GameDev Tools weekly made by Alexander Pirogov and Victor Stepanov.

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We are looking for GDC Tools Summit talks

• Announcement

If you have been working on a GameDev Tools technology why not share your findings with GameDev Tools community at the GDC Tools Summit?

We are looking for great talks about Tools Tech and Tools Design/UX

Send your talk ideas to Geoff Evans And David Lightbown

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The Machinery Beta version 2021.2

• Our Machinery
• Engine
• Workflow

Checkout the latest updates from the Our Machinery team. We recommend viewing the asset import workflow video .

The Machinery Beta — February 2021 (version 2021.2) is up! #gamedev https://t.co/M2pSHa8scA

— Our Machinery (@ourmachinery) February 26, 2021

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Breakpoint Conference

• Conference
• Debugging
• Testing

Probably the single best conference for GameDev tools information. Building, debugging, testing, managing crashes and much more!

Join us at Breakpoint. 800 REGISTRANTS representing over 500 STUDIOS featuring TALKS from @unity3d, @igda, @EA, @EpicGames,@crypticstudios,@googlestadia, @team17, @superluminalsft, @nvidia, and @gamedriverio - Secure your spot! #gamedev https://t.co/RN8AqhYEH6 pic.twitter.com/h7NhhhsLnu

— Backtrace (@0xCD03) February 23, 2021

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OpenAI + Chatbot integration into Modbox

• AI
• In-game Editor
• UX

Checkout the visual scripting in Modbox and the fascinating possibilities of chatbot integration.

Made a video on scripting AI characters in Modbox using OpenAI GPT3 + @replica_ai voices + speech services https://t.co/r58Fu9CFQm

— Lee Vermeulen (@Alientrap) February 18, 2021

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Room-builder tool in Unity

• Unity
• Terrain
• UX

This cool tool reminds us of Sander van Rossen’s Tools Summit: Geometry in Milliseconds: Real-Time Constructive Solid Geometry

Source: Technically Art: Issue 88 (26.02.2021) by Harry Alisavakis

I’ve been working on a room-builder tool for iterative level design. Everything is procedural so I can still make edits to the meshes afterwards. I started out by reading floorplan textures, but slowly converting to in-engine drawing instead 🙂🔨 #gamedev #techart #madewithunity pic.twitter.com/ADm8IgFGIr

— Laure 🌿 (@Laure_DeMey) February 23, 2021

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ztd.text lib announcement

• lib

From GitHub’s description:

Because if text works well in two of the most popular systems programming languages, the entire world over can start to benefit properly.

This repository is an implementation of an up and coming proposal percolating through SG16, P1629 - Standard Text Encoding. It will also include implementations of some downstream ideas covered in Previous Work in this area, including Zach Laine’s Boost.Text (proposed), rmf’s libogonek, and Tom Honermann’s text_view.

Ready for prime time. Version 0.

Of many, many more versions to come.https://t.co/rTu4gDNoIfhttps://t.co/cK16MGvszU

— Björk (@__phantomderp) February 21, 2021

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Custom Terrain System in Unity

• Unity
• Terrain
• UX

Source: Technically Art: Issue 88 (26.02.2021) by Harry Alisavakis

Playing around with a new tile-like custom terrain system #unity3d pic.twitter.com/qho3wVHoBN

— t3ssel8r (@t3ssel8r) February 22, 2021

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Open-World terrain trick in Unity

• Unity
• Terrain
• Level Design

Source: Technically Art: Issue 88 (26.02.2021) by Harry Alisavakis

Here's a nifty level design trick we @farfewgiants are using for our open-world game Imagined Leviathans: pic.twitter.com/krzHmlqKJC

— de Fault📝 (@antony_de_fault) February 24, 2021

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Terrain painting tool for Unity

• Unity
• Terrain

Source: Technically Art: Issue 88 (26.02.2021) by Harry Alisavakis

The terrain painting tool I made a little while ago is now up for grabs on the Unity asset store! #gamedev #unity3d

🔗https://t.co/xgSelGWBkE pic.twitter.com/EZyIDybOQB

— Staggart Creations 🏔🌲 (@_staggart_) February 25, 2021

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The Toolsmiths updates:

• The Toolsmiths are slowly migrating the conversations from Slack to Discord

  via GIPHY

• Toolsmiths @ GDC 2021
  • GDC Tools Summit
    • We are waiting for your submissions for the GDC 2021 Tools Summit! Send your talk proposals to Geoff Evans and David Lightbown
  • GDC Tools Roundtables:
    • Join us this summer at the virtual Tools Roundtables!
• We are continuing our 3rd season of the Vault Club in our Discord Server.
  • We will be looking at this list of languages and discussing how they apply to Game Tools development:
    • Rust
    • Dion
    • Jai
    • D
    • Odin
    • Kotlin
    • Zig

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Did You Know??

• EmbarkStudios has an open-source dev community discord server

• There is a fast, scalable version control file storage for graphic files SnowFS

• Unreal Engine + Jenkins

  • There is a Unreal Engine Jenkins BuildTools Dockerfile project on GitHub
  • Unreal Engine + Jenkins article on Medium

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Notable Releases and Updates

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Big Remotery update

Big Remotery update!

* New auto thread sampler to visualise processors threads run on.
* No Administrator elevation required.
* Save/load of Remotery traces with no data loss.
* Native GPU/WebGL widget renderers for 100x speed vs. native.
* Lots more... https://t.co/WAayYxdCxa pic.twitter.com/Am77r9y9du

— Don Williamson (@Donzanoid) February 23, 2021

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Checkout other awesome digests:

• Graphics Programming weekly by Jendrik Illner
• Technically Art by Harry Alisavakis

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