January 20, 2016 in Uncategorized by Adrian Marius
Crytek launches VR First initiative to encourage grassroots virtual reality development http://bit.ly/1JfnyuS
Studio to offer full source code access to CryEngine for free to students and researchers
Crytek is hoping to encourage the next generation of developers to create for virtual reality, with a new campaign aimed at VR education.
January 14, 2016 in C++, Game Engines, News, Programming, Programming Languages, Unreal Engine by admin
The Intel RealSense SDK is natively implemented in C++, making it easy for developers to access its features from game code also written in C++. This plugin enhances the UE4 developer experience by exposing these same SDK features through Blueprints scripts.
At the time of this writing, the officially supported features of the plugin are the following:
Two other features are currently in-progress:
Ultimately, our goal for this plugin is to support each of the Gold features of the Intel RealSense SDK that are applicable to gaming.
For more details and the entire article follow this link.
January 12, 2016 in C++, Unreal Engine by Adrian Marius
The 4.10.2 Hotfix is now live!
This Hotfix resolves a few important issues. Feel free to continue the discussion about this release on the 4.10 announcement thread.
Fixed in 4.10.2- CL#2818068
Fixed! UE-23845 Crash when using “Set Key Time” on an animation key in UMG
Fixed! UE-24685 Matinee movie recording is broken in 4.10
Fixed! UE-22573 A REINST error occurs in widgets that reference one another
Fixed! UE-24115 Cannot launch the editor in DebugGame Editor configuration from Xcode
Fixed! UE-24563 Editor should launch launcher silently
Important Note – ‘VisualStudio2015 Update 1’ is not compatible with the UE 4.10.2 release. Please do not update to VisualStudio2015 Update 1 while using UE 4.10.2
January 12, 2016 in Android, Python by Adrian Marius
Python-for-android now supports Python 3 Android apps! This naturally includes Kivy, but also should work for anything else you can package with python-for-android, such as apps made with PySDL2. Using Python 3 remains experimental for now, it works but doesn’t yet perform all possible optimisations and hasn’t been as widely tested as Python 2. However, there should be no extra application requirements (beyond actually being written for Python 3), and the remaining issues and optimisations are being worked on.
January 12, 2016 in Programming by admin
Jacques Kerner presents a series of articles on Gamasutra about water interaction model for boats in video games:
In this series, I present an algorithm for calculating the most important forces acting on a boat in water. The main motivation is to develop a model which captures the major dynamic traits of boats in water, yet avoids resorting to complex and expensive fluid dynamics computation.
I constrain myself to a reasonable performance budget, say less than 1 ms per boat. The model must be robust enough to simulate boats of a wide variety of sizes and shapes evolving in calm to very stormy waters.
The first article in this series will be dealing with hydrostatic forces, but will lay an important foundation for calculating all the other forces involved in this model. The other forces are dynamic forces caused by the motion of the boat relative to the water. They will be the subject of articles to follow.
For the first two articles follow this and this link.
January 8, 2016 in Javascript, Programming, Programming Languages by Adrian Marius
Updated the free “Angular 2 Fundamentals” course to the latest beta:
Angular 2 is currently in pre-release, but it’s time to start learning the basics and the “Angular 2 Way” of building applications.
In Angular 2, the component is the core primitive building block of your application. This series of lessons you will dive into components, and learn how they are assembled in Angular 2.
It should be noted that Angular 2 is beta software! We will be keeping these lessons as up to date as possible.
To access the free course, follow this link
January 7, 2016 in Game Engines, News, Unity by Adrian Marius
Unity3d 5.3.1 build for Linux now available
Build #2016010601
Official Installer for 64-bit Ubuntu Linux:
http://download.unity3d.com/download_unity/linux/unity-editor-5.3.1f1+20160106_amd64.deb
(sha1sum
6636dbd9350a0589fd23bd7643fba99c8fb83685)
Unsupported installer for Other 64-bit Distributions:
http://download.unity3d.com/download_unity/linux/unity-editor-installer-5.3.1f1+20160106.sh
(sha1sum
4438875861bbddd18a68230c4062e79cd6139c2f)
Torrent (Includes both installers):
http://files.unity3d.com/levi/unity-editor-5.3.1f1+20160106.torrent
Release Notes
January 6, 2016 in Game Engines, Programming, Unreal Engine by admin
Unreal.hx is a plugin for Unreal Engine 4 that allows you to write code in the Haxe programming language. Haxe is a modern, high-level, type-safe programming language that offers high performance critical for game development.
UCLASS creation, subclassing, and Blueprints.Follow this link for for the github repository.
January 5, 2016 in Programming, Tips & Tricks, Tutorial, Unity by Adrian Marius
Learning how to make 2D games in Unity? Check out our handy page for all things Unity and 2D!
