3D Gamestudio Gamedevelopment 3DGS A6 A7 - free engine tutorials models shaders textures codes

George, doesnt seem to rest during the weekend like the rest of us. No! He just released the latest AUM! This time you will for shure find useful things and code for gamedevelopment with 3DGS. For example a workshop about particles and how to set up a particle generator or spawn particles out of models. Then he updated his AI Pathfinding code and made it faster/better. Now tha paths not only look better but the algorithm behind them calculates much faster. In addition you can now place 300 nodes instead of only 100.

You also find an interview with the coder Andreas Hermanspann from Antaris a 3D Shooter he works on with A6 on his own. The usual frequently asked questions from the forums get answered too, so you can grab some hints from a pro. Have fun with it in your garden on a sunny sundayafternoon.

The latest Version of the free 3D modelling tool Blender has been released in version 2.44! The program is the biggest one available for free with the richest feature set. It even comes with .mdl export for 3DGS via plugin. You can grab it here!

The Release Notes consist of many new things in different areas such as:

-Subsurface Scattering (You can render surfaces wich dont reflext but consume light and scatter it such as skin, soap or milk.)
-Physics Engine
-New Phyton Scripts
-New Sculpt and Multires Functionality
-Many new smaller bugfixes and features
-Improvements in character animation

If you want to see what you can do with blender besides making 3d models for games, have a look at this short but sweet animation film.

A new job board, www.indiegamejobs.com, just opened up that caters to the independent game developer. The site allows you to post jobs or searchthrough job categories including 3d, textures, programming, and level design. You can evaluate artists by previewing their work and reading feedbackratings from other users. You can also post and browse resumes.Here are some of the features listed on the site:

-Completely Free
-Easy to use Web 2.0 interface
-Intuitive rating system
-Profile section that supports images and links
-Messages Area
-Resumes Section

The good thing about this service is, that it is completely free of charge! Also note that it is not limited to 3DGS, you can find any good team member worldwide. So if you search for the next John Carmack for your team, go ahead and register now.

If the rate of updates goes on like this, i will have problems watching it. Ichiro has released a new Indie Superstar Episode just in case you missed it. This time topics are the following games:
FizzBall
Absolute Blue
Peggle
Dumbow & Cool
Addictive Football
Trophy Bass 2007

He also shows us newbies how to catch the real big fish…

I was already on my way to my warm bed when i discoverd that a brand new episode of Indie Superstar was announced by Ichiro in the Conitec 3DGS Forum namely Season 2 Episode 2. Unfortunately it takes a while to stream the video from YouTube. That means the bed must wait! New is a Text Transcript of the Show wich is especially useful for people who are not so fluent in the english language or want to practice understanding.

This time Ichiro introduces the following titles from other indie developers in the usual funny way:

Frets on Fire
The Shivah
Mr. Robot
The Antique Chronicles
OvO

It is really impressive what other teams can accomplish. These are huge complex projects. That show especially the two adventures with spoken text and lots of story/animation work!
OvO is even some kind of Playstation 2 Eye Toy Clone, where you have to make fun of yourself while you try to pop baloons or make a window clean in front of your webcam. A very funny partygame when not only your webcam is watching you jumping around like a freak. :p I did not even know until now that such programs exist for the PC.
PC GAMER says about Mr. Robot that it is ‘…the most enjoyable independent game I’ve played since Defcon!’ and because i liked the setting of this game i downloaded the demo. But i wont go into much detail here, i only want to say that its worth investing some more time - both for watching this great episode and diving into the demos. Thanks for this worthwhile 8 minutes!

Although it some time has passed since Ichiro posted a new episode of Indie Superstar it is well worth watching it. In this episode he talks about the games: Moonpod’s Starscape, Hamumu’s Loonyland 2, PawleyScape’s FastCrawl, littlebig’s Bubble Ship Boy, and Top Meadow’s Minigolf Mania.

You should not miss this one if you are interested what other indie game developers finish!