Category: Tools
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Quickly fix Blender ASCII FBX import error
You have an FBX, but when you go to import it into Blender it says this: “ASCII FBX files are not supported” Solution: Why is this happening? There is a 99% chance the artist that made the FBX used Maya and chose to format their files as .MA instead of .MB. The difference is that MB…
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Index of Free Art Asset Sites:
Every once in a while you need a texture, sound, or model for a game or a prototype. It’s easy to get something on google, but then the licensing isn’t always right, and you might not have money to buy from an asset store. For me this is where CC0 and copyright free sites are…
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Code free interactive water!
After talking with our art mentor, Jonathan, our team began looking into adding water to get some of the beautiful reflections back into our level. We have a few options, decal based puddles, or splat shaders with a height blend. Each of those give us our reflections, but they don’t add a sense of life…
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Tool highlight: Windows 10 Photos App
When trying to crop the concept render for the Void environment, I stumbled onto some new features for the windows image viewer. The viewer can haw add “3D” effects like muzzle flash and rain to an image, and saves it as an mp4. Here is an example made as a quick experiment to test the…