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ParticleShop Hands-On

ParticleShop is one of the applications that is featured in the current Be A Creative SuperHero Bundle currently running on Humble. This bundle is a collection of graphical applications and add-ons from Corel. Today we are taking a hands-on look at ParticleShop, a PhotoShop plugin (also compatible with PaintShop Pro 2020 and Affinity Photo) that brings the particle system based brushes from Corel Painter to these other applications.

ParticleShop is described as:

Create stunning image enhancements with ParticleShop, a powerful Adobe® Photoshop® brush plugin powered by Painter. Experience NEW expressive Dynamic Speckle brushes and living grab-and-go Particle brushes and that are easy to use with a pressure sensitive tablet, touchscreen or mouse. Use your creativity and imagination to artistically enhance photos, designs and illustrations with strokes of genius.

We’ve done all of the work for you! Immediately start creating with one of 11 built-in custom brushes. Whether you’re looking to add playful Dynamic Speckle flourishes or compelling Particle flare to your work, you’ll find just the brush you need to artistically enhance your imagery and exponentially increase your range of painting expertise. Plus, explore the additional brush packs that were designed to match your specific workflow needs.

Out of the box ParticleShop ships with a pack with 11 brushes, although the Bundle contains more than a half a dozen additional brush packs. You can see ParticleShop in action, including instructions on how to install in PaintShop Pro and Affinity Photo, as well as showcasing several of the brush packs, in the video below.

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Humble Be A Creative Superhero Bundle on Now

There is a new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, specifically the artists among us, in the form of the Be A Creative Superhero Bundle. The primary stars of this bundle are the suite of Corel graphics applications, specifically Painter 2020, Particle Shop and PaintShop, as well as Corel Draw Suite, which unfortunately is only a 6-month subscription. As with all Humble Bundles, this one is organized into tiers, and the tiers in this bundle are:

1$ Tier

  • AfterShot Standard

25$ Tier

  • PaintShop Pro 2020
  • ParticleShop + 11 Brushes
  • 6 extensions for PaintShop Pro

30$ Tier

  • Corel CAD 2019
  • Painter 2020
  • CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2020 6-month sub
  • 10 Brush packs
  • Light Leak Scripts for PaintShop Pro 2020

It should be noted earlier versions of Painter have been featured in prior bundles, but never 2020. PaintShop 2020 was also featured in a prior bundle so be sure to check your Humble inventory before purchasing. As with all Humbles you get to decide how your money is allocated between Humble, charity, the publisher and if you so choose (and thanks so much if you do) to support GFS by using this link. You can learn more about this bundle in the video below.

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Unity Humble Bundle Improved With 6 New Assets

The ongoing  Unity Game Dev Humble Bundle got even better today with the addition of 6 new assets. Don’t worry if you already purchased the bundle, you will receive all of the added assets up to the tier you purchased.

The new assets added to the pack include:

  • SNAPS Prototype Asian Garden
  • SNAPS Prototype Car Park
  • SNAPS Prototype SciFi Urban
  • SNAPS HD Asian Garden
  • SNAPS HD SciFi Urban
  • SNAPS HD Car Park

The prototype assets are low polygon models ideal for lower end hardware or as the name implies level prototyping. The HD kits on the other hand contain high quality HDRP pipeline assets for use in a commercial grade game. It should be noted that the HD packs are not currently updated to the most current HDRP and some breakage may occur. Unity have stated they intend to update the assets to the most current Unity version soon. You can learn more about the additions and see the SciFi Urban HD asset in action in the video below.

In addition to the new assets, we have already covered several of the assets included in this bundling including UModeler, Clayxels and the highly recommended Peek.

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Clayxels — Bringing Clay Modelling and Claymation to Unity

Currently featured in the Unity Game Dev Humble Bundle as well as being 50% off on the Unity Asset Store, Clayxel is an asset that extends Unity to add support for modelling then animating clay-like 3D objects.

Clayxels is described on the Store page as:

Clayxels is an interactive volumetric toolkit to sculpt models in editor and in game. It uses voxels to generate a lightweight point-cloud that can be changed in real-time and used in a whole bunch of different ways, all without any heavy pixel ray-marching. Works both in editor and in game, everything made with clayxels can be changed interactively at any time.

Works with all render pipelines, built-in, URP, HDRP.

It is important to note that Clayxel currently *does not* support the WebGL targets. In the video below we go hands-on with Clayxel, give you an overview of it’s capabilities and show you a simple tutorial on how to get up and running creation clay objects in your Unity game. The Unity Humble Bundle runs until the end of September, so don’t miss out if Clayxel looks interesting to you. Another asset in the bundle, UModeler, was covered in an earlier GFS post. The above links contain an affiliate code that pays a small commission to GameFromScratch if used to purchase (and thanks so much if you do!).

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Make Games Play Games By Raspberry Pi Humble Bundle

There is a Humble Bundle of interest to game developers running now, the Make Games, Play Games by Raspberry Pi bundle. The heart of this bundle are three e-books on the topic of retro game development, as well as one e-book on the topic of building your own FPS in Unity. Additionally the bundle consists of several issues in PDF format of Wireframe and Custom PC magazines.

It should be noted that you can already download PDF versions of the Wireframe magazine here. It is one of the only magazines out there that covers the programming side of game development so it is definetly worth a look, especially considering the free price tag. You can learn more about the rest of this bundle in the video below.

The bundle is organised into tiers, and if you buy a higher dollar value tiers, you get all of the tiers below it as well. As with all Humble Bundles, you decide how your money is allocated, between the Publisher, Humble, charity and if you so choose (and thanks if you do!) to support GFS by purchasing using this link.

EDIT: It seems that two of the books are also available for free download on the Raspberry Pi site, Build your own FPS and Code the Classics Volume 1 are both available here. That makes this bundle mostly about supporting the Raspberry Pi group it would seem.