With the release today of Blender 2.77 RC2, I take a look at the new features added to Blender.
Most specifically I look at the functionality that is most important to game developers, including the edit mode boolean modifiers, the automatic UV creation and most importantly the new grease pencil functionality, that make Blender for 2D animations much more viable.
It's the first Tuesday of the month, so that means its time for more free Unreal Engine stuff! Each month Epic Games gives away a number of assets for Unreal Engine developers and December is no exception. This month we have 5 new assets that are yours to keep forever if "purchased" before the first Tuesday in December.
Links:
https://gamefromscratch.com/unreal-december-2023-asset-giveaway/
*Is It Legal to Use Unreal Engine Assets in Unity or Godot and Vice Versa:*
https://gamefromscratch.com/using-asset-store-assets-in-other-engines-is-it-legal/
*Unreal to Godot, Blender or Unity:*
https://gamefromscratch.com/exporting-from-unreal-engine-to-godot-unity-or-blender/
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Today we got good and (to some) bad news from YoyoGames/Opera, and that's price drops to GameMaker Studio and a move to subscription pricing.
Links:
https://gamefromscratch.com/gamemaker-studio-price-drop-and-subscription-changes/
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In this tutorial we showcase the new natural media painting tools added to sculpt mode in Blender 3.2. The painting is directly on the vertices, so no need for UVMaps, just start painting. In addition to showing the new paint brush options, the new smear brush, color filtering and masking tools, in this tutorial we also showcase how to get vertex color to render in EEVEE and CYCLES, as well as how to render the results to texture if you need to export to a game engine like Godot, Unity or Unreal Engine in traditional texture form.
Links
https://gamefromscratch.com/tutorial-blender-3-2-sculpt-vertex-painting/
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Photon Quantum, a fully deterministic networking solution for Unity is now free for development (and deployment up to 25 CCU). More then just a networking library, its basically an entire game development framework that makes developing multiplayer games a seamless experience.
Links
https://gamefromscratch.com/photon-quantum-now-free-for-developers/
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In this tutorial we cover the process of actually publishing your finished Godot game. We look at how you actually generate an exe or APK, HTML5 or whatever that you can then share or publish.
In this video we demonstrate how to create a Windows executable and an HTML5 web assembly, but the same process applies to all forms of exporting from Godot.
Links:
https://www.gamefromscratch.com/page/Godot-3-Tutorial-Series-Index.aspx
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The Unity game engine has just gotten more expensive, at least for Pro and Enterprise versions. On the bright side, they are also getting more included features in the form of Havok and MARS.
Links
https://gamefromscratch.com/unity-announce-price-increases-2/
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I know a lot of developers are pretty excited about Vulkan, the new low level graphics layer from Khronos Group, the same people behind OpenGL, OpenCL, GLSL, OpenAL and more. This video looks at the relationship between Lunar G and Vulkan, explains briefly how Vulkan works (kinda...) and then shares a resource on learning Vulkan.
Hopefully by the end of this video you were slightly less confused then when you started! Thankfully, if you aren't, I've got links! ;)
Links:
https://vulkan.lunarg.com/home/welcome
https://www.lunarg.com/tutorial-overview-of-vulkan-loader-layers/
https://source.android.com/devices/graphics/implement-vulkan
https://vulkan-tutorial.com/Introduction
And if you decided "Oh heck no!" but still want to look at low level graphics programming, check out:
http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2018/06/13/Cross-Platform-OpenGL-Alternatives.aspx
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The ongoing Apple vs Epic Games saga has continued... first Epic added IAP to Fortnite, then Apple pulled Fortnite, Epic sued, Apple yanked Epic's Unreal Engine developer keys (among others), a judge steps in and now... Apple are suing Epic Games....
2020 eh?
Link:
https://gamefromscratch.com/apple-sues-epic-games/
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A new humble bundle of interest to game developers, specifically Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality developers using the Unity game engine. Additionally several Vive, Rift and Mixed Reality games are included as well.
Links:
https://www.humblebundle.com/software/vr-ar-software?partner=gamefromscratch
https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2019/10/30/Humble-VRAR-GameDev-Bundle.aspx
The above link contains an affiliate code that enables you to help support GFS (and thanks a ton if you do!)
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