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Buy One Ebook from Packt and Get Another One for Free Before March, 26th

Treidge — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 17:52:50 +0000

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GameDev: Books

Packt Publishing celebrates their 2000th title with an exclusive offer — from 18th to 26th, March buy one ebook through Packt website and get another one for free. Only two more days left!

Genetica 4.0 — New Tools and Features Overview

Treidge — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 10:27:15 +0000

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2D Graphics

A bit more than two months ago Spiral Graphics Inc. released a new version of its Genetica seamless texture and animation editor. Genetica 4.0 received quite a few enhancements in different areas, as well as new features and tools. This article contains an overview of Genetica 4.0 new features, including the adjusters, the filter system, PixelScript and more.

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Genetica 4.0 Announced — Update for Seamless Texture and Effects Editor

Treidge — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:06:18 +0000

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2D Graphics

Spiral Graphics, Inc. has announced a new version of its Genetica seamless texture and effects editor. Genetica 4.0 will get a number of new features and improvements over previous versions, including a new simplified way to tweak texture and effects parameters with adjusters, photo-filter effects, new nodes, 3D models import functionality and more.

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Mobile Development with «Learning ShiVa3D Game Development» Book

Treidge — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:16:51 +0000

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Game Engines: Books

Have you heard of ShiVa3D engine? Most likely many of you didn't. Yet ShiVa3D is very likely the only one engine that has much in similar with Unity and that often is compared to Unity directly. With this article I'd like to bring to your attention this game engine as an alternative to Unity. It really has something to offer. On 166 pages «Learning ShiVa3D Game Development» book will teach you how to make a small game for Android platform using ShiVa3D. If you ever wanted to start learning ShiVa3D — then this book is for you.

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Get Free Unity Android Basic & iOS Basic License Before April 8th, 2012

Treidge — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:36:07 +0000

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Game Engines: Unity 3D

Good news, everyone! Just a few days ago ended up a special offer from Daz3D, where you could obtain free licenses for Bryce 7, Hexagon 2.5 and Daz Studio 4, and now Unity Technologies makes an even more impressive offer, blowing up news feeds from all gamedev-related websites — until April 8th you can get a license for Unity Android Basic and Unity iOS Basic completely free of charge!

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A Generous Gift To Everyone — Bryce 7 Pro and Daz Studio 4 for Free!

Treidge — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:42:19 +0000

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3D Graphics

Free gifts to everyone, folks! For a limited time only until the end of March you can get a full-functional Pro licenses for Daz3D's Bryce 7 Pro, Hexagon 2.5 and DAZ Studio 4 Pro completely free of charge! This is a promotional campaign conducted by Daz3D, the owners and developers of this software, so why not to participate?..

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"Unreal Development Kit Game Programming with UnrealScript" Book

Treidge — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:08:46 +0000

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Game Engines: Books

Publishing house Packt Publishing, which is specialized on IT books in a whole and game development and game engines books in a particular, released a new and exciting book on Epic's Unreal Development Kit ( UDK ). Unreal Development Kit Game Programming with UnrealScript, Beginner's Guide reveals details of one of the most complicated tasks in game development for beginner developers — programming using UnrealScript language.

As you can see from the title of the book — it is intended for beginner developers that want to master all of the UDK's rich functionality and power in their game projects. So, if you're serious about learning UDK and develop your game projects using this engine — this book can be strongly recommended for reading, it will be a perfect addition to official UnrealScript and UDK documentation, teaching you UnrealScript in a practical approach.

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New 3D Model in Image Gallery! SCAR-L Assault Rifle with FN40GL

Treidge — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:41:42 +0000

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My Projects

Hooray! After the long-long time I have something interesting to show again. Finally I've made a new 3D model! Let me introduce you a SCA R-L Assault Rifle with FN40GL grenade launcher, flashlight and reflex sight, often referred as "red dot" sight. Well, all the details about this model are in Image Gallery, so I will not repeat myself and just encourage you to visit following page to view additional images and read some description.

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NeoAxis Engine 1.1 — Technical Details and Feature Descriptions

Treidge — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 11:32:42 +0000

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Game Engines: NeoAxis Engine

This article is intended to provide an additional information about new features and give a little deeper insight into relevant technologies. If you are interested in game development and game engines — I highly encourage you to read the rest of the article, pretty sure that anyone will find something new and interesting in it.

NeoAxis Game Engine Updated to Version 1.1 — New Features and Demos

Treidge — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:02:55 +0000

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Game Engines: NeoAxis Engine

NeoAxis Game Engine was updated to version 1.1 ! Since I contributed to this release, I'd like to share detailed description about it and some other cool stuff with my readers. Also I would mention that NeoAxis 1.1 is a pretty impressive and feature-rich release — don't miss it if you're a game developer or have interest in game engines.

Send to Mudbox 2012 SAP from Maya Tip — Fix for No Hard Edges

Treidge — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:18:49 +0000

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3D Graphics: Autodesk Maya

Mudbox 2012 SAP supports hard edges importing from Maya, but with "Send to Mudbox" feature in Maya hard edges data isn't exported properly. How to fix "Send to Mudbox" feature in Maya 2012 and get hard edges to Mudbox.

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Fix for Autodesk Maya Error: File contains unknown nodes or data

Treidge — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:24:21 +0000

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3D Graphics: Autodesk Maya

In this article I will show you how to deal with another Autodesk Maya problem that happens from time to time — Error: File contains unknown nodes or data, which prevents users from saving their files in desired Maya format.

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Sony PS Vita Official Release Date for US and Europe — February 22

Treidge — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 08:45:40 +0000

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Consoles: PlayStation Vita

Hooray, people! After the many months of waiting Sony finally announced their official release date for PlayStation Vita in Europe and US. So, next-generation portable will launch simulatenousely in Europe, North and South America, Africa, Mid-West and Australasia on February, 22nd ( except Japan, where PlayStation Vita will be released earlier — on December, 17th ).

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Grand Theft Auto III Goes Mobile — GTA 3 for iOS and Android Soon

Treidge — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 10:26:09 +0000

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Mobile Games

Rockstar decided to make a pleasant surprise for its fans and announced upcoming release of famous Grand Theft Auto III game for iOS and Android. This significant event dated to 10th anniversary of GTA 3 release on PlayStation 2, which took place in Autumn, 2001. So, following the Square Enix that not very long ago announced HD remake of its Final Fantasy X for PS Vita and PS3, one more big game developer decided to start making ports of its classic games to new platforms.

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Adobe Flash Player 11 with GPU Accelerated Graphics — Stage 3D API

Treidge — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:45:29 +0000

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GameDev: Adobe Flash

At Adobe Max'11 conference long-awaited Flash Plater 11 was released to public, featuring hardware accelerated 2D and 3D Graphics via new Stage 3D API ( codenamed "Molehill" ) and other significant improvements.

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NeoAxis + Awesomium = Web Browser Inside Game Engine

Treidge — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:48:48 +0000

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Game Engines: NeoAxis Engine

NeoAxis Group reports about another achievment in development of its all-purpose 3D engine that few months before finally reached version 1.0 — NeoAxis Engine now can be tightly integrated with Awesomium, a windowless framework for embedding web pages inside your applications.

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Subscription Advantage Packs for Autodesk 2012 Software Released

Treidge — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:52:29 +0000

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3D Graphics

As expected previously, on September, 27 Subscription Advantage Packs for Autodesk 2012 Software line was released. Maya 2012 SAP, 3ds Max 2012 SAP, Mudbox 2012 SAP and Softimage 2012 SAP already available and can be downloaded by Subscription program members in Autodesk Subscription Center.

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Final Fantasy X HD is Remake — Release Date and Features Rumors

Treidge — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:11:03 +0000

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Consoles and Games

Following the announce of Final Fantasy X HD, made by Square Enix at recent Tokyo Games Show'11, in conditions of strong hunger for additional details and information regarding this project, fresh rumors appeared, covering the questions of possible new features of remake and its release date.

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Final Fantasy X HD Remake for PlayStation 3 and PS Vita

Treidge — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 11:58:05 +0000

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Consoles and Games

Interesting news brought Sony press-conference that took place just before the opening of Tokyo Games Show 2011, passing these days in Japan. Square Enix announced development of HD-remake for its Final Fantasy X, which was released on PlayStation 2 in 2001. Final Fantasy X HD, accordingly to Square Enix representatives, will be available both on PlayStation Vita, that scheduled to be released in Japan on December, 17, and PlayStation 3. Unfortunately, additional details, as the approximate date of release, is unavailable at the moment.

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PS Vita Japan Release Date and Launch Games Line-Up

Treidge — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:52:31 +0000

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Consoles: PlayStation Vita

On the eve of highly anticipated Tokyo Games Show that took place these days in Japan, Sony held a press-conference, which has all of the attention on the upcoming PSP successor, next-generation handheld gaming console called PlayStation Vita. Among the other interesting information actual release date of the device become known — unfortunately, only for Japan at the moment.

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