Character Creation, Headshot Plug-in and me.

News: Character Creation features over time.

Today I will comes with news from reallusion development team. Character Creator 3 is a full character creation solution for designers to easily create, import and customize stylized or realistic looking character assets for use with iClone, Maya, Blender, Unreal Engine 4, Unity or any other 3D tools. It connects industry leading pipelines into one system for 3D character generation, animation, rendering, and interactive design.
The development team comes with new features for this 3D software and suport the families and people around the world:
During these challenging times, the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is impacting families and people around the world. At Reallusion, our focus is to provide a safe and productive working environment for our communities and our employees. In response to many of our communities’ inquiries and immediate needs to remote access software, we are implementing a few friendly options through our COVID-19 Care Program which include FREE Academic and Corporate Workgroup access from home, and 50% discounts on our Software Store. Reallusion will continue to monitor the situation and provide updates over time. Please stay safe, connected and creative!
See the video with this message and get the special price

About the new features, one is very good and is named the Headshot Plug-in.

1. the price start from $199;
2. you can test with a trial;
3. the trial don't let you to save anything;
4. you can create your 3D avatar with a simple image;
5. the software comes with many features for create a 3D human body;
   

You can try the trial version and read all this new features at the official webpage.
This is a simple test with an image with me from the instagram account.

News: The store from Marvelous Designer website.

The news in the field of 3D graphics and development come from the best clothing creation program for the production industry.

Now you can try out for free or buy 3D clothing from the store opened by the developers of this program called Marvelous Designer.

The download files used file type ZPAC format.

You can find the store at this web link.

Create anime characters with VRoid.

This Japanese company comes with software that covers the modeling part on anime.
Here are the features listed on the official website:

1. VRoid Mobile
2. VRoid Studio
3. VRoid Hub
4. VRoid SDK
5. VRoid WEAR

The VRoid Mobile is an avatar camera app that allows you to create 3D characters, change clothes, and take photos.
You can create anime models using the VRoid Studio.
All new characters are shown on this webpage named VRoid Hub.
The SDK of this project can be followed at VRoid SDK.
In this video tutorial made by askNK, you can see how can work with Visual Studio.

Sketchfab comes with new upload limits.

The new upload limits for this online tool named Sketchfab  are based on credits.
An upload credit is used when a model is uploaded to the Sketchfab website.
The Sketchfab plan determines the number of models you can upload and publish each month:

• Free Basic: 1 upload credit per month;
  
• Plus: 10 upload credit per month;
  
• Pro: 30 upload credit per month;
  
• Premium: 200 upload credit per month;
  
• Business: 500 upload models credit per month;
  
• Enterprise: Custom;

The prices for the Sketchfab plan can be found on this webpage.

Krita 4.2.9: The RGBA brushes.

In this long video tutorial from the official YouTube channel you can learn about RGBA brushes.
This video tutorial shows us how to change colors for RGBA brushes, see the minute 9:54 from the tutorial:

Krita 4.2.9: How to add brushes on Krita.

You can add new brushes on the Krita application using the Main menu - Settings - Manage Resources...

One good option is to use free brushes from KDE website, see this web page.

This will open a new window and use Import Brundles to import the brushes into Krita.

Krita 4.2.9: Another new released Krita.

This new released of Krita 4.2.9 was made on March 26, 2020 comes with new fixed options and .
The full released note for versions 4.2.x can be found at this webpage.
All download versions: Windows Installer 64-bit (106MB)
Windows Installer 32-bit (105MB)
Windows Portable 64-bit (146MB)
Windows Portable 32-bit (145MB)
Mac OSX Installer (186MB)
Linux 64-bit Appimage (198MB)
You can used with these operating systems:
Operating System: Windows 8.1 or Higher, OSX 10.12, Linux
RAM: Recommended 4GB or higher
Optional GPU: OpenGL 3.0 or higher
Graphics Tablet Supported: Wacom, Huion, Yiyinova, Surface Pro
You can find many options to learn to use the Krita software.
The good one is the official youtube channel comes with news, see for example the RGBA brushes how works and is fixed:

News: About the NVIDIA DLSS 2.0

This past week, NVIDIA announced an update to its Deep Learning Super Sampling technology, aptly dubbed DLSS 2.0.
Deep Learning Super Sampling named DLSS is an NVIDIA RTX technology that uses the power of AI to boost your frame rates.
DLSS essentially takes lower-resolution imagery, and intelligently upscales it to looks like native, higher-resolution output.
Performance was universally improved to varying degrees since the game was being internally rendered at a lower resolution, but image quality wasn’t always optimal and sometimes resulted in unwanted artifacts.
The old DLSS 1.0’s effect on game visuals and performance was a mixed bag, that varied from title to title.
The new DLSS 2.0 comes with DLSS 2.0 improved the quality, balanced, and performance by leveraging the Tensor cores available in its GeForce RTX-series GPUs.
Let's see one example:

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:

Partsim online circuit simulator.

PartSim is a free and easy to use circuit simulator that runs in your web browser.
I create today my account to see how better is this online tool.
You can build, test and simulate your e with a SPICE Simulator, AC/DC/Transient Sims and Waveform Viewer.
The Arrow Integration lets the PartSim include an integrated Bill-Of-Materials manager that lets you assign Arrow Part Numbers to your models.
You can see many examples on the official website:

• Bipolar Differential Amplifier;
• Simple CMOS Inverter;
• OpAmp Transient Full-wave Rectifier with Smoothing;
• Capacitor;
• Passive Low Pass Filter;
• RC Charging Circuit;
• Differential Amplifier

You can see many video tutorials on the official website:

Firebase and Unity 3D.

Even is an old feature the Google team comes with this new option for the new developers and show how to use them.
The goal is to add Firebase to your Unity project.
The Google webpage tells us:
Power up your Unity games with our Firebase Unity SDKs. To show how easy it is to plug Firebase into your Unity project, we made a sample game, MechaHamster, that you can download from GitHub, the App Store, and the Google Play Store.
... and show a short video about how can be used to create a application named Mecha Hamster, see the GitHub webpage project:
You can import the project with GitHub commands:

https://github.com/google/mechahamster.git
...

The game is pretty funny, see the Youtube channel from Firebase:

The content of the folder downloaded ...

$ ls
Assets   CONTRIBUTING.txt  LICENSE.txt      readme.md  UnityPackageManager
console  docs              ProjectSettings  Resources

Predator: Hunting Grounds.

Predator: Hunting Grounds is an action video game developed by IllFonic and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment is schedule ...

You can play this game free from 17:00 PST on March 27 to 23:59 PST on March 29 in the Predator: Hunting Grounds Trial. The game price is 32.99 euro.