News: The new Gimp version 2.9.8 released .

This released version was focusing on bug fixing and stability.
Here are a few of the new features of this graphical tool:

• come with new features like introduces on-canvas gradient editing and various enhancements. 
• the HGT files (Digital Elevation Model data by the NASA ) can now be imported;
• the team improved Wavelet Decompose Filter and the PSD plug-in was fixed to properly handle Photoshop files. 
• Paste in Place and GUI features

You can read more official website.

The Roblox game with lua scripting .

The Roblox game is a massively is a multiplayer online game.
This game platform that allows users to design their own games and play a wide variety of different types of games created by the developer or other users.
The programming issues for this game can be solved with lua scripting language.
In this tutorial I will show you how to start programming this game.
First yo need to install the game, make one account and take from web the Studio.
This allow you to make game and changes into your account .
You can start with your place or create a new place .
The Roblox Studio use Workspace with many objects like: bricks , materials, etc.
The next image show you how to select command Bar (1) and Output (2) windows for testing lua commands and see the outputs of this commands from VIEW menu:

Into the next image you can see how I used the lua scripting to print to output:

Use the blue cross from Explorer to add your lua script to the object or part of object:

When all of your changes are done then you can publish to Roblox from File menu.
I preferred not to introduce a classic example script because you can do a lot of useful scripts in the roblox game: effects, automation, animations, music and video, character creation and objects, scripts for online.
You can learn more about this issue if you take a look at this official roblox channel for scripting.

The online CoSpaces Maker for kids to code.

The team development tell us:
Imagine and create. Build a virtual world on any device with the CoSpaces Maker app and explore them in virtual reality. Design, develop and code your own creations or take inspiration from what others have built in the CoSpaces Maker gallery - all you need is a smartphone and a cardboard headset!

First you need to make an account.
The next step is to see all scenes and read how to deal with objects and features.
This features start from load objects, deal with objects, use camera, use scene and code.
To code you need to use blockly - the most simple way to code .

If you think this is to simple and the result will be unsatisfactory, then you'd better take a look here.
You can test online at CoSpaces - official website.

Free game: SNOW come with winter sports .

If you like winter sports, then this game adds all the qualities necessary to this type of player.
The game can be found on steam at this link.

The infinitown from Little Workshop digital studio .

Today I show you a great webgl city from this WebGL experiment .
Is an a procedural city that feels alive.
Used a finite grid of random city blocks and using this tools: Three.js, Blender, Unity.
All models come from SimplePoly a team from Little Workshop.
This is a digital studio specialized in WebGL experiences.
This is a screenshot with this webgl experiment:

The appleseed version 1.8.0 - beta released.

The appleseed is an open source, physically-based global illumination rendering engine primarily designed for animation and visual effects and is developed by a small team from VFX industry.
The day of November 28, 2017 come with this news: We’re proud to announce the release of appleseed 1.8.0-beta, the eighth release of our beta program and the 31th release since the first alpha in July 2010.
This tool supports:

• fully programmable shading via Sony Pictures Imageworks’ Open Shading Language (OSL);
• RGB/spectral/mixed rendering;
• fast and robust transformation and deformation motion blur;
• state-of-the-art ray traced subsurface scattering;
• exhaustive Python and C++ APIs;
• ... and many other production-oriented features.

You can read more on official website.
The next video from official vimeo channel is an old basic tutorial of appleseed software.