| Thursday, April 30, 2009 |
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The ioquake Engine has "Gone Gold" with its new 1.36 release!
Posted by:
Mike at 7:55:21 pm
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 The Ioquake engine has "Gone Gold" with its 1.36 release! Read the full article for all of the awesome features added to this free open source engine!
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| Monday, April 27, 2009 |
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Matali Physics RC1 Released
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komires at 4:04:08 pm
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 The Matali Physics is a new, advanced 3D physics engine for the .Net platform and XNA Framework, announced at the beginning of this month. This release candidate brings significant improvement in the engine's behavior, extended samples, new screenshots and videos. For more information, visit the official website.
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Magic Particles 1.61
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Astralax studio at 7:48:56 am
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 Astralax studio released Magic Particles 1.61. Magic Particles is a special editor that lets to create visual effects based on particle system quickly and visually. Ignescent text, flying comet, autumn leaves dancing in the gust of wind, snowstorm and multicolored fog, wriggly tentacles of outlandish creatures, fantastic silhouettes of plants all these (and many more!) images might not only be created in our program but added to your photos and videos.
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| Wednesday, April 22, 2009 |
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CopperCube 3D Looking for Beta testers
Posted by:
Nikolaus Gebhardt at 11:42:37 pm
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Ambiera is looking for beta testers for their new 3D engine CopperCube. CopperCube is a 3D engine for Flash as well as for Windows: it creates interactive 3D scenes, everything from simple 3D panoramas to full games, as Flash .swf files or standalone windows .exe files. You can download the first beta version painlessly from the CopperCube website, no registration necessary.
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Candella Systems licenses Unigine engine
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Unigine Corp. at 5:07:49 am
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 Candella Systems Ltd, a UK-based developer and publisher of videogames for the PC, consoles and handhelds has licensed Unigine engine. The first Unigine-based project by Candella Systems is already in development. THe company also plans to use Unigine technologies for their upcoming PC and console game titles.
Unigine is a multi-purpose technology, which can be easily adapted to various projects. This cross-platform middleware provides almost everything required for game developemnt out-of-the box: powerful 3D render (with support of all modern APIs: DirectX 9 / DirectX 10.1 / OpenGL), physics module, scripting system, GUI, sound subsystem, and tools.
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| Tuesday, April 21, 2009 |
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FMOD Ex now Available for Torque Developers
Posted by:
Deborah Marshall at 1:13:50 pm
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 GarageGames has partnered with Firelight Technologies to offer FMOD Ex to all Torque developers. FMOD Ex will be available for $99 and is compatible with the entire Torque line of game engines, including the latest Torque 3D engine.
FMOD features DSP Software Architecture, Advanced Compressed Sample and Streaming Support and the ability to create realistic soundscapes.
Brett Paterson, CEO of Firelight Technologies says, "Firelight has been supporting the indie community for 10 years now. We're happy to partner with GarageGames, who has a like-minded attitude. With this partnership, we can expose FMOD's advanced functionality to many more users at a very low price. We're looking forward to hearing what developers can do with FMOD and the Torque engine."
For more information, check out FMOD Ex at GarageGames.com.
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| Thursday, April 16, 2009 |
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gDEBugger V5.0 Adds OpenGL 3.0 support
Posted by:
Graphic Remedy at 7:33:17 am
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 The new gDEBugger V5.0 adds support for OpenGL 3.0 and OpenGL's new deprecation model. A new Deprecated Function Statistics tab was added to the Statistics viewer. This tab displays information about deprecated functions and deprecated behaviors used by the debugged application. This tab also suggests forward-compatible replacements to each deprecated feature.
gDEBugger V5.0 also includes gDEBugger for Apple Mac OS X. This new product brings all of gDEBugger's Debugging and Profiling abilities to the Mac OpenGL developer's world.
gDEBugger, an OpenGL and OpenGL ES debugger and profiler, traces application activity on top of the OpenGL API, lets programmers see what is happening within the graphic system implementation to find bugs and optimize OpenGL application performance. gDEBugger runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux operating systems.
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| Wednesday, April 15, 2009 |
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ShaderMap 1.3 adds Normal Mixer
Posted by:
Rendering Systems at 2:20:50 pm
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 ShaderMap 1.3 is now available for download. Version 1.3 adds the ability to mix / blend an unlimited number of normal maps using the normal mixer tool. It also adds three new controls for generating displacement maps. ShaderMap is a tool for creating and converting common textures used in 3d rendering.
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| Thursday, April 9, 2009 |
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RakNet now free for indy developers
Posted by:
Kevin Jenkins at 2:12:26 pm
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RakNet is now free for Indy developers. RakNet is a C++ open-source commercial network engine for games with features such as patching, voice chat, and a database driven lobby system. It is used commercially by major developers such as Sony Online Entertainment, Epic Games China, and Double Helix.
RakNet can be downloaded here
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| Sunday, April 5, 2009 |
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3D Rad v6.33 Now Supports Skinned Ragdolls, User-created Plug-ins
Posted by:
Steve at 4:36:03 am
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3D Rad now lets advanced users write script-based plug-ins for others to use as 'no-coding-required' objects.
Also new to this version is the ability to control individual bones of your skeletal-animated models, run-time. This can be used to implement interactive 'puppets' for machinima projects or physics-driven skinned ragdolls and soft-bodies.
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| Thursday, April 2, 2009 |
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SlimDX March 2009 Released
Posted by:
Promit Roy at 10:42:09 pm
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The March 2009 release of SlimDX is now out! This is a major release in terms of new functionality and improvements behind the scenes. Many missing corners were filled in, and several usability enhancements were made across the library on top of the standard array of bug fixes. A new DLL containing beta-level technologies, such as Direct2D and Direct3D 11, was added to showcase developing APIs. Performance is another issue focused on in the March release. After extensive testing, several improvements were made to the error handling infrastructure and math library, which showed significant performance increases across the entire library.
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| Tuesday, March 31, 2009 |
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NeoAxis Game Engine 0.8 - Now with Networking Support
Posted by:
Ivan Efimov at 12:58:52 pm
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 NeoAxis Group Ltd has just released next update of its modern 3D game engine. After many years of development we have crossed the line regarding user experience and providing developers with up to date capabilities to create new and exciting game titles with the power of unique approach looking ahead to a new level of visual game creation tools.
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| Monday, March 30, 2009 |
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Noesis Interactive Announces the Addition of Curriculum to SourceU
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Noesis Interactive at 6:37:43 pm
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 Noesis provides Video Courseware for students and professors
March 30, 2009, Santa Cruz, CA Today Noesis Interactive announced an agreement with Valve Corporation to provide SourceU developers with educational content including, curriculum, lecture materials and assessment aids for six game development classes downloadable through Steam, a leading platform for the distribution and management of PC games with over 20 million accounts worldwide.
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| Monday, March 23, 2009 |
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GDC: Game Dev Contet News from Intel
Posted by:
Cristina Gutierrez at 9:15:55 pm
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 At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Intel made two game contest announcements: It launched "Level Up 2009", its fourth annual game demo challenge. Also, Intel and Havok announced the winners of the first ever Havok Physics Innovation Contest.
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Genetica Texture Pack 5 and Viewer 3.0 Released
Posted by:
CJO at 4:50:19 pm
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Spiral Graphics Inc. has released its fifth free seamless texture pack, which includes 106 royalty-free medieval architecture textures. The texture pack, which will be of benefit to any 3D artist working with a historic or fantasy setting, adds church and fortress, cottage, door, and window textures to the collection.
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