Tooling News
The latest Tooling coverage curated for game developers.
arXiv cs.GR details CuACD, a fully GPU-resident approximate convex decomposition pipeline that turns triangle meshes into convex parts much faster. The authors say it can cut preprocessing from tens of …
GameFromScratch highlights TrenchBroom, a modern free and open-source 3D level editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux. For teams building Quake-style or BSP-based workflows, it’s a reminder that a mature, cross-platform …
arXiv cs.GR details an adjoint-based workflow for automating profile extrusion die design, replacing manual trial-and-error with deterministic shape optimization. The method uses non-boundary-conforming geometry representations and a reconstruction step to …
Stride cli/1.0.3 tightens project setup and opens the door to newer .NET runtimes without waiting for a full engine update. The biggest change is versioned samples and starter content, so …
AMD GPUOpen says ADLX 2.0 adds AI extensions and MCP servers so apps can monitor, manage, and optimize AMD graphics hardware. For game teams, that opens the door to agent-driven …
A new chart-authoring grammar, ggaction, models the editing process as a chain of actions instead of a finished spec. That makes visualization code easier for humans to read and for …
Unigine 2.22 lands with a strong push on animation tooling, one of the engine’s long-standing weak spots. For teams evaluating engine fit, that matters as much as rendering features: better …
Stride cli/1.0.2 adds opt-in crash reporting and a new `stride crash` command for inspecting saved reports. It also fixes asset-pack installs so `stride new` can pull optional packs immediately after …
ReRoom uses mixed reality to let users plan a real room at true scale while standing in it. The system keeps a shared layout state anchored to the physical space, …
NVIDIA’s PAIR Virtual Inference Router now lets local AI agents tap more compute across a home or studio network. That matters for teams running multiple agent sessions or splitting work …
NeuSOGA turns geometric observations into editable symbolic math, aiming to replace opaque latent encodings with explicit representations. The framework combines topology-guided discovery, Segment Anything-based perception, multi-scale abstraction, and Implicit Area …
A new image-editing framework, InteractEdit, tackles human-object interaction changes without needing a reference image. It aims to preserve subject and object identity while swapping the interaction itself, a harder problem …
Researchers have proposed a new class of adversarial examples that keep a model’s answer unchanged while making the input look very different from the original. The work adds negative variants …
Pinta keeps the old Paint.NET-style workflow alive for developers and artists who want a free, lightweight raster editor. Paint.NET went closed-source in 2009, but Pinta preserved the open-source path for …
Godot is gaining traction with developers who want a lightweight, open source engine that stays out of the way. The appeal is practical: faster iteration, a smaller footprint, and fewer …
VCS Game Maker brings modern tooling to Atari 2600 development, joining a growing wave of engines built for retro hardware. For developers, the appeal is obvious: faster iteration, less hand-rolled …
Cyberix3D has rebuilt its browser-based game maker in C++ on Ogre 14.3.1, keeping old user projects compatible while moving the editor and runtime onto a modern cross-platform stack. The same …
Marmoset Toolbag 5.03 is out, bringing a fresh round of fixes and workflow improvements across texturing, rendering, baking, and the UI. For teams using Toolbag in lookdev or asset polish, …
A new visualization format called snapshot plots turns the familiar “Table 1” into parallel univariate charts with consistent color highlighting. The goal is to make group-to-group comparisons faster and clearer, …
A new slicer-project compiler turns heterogeneous FFF design intent into native .3MF projects instead of forcing artists and engineers to hand-build region maps. It targets settings meshes, virtual extrusion, and …