Month: February 2020

GDC You Later

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GDC 2020 is postponed as COVID-19 becomes a real concern in the US. Several organizations have stepped up to support indies impacted by the change. Here’s the scoop on what’s happening and how you can get involved.

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XR Developer, Aaron Clifford

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Some devs have all the fun.

Aaron Clifford is the head AR/VR developer for KOVR, a new VR division of video production company, KO Group. He’s a FLASH game dev from back in the day–all of us cool kids were–and managed to leverage his experience into cool projects like the Dragon Age: Inquisition web-based party builder that launched along with the proper game.

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Quick UV Image Texturing in Blender

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We took a hilarious turn for the ridiculous here and I could not be more pleased.

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Improving Animations with the Curve Editor

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I do love it when a plan comes together.

To test out my newly optimized enemy model with Inverse Kinematics, I wanted to do a little animation test with a video or gif of some sort. You may remember this as the way Epic Games got in so much trouble with Fortnite.

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Better Living through Inverse Kinematics

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Since we’re keeping it simple with the animated enemies in this project, I briefly thought I could achieve everything I wanted to do with simple bone rotation keyframes–this looked bad, took too much effort, and was just wrong.

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VRcade Shooter: Fixing My First Animation Problem

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This post should be short and sweet. It’s about an issue that took up just enough time to talk about it.

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