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Calling All Open Source 3D Developers: Let’s Jam in the Wasteland!

One theme. One open-source 3D engine. Eighty hours. Limitless possibility. Join us May 5-7, 2023, for the first-ever O3DE Jam! With a theme of “Navigating the Wasteland,” this virtual hackathon-style competition will provide a showcase for open source developers around the world and unleash the ...

April 6, 2023 |

Open 3D Engine Sees Momentum Across Robotics Industry

Robotec.ai joins Open 3D Foundation, releases gems to extend Open 3D Engine for robotics simulation San Francisco, Calif., March 14, 2023 – The Open 3D Foundation (O3DF) today announced increased adoption in the robotics industry, which is collectively looking to Open 3D Engine (O3DE) for robotic ...

March 14, 2023 |

O3DE 2023 Priorities, GDC Plans

The Open 3D Foundation (O3DF) and our anchor project, the Open 3D Engine (O3DE), experienced a whirlwind of activity in 2022. We welcomed new member companies like Epic Games, Microsoft, LightSpeed Studios (part of Tencent), OPPO, Heroic Labs, Kutztown University, CAICT, and DaoCloud. We saw massive...

March 9, 2023 |

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Luis Sempé: From Blockbuster Games to Groundbreaking Engine

Many kids grow up dreaming of making video games. For Luis Sempé, those dreams became a reality at an early age. After he had scaled the industry ladder and helped make some of the world’s most popular games, Luis wanted a new challenge. He found it by shifting from game development to the format...

March 7, 2023 |

Vectors, Matrices & Matrix Order

In this blog post, AWS engineer John Coimbra Walsh covers the basics of using vectors, matrices, and matrix order. This is a complicated topic for novice graphics programmers, and hopefully this breakdown can help you! Matrices & vectors An n⋅m matrix consists of n rows and m columns. The prod...

March 1, 2023 |

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Lars Gleim: A Passion for All Things 3D

Success in 3D requires multi-dimensional talent. As a Senior Research Engineer at the Huawei Munich Research Center and Chair of O3DE SIG Simulation, Lars Gleim strives to apply his network and insights to add that depth to everything he works on. He joined us to share his passion for all things 3D�...

February 20, 2023 |

Contributor Spotlight

Matteo Grasso: Inspiring the Next Generation

Open source presents a great opportunity for learning. Matteo Grasso, software engineer and founder of DIGIBL Studio in Italy, is leading his company on the path to creating tools and resources to assist students, teachers, employees, and developers when it comes to new learning techniques. In this ...

February 10, 2023 |

Google Test Matchers – Part 3

Topic Wrapping up the introduction to Google Test matchers. Please see Parts 1 and 2 for more information. Motivation Making use of helpful library features to improve the readability, succinctness and maintainability of our tests. Examples Custom Matchers In Part 2 we touched on writing our own cus...

February 8, 2023 |

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Tom Hulton-Harrop: Into the Great Wide Open (Source)

It wasn’t long ago that Tom Hulton-Harrop, a software development manager at AWS, was working with a single team to build a proprietary game engine. As we all know, things can change quickly in the software development world. We recently visited with Tom to learn about his leap into the open sourc...

February 7, 2023 |

Google Test Matchers – Part 2

Topic Continuing the introduction to Google Test matchers. Please see Part 1 for more information. Motivation Shorter, clearer tests that take the boilerplate and fragility out of testing. Examples Math types Matchers can be very useful when writing unit tests for math types (which nearly always req...

January 25, 2023 |

Google Test Matchers – Part 1

Topic An introduction to Google Test matchers with a focus on how they can improve the quality of our tests. Motivation We want tests to be fast to write, fast to run, easy to understand and informative when they fail. With Google Test matchers we can achieve all these and more. Google Test matchers...

January 11, 2023 |

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Contributor Spotlight: Michael Pollind

A diversity of contributors is the lifeblood of any open-source project. Michael Pollind, an embedded software developer, has worked on improving the core stability of the Open 3D Engine (O3DE) project, critical to the long-term viability of the project’s success. In this interview, Michael shares...

January 7, 2023 |

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