The legend passed away: Elwood Edwards, the voice of AOL’s “You’ve Got Mail” greeting, has died at age 74 after a long illness, according to local Ohio news station WKYC, where he was employed for many years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv1B9sPPOXo

#Internet@GameDEV

Foundry MODO is discontinued: one of the best 3D modeling and texturing apps will not be developed further.

You can check this video to find out about the best features of the 17.0 release. MODO was famous for its procedural approach before Blender eve touched the Geometry Nodes.

Foundry also has a popular VFX software NUKE and texturing app Mari. But MODO seemed like a worthy addition to the family and its fall is concerning.

#3Dmodeling@GameDEV
#3D@GameDEV

Minecraft mod making it a Binding of Isaac 😯

#Minecraft@GameDEV
#Modding@GameDEV
#Modders@GameDEV

⭐ Just updated my screen shader, drop it a star! The Ultimate Screen Effects shader has:

Global:
• Blur and Sharpening
• Pixelation (scalable)
• Chromatic Aberrations
• Bloom booster
• Halation
• Vignette
• Saturation
• Color Filter

MAIN + Shadows, Midtones, Highlights:
• Color Temperature
• Green Tint
• Brightness
• Contrast

WIP:
• Lens Flares (Anamorphic)
• Film Grain (Physically Correct)
• Screen Warp Effects

https://github.com/ArseniyMirniy/Godot-4-Color-Correction-and-Screen-Effects

#Godot4@GameDEV
#GodotEngine@GameDEV
#Shaders@GameDEV

Meanwhile, Dragon Age The Veilguard ☺️ by Disco

AI selected answers in Google search never stop failing!

#AI@GameDEV
#Google@GameDEV
#WTF@GameDEV

Blender procedural magic: make trees from your favorite anime in a couple of clicks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6RGWsZ2z1Y

#NPR@GameDEV
#Stylized@GameDEV
#Blender@GameDEV
#Procedural@GameDEV
#Tutorials@GameDEV

Amuse AI stared to clearly mark models as commercial and non-commercial, which is a very good move (unfortunately, commercial-ready model Flux 1 is huge and requires 24GB VRAM).

For casual game developers they have a nice depth/normals extractor, that can help with materials making. And yes, it's free and works fast on any hardware.

Overall, it's still a fast and easy to use all-in-one app, sponsored by AMD and accelerated with the new Radeon and Ryzen AI chips.

#AI@GameDEV
#AMD@GameDEV

Hey, this lecture is so… Unreal!

Epic Games is making path tracing better and so UE5 is more and more dependent on temporal solutions. But in this case, it can't be done differently to achieve such level of accuracy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD9kS1nOuyU

#UE5@GameDEV
#RTX@GameDEV
#UnrealEngine@GameDEV

⭐ Good morning!

“Breakfast with you” by Oshiruko_s2,

#2DArt@GameDEV
#Animations@GameDEV

Intel is facing some hard times of their hard times:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub27Ol4igwY

4:15 Nvidia ousts Intel from Dow Jones Index after 25-year run
5:43 For the first time ever, AMD outsells Intel in the datacenter space
6:27 Intel is being sued over the instability issues in its Raptor Lake CPUs
7:12 Intel 'still committed to Arc,' but with fewer discrete GPUs, more integrated graphics
TECH BRIEFS

#Hardware@GameDEV
#Intel@GameDEV

Level Designers be like: shit, it's closed!

#LevelDesign@GameDEV
#meme@GameDEV

Your favorite: Zelda 3D in Godot, 10 hours long tutorial!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoGOIiBo4Eg

#GodotEngine@GameDEV
#Tutorials@GameDEV

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the FBI asked developers to stop using the “memory-unsafe” C and C++ programming languages.

They are used by almost every app you are using, including compilers for other languages and the environments to run them. Unreal, Unity, Godot, Blender, and almost all game engines and graphics editing apps are made with C and C++.

Suggesting this is technically impossible and exceptionally expensive for the whole IT and game industry.

Can you stop using gravity and this whole 9.8m/s²? People and items are falling, some are even dying! What a monster are you?!

#Programming@GameDEV
#Govenment@GameDEV
#WTF@GameDEV

At this point, the humanity is screwed up!

#AI@GameDEV
#WTF@GameDEV

Rostyslav Zagornov blamed 11 bit studios and the freelance artist Steven Stone in direct theft of one of his old works to build up Frostpunk: Beyond the Ice. (shitty mobile game) official concept arts. It's obvious, that at least for this flying ship Steven used a copy of what Rostyslav created for his An-Laenort visual novel.

Within the game, several stolen pieces are shown as backgrounds on loading screens.

#Theft@GameDEV
#2DArt@GameDEV
#Legal@GameDEV

— Do you know 3D modeling? — Yeah, sure! ☺️

#meme@GameDEV
#Architecture@GameDEV

Since people are often making VR games in Unity, here's the Unreal startup guide:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3xNb5R_xos
#VR@GameDEV
#UE5@GameDEV
#UnrealEngine@GameDEV