DevMaster.netYour source for game and graphics developmentirrKlang 1.1 Released- (Found June 24, 2008 ) irrKlang, a high level audio library for game developers has just been released in version 1.1. It is able to play back various file formats such as WAV, MP3, OGG, MOD etc, both in 2D and 3D and is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. irrKlang is free for non-commercial use and now offers new licensing options for hobbyists and indie game developers.http://www.devmaster.net/news/index.php?storyid=2051 PathEngine Announces SDK Release 5.16, New Licensees, Licensing Options- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Lyon, France May 20th 2008 PathEngine announces release 5.16.00 of their pathfinding and agent movement SDK. This is yet another optimisation release, with big speedups in 3D content processing and tokenised loading as well as some core queries. And we're also pleased to announce licensing to both Frogwares and NeoAct (Korea).http://www.devmaster.net/news/index.php?storyid=2039 XNBModelBuilder Released- (Found June 24, 2008 ) We are pleased to announce that desdinova.it released XNBModelBuilder which allows you to create models in .xnb format (used by XNA Game Studio 2.0) without the use of VisualStudio. This actually allows you to create external files and open them directly from disk instead of the directory "Content" of the VisualStudio project.http://www.devmaster.net/news/index.php?storyid=2040 FileCarver 1.5.0- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Fizzysoft has released version 1.5.0 of FileCarver, a powerful developer tool for editing binary files. This program allows the user to specify the format of an arbitrary binary file, and from this it will generate a fully-functional GUI to edit files in the format. Using this program for creating editors for game-specific binary files is a huge productivity boost, as creating a fully-fledged file editor is as easy as making a short XML definition of a file format.http://www.devmaster.net/news/index.php?storyid=2041 Bullet 2.69 Physics SDK released: tear and pick cloth and soft bodies- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Several new contributions such as tearing and picking for cloth and soft bodies. Another collision detection broad phase, based on dynamic AABB trees: this acceleration structure also supports view frustum and occlusion culling. Constraint solver improvements that avoid adding momentum due to penetration recovery, and many more improvements. This YouTube movie shows the latest features. http:www.youtube.comwatchv=exss517n1I0 For more information and download visit http:bullet.googlecode.comhttp://www.devmaster.net/news/index.php?storyid=2043 NeoAxis Engine 0.56 Released- (Found June 24, 2008 ) NeoAxis Engine Version 0.56 has been released with many changes and bug fixes. The most important features in this release are: - New Scene Graph with octree and quadtree support with performance improvements - Fast automatic reconstruction of the Scene Graph contents for optimal performance - New implementation of both DirectInput and XInput adding support for joysticks, gamepads and steering wheels including Xbox360 gamepads - New Mono runtime support as an option to the regular .NET...http://www.devmaster.net/news/index.php?storyid=2044 Irrlicht Engine 1.4.1 and irrEdit Released- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Irrlicht 1.4.1 has just been released and includes improvements to the COLLADA 1.3 loader, support for Milkshape 1.8 files, enhanced .3ds, .obj loaders, Microsoft .x file animation playback improvements, added X11 support on OSX, several speed optimizations and tons of bug fixes. In addition, a new irrEdit version which is 100% compatible with irrlicht 1.4.1 has been released as well. irrEdit is a free 3D scene graph editor for irrlicht.http://www.devmaster.net/news/index.php?storyid=2046 ShaderMap - Converts Textures to Normal, Displacement, and Specular Maps- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Visit: ShaderMap CL is a free command-line tool for Windows that converts textures and photos to normal maps, height maps, specular, and dudv maps. It works great on organic and natural materials such as tree bark and rock. ShaderMap CL is free for non-commercial use. A commercial version is available for $19.95 and includes a graphical user interface and version updates.http://www.devmaster.net/news/index.php?storyid=2047 Deferred Rendering in Leadwerks Engine- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Leadwerks Software has released a paper describing their experience implementing deferred lighting in Leadwerks Engine. The paper includes GLSL code for reconstructing screen space positions without need for a position float buffer, as well as some surprising results. Read the paper here.http://www.devmaster.net/news/index.php?storyid=2048 Audiokinetic and Emergent bundle technologies for a limited time- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Audiokinetic Inc., a leading audio solution provider for the video game industry, announced today that its award-winning audio pipeline solution, Wwise, will be bundled with Emergent Game Technologies Gamebryo for a limited time. Hence, Wwise will be offered to Gamebryo customers for free until June 30th, 2008.http://www.devmaster.net/news/index.php?storyid=2038 |