Lumberyard 1.14
The Lumberyard Beta 1.14 supposedly has more than 200 new features, improvements and fixes.
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Blender Without a Game Engine
The integrated game engine in Blender is saying goodbye for now.
Sketchfab’s New Download API
A new download API for the company's own online model-sharing platform.
Heightmaps from Substance Designer
The possibilities offered by Allegorithmic can also be used to lay the foundations for rocky landscapes.
Free: Over 1,500 UE4 Paragon Assets
Epic Games has released free assets from Paragon worth 12 million dollars: characters and environment assets in the Unreal Engine Marketplace!
Godot 3.0 Release: Open Source Game Engine
The open-source game engine Godot arrives in release 3.0 with a new PBR workflow, improved asset pipeline, Bullet Physics Engine and more!
Goodbye Stingray!
Autodesk is stopping the sale and development of Stingray in January 2018 – making the engine for 3D games, real-time rendering and VR barely 3 years old.
Octane for Unity Released!
Otoy’s Octane Renderer is now also available for Unity: The GPU renderer is also available in a free version for the game engine.
Godot 3.0 Makes Indie Games More Beautiful
The open-source game engine Godot is becoming more professional with the new release. The new features are in the reel—with a huge 1980s sound.
Photogrammetry: Workflow Guide with Unity
Free ebook for the photgrammetry workflow: Unity has now released a guide to creating digital assets for the Unity pipeline.
Houdini Engine Price Reduction
New price change at SideFX: Houdini Engine for studios has become cheaper and is available in new payment models.
Offline Render 1.1 for Unity
Newly released: Offline Render is a multi-channel render plug-in for the Unity Engine.
Fabric Engine 2.3 Is Coming
Fabric Software will launch Fabric Engine 2.3 at SIGGRAPH 2016 and present this, along with further developments, to its users.
CRYENGINE V Is Here and Costs What You Want
Crytek is taking a new approach and offering CRYENGINE V virtually free of charge. Users pay what the software is worth to them.
Stingray and Maya LT Update
At the Game Developer Conference, Autodesk presented new functions for Stingray and Maya LT, including more VR and improved character options.
Houdini Engine Indie for free
Previously not expensive, now completely free: The Houdini Engine Indie from SideFX can be downloaded!
Substance Painter 2.0 Is Here
Allegorithmic has released version 2 of the texturing tool Substance Painter, which the manufacturer says will revolutionise the game asset pipeline.
iClone Character Creator 1.4
Reallusion announces iClone Character Creator 1.4, which can create 3D characters in infinitely many morphs.
Interactive Stone Age
In this video, Ubisoft Montréal shows how the Stone Age was brought to life for “Far Cry Primal”.
Free Game Engine from Amazon
We may have left student life behind, but free, good things still delight us: the beta of Amazon's Lumberyard game engine is available.
Unreal Engine 4.11 Preview
Epic Games provides a first look at Engine 4.11 and features including new shading models and per-vertex translucency lighting.
Houdini 15 ist da!
In version 15, Side Effects Software has optimised the modelling, rendering and animation functions of Houdini.
Intel Sells Havok to Microsoft
The software giant is bringing the Irish video-game engine in-house for its xBox One cloud and will continue to grant licences externally.
Faceware Live and Unreal 4 Demo
The Faceware Live plug-in for Unreal Engine 4 makes it possible to transfer facial movements to 3D characters in the game engine.
Autodesk Stingray Demo as a Download
Free for Maya LT subscribers - the new game engine and real-time rendering software from Autodesk.
Betatest: Houdini Engine in C4D
Side Effects Software and Maxon have launched a public beta programme to integrate the Houdini Engine into Cinema 4D.
animago winner 2014: Making-of “Ryse”
Crytek had a lot of gladiators and blood in the pipeline in 2014; in 2014, the project won the animago AWARD in the "Best Game Design" category.
Fabric for RenderMan
MPC and Fabric Engine are working together to integrate Fabric Engine into Pixar’s RenderMan.
Dark Awakening
Review: In DP 05 : 2010, the Finns from Remedy Entertainment moved to the north-west of America - research for Alan Wake. Could the new game concept match its predecessor Max Payne: The Fall of Pax Payne?
Stingray Game Engine from Autodesk
Stingray is Autodesk's first game engine. At the Game Developers Conference, the company presented the project, which is still in beta.
Unity 5’s Rendering Capabilities
“The Blacksmith” was created to demonstrate the rendering capabilities of the new Unity 5 engine. The demo short film was realised with real-time rendering.
Mari and Modo in the Indie Version
The Foundry is offering indie versions of the texturing tool Mari and the sculpting software Modo on Steam. The commercial tools are also cheaper until tomorrow.
Making-of Krautscape
Review: In DP 04 : 2014, we let the engines roar in the racing game Krautscape by developers Mario von Rickenbach and Michael Burgdorfer - including procedurally generated racetracks. A game project from the Zurich University of the Arts.
Let It Rip
Navié has released Effex 2.5 for Cinema 4D. The solution for particle and fluid simulations comes with many new features.
Fabric Engine at Siggraph
Attention Siggraph travelers: there will be a preview of Fabric Engine 2.0 as well as a Splice demo for 3ds Max.
Houdini Engine available for Maya
Manufacturer Side Effects Software has now ended the beta phase and officially released the Houdini Engine for Maya.
Historical Decay
Review: In DP 01 : 2014 game developer Naughty Dog threw its heroes into a post-pandemic scenario with The Last of Us - but how were the lighting, texturing and motion capturing created?
Bioshock Infinite
Review: In DP 03 : 2013, we asked Design Director and User Experience Specialist Billd Gardner why Bioshock Infinite had to be delayed. What happened behind the company gates at Irrational Games?
Unity Supports 2D Game Developers
The new Unity version 4.3, due in the fall, is intended to include a 2D toolset that will simplify the development of 2D games with an integrated 2D workflow.
Shade 3D for Unity Tool
The Shade modelling tool is now available in a special version for working with Unity 3D—Mirye Software offers Shade 3D for Unity free of charge.
Torque 3D Is Now Open Source
GarageGames now offers the Torque 3D game framework as an open-source project. People who purchased a license before September 1 will have their costs refunded.
Preview-Video ThinkingParticles 6
The Canadian development studio Cebas has announced the release of the sixth version of the ThinkingParticles particle system and shows the new technology in a preview video.
Unity 4 Goes Flash Player
At this year's Unite conference in Amsterdam, Unity founders David Helgason, Nicholas Francis, and Joachim Ante took the stage and talked about the current state and new features.
New Autodesk Gameware
At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Autodesk announced new middleware for the Autodesk Gameware product line.
Happy endings are inappropriate | Retro article
Review: In DP 06 : 2012, Luis Alonso, Senior Technical Artist at BioWare, spoke at FMX (Film & Media Exchange) about the video game Mass Effect 3. DP grabbed Alonso to ask him a few questions.
United in Version 3.5
Unity arrives in version 3.5 - including an orientation / obstacle module, effects and better performance.
CopperCube 3 Release
The new version of the 3D editor for interactive 3D applications has been released. CopperCube 3 is intended to make it possible to publish and program 3D content in Flash or WebGL without major programming effort – so nothing stands in the way of a shooter in the browser.
Real Driving Physics in Cinema 4D
Sebastian Krieg, 3D freelancer and founder of animation studio “3d-bewegungswerkstatt”, developed a physics engine for simulating real driving physics in Cinema 4D. Vehicle models with physically correct driving behaviour can thus be used simply and directly in users’ own scenes.
Partnership for Settlers Online Lobby
eeis from arvato systems provides the technical infrastructure
Visualising with Cinema 4D: Two Workshops in the Current DIGITAL PRODUCTION
Visualisations have become an important source of income for many artists. In two workshops, DP explains how architecture can be presented simply but impressively
RTT Starts Strategic Partnership with Codemasters
Codemasters and Realtime Technology AG enter a strategic technology partnership and knowledge-sharing agreement.
HAW Hamburg GamecityLab Acquires CryENGINE 2 License
The HAW Hamburg and Hamburg@work GamecityLab has acquired a Crytek license to use CryENGINE 2 for teaching and research in interdisciplinary projects and bachelor’s and master’s work across media computing, audio/video technology, and design.
HI Builds MascotCapsule Eruption
HI develops MascotCapsule Eruption, a mobile 3D engine with OpenGL ES support, effects tools and pipelines for major DCC packages.
Tomb Raider: Anniversary Arrives on PSP
Eidos releases Crystal Dynamics' Tomb Raider: Anniversary for PSP, rebuilding the 1996 game with the Tomb Raider: Legend engine.
Dynamic development of animated 3D video menus
The latest version of the multimedia software Nero Vision also offers animated 3D videos for designing video menus. In order to create these templates as flexibly as possible, the companies Zeitwerk and Lumo Graphics had to dig deep into their bag of tricks.
Entropia Universe Adopts CryENGINE 2
MindArk licenses CryENGINE 2 to update the Entropia Universe virtual-world platform by mid-2008.
Natural Motion Announces Availability of Morpheme 1.1
Animation solution for in-game graphics expanded / Will also be shown at the upcoming Siggraph
Avatar Reality Plans CryEngine 2 Licence
Avatar Reality intends to license CryEngine 2 for a Mars-based virtual world designed as a competitor to Second Life.
SIGGRAPH: New Pipeline for New Face Robot
Softimage presents Face Robot 1.5 and a new Face Robot pipeline / Prices between 15,000 and 90,000 dollars
SIGGRAPH: Euphoria and Morpheme Complement Endorphin
Natural Motion is showing three new products at Siggraph
Blender 2.41 Released
Only one month after the last update, Blender is now available for download in version 2.41. This time, the internal game engine is the focus of the improvements.
Bitfilm Festival 05
3D animation, digital FX, flash movies, machinima, mobile video,
64-KByte-Demos as well as expert lectures and panels.
SIGGRAPH: Virtools Introduces Software Suite 3.5
Enhancements include a new video engine, a ready-made shader library and 5.1 audio playback
ElbTec Introduces Game Engine for Adgames
ElbTec Topas is a game engine designed for interactive online advertising.
ECTS 2002: Bandits – Phoenix Rising
Bandits – Phoenix Rising combined vehicle combat, 22 missions and eight-player multiplayer in a post-nuclear world.
ECTS 2002: Rainbow Six – Raven Shield
Ubisoft previewed Rainbow Six – Raven Shield with Unreal Engine lighting, an emotive camera, weather effects and improved AI.
ECTS 2002: Tron 2.0 Returns to the Grid
Disney Interactive showed Monolith’s Tron 2.0, a PC action game set twenty years after the original film.