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For the Love of the Game: In Search of Best-of-Breed 3D Creation Tools

Born out of a desire to make their own games, indie game developers Jacob Dodenhoff and Phoenix Cook forged Chaotic Creations Interactive (CCI), a small game development studio in the mid-west of the United States. Their studio reflects who they are and what they value: the players, and the commitme...

September 21, 2022 |

Advance Prototyping of the InteractiveTutorials Gem for O3DE

Hi! I’m Madeleine, an Amazon intern working on Open 3D Engine (O3DE). My summer project focused on advanced prototyping of the InteractiveTutorials gem. This prototype teaches users how to work with Open 3D Engine, right in O3DE Editor. As users work through tutorials, the tool highlights the part...

September 7, 2022 |

C++ STL Algorithms Series – Part 4

Topic This week we’ll be looking at where algorithms can lead us into trouble and how we can avoid falling into these traps. (This article is a little longer than usual, normal programming will resume next week). Motivation This came from a real-world example where rigid adherence to trying to use...

August 31, 2022 |

C++ STL Algorithms Series – Part 3

The more familiar we become with algorithms the more places begin to emerge where they can be utilized. This time we’ll introduce transform and see how it can be used to solve a familiar problem. Example transform takes a pair of iterators and applies a function to each element, storing the result...

August 17, 2022 |

C++ STL Algorithms Series – Part 2

Topic Continuing from the previous entry in this series, we’re going to keep exploring some of the use-cases of <algorithm>/<numeric> in our day to day work. Example It’s all too easy to come up with trivial examples for algorithms that don’t reflect the type of problems we have to...

August 3, 2022 |

C++ STL Algorithms Series – Part 1

An introduction to why you might want to start using the <algorithm> and <numeric> header more in your code. Motivation There is a growing movement in the C++ community to favor algorithms (usually found in <algorithm> and <numeric>) over hand-written loops. There are a multi...

July 20, 2022 |

Exploring the world of graphics via Atom, O3DE’s renderer

Hello all! I’m Judy, an intern at Amazon working on the Open 3D Engine (O3DE), specifically the Atom renderer. I interned with Amazon in the summer of 2021, focused on contributing to Atom, and have returned to Amazon as an intern again this summer! So far, I’ve learned graphics fundamentals and...

July 13, 2022 |

The Open 3D Foundation Announces Latest Enhancements to Open 3D Engine, Invites O3DCon ‘Call for Proposals’

Newest release introduces performance and usability improvements, and marks welcome of O3DCon speaker proposals and discussion suggestions due July 15. SAN FRANCISCO, May 13, 2022 – The Open 3D Foundation (O3DF), home of a vibrant, diverse community focused on building a first-class, open source e...

Motion Matching in O3DE, a Data-Driven Animation Technique

Motion matching is a data-driven animation technique that is gaining popularity since games like ‘The Last Of Us Part II’, ‘FIFA’, and ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ have adopted it. Users have higher expectations for animation quality including more realistic animations and a greater variety of inte...

O3DE User Defined Properties

O3DE User Defined Properties O3DE has the ability for the O3DE asset pipeline to read in this user defined properties (UDP) metadata so that scene building logic can customize asset processing logic using the UDP metadata. This allows the artists to continue to work primarily in the tools they have ...

March 8, 2022 |

Introducing the Blue Jay Design System for O3DE

Learn about the new UX design system for Open 3D Engine (O3DE) tools from Lee Hung Nguyen, one of the UX designers contributing to O3DE. My name is Lee Hung Nguyen, and I am one of the UX Designers in the Special Interest Group for the UI UX community (SIG-UI-UX) that helps to contribute towards [&h...

February 3, 2022 |

Explore the Past, Present, & Future of O3DE’s First-time User Experience

Learn about how Amazon Web Services developed the first-time user experience for Open 3D Engine (O3DE) from Bhanuja Sanghavi, one of the UX designers contributing to O3DE. Welcome to Open 3D Engine’s New User Experience! Hello, I’m Bhanuja! Since September 2020, I have had the opportunity to wor...

January 26, 2022 |

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