Maxon (you know them for #Cinema4D) purchased Pixologic (#Zbrush creators). As it was with Adobe and Substance, people are mostly worried about permanent licenses vs subnoscriptions.

But, as you know, Substance apps can still be purchased on Steam, if you need a perpetual license. Will see, how it goes with this acquisition!

https://www.maxon.net/en/article/maxon-announces-an-agreement-to-acquire-the-assets-of-pixologic-makers-of-zbrush

This high tech is so techy, but game-changing and possibly gonna be in all computers very soon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK3eTGkX6qY

#GodotEngine fans be like

By the way, #GodotEngine just received the update:

https://godotengine.org/article/maintenance-release-godot-3-4-1

#AMD #GPUOpen team is trying to combine SSR (Screen-Space Reflections) with #Raytracing to achieve an optimized balance between performance and quality:

https://github.com/GPUOpen-Effects/Hybrid-Stochastic-Reflections

As we wrote before, #UnrealEngine 5 is making something similar with their Lumen technology, that can utilize SSR and other techniques to get Global Illuminations and Reflections, but also able to add Raytracing layer for better quality:

https://www.gameunion.tv/en/gamedev/get-unreal-engine-5-now-update-early-access-whats-new-123

There is so much #ArtDirection in this game – colors, shapes, even angles of objects are expressive in some way. Maybe, one of the most beautiful #GodotEngine games I've seen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3PR9ILA_yA

The Year in Numbers 2021
#Analytics #Marketing #GameDev #Business

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-12-21-gamesindustry-biz-presents-the-year-in-numbers-2021

Show your first renders in the comments here or on Twitter!

#Blender #3D

https://twitter.com/GameUnionTV/status/1473200193143283715

Hey, happy holidays, folks! So, I'll share some adorable stuff in the next couple of weeks 😊

https://twitter.com/GameUnionTV/status/1474295921009700865

Don't miss this badass Default Cube from #Blender

https://www.instagram.com/p/CX5jmlkPadK/

If you were looking for batch image processing software, there is an amazing add-on for #GIMP, called BIMP:

It allows you to use a lot of GIMP tools on multiple images. Unfortunately, it's limited to 32-bits somewhy, so the performance isn't perfect. But results are amazing!

#Software #Free #GameDEV

https://alessandrofrancesconi.it/projects/bimp/

#Artstation Learning remains #Free, since they've joined #EpicGames and have other sources of funding:

https://magazine.artstation.com/2021/12/artstation-learning-free/

How to make forest scene in #GodotEngine:

https://youtu.be/Jzt_KKmU3pY

🎁 Happy New Year, everyone!

Thank you for being here, we are glad to share all the inspiration with you. And wish you to find more amazing games and make some of them next year!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Uo0JAUWijM

Very nice Quad #Topology #Tutorial

#Blender #Eevee displacement plugin, that uses more than just parallax, but reconstruction of viable layers, intersecting other geometry:

https://youtu.be/TJ_o1_m713w

👋 Hi, friends!

Feel free to use reactions on our posts here and in the chat. The feature is relatively new here, but it works well on Discord for years.

Check out this nice #Materials pack (with #Substance files included), you can get it for #Free, or donate $10 to the author:

https://www.artstation.com/marketplace/p/n7J03/free-ro-material-pack-1

One material that turned into three to be represented in various biomes:

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/6bLGQw

SONY #PlayStation revealed their new #VR, including Horizon Zero Dawn for VR:

https://blog.playstation.com/tag/ps-vr-2-2/