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Foundry releases Nuke 16.0

Foundry has unveiled Nuke 16.0, marking the latest evolution of its popular node-based compositing software. Nuke offers powerful tools for 3D compositing, motion tracking, and deep image integration, making it particularly valuable for creating pre-rendered cinematic cutscenes, trailers, and high-quality visual effects for games.

Published: 3. Mar. 2025

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Stencil Debugger - A free tool for debugging stencil buffers in Unity

Stencil Debugger is a new, free, and open-source utility created by software engineer and graphics programmer Alexander Ameye, released under the MIT license. The tool enables developers to visualize the stencil buffer in Unity's Universal Render Pipeline (URP), simplifying the debugging of rendering effects that rely on it.

Published: 24. Feb. 2025

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Shader View - A Blender add-on for instant shader previews

Shader View is a new add-on developed by DivideByZero that promises to speed up shader creation workflows in Blender. It enables users to preview the output of their nodes in real-time, with previews displayed right above each node. This eliminates the need to continuously switch nodes to the material output, making for a less frustrating experience, especially when dealing with complex materials.

Published: 17. Feb. 2025

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Godot Engine's Terrain3D gets support for dynamic collision

Terrain3D is currently one of the top choices for terrain creation in Godot Engine. Released by Cory Petkovsek in July 2023, the tool has steadily expanded its feature set, making it one of the most comprehensive options available for this purpose. It is also developed as a GDExtension in C++, leveraging native code to deliver high performance.

Published: 10. Feb. 2025

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Audiokinetic Wwise now fully compatible with Godot 4.3

Wwise, developed by Audiokinetic, is a powerful audio middleware used in game development to create dynamic and rich auditory experiences. It offers advanced tools for music, sound design, integration, and real-time audio management across multiple game engines. The Wwise Godot integration has been updated to support the latest version of Wwise (2024.1.1) and Godot 4.3. This update introduces new features and significant improvements over the previous version, which was released in December 2023, designed for compatibility with Wwise 2023.1 and Godot 4.2. The latest version improves usability by introducing workflows similar to those already used by the Unity and Unreal integrations.

Published: 3. Feb. 2025

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SDL 3 - The Next Evolution of a Classic Game Development Library

SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer), a software development library designed for creating high-performance video games and multimedia software, has received its first major version update since the release of SDL 2 in August 2013. For those unfamiliar, SDL provides developers with low-level access to hardware features such as audio, input devices, and graphics hardware through APIs like OpenGL, Direct3D, Metal, and Vulkan. Written in the C programming language, SDL has served as the foundation for countless games and multimedia applications since its initial release in 1998.

Published: 27. Jan. 2025

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The Global Game Jam 2025 is starting!

The Global Game Jam (GGJ) is starting once again, offering yet another fun-filled game development experience! If you're not familiar with it, the GGJ is the world's largest game creation event, held at hundreds of physical and virtual sites across over 100 countries. Last year, over 35,000 participants across 796 locations in 102 countries took part. In just 48 hours, they created nearly 10,000 games, all centered around the theme "Make Me Laugh!". The 2025 edition starts today and runs until Sunday, January 26, with jam sites following their own schedules within this timeframe.

Published: 20. Jan. 2025

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SideFX's Project Grot offers free procedural tools for Unreal Engine

Project Grot is an in-house tech demo from SideFX (the creators of Houdini 3D software), unveiled in May 2024, to showcase the versatility and creativity that procedural generation can bring to game development. Along with the demo, SideFX has started releasing tutorials that explain how the Houdini tools used in the project's pipeline were created and later applied by layout artists in Unreal Engine. These tutorials offer valuable insights into how Houdini and Unreal Engine work together, and are accompanied by project files containing the resulting tools created by following the outlined steps.

Published: 13. Jan. 2025

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GDevelop 5.5 released with enhanced 3D support

GDevelop has been updated to version 5.5. This free and open-source "no-code" game engine, initially designed for 2D game development, has been increasingly focusing on expanding its 3D capabilities. In 2023, GDevelop introduced native 3D support, and with this latest update, it now includes 3D physics, making it an even stronger option for creating 3D games.

Published: 6. Jan. 2025

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DroneCam - A new Blender add-on for drone-like camera control

DroneCam is a new Blender add-on developed by 3D artist and add-on creator globglob. It allows users to control a camera like a drone using a gamepad, eliminating the need for manual animation when creating aerial shots. Users can add a drone to the scene, click record, fly around, and render the final footage, which closely mimics real-life drone videos.

Published: 30. Dec. 2024

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GitHub Copilot now available for free

GitHub Copilot, the AI-powered code assistant, is now available for free in Visual Studio Code, as announced in a recent post on the Visual Studio Code blog. To access the new free plan, users only need a GitHub account — no subscription or credit card is required. As it would be expected, the free plan comes with some limitations, offering up to 2.000 code completions and 50 chat requests per month. It also includes access to two AI models: GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

Published: 23. Dec. 2024

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Camera Composition Overlays - A Toolkit to Enhance Unreal Engine's Cinematics

Camera Composition Overlays is a free pack of landscape camera composition overlays for Unreal Engine 5, created by Akintayo Adewole. It is designed to enhance in-game cinematics and other virtual productions by helping to create visually striking and engaging imagery.

Published: 16. Dec. 2024