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.

Testing CopperCube with my android emulator.

Today , I tested the example make by CopperCube - version 6 named  with android installation.
This example can be found when you start the CopperCube at Open Example App - First Person Shooter.
If you want to try another example, you may be asked to buy the license if you try post effects.
You can find my complete tutorial with the settings here.
The result works great and is a little slow for my android emulator.
See the result of this test can be see in the next screenshot:

Using Coppercube game engine with android.

Today I will start this tutorial about Coppercube and android.
First you need to know the CopperCube is free but can also buy it, see this link.
For CopperCube, you need the Android 2.2 (Froyo / API Level 8) and Android 8.0 (O) SDK packages.
You need to install all of this SDK packages with the Android Studio - using SDK Manager.
You need to have install the JDK (Java SE Development Kit) - most users already have it in the operating system.
NOTE: The Android Studio SDK can be found at : c:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk and you need to create a keystore. Follow the next images to see the steps how to make all settings to test your android output:

The gamefroot online HTML5 game engine.

This game engine use HTML5 and come with default templates , default sprites to test it.
You can follow the tutorials online and you can try a search on web for video tutorials.
This HTML5 engine use blocks for scripting area. Start with a account and test the tutorials.
You can used free with this option:

• Publish to Gamefroot.com

You can also use two prices (from $15.00 and $49.00) to unlock the next features:

• Educational Resources
• Export to IOS and Android
• Customer Support
• Classroom Management

You can test it at official webpage .
The official youtube channel come with many video tutorials, just take a look:

Microsoft Azure Batch and Blender 3D addon .

You can use Azure Microsoft account to render your Blender 3D files.
First you need a Azure account. Download the Blender addon for azure from here.
Unzip the addon and copy the content of Blender.Client into addon folder.
I try to use the install option from Blender 3D - User Preferences but not working.
You need to use pip3 tool with python from Blender 3D.
Download the pip3 tool from here into python Blender 3D folder and run this commands:

C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.79\python\bin>python.exe get-pip.py
...
Successfully installed pip-10.0.1 setuptools-40.0.0 wheel-0.31.1

C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.79\python\bin>cd ..
C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.79\python>cd Scripts
C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.79\python\Scripts>
pip3.exe install credentials
pip3.exe install azure-batch-apps

This will install the python modules for the Blender addon for Azure Microsoft.

Login with your Azure account and create your batch service:


I try to use a free account with $200 credit but the Azure Microsoft come with this note:
You cannot  use your Azure monetary commitment funds or subscription credits ...

Kraut - the procedurally tool .

Kraut is a program to procedurally generate plants, especially trees. Through a set of parameters you specify how a tree is supposed to grow. Various different, but similar trees can be generated from the same specification. Additionally there is a manual editing mode, which allows to easily paint branches by hand, such that very unique trees can be created.
They come with this features:
New Features in BETA 2

• Flares along branches: deform the mesh to imitate strong roots or bulges. 
• Billboard Leaves: Leaves that rotate towards the viewer to achive more densly looking trees with few polygons. 
• Frond and Leaf color variation: More natural looking trees through easy to use color variation per leaf. 
• Convert to DDS: All textures that are exported as TGA can now additionally be converted to DDS format. 
• LeafCards: Top-Down mode to create leaf textures for billboards. 
• Visual Tree Component Editor: Much improved UI for editing tree components and reusing them in other trees. 
• Generally much cleaned up UI. Added progress bars for longer operations. 
• Fixed broken FBX export. Improved smooth vertex normals. 
• Several improvements to the tree generation. Branch width is now absolute, Trunk types can be spwaned with more control. 
• Added Billboard and Impostor LOD types. 
• Export to custom format, which supports all the features that are required to fully render a Kraut tree. 
• Added program "Kraut Viewer" with full source, which demonstrates how to load and render a kraut tree.

Krita 4.0.1 : Supported tablets.

I used a good graphic tablet from Huion and works great with Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10.
The new software from Huion let you to make settings and changes for your graphic tablet.
The Krita development team come with this web page for supported tablets.
They do not guarantee that all tablets are compatible.
For those who want to buy a graphics tablet, they should make sure they are compatible with the Krita software.

The ThreeNodes tool .

The ThreeNodes.js tool is a good example to see how the three.js libs can be used.
Is a good tool to create and use it, see online tool:

The COLOR online tool.

This COLOR online tool help you to create, share, and apply color palettes to your UI, as well as measure the accessibility level of any color combination.
Select your color palette r create a custom one.
The next step is to export the output to Android , iOs or CodePen website.

News : Get up to $311 in free assets.

News for Unity 3D users and development teams.
The Unity 3D team come with this new feature to have more assets into your game development:
  Spend between $50 and $250 in the Unity Asset Store during the month of June 2018, and get up to five free assets, worth $311 in value. Activate now by submitting your Asset Store login (your email) here.*
Read about this here.

Blender 3D : Tutorial about Sketchfab online tool and Dandelion model .

This is a simple tutorial about how to create transparent area into your texture.
In my example is about Dandelion model.
The model is created with Blender 3D software and is upload with Sketchfab blender 3D addon.
Next use Manage button to edit all your materials and textures.
You need to select just the OPACITY with the texture for transparent area like flowers or for each leaf.
For example in this screenshot is not selected the texture, but you can select for each area of 3D model.

This is result of my work with Dandelion 3D model:

Dandelion by catafest on Sketchfab