CRC Press - Game AI Pro 2 [PDF]

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Summary

Game AI Pro2: Collected Wisdom of Game AI Professionals presents cutting-edge tips, tricks, and techniques for artificial intelligence (AI) in games, drawn from developers of shipped commercial games as well as some of the best-known academics in the field. It contains knowledge, advice, hard-earned wisdom, and insights gathered from across the community of developers and researchers who have devoted themselves to game AI.

In this book, 47 expert developers and researchers have come together to bring you their newest advances in game AI, along with twists on proven techniques that have shipped in some of the most successful commercial games of the last few years. The book provides a toolbox of proven techniques that can be applied to many common and not-so-common situations. It is written to be accessible to a broad range of readers. Beginners will find good general coverage of game AI techniques and a number of comprehensive overviews, while intermediate to expert professional game developers will find focused, deeply technical chapters on specific topics of interest to them.

Covers a wide range of AI in games, with topics applicable to almost any game
Touches on most, if not all, of the topics necessary to get started in game AI
Provides real-life case studies of game AI in published commercial games
Gives in-depth, technical solutions from some of the industry’s best-known games
Includes downloadable demos and/or source code, available at http://www.gameaipro.com

http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781482254792

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Simply Maya VRay 3 Shading Lighting and Rendering the Bedroom

June 24, 2015, 11:32 pm

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In this tutorial we cover the shading, lighting and rendering of the bedroom scene in VRay 3. You can follow along with this tutorial in older versions of VRay, while we do look at some new features of VRay 3 these are simply to optimize render time. All the post processing is done in Photoshop.

Uartsy - Animal Anatomy

June 25, 2015, 4:52 am

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In this course, you will learn how to analyze animal forms and reconstruct their basic structures, and then apply that knowledge so you can draw any creature from any angle with or without reference!
Professional creature designers frequently use inspiration from animals in nature during the design process. An understanding of animal anatomy will do more than just give you the ability to draw or sculpt animals more accurately. It can dramatically enhance your creature design skills as well. Animal Anatomy with Marshall Vandruff will give you the techniques you’ll need to get started.

https://www.uartsy.com/course/animal-anatomy

Restaurant & Cooking Starter Kit

June 25, 2015, 5:04 am

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Restaurant & Cooking starter kit is an easy to use and learn project that can greatly speed up your prototypes, and can be used as a strong base for further development and experiments. It has all nuts and bolts to build a fully functional game.

Features:
- Supports Android, iOS, Web, Windows and Mac
- Available in C# and JS
- Supports unlimited number of customers, products and ingredients
- Comes with 8 predefined customer
- Comes with 15 predefined ingredients
- Comes with 25 predefined products
- Comes with 3 predefined side-requests
- Candies!

***Please purchase the kit from asset store if you like it***

FX TD Crash Course by Allan Mckay

June 25, 2015, 7:46 am

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http://www.allanmckay.com/

Udemy - A New Vision Making Money $$$$$ with Photoshop & Illustrator

June 25, 2015, 9:09 am

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This course will guide you and teach you professional level skills about logo design, icon design, web design, business card design and most important it will teach you multiple different way to make money with them. Simply it will help you to start your new web graphic designing carrier.

http://www.udemy.com/a-new-vision-make-1000-in-a-week-in-easy-way/?dtcode=IpoGHh83a0qg

Thanks To Diptera:
http://forum.cgpersia.com/f91/udemy-new-vision-making-money-photoshop-illustrator-119727/#post1131716

Lynda - Designing Home Plans with Revit

June 25, 2015, 9:27 am

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Lynda – Designing Home Plans with Revit

Info: Designing Home Plans with Revit examines the modeling and design documentation process of a single-story home in Revit. Brian Myers shows how to build plans for a ranch-style home, starting with the very basics: creating levels. He’ll then add a foundation and roof, walls, doors and windows, columns and beams, and details like countertops, lighting, and utilities. By the end of the course, designers will have not only built a model of a welcoming home, but also created camera views and multiple sheets in the design documentation set, including sections, details, and schedules.

Topics include:
Setting up the project
Creating walls
Modeling the foundation
Adding doors and windows
Creating floors, slabs, and porches
Placing columns and beams
Designing a roof
Creating kitchens and bathrooms
Placing utilities
Adding lights and wiring
Creating interior and exterior elevations
Creating standard and 3D views
Creating and printing sheets

http://www.lynda.com/course-tutorials/Designing-Home-Plans-Revit/182673-2.html

Digital Tutors - Designing a Low Poly Game Environment in Blender

June 25, 2015, 9:58 am

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In this Blender tutorial we'll learn how to create and hand paint a low polygon island environment complete with props and ready to be played.

Game content creation is amongst the most common jobs for freelancers. Mobile games are currently on the rise as well as web games. Such game content requires a different approach to current next generation content due to hardware limitations. We'll also create a simple walkthrough using the Blender Game Engine (BGE) to showcase the created game content.

By the end of the Blender training you'll have improved your ability to animate efficiently in the gaming environment.

http://digitaltutors.com/11/training.php?pid=2151

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Allegorithmic Substance Painter 1.4.1.761 WIN

June 25, 2015, 10:20 am

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Substance Painter is a brand new 3D Painting app with never before seen features and workflow improvements to make the creation of textures for 3D assets easier than ever. It is acknowledged as the most innovative and user-friendly 3D Painter out there.

Special thanks for the Posejdon
http://www.allegorithmic.com/products/substance-painter

Thinkbox Krakatoa MY 2.4.0.58861 For MAYA 2013-2016

June 25, 2015, 12:22 pm

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Krakatoa for Autodesk Maya (also known as Krakatoa MY or KMY for short) is a volumetric particle rendering plugin inplemented using the C++ Interface to Thinkbox Software's Krakatoa renderer for Linux, Mac OSX and Microsoft Windows operating systems.

The first public Build 2.1.7.50419 was released on February 21st, 2013. Note that the release number matches the Krakatoa core renderer version shared with Krakatoa MX and Krakatoa SR. All Krakatoa implementations share the same rendering core and should produce identical, pixel-exact output given the same particle data and settings. The latest build is v2.3.0.54157 released on December 17th, 2013.

Krakatoa MY is fully integrated in the Maya User Interface. It implements various dedicated scene objects like a PRT Loader for loading particles from external file sequences, PRT Volume and PRT Surface for converting geometry volumes and surfaces to point clouds. v2.3.0 introduced support for the Magma node-based channel editing system, allowing complex operations on large numbers of particles, data acquisition from other particles and scene meshes and so on.

More Infos: http://www.thinkboxsoftware.com/krakatoa-my-overview

Zillionarts Workshop - Realistic Digital Painting

June 25, 2015, 12:27 pm

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“Realistic Digital Painting” is the only digital workshop with live recording that demonstrates the process of creating a stunning photo-realistic painting in photoshop from start to finish. The author demonstrates his techniques and shares his experience while creating the master piece. Any artist with basic drawing knowledge can follow and master the photo-realistic digital painting skill with this workshop. We have included the custom brushes used in this workshop. These brushes were created by the artist/author Victor Stoll specially for this workshop. With more than 9hrs of detailed video walkthrough, this is the workshop that every digital artist has been waiting for.

FumeFX 357 MAYA 2012-2016 WIN64 iND

June 25, 2015, 12:37 pm

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Welcome to the FumeFX for Maya - a groundbreaking solution designed for realistic and breathtaking fire, smoke and explosion effects. This unique plug-in is a powerful gaseous fluid dynamics simulator created by Sitni Sati for seamless integration with Autodesk Media & Entertainment’s Maya™ modeling and animation software. Designed for use by visual effects artists, game developers, and visualization professionals who demand the utmost in realism, FumeFX is unrivalled in its ability to capture the nuance and complexity of fluid gas behavior.

FumeFX for 3ds max has been already production proven in feature film titles such as Oblivion, Hugo, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance,Thor, Red Tails, Priest, 2012, Skyline, Suckerpunch, Spiderman 3, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Superman Returns, Iron Man, The Host (Gwoemul) and various games cinematics such as Warhammer Online, Classic Transformers and Dante's Inferno while FumeFX for Maya has been used on The Avengers, Oz the Great and Powerful and Thor.

Key Features

- Production proven results demonstrate this technology's ability to achieve realistic smoke and fire effects for cutting-edge industry applications.
- FumeFX supplements the user's artistic vision with the power of real-world physics for the ultimate in both style and realism.
- GPU accelerated Preview Windows with self-shadows, multiple scattering and geometry.
- A multitude of parameters and FumeFX helpers give users maximum control of the fluid's behavior and appearance.
- Easy to use, basic effects can be created with just a few clicks.
- Dynamic simulations allow for bi-directional influence between FumeFX and particle systems.
- FumeFX is capable of dynamic interaction with other scene objects.

Simulation

- Simulation of nested grids in one go (N-Sim).
- Powerfull Effectors that can control almost every parameter on a per-voxel basis.
- Application of various Deformers on caches.
- FumeFX can use Variable Density solver that uses smoke density and temperature as variables.
- Start simulations from scratch or by using other simulation results as a starting point.
- Stop, pause and continue simulations at any point.
- Simulation is multithreaded - users can select how many CPU's to dedicate to their simulation.
- Users can watch the simulation progress in the interactive GPU accelerated Preview Window.
- Interactive simulation allows user to change almost every parameter during the simulation and see it's influence on the simulation result.
- Draft simulations can be created in mere minutes for fast previewing.
- Multiple advection schemes that can minimize numerical dissipation.
- User has control of which data is written to output files for rendering and further processing.
- Wavelet Turbulence algorithm quickly adds extra detail to low resolution simulation caches while preserving the existing overall motion.
- Retimer is a very efficient and fast method to slow down or speed up caches without the need to re-run simulation.
- Post Processing module can significantly reduce cache size by optimizing grid size around smoke/fire. It also allows users to decide which channels will be excluded from the final caches.

Rendering

- mental ray renderer support - available for both Windows and Linux.
- The GPU accelerated Preview Window gives users almost instant feedback on render settings.
- Fast self-shadowing is produced through an Illumination Map which is integrated inside of the FumeFX object.
- A highly efficient Multiple Scattering model enhances light dispersion throughout fluid .
- Fluid Mapping integrates procedural map details with fluid motion.

More Infos: http://www.afterworks.com/FumeFX/Overview.asp

cmiVFX - Creature Creators Handbook Volume 2 Part E

June 25, 2015, 12:50 pm

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This is a continuation of the tutorial’s series “Creature Creators Handbook” by cmiVFX . Thanks Diptera for this one.

DAZ 3D Bryce v7.1.0.74 install and portable

June 25, 2015, 2:27 pm

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Bryce is an award winning, fun, feature-packed 3D modeling and animation package designed to allow new users to quickly create and render stunning 3D environments. Bryce combines exceptional power with an innovative interface for incredible ease of use. Add wildlife, people, props and more to your scenes via the DAZ Studio character plug-in in addition to terrain, water, sky, rocks, clouds, fog, vegetation, and architecture for which Bryce has long been the standard.

Originally created by Eric Wenger, Kai Krause and Phil Clevenger.

Bryce 7 Pro is not currently compatible with MacOS 10.7 and above. Please do not use it with these platforms. Bryce WILL work with 10.6.

Rhinoceros 5.11.50203 x86/x64

June 25, 2015, 3:17 pm

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2015-02-03
5.11.50203 Build SR11

www.rhino3d.com

Rhino 5.0 is the market leader in industrial design modeling software. Highly complicated shapes can be directly modeled or acquired through 3D digitizers. With its powerful NURBS based engine Rhino 5.0 can create, edit, analyze, and translate curves, surfaces, and solids. There are no limits on complexity, degree, or size. McNeel Rhino 5.0 also supports polygon meshes and point clouds for a complete coverage of geometric data types. With its unparalleled modeling power McNeel Rhino 5.0 lets you focus on designing, not on cumbersome modeling workarounds.

Crack:
1. Install application for 90 days (x86 or x64).
2. Run trial for 90 days.
3. Close Rhino.
4. Change file in C:\Program Files\Rhinoceros 5 (64-bit)\System with file in CRACK folder.
5. Enjoy))

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Pro Photoshop Tutorial – Special FX Bundle

June 25, 2015, 4:47 pm

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Length: 5:40 HR
It includes:
Blending In
Powder Galaxy
Rebirth
The Human Torch
http://phlearn.com/product/special-fx-4-pack

Udemy – The Photoshop Secret – How To Learn Photoshop CS6 In 2 Hours

June 25, 2015, 4:53 pm

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Imagine if you could learn Photoshop in just 2 hours. Well now you can. Going from beginner to expert in just 2 hours in Photoshop. This is all possible in just 4 easy an simple steps.

Having taught 1000s of beginners Photoshop, they have immediately been able to apply all of the Photoshop techniques they have learnt.

Here we welcome you to the “Learn Photoshop In 2 Hours” course, where we will transform you from a beginner to a Photoshop Pro. We have carefully crafted this course to provide you with only the finest content in just 4 simple and easy steps.

Guarantee: By the end of this course you’ll be able to use Photoshop to create and modify images like never before in just 2 hours.

Why You Should Take This Course?

We have trained 1000s of students from across the world and are renowned for delivering only high quality content and training. With us you can now dedicate your time and energy to a course which will deliver exceptional results in the shortest amount of time possible.

In this course you will learn:

– How to retouch images so that you can finally create the perfect picture

– Learn how to effectively remove annoying backgrounds from your images

– Bring back to life old images by giving them a modern touch

In addition, you shall receive these 2 bonuses:

– 4 Step Ultra Deluxe Photoshop CS6 Handbook, so that you will no longer have to experience the stress of being overwhelmed in Photoshop again

– Supreme Shortcuts Photoshop CS6 Guide, which will provide you the most essential shortcuts in Photoshop

Udemy – The Photoshop Secret – How To Learn Photoshop CS6 In 2 Hours

June 25, 2015, 4:56 pm

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Imagine if you could learn Photoshop in just 2 hours. Well now you can. Going from beginner to expert in just 2 hours in Photoshop. This is all possible in just 4 easy an simple steps.

Having taught 1000s of beginners Photoshop, they have immediately been able to apply all of the Photoshop techniques they have learnt.

Here we welcome you to the “Learn Photoshop In 2 Hours” course, where we will transform you from a beginner to a Photoshop Pro. We have carefully crafted this course to provide you with only the finest content in just 4 simple and easy steps.

Guarantee: By the end of this course you’ll be able to use Photoshop to create and modify images like never before in just 2 hours.

Why You Should Take This Course?

We have trained 1000s of students from across the world and are renowned for delivering only high quality content and training. With us you can now dedicate your time and energy to a course which will deliver exceptional results in the shortest amount of time possible.

In this course you will learn:

– How to retouch images so that you can finally create the perfect picture

– Learn how to effectively remove annoying backgrounds from your images

– Bring back to life old images by giving them a modern touch

In addition, you shall receive these 2 bonuses:

– 4 Step Ultra Deluxe Photoshop CS6 Handbook, so that you will no longer have to experience the stress of being overwhelmed in Photoshop again

– Supreme Shortcuts Photoshop CS6 Guide, which will provide you the most essential shortcuts in Photoshop

Thinkbox Deadline 7.1.0.35 - Win

June 25, 2015, 7:08 pm

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Deadline is a hassle-free administration and rendering toolkit for Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX based render farms. It offers a world of flexibility and a wide-range of management options for render farms of all sizes, and supports over 40 different rendering packages out of the box.

Home Page: _http://www.thinkboxsoftware.com/deadline/

Computer Arts - July 2015 PDF

June 25, 2015, 8:31 pm

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Computer Arts is the best selling title for digital creatives. Every issue delivers the practical skills and expert advice to help you become a better designer.It showcases the best illustration, graphic design, typography and web design along with advice from agencies and digital artists.Our workshops will help you create an iconic brand, design your own characters, take your work onto mobile platforms or master the newest advanced Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator and other Creative Suite skills. Files not included.

English - 100 Pages - True PDF - Issue 242