Plant simulation in Unity ☘ Game Developer Thomas van den Berg shared Planter, a plant simulation tool used for Cloud Gardens, which is now available as an Editor package for Unity.

Since you love hand rigs, here's something amazing in 2D 🖐 Miu Akatsuki, an Animator who specializes primarily in anime-inspired works, shared a look at an awesome 2D hand animation experiment. The author states the animation was crafted with the help of Adobe After Effects.

Water Physics in Counter-Strike 🔫 How do you take a legendary multiplayer shooter to the next level? Add water physics! Valve released a new update for Source 2-powered Counter-Strike 2 adding exciting new features. The water now behaves more realistically, replicating how it would flow and create ripples in the real world. One of the coolest things here is that the water lets you track other players and use the new mechanic as an advantage. Kudos to the dev team!

This hand ring in Blender is 🔥 You have to see this mind-blowing hand rig by Chris Jones, a 3D Artist, Illustrator, and Blender enthusiast. "There's a vertex group on the hand mesh to isolate the shrinkwrap to the proximity of the tendons/bones," wrote the creator. "There are Smooth modifiers for each as well to soften the transition, and those use the same vertex group to isolate the smoothing."

Unreal Engine's Node Editor Turned Into A Game 😎 Unreal Engine content creator Fouad, also known as BP Systems, shared a look at a neat prototype that might be the coolest thing you'll see this week. The developer used functions and nodes featured in Unreal Engine 5's Blueprint system to make a level where the players learn about nodes and functions as they play the game.

Lioness animation rendered in UE5 🦁 Kudos to Junior Animator mohamed kamal for setting up this anatomically-accurate lioness animation rendered in Unreal Engine 5. What advice could you give to aspiring animators getting started with animals? What should they focus on?

Daytrip to the grasslands in b3d 🦗 Have a look at this marvelous scene set up in Blender by Ian Hubert. The artist decided to experiment with a turbulence field and how it can simulate grass inside the popular open-source toolkit.

A tutorial on a custom buoyancy solution with Niagara in UE5 🌊 Here's an excellent way to kick off the new week. Ghislain Girardot recorded the first part of a tutorial on how to set up buoyancy in Unreal Engine. The video explains the approach, discusses the steps, and more. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbrBCOxeLqw