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Amazon’s Lumberyard Beta 1.12 is now available to everyone, adding over 400 updates

Amazon has released a brand new beta version of its Lumberyard Engine. According to the company, Lumberyard Beta 1.12 adds over 400 updates, including a new Fur Shader, Gems for rain, lightning, water, and snow, plus updates to Script Canvas and the Text-to-Speech Gem. Continue reading Amazon’s Lumberyard Beta 1.12 is now available to everyone, adding over 400 updates

Amazon’s Lumberyard Engine source code is now available on GitHub

Amazon has announced that the source code for its Lumberyard Engine is now available on GitHub. This basically means that developers can now directly access Lumberyard source code from Amazon Game Studio’s GitHub repository and use the platform to manager their code. Continue reading Amazon’s Lumberyard Engine source code is now available on GitHub

SpeedTree 8 is now available for free to all Amazon Lumberyard developers

IDV has announced that SpeedTree 8 for Lumberyard was released today under a free license provided by Amazon to all Lumberyard developers. Used in more than 1,000 games and more than 100 feature films and animations, SpeedTree is the award-winning procedural 3D modeling tool that makes it faster and easier for developers to model complex vegetation. Continue reading SpeedTree 8 is now available for free to all Amazon Lumberyard developers

Amazon releases two videos, showing what game developers can achieve with its Lumberyard Engine

Amazon has released two GDC 2017 videos, showing what game developers can achieve with its Lumberyard Engine. Amazon Lumberyard is described as a free AAA game engine deeply integrated with the AWS Cloud and Twitch, empowering game developers to bring their most ambitious creations to life. Continue reading Amazon releases two videos, showing what game developers can achieve with its Lumberyard Engine

First screenshots for SpeedTree 8 in Amazon’s Lumberyard Engine, to be demoed at this year’s GDC

IDV has announced that SpeedTree 8, two years in development and packed with new graphical and intuitive time-saving features, will debut at GDC2017 in its initial release form: the new SpeedTree for Lumberyard. SpeedTree for Amazon’s Lumberyard will be available in the second quarter of 2017, and will add support for other engines later on. In order to celebrate this announcement, IDV released some new beautiful screenshots for SpeedTree 8 that can be viewed below. Continue reading First screenshots for SpeedTree 8 in Amazon’s Lumberyard Engine, to be demoed at this year’s GDC

Here Is Your First Look At Amazon’s Brand New Lumberyard Engine

During GDC 2016, Amazon announced its own free game engine (that is based on Crytek’s CRYENGINE), the Lumberyard Engine. And today, Amazon released the first tech demo, showing what developers can achieve with it. This demo shows a concept character Rin in a wooded environment, and its visuals are similar to those found in pretty much all the latest CRYENGINE tech videos we’ve seen. It looks cool, so be sure to watch it! Continue reading Here Is Your First Look At Amazon’s Brand New Lumberyard Engine