From eye-catching environments to eye-popping creatures, five leading artists reveal the secrets of creating professional-quality textures for modern games
The modern games industry is a competitive business, and one that offers diverse creative outlets...
Wednesday June 24, 2009 Texturing for games
From eye-catching environments to eye-popping creatures, five leading artists reveal the secrets of creating professional-quality textures for modern games
The modern games industry is a competitive business, and one that offers diverse creative outlets...
Mental Roy – issue 83
Inspired by the high-concept 3D animations currently flooding the web, our resident columnist Mental Roy has gathered the necessary tools for his own assault on the short film circuit. Rehab clinics are standing by.
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DX Studio 3.1 released
PRESS RELEASE
Date: 24th June 2009
Software developers Worldweaver Ltd, based in Pinewood Studios (UK), have just announced a new release of their 3D platform “DX Studio”.
The main focus for version 3.1 has been on large environments and the engine now comes with an advanced terrain and shadow mapping system which allows users to create massive seamless outdoor environments. The design moves beyond the traditional height field and, due to the use of a freeform mesh based approach, allows for overhanging cliffs, caves and vertical terrain.
Hardware skinned meshes and shadows are also supported which helps DX Studio display large numbers of characters and dense foliage in the same scene without hitting performance.
Other new release features include an integrated web browser with Flash support, an expansion of DX Studio’s PhysX capabilities, new resource management and file sharing systems for larger projects and Wiimote support.
“We are especially pleased with the performance of the new terrain system as we have just been commissioned to assist in the development of a new global naval training simulator using DX Studio,” said CEO and founder Chris Sterling.
Full details of all the new features in v3.1 can be found at www.dxstudio.com/.
Venom F1000-4 HPC Solution 1U compute platform optimised with 4 AMD FireStream compute accelerators announced
PRESS RELEASE
HAMBURG , Germany, June 23 2009 — Boston Limited launch and showcase their highly optimised CPU & GPU compute solution based around AMD ’s next generation FireStream GPU technologies in conjunction with one of the SS6016XT...
Superhero animation competition from HP and Intel
HP and Intel announce six week challenge to create a short film based on a superhero character, Mr. Z.
PRESS RELEASE
LONDON , UK June 23, 2009, To support the launch of the Z-Series Workstation, HP and Intel today announced the start of a six week...
