It's the first Tuesday of the month, so that means it's time for more free Unreal Engine stuff! Each month Epic Games gives away a number of assets for Unreal Engine developers and March is no exception. This month we have 5 new assets that are yours to keep forever if "purchased" before the first Tuesday in April.
This week in game development is a quick recap of news and events in the world of game development for the week ending August 14th, 2016.
Stories mentioned in this recap are available here.
http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2016/08/14/This-Week-In-GameDev-August-14th2016.aspx
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GameTextures.com is a great resource for, um... game textures. Just a few days back they announced that all 3K+ of their textures now has full preconfigured Cycles support for Blender.
In this video we will look at how you can use a GameTextures preconfigured texture in your Blender Cycles project.
Links
https://beta.gametextures.com/
https://medium.com/gametextures/introducing-the-largest-library-of-blender-ready-materials-ever-created-9f886ff2d362
https://github.com/BlendingJake/NodeIO
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It's the first Tuesday of the month and Unreal Engine developers know what that means... free stuff! It's another Unreal Engine Marketplace giveaway, this time for April 2023. This month we have 5 "free for the month" assets, with no additions to the permanently free collection. These assets are yours to keep forever, so long as you "buy" them (for free) before the first Tuesday of May.
Links
https://gamefromscratch.com/unreal-engine-free-assets-for-may-2023/
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It's the first of the month and that means it's time for free Unreal Engine marketplace stuff from Epic Games. It's 5 free for August (you can keep for ever once "purchased") and 2 free forever assets in this pack.
Link:
https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2019/08/01/Unreal-Engine-August-Free-Stuff.aspx
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxnX-ppGfUo
The Harfang 3D engine is an open source 3D game engine for Windows and Linux with a 3D editor named Studio available as well. It enables you to create 3D applications, games and VR applications using a wide variety of programming languages including C++, Lua, GO and Python.
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https://gamefromscratch.com/harfang-3d-engine-hands-on/
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If you are a CryEngine developer, or are thinking about checking it out, CryTek just released several assets used to create Egyptian levels in Ryse: Son of Rome.
This video shows you those assets in action, illustrates how to acquire them and use them in your own game.
links:
http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2018/08/22/CryTek-Release-Egyptian-CryEngine-Assets-For-Free.aspx
https://www.cryengine.com/news/marketplace-spotlight-free-ryse-egypt-asset-pack
https://www.cryengine.com/marketplace/ryse-egypt-asset-pack
https://www.cryengine.com/ce-terms
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbht87gdMo8
The Artisan Engine is a new upcoming MMO game engine powering the upcoming MMO named Crowfall. They are spinning off the technology powering their game for other developers as a company called ArtCraft Technologies.
Links:
https://crowfall.com/en/press-releases/
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Pixelator is a cool little utility for giving a pixel art look to existing images. A fine level of control and a command line utility make it useful for game developers. You can download a completely functioning and free (for non-commercial) copy at:
http://pixelatorapp.com/download.html
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Every year Google sponsors the Summer of Code, where eligible students are paid to work on open source projects. This year, Blender get 7 such projects and in this video we look at the results of this years GSoC projects.
Link:
https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2019/09/14/Blender-Google-Summer-of-Code-2019-Results.aspx
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ohy4HENFps