Blender continues to be a true massive success story for open source, pulling in funding from all sorts of big names and now even Roblox is helping to fund it.
  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
    2·
    10 个月前

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    To make the use of Blender and Roblox Studio even more seamless we have released an open source plugin as well."

    They also shared a press announcement with BlenderNation where Corazza additionally said: "Blender is the most popular external tool used by Roblox’s creator community today.

    Every day, thousands of creators import vivid and detailed 3D content from tools like Blender into their Roblox experiences.

    We are thrilled to be supporting the Blender Foundation’s work delivering world-class 3D tooling and are excited to see closer integration continue to drive high-quality creation on Roblox.

    As a Corporate Silver Member, Roblox will be paying at least €12K a year to Blender to support further development.

    Joining the ranks of Activision, Google, Adobe, Epic MegaGrants, AMD, AWS, Meta and plenty more also supporting Blender.

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    • hitmyspot@aussie.zone
      5·
      10 个月前

      Lol, 12k from a company that takes in the dough from micro transactions targeting those that don’t understand them is laughably small. They could have spent the same amount on advertising and had less of an impact. This is window dressing fluff.

      • Grass
        4·
        10 个月前

        From the title I though this was that thing where an evil organization does some small good thing to seem less evil, but that’s not enough to offset supporting children gambling.