Unity 4.2.1 Update
Hot off the heels of the Unite Conference, Unity Technologies has released Unity 4.2.1. This update includes several crashing and memory fixes for the recent Unity 4.2 release. There are a large number of...
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Shroud of the Avatar Unity Tutorial 2
On Friday’s Hangout of the Avatar, Chris Spears (Technical Director on Shroud of the Avatar) gave us the second of a series of tutorials on using Unity, this time featuring terrain generation. While he...
Shroud of the Avatar Dungeon Kit 03 – Caverns and Caves
The third asset pack for Developer-tier or higher backers of Shroud of the Avatar is now available. This package contains Cave and Cavern pre-made dungeon rooms and objects, some of which can connect with...
Unity Pro Extended Trial Available via Hearth of the Avatar
Unity Technologies, in addition to offering two full licenses of Unity Pro (one including an addon!) as a prize for the Telethon of the Avatar, are also offering to provide an extended trial to...
Automatic Grid Snap Script
This C# Unity script was provided by Portalarium as part of the Unity Dungeon Pack assets for Shroud of the Avatar. It allows meshes to be snapped to specific points for alignment and tiling....
Shroud of the Avatar Dungeon Kit 02
The second asset pack for Developer-tier or higher backers of Shroud of the Avatar is now available. This package contains Dungeon Props, which complements the previous Dungeon Kit 01, and will surely enhance future...
$10,000 Challenge of the Avatar
In the latest Kickstarter Update, Portalarium announced a Unity challenge that can net fan developers some excellent prizes! This was first hinted at in Chris Spear’s first Unity Tutorial video, and appears to have...
Starting a Fan Project with UDK
The lauded Unreal engine has long been used to create high-end, visually spectacular games in a variety of genres. It has powered a long list of Games of the Year, including Epic’s own Unreal...
Pen of the Avatar 3D Texturing
In todays Pen of the Avatar, Portalarium’s 3D Guru Isaac Oster gives us a brief overview of how to do texturing for 3D models in Photoshop, as well as some additional modeling in Zbrush....
Pen of the Avatar 3D Modeling
On the last Pen of the Avatar Stephen Daniele, the Concept Art lead for shroud of the Avatar, and Isaac Oster, one of the digital artists at Portalarium, give us a brief overview of...
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