GameGuru News
Obviously the biggest news here is that the big patch dropped. By the time you see this, the newest patch will likely have trickled from the public preview (a sort of open beta) to the main branch. This huge, expansive update has a significant number of major bugfixes from numerous community members such as T-Bone, BoredOfTheRings, Defy, Preben and others. It also has some back end work from Lee. It purports to provide:
- 41 Major fixes.
- Lots of water fixes
- Z Depth issues,
- Glass casting shadows
- And many other fixes for long time issues. More info can be found here: https://www.thegamecreators.com/post/gameguru-publicpreview-released
Third Party Tools and Tutorials
I made a nearly complete guide to the projectile system here: https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/220802
A third party asset management tool is in the works, which I find particularly exciting: https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/220822
The GameGuru youtube official channel has posted a number of recent updates for usage tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1q1e3Q9IKMk4nDlAGb_5Jg/videos
What's Good in the Store
Mad Lobster put up a really excellent film pack of PBR assets.
This is an exceptionally high quality pack and is definitely a must-buy if you use these types of materials.
Sula finally got around to making his cars into a pack, it's pricey but definitely worth the cost if you need a large number of European vehicles that are PBR enabled.
FredGames has put together an interesting Sci-Fi snap-together kit.
Beyond that T-Bone has put together several interesting script and clutter pieces, check his artist page here: https://www.tgcstore.net/artist/45855
Tarkus1971 has been hard at work at music assets, which are generally speaking great quality for the price: https://www.tgcstore.net/artist/219730
And lastly Graphix has been hard at work on many of his own assets such as fences, graveyards and the more.
Free Stuff
A great number of free assets were released recently. Wolf, in particular, posted a massive megathread of all of his free stuff.
This is a definite must-visit for anyone who hasn't obtained his high quality DNIS assets.
Tarkus1971 put up a new music track called a retro volca? I'm not familiar with it but his work up to this point has been really decent. Get your copy here: https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/213190?page=5#msg2617272
MaiaCombra put together a decayed burlap decal
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| This should have good utility in a war torn of post apocalyptic environment. |
And also several other items such as a mobile interface and a retexture of HarryWever's crane.
Random Acts of Creativity (WIPs)
This section will likely not be as updated as it should be because simply there's too much to pour over. I will attempt to capture some of the more interesting things I've seen recently.
Far and away I absolutely loved T-bone (Teabone)'s 'garbage cleanup simulator' found at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRo_vt1tY60
Duchenkuke posted a kitschy project that might have some potential. It gave me a few laughs, at least, the video can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItHmZyKs1rU
Amenmoses has been doing wonderful things with particles: https://vimeo.com/345087887
Solar's project Resist: Revolution is still looking like it's making good forward progress: https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/218343/newest
Honkeyboy is back with some interesting work. While it may need some polish, be aware he does some pretty interesting work with his Lua code so keep an eye on it for that reason if no other strikes your fancy: https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/220833
Newcomer "J-Dup" put some interesting work into a project called "The Last Dweller".
More info and a video can be found here: https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/220872
Cybernessence has continued his phenomenal work on GameGuru and his project:
The above picture illustrates in the author's words: "Just updated the terrain shader to use combined textures, diffuse with specular in alpha and normal with ao in alpha channel.
This saves texture memory and the results for terrain really pop (the ao really make a big difference), it's now looking a lot like how the basic unity PBR terrain does ..."
A host of new and updated works really flooded my research here and I apologize for those I missed. Keep writing your updates so I can see the latest and greatest screenshots to help plug your projects with!
In My Own Works
One of the harder tasks I've had over the past few weeks is balancing a demanding publisher's schedule while dealing with a new baby. I've had numerous revisions, requests, and the like to fix up my book or change various bits about it. It's been difficult to find time but I've found a way to stay on schedule, even if that means making the updates at 3AM while holding a screaming infant.
Also of note I made a private Discord server with many of the heavy hitters of GameGuru, specifically to help facilitate changes faster in our community. That went into play shortly before my daughter's arrival so I'd like to think it helped a bit with getting this latest update out into the world.
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