The latest update to the Cesium SaaS platform is a global layer of the world’s 3D buildings. In addition, Cesium collaborates with Epic to make geospatial data available within Unreal Engine. Cesium, as we have written, provides a platform for 3D GIS data which are organized as Global Base Layers and include worldwide data for terrain, aerial imagery, and streetmaps. … [Read more...] about Cesium update: Mapping the world and playing with it
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Glassbox Technologies’ BeeHive comes out of Beta
Glassbox packages virtual production allowing realtime data exchange between cameras, DCC applications, and your game engine of choice. Glassbox Technologies has released its realtime, collaborative software solution BeeHive, an honoree of Advanced Imaging Society Technical Lumiere Award——s 2019. After remaining in beta since last July, BeeHive is now available for Unreal … [Read more...] about Glassbox Technologies’ BeeHive comes out of Beta
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.23
Ray tracing optimization and new ‘Chaos’ Physics and Destruction System are now available. Like previous updates, Unreal Engine's latest release has arrived with a long list of the updates. Epic says that this release includes 192 improvements submitted by the very active community of Unreal Engine developers on GitHub. At the Game Developer Conference, Epic revealed new … [Read more...] about Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.23
Blender Foundation awarded $1.2 million Epic MegaGrant
Epic Games announced its MegaGrants program at GDC 2019. The company established a $100 million fund to support game developers, enterprise professionals, media and entertainment creators, students, educators, and tool developers who are “doing amazing things with Unreal Engine” or enhancing open-source capabilities for the 3D graphics community. The Blender Foundation had … [Read more...] about Blender Foundation awarded $1.2 million Epic MegaGrant
NewTek’s Lightwave 3D 2019 arrives on time
Features include Bridge for Unreal; LW opts for Optix; some undo is done. Last year, NewTek released Lightwave 2018; this year, the company released LightWave 2019. To anyone who hasn’t covered the trials and tribulations of LightWave that doesn’t seem like big news, but the company has famously struggled to upgrade LightWave in reasonable amounts of time. Worse, the company … [Read more...] about NewTek’s Lightwave 3D 2019 arrives on time