A new humble bundle is out, this one is the Beat Goes On by MAGIX. Be very careful, most of the software available in this bundle was featured in prior Humble Bundles. Oh and there is an awesome RPG book bundle going on right now too in the Dark Heresy universe... nothing to do with Game Development that one, but still awesome!
Links:
https://www.humblebundle.com/software/the-beat-goes-on-software?partner=gamefromscratch
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/warhammer-40000-dark-heresy-rpg-books?partner=gamefromscratch
https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2019/08/14/Humble-Audio-Software-By-MAGIX-Bundle.aspx
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJPO8gqO1x8
Out of the blue today, Epic announced they are changing the Unreal Engine Marketplace commision from 70%/30% to 88%/12%! On top of that, they are retroactively crediting developers using the new rate back to the start of the store back in 2014! Class act.
Links:
http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2018/07/12/Epic-Games-Update-Unreal-Engine-Marketplace-Revenue-Share.aspx
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/epic-announces-unreal-engine-marketplace-88-12-revenue-share
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DYgxn9UEno
Ubisoft, their film and animation division, just joined the Blender Foundation as a gold member. Not only will they be helping to fund Blender, they will also be contributing development effort and code to the project.
Link:
https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2019/07/22/Ubisoft-Joins-Blender-Foundation.aspx
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJCCOZGH-Ns
Let's hope so... The Xenko game engine is a modern C# 7 powered cross platform 3D game engine created by Silicon Studios. They recently announced changes to the pricing model, as well as the possibility of going open source in the future.
You can learn more about that here:
https://xenko.com/blog/changes-to-the-xenko-license/
and here
https://www.siliconstudio.co.jp/en/news/pressreleases/2018/en1803xenko/en1803xenko.html
If you are interested in learning more about Xenko, be sure to check out:
http://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2015/08/04/A-Closer-Look-At-Paradox3D.aspx
Or:
https://youtu.be/hmPrUuQQz8M
Older Tutorial Series Here (Still somewhat relevant)
http://www.gamefromscratch.com/page/Paradox-Game-Engine-Tutorial-Series.aspx
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0hw6ilh5pU
https://assetstore.unity.com/mega-bundles/fill-your-toolbox?aid=1011l4rAy
https://gamefromscratch.com/unity-fill-your-toolbox-mega-bundle/
Puns aside, today we are checking out Terrain Grid System for Unity, part of the ongoing Unity Toolbox MegaBundle. It makes creating grids, hexagonal, random and grid based incredibly easy, but also includes code for picking and unit selection, as well as 6 different pathfinding implementations. Links contain an affiliate code that pay GFS a small commission if used (and thanks if you do!)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIP4_WNfiqM
Unity have just signed their biggest Digital Twin contract, a 3 year deal with CACI working with the US Military. Does it matter...? We discuss in this video.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtFT3L6llZA
...maybe not the most useful thing you've seen, but you'll have to admit, it does what it says in the title and it does it really well. Basically take any anime image and convert it to a sketch thanks to the power of Python, PyTorch and machine learning.
Links:
https://gamefromscratch.com/anime2sketch-hands-on/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmRJUEBKr_A
There is a new bundle of interest to game developers, the Mega Music Collection Royalty Free Bundle over on Fanatical. Do be aware however that this bundle has a lot in common with the Big Music 2 (and Big Music 1 that ran months ago) currently running over on Humble.
Links:
https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/mega-music-collection-royalty-free-bundle?ref=gamefromscratch
https://gamefromscratch.com/mega-music-collection-bundle-on-fanatical/
https://www.humblebundle.com/software/big-royaltyfree-music-2-software?partner=gamefromscratch
https://gamefromscratch.com/humble-big-music-2-bundle/
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The above links may contain an affiliate code that helps support GFS if used to purchase (and thanks so much if you do!)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJmPBoQyu3g
PixaFlux is hard to describe. It's a node based image creation and manipulation program. You can use it to create 3D PBR textures, you can use it to edit photos, or you can use it to create images from scratch, all by creating networks of nodes. Seeing it in action really helps make it clearer...
Link:
https://www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2020/04/06/PixaFlux-Hands-On.aspx
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML7Ic5DSOB0