Gamedev and software tutorials
I’m currently developing an unannounced video game in the Godot engine. To bring my vegetation to life, I needed a vertex shader that allows me to have trees sway in the wind and have their branches move at the tips. This article gives a rough overview over my approach. It’s not a detailed tutorial, but […]
In this short video tutorial, I explain how to use the settings Auto Depth and Zoom to Mouse Position in Blender’s navigation settings to make navigating the viewport much easier. Visit the Blender Tutorials main page for more Blender tutorials.
In this short tutorial video, I explain how to create straight and tiling UVs for pipes in Blender with the help of the free TexTools addon. Visit the Blender Tutorials main page for more Blender tutorials.
This tutorial is also available as a short video: When you install Blender on Windows, you’re automatically able to open any .blend file on your computer with Blender afterwards. There’s also a new entry for Blender in your Start menu. Linux doesn’t have an installer, so you need to do things a bit differently here. […]
This SVN tutorial explains how to delete the history of an SVN repository to save space. This is useful for large amounts of binary data.
This tutorial explains how to run Linux Mint on your Windows computer in a window like any other application by using the program VirtualBox. What is a VirtualBox? VirtualBox is a program that allows you to install other operating systems in a safe container on your computer and run them like applications in a window. […]
This tutorial explains how to install the latest version of git-cola, a GUI for git, from its source files. This is useful if you want to use a version that is newer than the one in the software repositories of your Linux distribution. There are two ways to install the latest version: the really easy […]
This tutorial explains how to run TortoiseHg from source code files and install dependencies on a Debian/Ubuntu based Linux distribution. TortoiseHg is a GUI for the distributed source control management tool Mercurial. This is useful for distributions like Linux Mint, which does not have TortoiseHg available in the Software Manager and it’s also not possible […]
This Godot Engine tutorial explains how to create enums, compare enum values, get enum items and their names and how to format them. What are enums? Enum is short for “enumeration”. Enums are often used for selecting something from a list, where every item is mutually exclusive. Some examples: Enums are created like this: You […]
This tutorial explains how to convert a single animation frame, a rigid body or a keyframe of a cloth simulation to a static mesh in Blender. I’ve originally written it as a short response to a thread in the Blender Steam Community. Baking animations is useful if you want to: turn an animated character into […]
