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Every month Epic Games make several assets on their asset store free for that month and July is no exception. You have to “buy” the content during the month of July, at which point it is yours forever. In addition each month they release a few assets that are free forever.The July free marketplace content […]
Every month Epic Games have made several pieces of Unreal Engine marketplace content available for free for a limited time, as well as a few assets free permanently. March is no exception with 5 new temporarily free assets and another 2 permanently free items. You need only add the free items to your cart and […]
Today Unity released the Unity Measured Materials library, a collection of over 300 materials themed around automotive and transportation projects. It contains hundreds of textures used to create Shader Graph materials. You need to use Unity 2018.3 or later.The library includes:Fabrics with various weaves including herringbone, twill, brushed and plain weave Leather including different grain […]
Meshroom is a new, free and open source photogrammetry software from AliceVision. Photogrammetry software enable you to create a 3D scene using a series of photographs, generally the more the merrier. Currently documentation is a bit lacking, so I’ve decided to create this quick tutorial. In this tutorial we are going to quickly walk through […]
Perhaps you are a bit artistically challenged, or you are looking for resources to prototype your 3D games? Where can you find the best free 3D models? This page is a collection of some of the best resources for 3D models with permissive licenses. If I’ve missed a resource you use, please let me know […]
Epic just released a pretty awesome pair of assets packs completely free for Unreal Engine developers. Soul:City and Soul:Cave are both AAA quality packs containing maps, models, textures, blueprints and more for creating a futuristic city as well as a cave environment. The only real catch is the license requires the assets be used only […]
One of the challenges with prototyping games is finding assets to work with. Simple boxes are fine, but if you are working on a game with animations this proves a bit more challenging. Therefore I created a simple sequence of spritesheets you can use in your game. The package includes an idle, walk cycle, […]
Mixamo is a great animation resource, that enables you to quickly (and currently freely) add animations to your 3D models. However, if you want to incorporate the results into your Blender workflow, it can be a bit non-intuitive. The Mixamo documentation recommend using Collada, which simply does not work well. There instructions also skip […]
Exactly as the title says, this title takes someone with ZERO experience and teaches them how to use Blender to the point they will be able to create their own low polygon fully textured game model for use in a 3D game engine like Unity or UDK. It then goes one step further and […]
