop bucket add games
Git is required for buckets. Run 'scoop install git' and try again.
This install need the git, use this command:
C:\>scoop install git
...
Creating shortcut for Git Bash (git-bash.exe)
Creating shortcut for Git GUI (git-gui.exe)
'git' (2.34.1.windows.1) was installed successfully!
Notes
-----
Set Git Credential Manager Core by running: "git config --global credential.helper
manager-core"
Let's try again:
C:\>scoop bucket add games
Checking repo... ok
The games bucket was added successfully.
After install a software you can see it with this command:
C:\>scoop list
Installed apps: ...
With this command you can see all softwares can be install with this tool:
C:\>scoop search a
'games' bucket:
    0ad (0.0.25b)
    actools (0.8.2358.38968)
    adom (3.3.3)
    advanced-genie-editor (2021.3.15)
    amidst (4.7)
    amulet-map-editor (0.8.17)
    angband-dev (4.2.3-249-gbb7ea2dca)
    angband (4.2.0)
    ares (126)
    ark-smart-breeding (0.49.1.0)
    armagetronad (0.2.8.3.5)
    ascii-sector (0.7.2)
    assaultcube (1.2.0.2)
    assetstudio (0.16.8)
    augmentinel (1.3)
    blade-of-agony (c3)
    bombermaaan (1.4.0.627)
    ...

'main' bucket:
    1password-cli (1.12.3)
    abc (1.0.0-beta.3)
    ack (3.5.0)
    acmesharp (0.9.1.326)
    act (0.2.25)
    adb (31.0.3)
    ...
Let's install an old game named: UFO: Alien Invasion.
C:\>scoop install ufoai
Updating Scoop...
Updating 'games' bucket...
Updating 'main' bucket...
Checking repo... ok
The main bucket was added successfully.
Scoop was updated successfully!
Installing 'ufoai' (2.5) [64bit]
The download not works from the first time and with some Enter keys typing I install it:
C:\>scoop install ufoai
WARN  Purging previous failed installation of ufoai.
Uninstalling 'ufoai' ().
'ufoai' was uninstalled.
Installing 'ufoai' (2.5) [64bit]
ufoai-2.5-win32.exe (1.2 GB) [=====>                                            ]  11%
Unable to read data from the transport connection: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.
URL https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ufoai/UFO_AI%202.x/2.5/ufoai-2.5-win32.exe#/dl.7z is not valid

C:\>scoop install ufoai
WARN  Purging previous failed installation of ufoai.
Uninstalling 'ufoai' ().
'ufoai' was uninstalled.
Installing 'ufoai' (2.5) [64bit]
ufoai-2.5-win32.exe (1.2 GB) [==================================================] 100%
Checking hash of ufoai-2.5-win32.exe ... ok.
Extracting dl.7z ... done.
Linking ~\scoop\apps\ufoai\current => ~\scoop\apps\ufoai\2.5
Creating shim for 'ufo'.
Creating shim for 'ufoded'.
Creating shim for 'ufo2map'.
Creating shortcut for UFO - Alien Invasion (ufo.exe)
'ufoai' (2.5) was installed successfully!
The last command is to run the game: ufo.exe
You can see my video tutorial with same steps from my youtube channel.

News : Official video for Krita version 5.

This is the official video for Krita version 5 from the official youtube channel:

GDevelop and example games.

Now the team of this game engine comes with examples of games for users. This should be implemented in the promotion of any game engine. I have tested it in the past and I can tell you that it is very simple to use.

New Krita 5.0 released.

Here's some good news for graphic artists, see the official website.

Published 23rd December, 2021

Krita 5.0 is here!

This is a huge release, with a lot of new features and improvements. Some highlights:

The way Krita handles things like brushes, gradients and palettes, as well as tagging, has been completely revamped. The new system is much faster, uses much less memory and is much more dependable!

Gradients have been improved: they are much more smoothed and can handle wider gamuts.

The smudge brush engine has been completely rewritten, and we’ve got a new brush engine, based on MyPaint

The Animation system has been overhauled, with both user interface improvements and new features, such as clone frames and animated transform masks

Krita now has a built-in storyboard editor!

There’s a recorder to create a video out of your painting sessions

In the last video on the official channel you can see how they worked in the past on some new improvements ...

Monster Mash online tool for 3D.

The development team come for this online 3D tool with this intro:

Monster Mash is a new sketch-based modeling and animation tool that allows you to quickly sketch a character, inflate it into 3D, and promptly animate it. You can perform all interactions in the sketching plane. No 3D manipulation is required.

This tool come with three basic steps and modes of creation: Draw, Inflate, and Animate.

Just draw and use these steps.

You can find many tutorials on youtube, let's see one example:

DUNE on RealPlayerMe.

Cross-game Avatar Platform for the Metaverse with RealPlayerMe comes with a new application for mobile phone with theme DUNE.

A mythic and emotionally charged hero’s journey, “Dune” tells the story of Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, who must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet’s exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence—a commodity capable of unlocking humanity’s greatest potential—only those who can conquer their fear will survive.

You can test the application on mobile phone from this webpage.

MetaHuman Facial Animation by Reallusion.

Animating your MetaHumans fast and easy using all or any mix of iClone's 4 techniques:

Online tool shader-playground.

Here's an online tool for shaders.

This time it is a development with multiple shader specific languages and these compilers: ANGLE, Clspv, DXC, FXC, Glslang, hlsl2glslfork, HLSLcc, HLSLParser, Mali offline compiler, Naga, PowerVR compiler, Radon GPU Analyzer (RGA), Rust GPU, Slang, SPIRV-Cross, SPIRV-Cross - Intel fork with ISPC backend, SPIRV-Tools, spirv-as, Tint, XShaderCompiler.

Blender 3D : Grease Pencil Samples.

You can see here many free samp created with this tool.

News : Blender 3.0 Alpha version.

A short intro from the official youtube channel of askNK.

You can download and test it from here.

Let's see this video.

SCANimate animatable avatar.

We present SCANimate, an end-to-end trainable framework that takes raw 3D scans of a clothed human and turns them into an animatable avatar. These avatars are driven by pose parameters and have realistic clothing that moves and deforms naturally. SCANimate does not rely on a customized mesh template or surface mesh registration...