This is a combination tutorial/introduction to using Particle Systems in Godot 4.x, as well as an overview of recent and upcoming changes to particle systems in Godot starting with Godot 4.2 beta and going into the future, including a complete refactor of the GPUParticle3D class and a retirement of sorts for CPUParticles3D.
If you are only interested in the tutorial section of this video, start at 0:25 mark. If you are here for the news only, jump forward to the 7:45 Mark.
LDtk is a FREE, Cross platform, super streamlined and powerful tool for creating 2D tile based maps and worlds. In this video we will do a quick tutorial showing you how to use it.
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This is a quick hands on video of the CopperCube game engine. Coppercube is a commerical game engine aimed at easy 3D game development, running on Windows and Mac and targeting those plus HTML5 and Android.
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As the first in a new possible series looking at new features coming in the upcoming Godot 4 game engine. Today we are looking at the new Vulkan powered GPU Particles (GPUParticle3D), the new collision objects, particle attractors, height fields and more.
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https://gamefromscratch.com/godot-4-sneak-peek-particle-systems/
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Substance Painter 7.3 has been released by Adobe (and Substance Painter 2021 was updated on Steam), with two major new features, Warp and Cylinder projection, as well as an updated colour picker.
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Thanks to the HxGodot GDExtension, you can now program games inside Godot 4 using the Haxe programming language. In this video we will look at how it works and how to get started programming in Haxe in Godot.
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https://gamefromscratch.com/godot-4-haxe-programming-extension-hxgodot-released/
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A new Humble of interest to game developers, the Unity & Unreal Engine Online Course by Mammoth Interactive contains 40+ courses, some 50 hours long, on Unity and UE5, as well as other topics such as Blender, Photoshop, Python, Machine Learning, Blueprints, C#, C++ and More
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Humble just launched the Humble O'Reilly Classics bundle. A collection of classic books from O'Reilly press, from topics like Git, Javascript and Vi/Vim to open source and Mac history.
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A quick look at the Godot Game Engine, a popular free and open source 2D/3D game engine.
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Godot 4 Released - https://gamefromscratch.com/godot-4-released/
Godot 3 Tutorial Series (4 coming soon) - https://gamefromscratch.com/godot-3-tutorial-series-index/
Godot Content on GFS - https://gamefromscratch.com/tag/godot/
Godot Homepage - http://godotengine.org
Godot 2022 Showcase (clips used in bottom portion of video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAS_pUTFA7o
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The Geany IDE is an open source code editor that has been in development since 2005. To celebrate it's 18th birthday they just released Geany 2.0, adding among other features, support for GDScript, the main programming language of the Godot game engine. In this video we take a quick look at Geany, which is available for Windows, Mac and Linux (and basically any platform supporting GTK).
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