News : Ballads of Hongye trailer.

Ballads of Hongye is a unique city-builder strategy game. As the local magistrate, you must carefully plan and act to complete the various challenges in different environments to earn the right to rule the lands. Build a thriving city and revive Hongye County as you discover a unique story. The game will be available on November 30th.

News : Krita 5.1.3 Released.

A recent news informs us that the open source program Krita has reached a new release with version 5.1.3 .

From my experience I can say that it is the best program that includes enough features for those who want to use 2D graphics. From simple tasks, simple modifications, painting or animation, this program does it all.

You can se how you can set your brushes from the youtube official channel.

You can add your name and contribute to this open-source app that works on multiple operating systems with a contribution on their official page.

You can find more information about what fixes and changes have appeared on the official website.

News : World of Warcraft new trailer and live event ...

If you like this old game: World of Warcraft then you can see it live on the official youtube channel and see the trailer for this event bellow:

The stage is set. The first Wrath Classic Arena Tournament starts November 11! Watch this weekend as the Wrath Classic Arena Champions are crowned in EU & NA. Meanwhile, @IKedit takes us on a cinematic tour of the player's preparations ahead of the main event. #wrathclassic #warcraft

News : Rainbow Six Siege: Nighthaven Labs Map Trailer

News from this old shooter game...

Apparently Epic Games doesn't agree to share this video outside of the YouTube channel and show me the default message: This video is age-restricted and only available on YouTube. Learn more Watch on YouTube.

Thank you Ubisoft, I can share to see it here ...

News : NVIDIA and Transformer AI models.

This is just a brief introduction to the capabilities of the technology from the NVIDIA team...

Transformer AI models are powering a new era of life sciences, helping researchers encode the structure and function of biology and chemistry, making sense of unstructured patient data, and improving detection and diagnosis in #medicalimaging. At the same time, advances in digital twin technology are powering researchers and clinical teams to simulate cells, organs, and surgeries to better understand workflows and improve patient outcomes. ...

News : Affinity Designer 2.

Affinity Designer is a vector graphics editor developed by Serif for macOS, iPadOS, and Microsoft Windows. It is part of the "Affinity trinity" alongside Affinity Photo and Affinity Publisher. Affinity Designer is available for purchase directly from the company website and in the Mac App Store, iOS App Store, and the Microsoft Store., see the wikipedia webpage page.

Shader Editor - example 003.

Today I will show you how to change a shader from shadertoy website to a shader for Shader Editor android aplication.

Open my shader example from shader toy website.

#define f length(fract(q*=m*=.6+.1*d++)-.5)

void mainImage( out vec4 fragColor, in vec2 fragCoord )
{
    float d = 0.;
    //vec3 uv = vec3(fragCoord.xy / iResolution.xy,iTime*.2);
    vec3 q = vec3(fragCoord.xy/iResolution.yy-13., iTime*.2);
    mat3 m = mat3(-2,-1,2, 3,-2,1, -1,1,3);
    vec3 col = vec3(pow(min(min(f,f),f), 7.)*40.);
    fragColor = vec4(clamp(col + vec3(0., 0.35, 0.5), 0.0, 1.0), 1.0);
}

In order to use it in the Shader Editor android application you need to make these changes:

#ifdef GL_FRAGMENT_PRECISION_HIGH
precision highp float;
#else
precision mediump float;
#endif

uniform vec2 resolution;
uniform float time;
uniform vec4 mouse;
uniform vec4 date;

#define f length(fract(q*=m*=.6+.01*d++)-.5)

void mainImage( out vec4 fragColor, in vec2 fragCoord )
{
  float d = 0.91;
  vec3 q = vec3(fragCoord.xy/resolution.yy-13., time*.2);
  mat3 m = mat3(-2,-3,6, 3,-1,1, 0,3,1);
  vec3 col = vec3(pow(min(min(f,f),f), 7.)*40.);
  fragColor = vec4(clamp(col + vec3(0., 0.35, 0.5), 0.0, 1.0), 1.0);
}

void main() {
vec4 fragment_color;
mainImage(fragment_color, gl_FragCoord.xy);
gl_FragColor = fragment_color;
}

You can see these changes are n the first part of the source code and just one on time.

You can play with this source code then use the option Set as wallpaper to have it on your phone.

Blender 3D : Grease Pencil Reel

News : Theatre.js helps three.js development.

Theatre.js is an open-source and hackable motion design library with a visual interface. It helps you animate THREE.js scenes, SVG trees, or even choreograph light shows.

Apple software : CozyBlanket.

CozyBlanket is a retopology app for the iPad designed as an accessible and relaxing experience. Its minimalist UI packs a fully featured mesh editor that can be used by directly drawing on the high poly mesh. CozyBlanket focuses on presenting retopology as an enjoyable, game-like process similar to solving a puzzle.

You can fins this application from the official website.

Blender 3D : Simplicage addon for animation.

This addon named Simplicage let you to improuve your animation.

Shader Editor - example 002.

This post is just one simple example, you can find many tutorials if you search on web for my work ...

If you don't have enough time to test my last shader source code then you can test now with another source code to have a beautiful blue effect.

Let's see the source code for this shader:

#ifdef GL_FRAGMENT_PRECISION_HIGH
precision highp float;
#else
precision mediump float;
#endif

uniform vec2 resolution;
uniform float time;
uniform vec4 mouse;
uniform vec4 date;

//#define time  iTime
#define R resolution.xy
void mainImage( out vec4 fragC, in vec2 fC)
{

//   vec2 pos = (fragCoord.xy/R.xy) * 8. - 4.;
   vec2 pos = (fC.xy/R.xy) * 8. - 4.;
    pos.x *= R.x / R.y;
    float s = .25, f = .0, k = f;
    vec3 p = vec3(pos, sin(time * .4) * .5 - .5)* s;

    for( int i=0; i< 9; i++ )
    {
           p = abs(p)/dot(p,p)- 1.5;
           k = length(p) ;
           p = p*k+k;
   }

   f = dot(p,p)* s;
   fragC= vec4(f*.5, f *1.2, f * 5., 0.111);;
}

void main() {
vec4 fragment_color;
mainImage(fragment_color, gl_FragCoord.xy);
gl_FragColor = fragment_color;
}

News : Blender 3.4.0 Alpha version.

Today, October 30 Blender release the experimental version 3.4.0 at 02:17:58 history d1d2f002c7ca size of zip 299.98MB.

You can download it from the official website.

Blender 3D software development has been constantly improved in recent years and a day later its founder Ton Roosendaal gave a speech about this software ...