Vectr comes with WordPress Plugin.

I wrote about this online tool in the past but now comes with WordPress plugin.

Take a look on this video tutorial:

News : NeoAxis Engine 2021.1 Released.

On March 10, 2021 the well-known game engine NeoAxis came with a new release.

NeoAxis company releases a new version of NeoAxis Engine, an integrated development environment with built-in 3D/2D game engine. The environment can be used to develop all kinds of 3D and 2D projects such as computer games, visual trainers, VR systems, to visualize processes and develop windowed applications. NeoAxis 2021.1 includes improvements for ambient lighting, metal materials, rendering speed, rendering quality, basic content. Has been added a set of paid add-ons such as Industrial Kit, Pipe Constructor, Fence Constructor, Road Constructor.

See the full released article on the official webpage.

This is the full changelog of this relese:

• Significant improvements to the speed of the rendering pipeline.
• Industrial Kit.
• Pipe Constructor.
• Fence Constructor.
• Road Constructor.
• Basic Materials library has been updated.
• Now it contains 206 materials.
• Basic Environments library has been updated.
• Now it contains 27 skyboxes.
• World generator component to make environments procedurally.
• A new scene template with the generator has been added.
• A new forest scene template.
• Terrain and mesh layers:
• Now is not needed to configure Blend Mode and Mask manually for materials.
• This done automatically by the engine.
• Terrain: The curvature in the calculation of texture coordinates has been added.
• The curvature is intended to reduce the tiling effect.
• Material editor: Remove Texture Tiling parameter for samplers.
• Editor: Export component to file.
• To export use context menu for selected components.
• Outline screen effect.
• Outline selection mode for meshes and billboards.
• The starting scenes are better configured.
• The ability to configure the multiplier of affecting skybox color and scene background color to ambient lighting.
• Character: First person camera mode has been improved.
• Curve In Space: Support of geometry rendering, collision.
• Scene editor: The button to change rendering debug mode in the ribbon.
• Skybox: The ability to set special cubemap for ambient lighting has been added.
• Mesh: The ability to export to FBX has been added.
• More abilities for add-on creation of the scene editor.
• ComputeUsingThreads component has been added. It is an auxiliary class to make optimized calculations using threads.
• Sample scene - 'Samples\Starter Content\Scenes\Compute using threads.scene'.
• Reflection Probe: Camera settings fixes.
• The ability to set Rotation, Multiplier, RenderSky has been added.
• Rendering Pipeline: Per object cut volumes support.
• UIWebBrowser has been updated.
• Optimization: Faster FBX import.
• Optimization: Faster rendering pipeline.
• Bug fix: Flipped skyboxes which in 2:1 size format.
• Bug fix: Mesh collision shape works wrong on some meshes.
• Bug fix: Various minor bug fixes.

SelfCAD 3D online tool.

SelfCAD is an affordable 3D modeling software that can match any skill level

The official website lets you pay monthly or annually, and cancel any time or you can use FREE.

The official youtube channel comes with many video tutorials.

The next video tutorial is about animation on SelfCAD:

News: NVIDIA lets you access Clara Parabricks Pipelines.

It is very interesting and very useful news for those who process and process data.

Based on Broad Institute’s Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK), NVIDIA Clara Parabricks Pipelines is a ready-to-run, GPU-accelerated software suite for DNA Germline variant calling for population genomics, DNA Somatic variant calling for cancer genomics and RNA sequencing projects from whole-transcriptome to single-cell analysis. Optimized for speed, accuracy, and scalability, Clara Parabricks Pipelines can run the GATK4.1 Best Practices and is fully configurable, allowing users to choose which steps, parameter settings, and versions of the pipeline to run.

The bobsprite editor - web tool .

This online editor has several functions to create sprites and animations used in game development

The development team tells us:

BobSprite is a browser-based free online sprite editor excellent for pixel art. It also has tools and effects for normal drawing and painting.

I found an video tutorial on youtube with this online tool:

Unity 3D : Procedural animation features.

Unity 3D game engine comes with procedural animation features.

Procedural animation is a type of computer animation, used to automatically generate animation in real-time to allow for a more diverse series of actions than could otherwise be created using predefined animations.

The Unity learn area comes with a full course and project files.

You can read the full article on the Unity blog, and see the video tutorial:

Linux Games: The Pirate: Caribbean Hunt.

This weekend I played a bit with a steam game installed on the Fedora distribution. I have a pretty weak hardware of only 10 Gb Ram and an NVIDIA Corporation GT218 video card [GeForce 210] (rev a2).

The game is called The Pirate: Caribbean Hunt and you can find it here, see intro:

Hail to the Captain! Sail into the heart of the Caribbean in the Age of Piracy - the time of black flags and white skulls, blue waves and golden opportunities. Hoist the Jolly Roger and grab the steering wheel to sail through battles and raids, ransoms and treasures, to become the Crimson King.

I played for almost 7 hours and I didn't find any irregularities in the fluidity of the game. It is a very interesting game for both single player and multi player.

I found a video on the internet that shows that some users have found a way to navigate the world, see:

Chrome extension for TikTok.

I'm not too excited about TikTok because most of the videos are in bad taste and you rarely find anything beautiful or interesting.

But for those who use TikTok, this tutorial will show you how to bring it in the chrome browser with the Web for TikTok™ chrome extension.

Open the link and use Add to Chrome button and then you can log into your TikTok account.

If you open this URL chrome://extensions/ with chrome browser you will be able to set details for this extension.

Shadertoy: Modulo N and shader effects.

You can see easily how the math function modulo n affects the shaders.

These three colors are the result of the function modulo n.

You can see two vectors with two modulo ivec areas with these values: 6 and 3.

You can make changes and you see similar results.

A good math teacher can explain why this is happening.

Let me give you a hint: encryption and decryption theories.

Unity 3D : Creating a City Builder project.

The learning course can be found on the official webpage.

You can see a video intro with this project.  

Krita 4.2.9: Brushes from iforce 73 artist.

These brushes created by an artist named iforce 73 can be found here and here.
You can find youtube examples with these sets of brushes on the youtube official channel.

Huion contest : 2021 New Year’s Resolution .

A new year’s resolution means a lot, it helps you to accomplish a personal goal, or otherwise improve your life. It can be as simple as to read more books, save more money or maybe become more organized. Leon’s new year’s resolution is to become a better artist. He is planing to draw a sketch everyday and set up a daily workout routine. What is your new year’s resolution? Huion is holding a drawing contest as we would love to see your drawing of you achieving your final goal or the action you are taking to fulfill your goal. 

The first prize is the beautiful graphics tablet Kamvas Pro 24 with a 24-inch QHD drawing monitor, with a fully laminated screen and engraved anti-glare glass and a high price of 899.00 USD.

More information can be found at HuionNewYearResolution.

The batwerk online game.

This online game is a simple game with bats that must eat gifts.
Depending on this craving you will be rewarded with winnings.
A simple game that you can play in your free time.