News: Clara.io 3D and High Fidelity.

The High Fidelity is a free social VR platform open to Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and desktop users.
You can access Clara.io's model library in High Fidelity, you must first download the free program from their website. 
You can use  the Clara.io 3D model library with the High Fidelity Marketplace.

Linux Graphics Debugger - version 2.0.

This article come with this new release about the new tool from NVIDIA named Linux Graphics Debugger. The development team tells us:

Linux Graphics Debugger is a 3D graphics development tool that allows developers to debug and profile OpenGL 4.x on Linux. It enables professional graphics developers to get the most out of their NVIDIA GeForce and Quadro GPUs on a variety of Linux distributions. This tool supports desktop class GPUs and inherits from the many man-years of investment in OpenGL development tools from the Tegra Graphics Debugger and NVIDIA® Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition.

System Requirements

Minimum supported Operating Systems for Linux Graphics Debugger:

• Ubuntu v12.04, v14.04, v16.04
• Redhat v6.5
• Centos v6.6

Supported Graphics APIs:

• OpenGL v4.2 - v4.5 core with over 100 extensions

Display Driver:

• Version 2.0 requires Linux driver version 370.23 or newer

The online 3D tool - Clara

This website come with a great online tool for development and 3D artists.
The website tells us about the features and tools we can use:
Powerful Modeling Tools
Sub-object editing. A ton of mesh tools.
Subdivision surfaces.
Modifiers/operators.
UV editing. Optimized performance.
VRay Cloud Rendering.
Huge photorealistic material library.
Easy advanced materials.
Flexible lighting setups.
Blazing speed.
Import/Export Anything
Over 30 common 3D files formats supported. FBX, Collada, STL, OBJ, Three.JS, Babylons.JS, STEP, IGES, 3DS, Blender and more.
Multi-Platform
Chrome. Firefox. IE11. Edge. Windows. Apple OSX. Linux. Android. iOS.
Modern Interface
Familiar UI.
Responsive workflows. Undo/redo. Drag/drop. Context menus everywhere.
Scripting, Plugins + REST API
Customize. Extend. Mashup. White Label. And even create your own Custom 3D Viewers.
Easy Sharing + Embedding
User galleries. Lots of free 3D models. WebGL/Three.JS and VRay Cloud render embedding. Interactivity via jQuery.
Collaboration + Versioning
Simultaneous multi-user editing. Always on versioning. Per-user permissions. Review tools.
For me: I liked the exporter to JSON file.

News: Fast compression for 3D graphics - Draco.

Draco is a library for compressing and decompressing 3D geometric meshes and point clouds.
With this faster using Draco’s JavaScript decoder it is intended to improve the storage and transmission of 3D graphics.
You can found the source code at github. See how fast is it:

News: Godot's new renderer and JAM Game.

If you remember Godot - game engine, then we have new and exciting news on the official blog.
The open-source game engine Godot has been working to improve its 3D renderer.
The new todo for January 2017 come with this tasks:

• Implement Particle Shaders, with support for: Sorting, Collision and Soft Particles.
• Improve Culling: Portals (rewrite as polygon-based) and Rooms.
• Add Clustered lighting (before this all is forward).
• Add Layered/Stencil rendering
• Implement Decals.

 As you can see any changes are great into area of game engines and game programming.
The last released of Godot Engine 2.1.1-stable (2016/11/17) is also available on Steam and come from:
Linux 64-bit and 32-bit , Linux Server 64-bit , OS X (32-bit and 64-bit), Windows 64-bit and 32-bit. The Godot development is open and has many demos projects and tools to make a good game.

NOTE: The Godot Engine team are organizing a new Godot Community Game Jam that will run from 16 December 2016 to 31 January 2017.

Your 3D plants with ngPlant

ngPlant is a Free Software project and you can download it from here.
The ngPlant modeling tool and ngpshot utility are distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
The great part of this softwarecome for developers.
They can use 3D API-independent library to use generated plant models in their 3D applications, or to create plant modeling plugins for different 3D modeling tools.
Also the software libraries (libngpcore, libngput and pywrapper) which may be used in another projects are distributed under the terms of the BSD License.

News: 60% off for games from bigfishgames.

Is 7 day and 1 hour until  Christmas day.
If you don't try ever a game from bigfishgames then you lost something.
Now you have 60% off for games.
More detailed infos is on the official website.
For example:
I saw one game to be good for children and parents on Christmas day.

Cool and simple online game - sharkz.

This web site come with a simple and great online game for all ages.
Enter your name or nick name then you have to use the mouse to survive in water full of fish and sharks.
What is attractive is that you can meet and chat in this aquatic environment.

News: NVIDIA GPU Educators Program Overview.

The good news come from NVIDIA Developer about the new GPU Educators Program.
NVIDIA’s GPU Educators Program seeks to advance STEM education with accelerated computing by providing high-quality teaching materials and resources to educators, to help prepare today’s students for tomorrow’s computing challenges.
The goal come from official webpage.
NVIDIA’s Academic Programs Team is dedicated to empowering and collaborating with professors and researchers at universities worldwide. We aim to inspire cutting-edge technological innovation and to find new ways of enhancing faculty research as well as the teaching and learning experience. We achieve this through a variety of initiatives and programs.

Websites with comics and database - part 001.

Most comics can be found into shop or online but is hard to make a good choice.
Today I will show you a good website with a great artists database and also have a webshop.
This come with over 13,000 comic artists from around the world.
Shipping your order into Europe will give you a low cost. This website can be found here.

Your city to 3D with Esri software.

Your city can be put into 3D environment using Esri City Engine.
This software come for Windows , Linux and MacOS X and come from ArcGIS Software
I tested the free trial demo with Windows SO.
This free trial is just for 30 days andafter that you will need to contact your local Esri office.
When you download the trial one webpage come with one authorization number.
This is provided to you to deal with installation proces.
The idea is great because can help many people.
I deal with street features and come sized functions.
You can use also textures, and generate tools, objects to edit and many format maps files.
If you want to build your city from simple gamer, business, virtual maps and enviroment then is a good choice.
You can take a look to see how is working.

3D scientific website with good content.

Today I will told you about one great website with 3D content.
This website will have many 3D scientific objects.
You can see old building, old bones, old houses.
One good point to start also is the 3D view of Apollo 11 moon-landing mission command module. About this website the team tells us:

Smithsonian X 3D launches a set of use cases which apply various 3D capture methods to iconic collection objects, as well as scientific missions. These projects indicate that this new technology has the potential not only to support the Smithsonian mission, but to transform museum core functions. Researchers working in the field may not come back with specimens, but with 3D data documenting a site or a find. Curators and educators can use 3D data as the scaffolding to tell stories or send students on a quest of discovery.

The website can be found it here.

Unity 5.5 beta - news.

If you like the Unity game engine and game programming then the Unity blog come with news.
The new the list of features and improvements are huge but the most great part for me s the particle and effects. You can see the demo from the new Unity.