Many developers have started using Unreal Engine to achieve their expected level of visual realism. The reason is the growing popularity of video games. The ever-increasing power of modern game engines has also led many people in gaming industries to strive for a more visually impressive and immersive gaming experience. In this article, we will focus on how successful people make the…
The Best Kept Secrets About C++ Extensions
May 5, 2022
While you are writing software, it is very important to focus on the logic of the code, its efficiency and performance, and the algorithms used. At the same time, the code should be understandable, readable, and easily editable. There are special tools that allow you to…
Meet our winner We’ve had a couple of giveaways during our stint at GDC last March in San Francisco— the most exciting of which was our Steam Deck giveaway. After drawing from our list of entries, we’re excited to introduce our winner: Rebecca Vessal. We…
Unreal Engine is designed to integrate with Visual Studio smoothly. When linked, it enables developers to make code changes to projects quickly and easily. Visual Studio’s support for Unreal Engine also helps improve efficiency and overall performance.
Although Visual Studio is the most extensible IDE on the planet, it cannot cater to all development needs. Game development is one such…
Visual Studio is a great code editor that comes with a lot of features, and it’s one of the most widely used IDE worldwide. However, despite being a powerful IDE, some areas still need improvement. Some Visual Studio extensions and code plugins may significantly…
10 Undeniable Reasons to Love C++ Extensions
April 26, 2022
Visual Studio is by far one of the most advanced IDEs in the world. Being one of the oldest IDEs, it is still the most popular in the C++ community. In fact, a JetBrains survey [1] found that 27 percent of C++ developers prefer Visual Studio over any other IDE–the highest…
GDC You Next Year!
April 7, 2022
For those of you that have been longtime GDC attendees, speakers, or lowly exhibitors, this year may have taken you back to years past. Smaller crowd (the line would tell you otherwise), More intimate sessions, and cool swag! If you didn’t make it out, be sure to check out the vault for online recaps. I wanted to send out a few takeaways from our group: The biggest thing we get…
Whole Tomato recently held a webinar for Visual Assist, and it’s about game development! If you’re thinking of doing this as a hobby or as a potential career path, this may serve as a great introduction. In the presentation, VAX lead developer, Chris Gardner…
Tips for Aspiring Game Developers
February 10, 2022
Have you ever considered becoming a game developer but never knew where or how to start? In this blog, we’ll talk about a few things you might want to know before you get started in the video game industry. The video game industry— by the…
Visual Assist 2022.1 has arrived
February 4, 2022
It’s a new year for Visual Assist! This was slightly earlier than expected, but in the interest of making sure that updates and fixes get to you as quickly as possible, we’ve decided on an early release! You can download the latest version of VAX here. New features We’ve added a few notable changes in this release. The first one is adding syntax support for C++20’s…
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