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arXiv cs.GR details PriMoRetarget, a motion-retargeting framework that uses explicit priority levels instead of fragile weight tuning. For game teams building humanoid animation pipelines, the pitch is better preservation of …
ACM Graphics details ShapeLib, a 3D shape abstraction library designed with Large Language Models. The work lands in ACM Transactions on Graphics, Volume 46, Issue 2, and points to a …
GameFromScratch reports that Capcom has open sourced RE:Dox, a C#-powered data engine used inside RE Engine. That matters because RE Engine underpins many of Capcom's modern AAA releases, from Resident …
Babylon.js 9.30.0 lands with a small but useful set of fixes for WebGPU, WebGL1, particles, and the flow graph editor, plus one new canvas color-management hook. The biggest developer-facing change …
arXiv cs.GR details a conversational 3D authoring technique that lets users show motion “just like this” instead of describing it in words alone. The system blends speech, pointing, and hand …
Stride (GitHub Releases) has shipped launcher 6.0.4, a small patch focused on Windows uninstall behavior. The launcher now registers a quiet uninstall command, so tools like winget can remove it …
GamesIndustry.biz says Capcom is pushing its RE Engine toward an AI-assisted workflow, with a multi-phase REX project aimed at faster QA, debugging, and data handling. The company says the goal …
The Cherno asks whether AI can build a game engine, framing the experiment around Hazel and a prompt doc that guides the work. For engine programmers, the practical question is …
arXiv cs.GR details a curvature-driven subdivision scheme that inserts points from local curvature profiles instead of affine blends. The method reproduces geodesics and circles exactly, and its planar linearisation collapses …
arXiv cs.GR details LiteReality-Agent, an agentic pipeline that turns RGB-D scans into simulation-ready indoor digital twins. The system treats reconstruction like coding, with a tool-using agent iteratively editing Python to …
GameFromScratch reports that former Guerrilla Games and Crytek AI developer Jose Escribano has released htn_planner, an HTN-based planning framework inspired by AAA work on Horizon. It pairs hierarchical task network …
GameFromScratch reports that Pixi Labs has unveiled Trexel, a new 2D app built on PixiEditor and aimed squarely at game developers. The pitch centers on seamless texturing for repeating assets, …
Godot Engine says 4.8 dev 7 is the last feature snapshot before freeze, shifting the branch to bugfixes and regressions ahead of beta. For teams tracking engine upgrades, this one …
GameFromScratch reports that Gozen, a free and open-source video editor built with Godot, has entered beta on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Developers can build it from source for free, or …
Community details Covil Sprite Pipeline, a local Windows tool aimed at cleaning up sprite-sheet animation before it reaches the engine. It normalizes scale, pivots, and timing, previews frames, and exports …
arXiv cs.GR details PartLLM, a multimodal model that treats 3D part segmentation as intent-conditioned generation. For graphics and tools teams, the practical draw is one system that can handle text-guided, …
arXiv cs.GR details ChemXRG, a DSL pipeline that turns 3D chemical reaction animation into executable programs. The team pairs persistent atom IDs with bond, charge, and grouping operations, then uses …
arXiv cs.GR details Mira-Scene, a 3D scene reconstruction method that aligns generated objects to pixels instead of relying on sparse pose guesses. For game teams building scene tools or AI-assisted …
Gamefromscratch reports that Action Game Maker’s Massive 2.0 beta is trying to make the Maker-branded Godot fork feel like a real product, not just a paid wrapper. The June 2025 …
Game Developer details how ARM’s Peter Hodges thinks about game development tools, with a side trip into the 1969 short Lemon. The conversation is most relevant to teams building or …