RPG Creator was just released for iOS only. It's a mobile only JRPG style game creator for iOS published by the makers of RPG Maker.
I will say right up front... this is a toy and not a proper game development tool. If JRPGs are your thing however, you may enjoy this app.
It's available for free with an infuriating ad supported model, or unlocked for about $10.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca_mcB_DKuY
Epic games have just released the first version of Unreal Engine 5. UE5 early access is a very early look at the awesome new features of Unreal Engine, along side a new massive Valley of the Ancients demo scene, check out new features like Nanite, Lumen, Chaos, MetaSounds and more!
Links:
https://gamefromscratch.com/unreal-engine-5-early-access-now-available/
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A Humble Bundle containing 37 books on a variety of art books, including fantasy, anime, animation and more.
Links:
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/creating-comics-manga-animation-books?partner=gamefromscratch
https://gamefromscratch.com/creating-comics-manga-animation-humble-bundle/
The above link contains an affiliate code that enables you to direct a portion of your purchase to support GFS (and thanks so much if you do!)
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Today we see a couple major development releases from Microsoft. .NET 7, C#11 (and Visual Studio 2022 17.4, F#, MAUI and more) were all released today.
Links
https://gamefromscratch.com/net-7-c-11-and-visual-studio-2022-17-4-released/
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Today we are checking out Monster Mash, a proof of concept for some next level graphics tech. In a nutshell it enables you to sketch a 2D image, make it 3D and then animate it, in literally minutes.
Why is it called Monster Mash... I dunno. But let's go with it!
Link:
https://gamefromscratch.com/monster-mash-sketch-based-modelling-and-animation/
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Today Epic Games have released the "first come first serve" beta of RealityScan, a photogrammetry software on your phone. It currently runs only on iOS, with Android in the works, and is built on top of the technology Epic Games acquired when they purchased Capturing Reality for their Reality Capture Software. This software basically allows you to create 3D objects by taking a series of photographs, which then can be exported in 3D to SketchFab, all currently free. There are a limit of 10,000 spots available so sign up quick.
Links:
https://gamefromscratch.com/epic-games-release-realityscan-beta/
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In this video tutorial we are going to show how to create a cool looking city scene in Blender in literally minutes.
The stars of this video are an add-on named Blender-OSM, which provides OpenStreetMap integration, as well as Buildify, a geometry node based building generator.
Links
https://gamefromscratch.com/create-a-city-in-minutes-using-blender/
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Released the end of last week on Steam, Modlab is a free tool for creating Normal, Roughness and Specular maps programmatically from the Diffuse channel. Basically you can make a normal map from your existing texture in just seconds.
It was used in house for the game Wayward Terrain Frontier ( http://store.steampowered.com/app/392080/Wayward_Terran_Frontier_Zero_Falls/ ) and released for free.
You can download Modlab at:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/768970/ModLab/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXQMB2_0OTw
Love it or hate it, the FBX format is still one of the most important 3D model formats and the primary export file format of many 3D applications. In Godot 3.x FBX importing was easy, but unreliable. In Godot 4, the quality of the FBX importing has improved, but it's also gotten more difficult.
In this video we show how to setup Godot 4 to use FBX2GLTF to import an animated Mixamo model. We also show how you can export 3D models from the Unity engine and recreate the textures inside Godot, which is especially useful if you want to take advantage of the many Unity bundles that come along.
Links:
https://gamefromscratch.com/fbx-in-godot-4/
Assets Used in Demo Came From:
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https://gamefromscratch.com/nature-manufacture-asset-bundle-on-humble/
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Timeline:
0:00 Introduction
0:12 Importing a Mixamo Model into Godot 3.5
1:04 A Failed import into Godot 4.0
1:35 Introducing the FBX2gltf utility
2:06 Setting the FBX2gltf Path in Godot
2:38 Successfully importing the Mixamo Model to Godot 4
3:50 FBX Import Advanced Import Settings
4:29 Exporting a Unity Prefab as FBX to the Godot Engine
7:32 Recreating the StandardMaterial3D for the Unity object
8:48 Setting the Surface Material Override to our new material
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0RiDMsaXps