3D Environment Design with Blender
by Abdelilah Hamdani
Blender is a powerful tool for creating all kinds of visual assets, but with such power comes complexity. Creating a photorealistic 3D scene seems like a Herculean task for more than 90% of 3D designers, but don't be discouraged! 3D Environment Design with Blender will get you up and running. This practical guide helps reduce the complexity of 3D environment design, advance your Blender skills, and pro...
Price: $22.39 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2023
FREE EBOOK - HackSpace Magazine: Issue 62
by HackSpace Team
It's not yet Christmas, but we come bearing glad tidings: the supply of Raspberry Pis available to hobbyists is starting to come back to normal. To celebrate, we're exploring 20 of the best hardware projects you can build with a Raspberry Pi - whether that's large or small, simple or complex, useful or not-so-useful.- Keep your posterior warm with a home-built heated seat- Build custom electr...
Publisher: Raspberry Pi Press | Release: 2023
FREE EBOOK - HackSpace Magazine: Issue 63
by HackSpace Team
Flying machines: humans have always dreamed about flight, but with our puny arms and lack of feathers it's something we've struggled with. No more! Join us as we explore the best, cleverest and most innovative home-made flying machines. Icarus would have been proud!- Behold: the world's first articulated print-in-place chocolate fish!- When 3D goes so wrong, it's actually kind of right- ...
Publisher: Raspberry Pi Press | Release: 2023
FREE EBOOK - HackSpace Magazine: Issue 65
by HackSpace Team
With enough inspiration, the world is your playground - that's why this issue we're bringing you 16 of the best DIY toys and games to keep boredom at bay.- Get started with surface mount soldering- Make Islamic-inspired geometric LED patterns- Building an aeroplane powered by the super duper supercapacitor- Drool over the finest 3D printed guitar we've ever seen...
Publisher: Raspberry Pi Press | Release: 2023
by Xudong Ma, Vishakh Hegde, Lilit Yolyan
With this hands-on guide to 3D deep learning, developers working with 3D computer vision will be able to put their knowledge to work and get up and running in no time.Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts and practical examples, this book lets you explore and gain a thorough understanding of state-of-the-art 3D deep learning. You'll see how to use PyTorch3D for basic 3D mesh and...
Price: $39.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2022
Beginning 3D Game Assets Development Pipeline 
by Nova Villanueva
This project-based tutorial covers the creation of 3D assets in a game engine, from concept to implementation. You will learn the 3D pipeline using Maya and Substance Painter, which are industry-standard programs used for content creation in game development. You also will know how to add them and work with them in Unity.The book begins with an overall look at the production of game development and the diff...
Price: $40.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2022
Mathematics for Game Programming and Computer Graphics
by Penny de Byl
Mathematics is an essential skill when it comes to graphics and game development, particularly if you want to understand the generation of real-time computer graphics and the manipulation of objects and environments in a detailed way. Python, together with Pygame and PyOpenGL, provides you with the opportunity to explore these features under the hood, revealing how computers generate and manipulate 3D envir...
Price: $49.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2022
Unreal Engine 5 Character Creation, Animation, and Cinematics
by Henk Venter, Wilhelm Ogterop
Unreal Engine 5 (UE5) offers beginners and seasoned professionals the ability to create detailed movie scenes with realistic human characters using MetaHuman and combine it with custom props and environments. It also comes with built-in industry standard animation tools to develop such scenes in a fraction of the time compared to old methods. This book takes you through the entire 3D movie production pipeli...
Price: $54.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2022
Practical Autodesk AutoCAD 2023 and AutoCAD LT 2023, 2nd Edition
by Jaiprakash Pandey, Yasser Shoukry
AutoCAD is one of the most versatile software applications for architectural and engineering designs and the most popular computer-aided design (CAD) platform for 2D drafting and 3D modeling. This hands-on 2nd edition guide will take you through everything you need to know to make the most out of this powerful tool, from a simple tour of the user interface to using advanced tools.Starting with basic drawing...
Price: $19.79 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2022
FREE EBOOK - HackSpace Magazine: Issue 50
by HackSpace Team
Machine learning used to be the preserve of university research departments with money to burn on high-power, high-cost kit - but not any more! Thanks to a new breed of affordable dev boards, anyone can get in on the act at pocket money prices. We've trawled the makersphere for the best, most creative machine learning projects to show just what can be done. The future of machine learning is awesome - a...
Publisher: Raspberry Pi Press | Release: 2022