Unity 3D : SUA Face Close-Up.

A few years ago, game engines evolved with new features.

There is also the example of Unity 3D versus Unreal Engine 5 with new features like Nanite.

Now the example provided by Unity 3D game engine with a simple example to understand:

Unreal Engine 5 and Nanite.

Nanite, is a virtualized micropolygon geometry system that will enable you to create games with massive amounts of geometric detail.

News : North Star - Operator Thunderbird on Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege.

This time, board the helicopter and meet Thunderbird, the new defender coming to Rainbow Six Siege. Fly over the northern prairies of the Nakoda territories with her, because sometimes a comforting presence is all you need to heal!

Basilica - Vancouver Film School (VFS)

... another movie created by Arya Thakrar for the Vancouver Film School.

News : SONiC by NVIDIA.

NVIDIA offers pure SONiC, a community-developed, open-source, Linux-based network operating system that has been hardened in the data centers of some of the largest cloud service providers.

Why Choose SONiC from NVIDIA?

• 100% open source;
• ASIC to Protocol Support;
• Partner with Thought Leaders;
• Choice of Network Operating System;
• World class switch ASIC;
• Unified Management

You can read the whitepaper from here.

News : Android 12 from Google I/O 2021.

Android 12 Beta is now available for development, testing, and feedback! , see the official website.

News : EVE Online - 18 Years of Explosions

Celebrate EVE Online's 18th birthday with daily gifts in-game as well as new sites and challenges. Be sure to log in each day through to 18 May to earn up to 450k of Skill Points for Omega!

You can star play it on the official website.

Fedora Linux and CS:GO with a very old video card.

Steam is a video game digital distribution service by Valve. It was launched as a standalone software client in September 2003 as a way for Valve to provide automatic updates for their games, and expanded to include games from third-party publishers., see Wikipedia.

As you well know, I own an old desktop with an old NVIDIA video card, see:

[mythcat@desk ~]$ lspci | grep NVIDIA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2)
...

I installed Steam and tried to play Counter-Strike with minimal settings.

Here is the final result:

FOR HONOR - CONTENT OF THE WEEK - 13 MAY

If necessary, then it is created ... here that UbiSoft comes with new improvements.

New Emotes available: Suspended Gong and Odaiko. Available at 7,000 Steel each. New Celeste Materials are now available! Show off your shiny new colors to your opponents!

News: HITMAN 3 – Season of Pride ...

HITMAN 3 comes new features ...

Deepmotion online tool comes with the Animate 3D V2.6.

The Animate 3D V2.6 update is all about feet! We have added new settings to give you more control over your animations. If you've ever experienced feet floating over the ground, or a desire to completely detach the feet from the ground, we've got you covered!

For 60 seconds you can use the free account and if you want more then see the prices.

Features:

• 60 animation seconds/month, for free!
• Export FBX, BVH, GLB, and MP4 ;
• Max HD (720p) input videos ;
• Store up to 3 Custom Characters ; 
• Max 30 FPS input videos ;
• No Storage Limits for Animations ;
• Private animations ;
• Licensed for Personal Use

This online tool lets you create your 3D custom character and use it.

I test with this video from youtube and this is the result:

You can find this online tool on this webpage.

The official youtube channel can be found here. 

News: Elvenar Official the new old story ...

This online game is a game with interesting graphics with cascading and complex management.

Here is another old story transposed in this game.

News: News and Community Spotlight intro from Unreal Engine.

The well-known game engine called Unreal Engine comes in mid-April 2021 with a summary of its possibilities in a short introductory video.

The video deals with aspects related to game engine development in an elementary way.

CodePen: Lottie for Web, Android, iOS, React Native, and Windows - 001.

Lottie is a mobile library for Web, and iOS that parses Adobe After Effects animations exported as JSON with Bodymovin and renders them natively on mobile!, see GitHub project.

You can find Lottie files on this website. 

This is a simple example with lottie-player.js:

See the Pen lottie-player html 001 by Cătălin George Feștilă (@catafest) on CodePen.

News: Industrialists on EVE Online.

EVE Online is a community-driven spaceship MMORPG where players can play free, choosing their own path from countless options. Experience space exploration, immense PvP and PvE battles and a thriving player economy in an ever-expanding sandbox. Participate in many in-game professions and activities, including war, politics, piracy, trading, and exploration, across 7,000 star systems with hundreds of thousands of other players. 

Today this online game with the news:

Industrialists shape the universe of EVE Online, being responsible for supplying the ships, ammo, and equipment that fuel the biggest wars in gaming history. 

You can download it and play it from the official website.

Everything he touches into chickens!

The game Neverwinter come with this new feature:

... who has an unfortunate condition of turning everything he touches into chickens!

CodePen: A simple progressbar with CSS.

A simple test with CSS about how to create two simple progress bars. The code source of this example - https://codepen.io/catafest/pen/rNjmdwa show us about the cascading source code in CSS and how this works pe properties in CSS. This difference of the source code in CSS change the speed of the animation:

 animation: animate 6s ease-in-out infinite;
...
 animation: animate 1s ease-in-out infinite;

Some changes to the CSS source code are not allowed because they have no effect on the end result or must be used in order to complete the base code and have the end result. Another good example is flex:

display: flex;

On the parent element also changes how width and height work. CSS codes defines have no effect on a flex container. ... I can tell you that it is not very easy to change a project based on CSS, so the steps of designing and building a website are very important.

See the Pen CSS excample 001 by Cătălin George Feștilă (@catafest) on CodePen.

OpenProcessing - simple tree_001.

This is modified example from this in order to build another good tree using openprocessing website interface.

You can see this example on my account.

Let's see the source code:

/*--based on https://openprocessing.org/sketch/396851--*/

var nbranchs = 73;
function setup() {
  createCanvas(640, 400);
  background(0, 0, 128);
  
  noFill();
  stroke(128);
  noLoop();
}

function draw() {
  tree(100, 200, 150, 350);
}
function mousePressed() {
  background(0, 0, 128);
  redraw();
}

function branch(x, y, dx, dy) {
  var sign = random(dx+1.0)/(abs(dx)+5.0);
  
  for (var i = 0; i <= x; i += 3) {
    var idx = i/x;
    
    var xi = bezierPoint(x, x + dx/2,   x + dx, x + dx, idx);
    var yi = bezierPoint(y, y, y + dy, y + dy, idx);

    line(xi, yi, xi + sign*random(8), yi + random(18));  
	
  }
}

function tree(left, right, top, bottom) {
  for (var idx = 0; idx < nbranchs; idx += 1) {
    
    // choose a random y position
    var y = random(bottom, top);
		
    
    // choose a random x position inside of a triangle
    var dx = map(y, bottom, top, 0.0, (right-left)/2.0);
    var x = random(left + dx, right - dx);
		
    var x1 = random(left + dx, right - dx);
    
		// choose the size of the branch according to the position on the tree
    var w = map (x, left, right, random(-25) -25, random(25)+25) + 1;
    var h = map (y, bottom, top, 5 +random(20), 5);
    
		var w1 = map (x, left, right, random(-35), random(35)) + 3;
    var h1 = map (y, bottom, top, random(10), random(10));
    // randonize the size
    var dw = random(-10, 5);
    var dh = random (-5, 5);
  	
		var dw1 = random(-5, 1);
    var dh1 = random (-1, 1);
    // create the new branch
		branch(x1, y, w1 + dw1, h1 + dh1);
		stroke(random(0),random(128),random(15));
		branch(x1, y, w1 + dw1, h1 + dh1);
		stroke(random(25),random(255),random(50));
    branch(x, y, w + dw, h + dh);
    
  }
}

Boxy SVG - tool for editing SVG files.

This online tool for drawing and working with SVG file format comes with this intro:

Boxy SVG project goal is to create the best tool for editing SVG files. For beginners as well as for professional web designers and web developers. On any device and operating system. 

 ... 

 Boxy SVG is built around the idea that user interfaces should get out of the way. There is no crowded workspace with overlapping dialogs or dozens of opened palettes and toolbars. Your illustration takes the center stage. Whether it's the editing of shapes or adjustment of gradient fills, most of the action is taking place directly on the canvas. Fine control over the changes is available in panels that you can expand and then collapse with a single click or keypress. Many features are accessible with keyboard shortcuts that you can customize to your liking. This is especially useful if you are coming with a lot of muscle memory from years of using other vector graphics editors.

The tool comes with a trial for 15 days or you can subscribe with these two options: 9.99 USD/ year or 9.99 USD/month register with your account.

On the official webpage, the Linux version is Free.

I install it easily on my Fedora 33 distro Linux with the snap tool:

[mythcat@desk ~]$ snap search boxy
Name      Version  Publisher    Notes  Summary
boxy-svg  3.46.0   jarek-foksa  -      Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) editor
boxy-svg 3.46.0 from Jarosław Foksa (jarek-foksa) installed
...

I tested all features of this tool and, is very good for an SVG tool.

You can see many tutorials with this online tool from the official youtube channel.

In the next video you can see one video tutorial with the SVG library of this online tool:

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.

Star Trek Online - Q's Winter Wonderland.

It is one of the best online games I have played and I still play it with the greatest pleasure, because it comes with many beautiful stories and worlds.
I like Star Trek movies and characters and now you can play them in Q's Winter Wonderland.
Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but the Kramp'Ihri is so...frightful. Come join the fun at Q's Winter Wonderland, live now on all platforms!

The new Unity version 2020.2 .

Unity 3D is getting better every day. The new version 2020.2 offers many functions.

Ubisoft - The Animus scene.

A Youtube video make by director Darby McDevitt about the technology that makes such historical tourism possible...

WebGL online game shooter named venge.

It is a very successful shooting game created with WebGL. I played it on an NVIDIA Corporation GT218 - GeForce 210 video card and it running fast.
It comes with several online servers with three types of players and four maps.
he players are very good.
You can test this online game at this webpage.
This is a video with this game build on WebGL from GenoPlays Youtube channel.

Blender 3D : addons from Chris Jones.

Chris Jones make a good job with Blender 3D addons.
You can see on the YouTube channel some example with these addons.
Let's see one example:

Tool with S.D.K. for your avatar .

This is a useful tool I discovered on web about avatars feature.
The development team comes with this infos:
We recommend trying Avatar SDK with a desktop/laptop browser. If you want to try Avatar SDK on a mobile phone, you can use the applications for iOS and Android. Also you can look at RemoteFace, our virtual camera for video conferencing that shows your avatar driven by camera and lipsync instead of the usual video feed.
Face capture SDK allows you to create facial animations with a web camera.
A good example to convert a simple 2D photo into 3D object can be found on this demo webpage build with Unity 3D.
You can see a video demo from YouTube:

You can read more on this webpage.

Animated Head 2.0 | Avatar SDK by itSeez3D on Sketchfab

AI-Based from Two Minute Papers.

An example of effects created using artificial intelligence from Two Minute Papers.

Shadertoy: Build a cross intersection - 001.

Based on this tutorial created by Inigo Quilez I created a new cross intersection shader:

The shader is very simple.
I created a black box and then colored all the areas in the corner of this box with black.
I left a white area to see the cross.
You can see better if you change this line of source code:

...into this:

p_m = 1.0-p_m/(p_m+0.1);

or this:

p_m = 1.0-p_m*10.0/(p_m*10.0+0.1);

The shader can be ru and testd here:

News: Cyberpunk 2077 coming to PC !

Cyberpunk 2077 was announced in May 2012.
The first signals about this long-awaited game were from the talented team at Platige Image, here it is:

Cyberpunk 2077 is an upcoming action role-playing video game developed and published by CD PROJEKT RED.
Will this be the future of evolution? Maybe in the games ...
Cyberpunk 2077, an open-world, an action-adventure story from CD PROJEKT RED, coming to PC on December 10th, 2020.
Pre-order here.

Shadertoy: Build a geometric pattern - 001.

In this tutorial I will show you a simple geometric pattern created with the dot, sin and values taken by the mouse.
This example was built using shader toy online editor.
The source basket contains four lines of code.
The last line of source code is the output with data to display.
The other lines of source code are very simple to understand.
The values of a and b are values created by dividing fragCoord to iResolution of window ...
The fragCoord contains the pixel coordinates of the pixel where the shader is being applied.
The sin_dot will compute the sin of dot from a , b and mouse position.

Ubisoft comes with Assassin's Creed Valhalla.

Assassin's Creed Valhalla will be available on 10th November, 2020 on Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, Xbox One, PlayStation®4, the Epic Games Store and Ubisoft Store on Windows PC, as well as on UPLAY+**, Ubisoft’s subscription service, and Stadia.
Pre-order now at www.assassinscreed.com/buy
The intro is simple ...
Ninth century AD. Driven from Norway by endless wars and dwindling resources, a Viking raider, Eivor, leads a clan of Norsemen across the icy North Sea to the rich lands of England’s broken kingdoms. Their mission: establish a new permanent home, no matter the cost. Wars will rage. Kingdoms will fall. This is the age of the Vikings.