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Marmoset Skyshop! Image-Based Lighting Tools.

Submitted by metalliandy on May 13, 2013 - 11:13am

Those crazy cats over at Marmoset.co have been busy working in their underground lair creating some amazing rendering goodies for those of us who use Unity.

Skyshop will enable full Marmoset flavour lighting within Untiy and just to tease us they have been posting images and wizard powered magic on the interwebs.

What is Skyshop?

Skyshop takes sky images (panoramas, crosses, or cubemaps) as input and will generate diffuse and specular IBL cubemaps from them.

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Blender 2.67 Released!

Submitted by metalliandy on May 13, 2013 - 10:49am

The Blender Foundation have released Blender 2.67!

The release adds some really big changes including new mesh modelling tools, a new 3d printing addon, improvements to the 3d painting system and the ability to render SSS in cycles.

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The Game Dev Cast - Episode 2 Released!

Submitted by metalliandy on April 30, 2013 - 8:01am

Episode 2 of the new game development podcast - The Game Dev Cast - has been released, along with episodes 1 & 2 of ChillOutSunday!

The weekly podcast, which is hosted by our good friends Mattias Van Camp, Wiktor Öhman & Jason Lavoie, covers all the ins and outs of game development and broach various weekly news topics and other matters of interest.

Zbrush - QuickTips # 1 - BulletHoles/Custom Decal Brushes!

Submitted by metalliandy on April 30, 2013 - 7:52am

Joe Harford has released another fantastic tutorial!

In the first of a series of QuickTips, Joe goes over how to create convincing Bullet Holes/Custom Decal Brushes within ZBrush!

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In the first of the Zbrush quick tips I cover creating bulletholes in objects using custom 'decal' brushes and alphas. I also cover creating your own brush icons and how to use your new brushes.

You can watch the tutorial in glorious HD over at his YouTube page.

Mastering UDK Game Development eBook/Book - Released!

Submitted by metalliandy on April 30, 2013 - 7:38am

John Doran has authored an impressive looking book for Packt Publishing entitled 'Mastering UDK Game Development'

Correcting the Viewport colour display of imported AutoCAD drawings & Rendering higher resolution images with VRay/Mental Ray

Submitted by metalliandy on April 30, 2013 - 7:26am

Jamie Cardoso has posted a couple of great tutorials on his Mental Ray blog that go over correcting the Viewport colour display of imported AutoCAD drawings, when added into a Layer in 3Ds Max & Rendering higher resolution images with "Render_autosave", using VRay or mental ray.

Marmoset Toolbag v1.09 Released!

Submitted by metalliandy on April 30, 2013 - 7:13am

For those that might have missed it, Marmoset Toolbag v1.09 has been released!

Everyone's favourite model viewer and presentation tool has been updated with a few bug fixes and updates including detail normal maps & shadow accuracy improvements when using dynamic lights and auto-generation of normals for OBJs when missing.

The Game Dev Cast - Episode 1 Released!

Submitted by metalliandy on April 12, 2013 - 5:05pm

Episode 1 of the new game development podcast - The Game Dev Cast - is out now!

The weekly podcast, which is hosted by our good friends Mattias Van Camp, Wiktor Öhman & Jason Lavoie, will cover all the ins and outs of game development and broach various weekly news topics and other matters of interest.

3DTotal's Anatomical Collection: Male figure

Submitted by metalliandy on March 8, 2013 - 1:11pm

Our good friends over at 3dTotal have been hard at work developing a beautiful anatomical reference figure, sculpted by Federico Scarbini, which is now accepting pledges over at Kickstarter

Marmoset Toolbag v1.08 Released!

Submitted by metalliandy on January 21, 2013 - 4:59am

Marmoset Toolbag v1.08 has been released!

Everyone's favourite model viewer and presentation tool has been updated with a few bug fixes and updates for including Windows 8 Compatibility, new StoogeExport plug-ins for Maya 2012 and 2013 and DX11 Tessellation.

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Blender 2.65a Released!

Submitted by metalliandy on December 30, 2012 - 8:03pm

The Blender Foundation have released Blender 2.65a!

The release fixes 40 bugs that were present in the 2.65 release a few weeks ago.

Stability first! Thanks to good bug reporting and a lot of developer activity we decided to upgrade the release with an 'a' version. Over 40 fixes!

ZBrush 4R5 Released!

Submitted by metalliandy on December 30, 2012 - 8:00pm

Pixologic have released ZBrush 4R5

The update, which is free for registered users, contains a massive amount of new features and improvements.

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Creating Customised Ies Web Lights For V-Ray Or Mental Ray

Submitted by metalliandy on December 12, 2012 - 9:45am

Jamie Cardoso has posted a great tutorial on his Mental Ray blog that goes over the creation of customised IES web lights for V-Ray or mental ray!

Blender 2.65 Released!

Submitted by metalliandy on December 12, 2012 - 9:34am

The Blender Foundation have released Blender 2.65!

The release adds some really big changes, including new modifiers, Fire simulation improvements, Open Shading Language support for Cycles, a vastly improved Bevel tool and much more!

The Blender Foundation and online developer community is proud to present Blender 2.65. We focused on making this the most stable release in the 2.6 cycle yet, fixing over 200 bugs.

Epic Release November 2012 UDK Beta!

Submitted by metalliandy on November 19, 2012 - 10:25am

Epic have released the November 2012 update for UDK !

The update includes numerous additions including support for iOS 6, Retina display and all of Apple’s newly available iOS devices, Unreal Landscape’s new mobile material system and UE3’s new mobile shader analyzer

3DTotal - 12 Days Of Christmas!

Submitted by metalliandy on November 19, 2012 - 10:07am

Our good friends over at 3dTotal are have an amazing 12 days of sales!

Starting Monday the 19th November, they will be running an amazing new deal each day. 1 deal per day with the price for that deal lasting 24hrs.

Go check out 3dTotal to see what today's deal is!

Games Industry Mentor, Episode 22: Layoffs

Submitted by metalliandy on October 26, 2012 - 5:57pm

The latest episode of Aaron Canaday's awesome Games Industry Mentor podcast is now available!

Currently at Episode 22, Aaron is joined by his Red 5 Studios co-workers World Artist, Zach Turner; Game Designer, Scott Rudi; and Audio Designer, Daniel Beck where they discuss the topic of layoffs.

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Quixel announce dDo!

Submitted by metalliandy on October 24, 2012 - 11:11am

Quixel have announced dDo!

The tool and its results looks pretty spectacular, though we have no concrete word on what it actually does yet. Something about 100% automated texture magic and wizards...

Cant wait to see more!

Check out the video HERE and keep an eye out on Quixel for more information

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Marmoset Toolbag v1.07 Released!

Submitted by metalliandy on October 24, 2012 - 10:59am

Marmoset Toolbag v1.07 has been released!

The amazingly versatile and intuitive model viewer and presentation tool has been updated with a few bug fixes and updates for 16bit PSDs, FBX and Radeon HD 7000 Series GPUs!

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Digital Design Magazine 20% Off!

Submitted by metalliandy on October 10, 2012 - 8:42pm

Digital Design Magazine are running a special offer where you can get 20% off the current issue!

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