Logic Simplified

MAY 7, 2024

Whoever thought Spine 2D animation reminds you of a paper doll craft, where you move all the body parts to create animations, was right! Spine is a 2D skeletal animation tool for game development and other animation projects. One, how Spine works as a great 2D animation software. How does it work? They create!

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Game From Scratch

JUNE 12, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Epic Games Release 500+ Free AAA Quality Game Animations Epic Games are the kings of free stuff, from their monthly giveaways to today’s announcement, 500+ game ready motion matched game engines for Unreal Engine 5.4.

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Game From Scratch

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Odyssey – Unreal Engine Powered 2D Animation Software Odyssey is a 2D animation software that just released version 1.0. This interesting 2D animation tool is built on top of Unreal Engine, in that it is a built upon the Unreal Engine foundation using a branch of the UE source code.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

Breaking changes Animation Audio C# Core Editor GDScript Import Input Physics Platforms Rendering and shaders XR New in Beta 1! GH-91333 ) The names of imported blend shapes and animation libraries from glTF files have changed as unsupported characters are automatically removed. Highlights Many features originally intended for 4.3

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Game From Scratch

MARCH 31, 2025

Toon Boom, the creators of the Toon Boom Harmony (and other) 2D animation packages have just announced a new product in beta format, Toon Boom Jump! takes the animation tools they are known for, but integrates the open-source Godot game engine. GameFromScratch.com Godot + Toon Boom = Jump! Toon Boom Jump!

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Harold Serrano

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

In this video, I will put my engine's animation system to the test. I have never tested the animation system other than with the only animation that I have. So, I'm going to test different animations which I have never used before and see if my engine can play them or crash. Enjoy Thanks for watching.

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Perforce

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Unreal Engine 5 brings technological advancements essential for next-gen consoles, as well as film and animation. Learn more.

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Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 25, 2025

It really helps to take a larger view of what a game is from a software engineering perspective. Once you know what the system needs to do, the engineer can break down the individual functions and data members she'll need in order to actually do that work. Using the three buckets mentioned previously, let's break it down.

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 1, 2024

At Unreal Fest 2024, NVIDIA released new Unreal Engine 5 on-device plugins for NVIDIA ACE, making it easier to build and deploy AI-powered MetaHuman characters. At Unreal Fest 2024, NVIDIA released new Unreal Engine 5 on-device plugins for NVIDIA ACE, making it easier to build and deploy AI-powered MetaHuman characters on Windows PCs.

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Game From Scratch

JUNE 29, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Goo Engine – Blender for Anime Following the recent release of Blender 3.6 a special anime focused fork of Blender, Goo Engine, was also updated. Goo Engine is the in-house custom version of Blender used by Dillon Goo Studios, an art studio that specializes in anime productions.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 3, 2024

In a moment of dissatisfaction, while working at a prestigious engineering company in Turkey, Dorothy Orina made a decision that changed the course of her career. Although she enjoyed her time in Turkey and her engineering studies, she decided to leave both behind to pursue her passion for game development.

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Game From Scratch

APRIL 23, 2024

GameFromScratch.com Unreal Engine 5.4 Released Epic Games have just released Unreal Engine 5.4 but a big focus in this release is on the new animation tools built directly into Unreal Engine. This will prevent animators […] The post Unreal Engine 5.4 first previewed at the GDC 2024 State of Unreal.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 10, 2023

Expressive characters Using Unity as their engine, the biggest challenge was creating a visually distinct 2.5D look with fluid animations in a sports game. Their solution was a unique blend of hand-drawn 2D sprites and animations in a 3D environment.

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CG Spectrum

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Hanny shares her visually stunning final project with us, a short cinematic called Naima , detailing how she created her scenes in Unreal Engine, where she drew her inspiration from, and how the technical and creative support of her industry expert mentors allowed her to bring her vision to fruition. Meet Hanny. So, I signed up!

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CG Spectrum

JANUARY 3, 2023

As the excuses he devised not to follow his passion faded, Anthony quit his full-time job to dedicate his efforts to exploring filmmaking within a game engine. So in April 2022, I quit my job to work on making animated short films full-time. After settling on Unreal Engine and attempting to learn via YouTube tutorials, etc.,

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Logic Simplified

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Its capabilities for VR content creation include comprehensive 3D modeling tools, advanced texturing and shading, animation and rigging, and integration with VR Devices. Maya by Autodesk Maya is Autodesk’s virtual reality software which allows you to create 3D computer animation and VFX graphics.

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Game From Scratch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Unreal Engine 5.3 Released Epic Games have just released Unreal Engine 5.3. The popular Unreal game engine gets several new improvements with the 5.3 Released Read More The post Unreal Engine 5.3 The popular Unreal game engine gets several new improvements with the 5.3

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Game From Scratch

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Unreal Engine Post-Apocalyptic Assets Humble Bundle. There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the Post-Apocalyptic Assets Bundle is a large collection of 3D models, fx and animations for Unreal Engine, both UE4 and UE 5.x.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

returns to its own physics engine which, despite not being a high end physics engine like PhysX, aims to offer a lot more flexibility and “just works” capabilities to users. The custom physics engine still has a considerable amount of issues remaining but we are working hard to ensure it is in a decent state for shipping when 4.0

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Game From Scratch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

GameFromScratch.com The Ultimate FPS & TPS Animation Collection Humble Bundle There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, the Ultimate FPS & TPS Animation Collection bundle is a large collection of animations and models for creating first and third person shooter style games in Unreal Engine.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 14, 2024

“This can include concept, model, rigging, animation, VFX, lighting, character animation delivered in-engine, and more.” ” Read more

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 4, 2025

Efficient Physics Management: Balance Accuracy & Performance Through the PhysX engine from Unity users achieve detailed physics calculations at the expense of heavy system usage. Optimizing Animations for Smooth Performance Animations add realism but can strain multiplayer performance.

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Grumpy Gamer

MARCH 21, 2020

A few weeks ago I decided to completely rebuild the Thimbleweed Park engine, and I guess the timing was very auspicious given that it’s great at keeping me distracted and from reading the news non-stop. I’ve always felt there was a better way and I had an epiphany the other which lead to rewriting the TWP engine.

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Perforce

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Learn how to leverage Unreal Engine Artificial Intelligence with tools like procedural generation in games and the MetaHuman animator.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 21, 2025

Animation: Fix console errors and crash in cleanup code for PhysicalBoneSimulator3D ( GH-103921 ). Animation: Fix rest translation space in LookAtModifier3D ( GH-104217 ). While engine maintainers try their best to ensure that each preview snapshot and release candidate is stable, this is by definition a pre-release piece of software.

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Grumpy Gamer

MARCH 21, 2020

A few weeks ago I decided to completely rebuild the Thimbleweed Park engine, and I guess the timing was very auspicious given that it’s been great at keeping me distracted and from reading the news non-stop. I’ve always felt there was a better way and I had an epiphany the other day which lead to rewriting the TWP engine.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 6, 2025

We’ll soon be conducting first playtests with the horse-loving target audience to make sure riding controls and animations hold up to scrutiny. I’m really happy with how our animations are turning out. The visual appeal of Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori is also a standout feature.

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Cocos

JULY 1, 2024

It work fine on other engine like Unity but i have a problem in Cocos Creator 3.8.3. My 3d model animation work fine in preview. I use baked animation but it just a little help. I have a 3d Model Character. The teeth can see through the neck. My project here: BugCocos.zip - Google Drive [image]

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

According to another message sent to staff and seen by GLHF, writers, engineers, artists, production, IT, and animation were also listed as being at risk of redundancy. Read more

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Grumpy Gamer

APRIL 2, 2023

") the GUYBRUSH is a macro to replaces the text with “@38260:GUYBRUSH” This removes the text from the compiled code and forces the engine to look it up in the translation file as well as directing the VO to play the correct audio. Everything is linked to the id 38260 including the actor’s scripts.

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Cocos

APRIL 26, 2023

So, our art director wants everything set up using timeline as much as possible so that the artists have as much control over visual aesthetic as possible… even after animations have been properly hooked up in code, the animation clips can be changed without the art team being dependent on engineering.

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Nvidia

MAY 28, 2023

The number of pre-recorded lines has grown, the number of options a player has to interact with NPCs has increased, and facial animations have become more realistic. At COMPUTEX 2023 , NVIDIA announced the future of NPCs with the NVIDIA Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE) for Games. 2: Heart of Chornobyl.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 20, 2025

Drop preload Resources as UID With UID support being a part of the engine as of 4.4read more about them here weve enabled further optimizations via their integration with core components. Animation: Support hiding functions calls in Method Tracks ( GH-96421 ). 3D: Use physical keys for the Q/W/E/R editor shortcuts ( GH-103533 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 26, 2025

Animation: Fix console errors and crash in cleanup code for PhysicalBoneSimulator3D ( GH-103921 ). Animation: Fix missing process_state error in blend spaces ( GH-104018 ). Animation: Fix rest translation space in LookAtModifier3D ( GH-104217 ). Audio: Set interactive music streams as meta streams ( GH-104054 ).

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 8, 2025

However, in contrast to games built with the engine, it wasnt possible to change the current language on-the-fly within the editor itself. Animation: Add delta argument to _process_modification() as _process_modification_with_delta(delta) and expose advance() at Skeleton3D ( GH-103639 ). if something that worked fine in previous 4.x

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 16, 2024

” The decision to switch engines was only made fairly recently. Being a new engine, Godot is still rough in places. Identify key features you need your engine to support, make some prototypes and see if Godot suits you and your game. “Ricky has his own unique art style that he brought into the process.”

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