Unreal Engine 4.26 preview 3 was just released and the new experimental water simulation system is finally available. Well mostly available. There are bugs, there are glitches, there are missing feature and there is zero documentation, but otherwise, its here! So let's take a look...
Humble Bundle are going HARD for game developers this last month, and today we have not one, not two, but THREE new bundles of interest to game developers. The most interesting is the Craft of Game Design book bundle, a collection of 25 game design books. There is also the Indie Game SFX bundle and the Painter 2022 bundle... so many bundles... This joins the ongoing TWO Unity bundles, TWO Unreal Engine bundles and a few others. Is there such a thing as too much of a good thing?
Links:
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/craft-game-design-books?partner=gamefromscratch
https://gamefromscratch.com/new-game-design-humble-bundle-and-more/
https://www.humblebundle.com/software/indie-game-sfx-software?partner=gamefromscratch
https://www.humblebundle.com/software/anything-but-ordinary-painter-bundle-software?partner=gamefromscratch
The above links contain a code that enable you to direct a portion of your purchase to support GFS (and thanks so much if you do!)
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This is a list of game engines actively under development that use the Lua programming language to script game logic. Unlike the earlier C# and C++ lists, this one includes both 2D and 3D game engines.
Links:
http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2018/09/06/Lua-Game-Engines.aspx
http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2018/08/30/Cpp_Game_Engines.aspx
http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2018/09/04/CSharp_Game_Engines.aspx
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It's back on sale on Humble, and if you haven't checked out Mixcraft Recording Studio 9 you really should. This idiot approves! We also take a quick look at the instruments that come in the bundle as well as covered YouTube's ContentID system and how it effects loops and tracks online.
Links:
https://www.humblebundle.com/software/mega-sound-designer-loop-crate-vol-2-software?partner=gamefromscratch
https://gamefromscratch.com/mixcraft-recording-studio-9-tutorial/
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This week in GameDev is a recap of the news and events in the world of game development. The links mentioned in this video are available at: http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2016/05/23/This-Week-In-GameDev-May-232016.aspx
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AFrame is a XR (AR/VR) ECS framework built on top of the Three.js 3D library for creating augmented and Virtual reality applications that run in your browser. A-Frame 1.0.0 was just released today and we look at the 1.0.0 release and A-Frame in general.
Link:
https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2019/12/16/A-FRAME-100-Released.aspx
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Unity AI was first revealed at GDC and details were very vague. Today we got a lot more insight with the announcement of Unity Muse and Unity Sentis, two "new" AI tools for the Unity Game Engine.
Unity Muse is starting off with Unity Chat, which enables you to search Unity documentation and code examples, enabling you to ask coding questions and get detailed answers. Later Muse is going to add the traditional generative AI tools such as texture generation, tools for creating animations via text prompts and more.
Unity Sentis... looks awfully familiar ;). It essentially enables you to run neural networks in the Unity runtime, and will open up new opportunities for AI. The demonstrate Orb NPC is one such application.
Links
https://gamefromscratch.com/unity-ai-announce-unity-muse-and-unity-sentis/
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Blender 2.92 is finally here! With massive improvements to sculpting and grease pencil, pretty much all aspects of Blender 2.92 have been improved in this release. We also take our first step down the everything as nodes journey with the release of Geometry Node.
Link:
https://gamefromscratch.com/blender-2-92-released/
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Like the idea of using Visual Studio Code, but don't like the idea of Microsoft telemetry or their proprietary license and don't want to build it yourself, VSCodium is perfect for you.
Links
https://gamefromscratch.com/vscodium-visual-studio-code-minus-the-microsoft/
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The popular vector animation package previously known as Flash Professional, just got a major new updated to 2019. In this release new functionality includes free form deformation of vector and raster graphics, automatic lipsyncing, glTF export, a new launch screen, layer effects and more.
Links
https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2018/10/16/Adobe-Animate-CC-2019-Released.aspx
https://helpx.adobe.com/animate/using/whats-new.html?mv=in-product&mv2=an&mv=product&mv2=an#
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