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Vimeo Developer Portal

The [Vimeo Developer Portal] has information on how to embed Vimeo videos into your applications.

Docs: [JavaScript API]
Docs: [config.xml specifications]
[API Example Repository]
[API Playground]

The [ADB Chrome Add-On] lets you debug [Cordova] in the browser while the app is running on Android.

Unfortunately because of the [same origin policy], the Vimeo API can’t be invoked from HTML5 invoked from `file:///`. Chromium has a [Command-Line] to specify `–disable-web-security` when doing local development. Web security should be enabled for the final application.

[content-security-policy specification]

GIT Command-Line Tools

GIT is a popular version control system for tracking and storing application source code. [SourceTreeApp] works as a GIT client with a GUI and command-line. Some tools also need a [GIT] command-line client.

AWS Source Control

[AWS CodeCommit] from Amazon is a cheap source control competitor. $1 per month gives you 10GB of remote storage per user. The free tier starts at 5 users. Check out [Pricing] for details.

UE4 Plugin Docs

Here’s the UE4 reference section on [Plugins]. The [PlayFab UnrealBlueprintSDK] is a great example of how to do a UE4 plugin.

I’ll need to incorporate similar design into the `OuyaSDK` [h] and [cpp].

[Automation] has a great built-in way to write and execute unit tests to verify plugin features behave as expected in UE4.

Gaia – Terrain Creation, Texturing, Population!

[Gaia] has a sales discount in this week’s “Unity Madness Sale”. Gaia makes it easy to use stamps and detail generate to quickly make nice looking terrain.

The Foundary Game Jam Webinar Series

Starting January, The Foundary is producing the [Game Jam Webinar Series] which showcases MODO and MARI in the game content creation pipeline.

See the link above to get access to the 7 videos from the series.

“Webinar 3: UVs and the Shader Tree” has a ton of career advice for aspiring artists who will need to learn how to code to stand out in a saturated market.

MARI Sci-Tech Award

[MARI] won a Sci-tech award; see the acceptance speech below. MARI is now the top 3D texture painting tool after 10 years.

Generic In-Game Level Editing System

The creator of [ProBuilder] and [PolyBrush] has a work-in-progress update on “GILES”.

Cloud Vision API Beta

Google has a free tier to try the [Google Cloud Vision Beta] that can do OCR, detect objects, and detect facial expressions.

XPrize AI Prize

Compete for $5M in the [IBM Watson AI XPrize] to solve a world problem with AI.

Human Interface Guidelines

The [IOS Human Interface Guidelines] can be followed to really make your application shine. There’s no reason why you can’t follow the same guidelines for Android an iOS. Google has similar design guidelines called [Material Design]. [Pixate] is a useful tool for prototyping designs on Android and iOS. The Adobe [Color Wheel] helps pick colors that are constrained by design rules. You can also check your material design with the [Resizer].

Unity Asset Bundles 2.0

Unity 5.X introduced a whole new asset bundle system. [ASSETBUNDLES AND THE ASSETBUNDLE MANAGER]

Samsung Gear VR

[Samsung Gear VR] uses my Note 5 and turns it into a VR device. It runs super snappy too! [Creating a Unity Project]

[Oculus Utilities for Unity 5]

[Application Signing]

Be sure to put the [Oculus Signature File] into `Assets\Plugins\Android\assets`.

“Reaction” Video TradeMark

This Week In Law episode [335: LAWYERS IN LATEX (LAW-TECH)] talks about how the fans successfully horded against exclusively branding “Reaction” videos.

Nature Starter Pack

The [Nature Starter Pack] is free in the Unity Asset Store.

Amazon Lumberyard

Amazon has a new open-source, free, and royalty free game engine called [Amazon Lumberyard]. Lumberyard licensed and extends the [Crytek Engine]. Udemy offers [CryENGINE SDK Game Programming Essentials] to quickly ramp up and get started. Amazon has a [MarketPlace] but it’s still early to expect an asset store to sell game content[?] The [download page] has several game assets available.

PlayFab Custom Game Server

Marco created a [Custom Game Server] that works in Unity and connects to the PlayFab API. The service allows multiple servers to spin up as needed. Game clients can connect with the server and run cloud script.

Unreal Delegates with 8+ Parameters

Normally Unreal only defines the macros to generate delegates for up to 8 parameters. I wrote a [console app] to generate support for up to 62 delegate parameters. I submitted a [Pull Request] to have my changes added to Unreal. Unfortunately, coding standards block this change. The staff were also worried the extra macros would negatively impact compile times.

[Unity Split OBB Support]

Nexus Player

Add [Nexus Player] to the list of supported devices.

[Publish Portal]

Google has discontinued the Nexus Player.

Project 2 Led Cloud

David and Ryan created an inexpensive way to produce [cloud lighting] synchronized over bluetooth.

Too Out of Shape for VR

Sean Buckley writes the not so funny article about [being too out of shape to play video games].

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