Today we are checking out LÖVR, a free and open source 3D Lua game and VR development framework heavily inspired by LÖVE. LÖVE is a popular 2D game development framework, recently made famous for powering the smash indie hit Belatro. LÖVR takes the ease of use of LÖVE and brings

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If you have ever wished there was a magic button that would do automatic UV Unwrapping for you, the closest thing you will find is RizomUV. RizomUV is commercial software specifically for creating UVMaps available for Windows, Mac and Linux with a fully functioning trial available. RizomUV features include: Key

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Today we are looking at Reblium, a new 3D character creator powered by Unreal Engine similar to MetaHuman, but working entirely on your local PC. If you have ever created a character in a video game you have an idea of how to use Reblium. Right now it is in

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Today we are going to take a look at 25 different game engines in 25 minutes (ok, 28 minutes…). The only criteria to show up on this list is the engine is primarily 3D and has a world or level editor. If there is interest we may do a similar

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The e-on software developed VUE, PlantFactory and PlantCatalog CG applications have just been made completely free. VUE is an application for creating virtual worlds and landscapes similar to Gaea or Terragen, while PlantFactory is more akin to SpeedTree. Owner Bentley Systems have decided to cease development on these applications and

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Today we are revisiting The Base Mesh 2.0, a resource we first featured back in 2022. In that earlier feature, TheBaseMesh.com featured over 250 high quality low polygon UV unwrapped meshes that are game ready or well prepared for sculpting. In the two years since that collection has grown almost

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Today we are checking out GeoGen, an application for generating terrain/landscapes as well as planets procedurally, from JangaFX, the creators of EmberGen and the free Game Texture Viewer. GeoGen is currently still in alpha (although it is available for sale) and graph based workflow for creating landscapes and planets. GeoGen

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The popular Babylon JS Game Engine for creating 3D games that can run on the web just released Babylon 7. Key features of this release include: Key Links BabylonJS Homepage Babylon 7 Release Notes GitHub Repository You can learn more about Babylon 7 watching the following video or clicking the

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Meshcapade is an interesting new free* online service for creating digital avatars MetaHuman style, then animating them using a massive animation library in a Mixamo like manner. There are also tools for creating avatars by uploading images or scanning from webcam as well as for creating animations by uploading a

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BuildBox is perhaps the easiest to use game engine on the market. BuildBox is also a company known to make some pretty stupid business decisions. This one however, does not feel like a bad business decision. In fact it feels like one of the best uses of AI technology in

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