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Announcing exciting changes coming to MINECON! MINECON is a worldwide celebration of the community, the game, and the joy that Minecraft continues to bring people around the world. In the past, it’s been a single massive convention – but today, the Minecraft team announced how they’re shaking up MINECON this year with two new elements! Here’s what you can expect: MINECON Earth MINECON Earth is a global interactive livestream event broadcast from two continents on November 18 and viewed by players around the world from their living rooms or at local viewing parties, retailers, theatres and community events. The 90-minute livestream will take place on November 18 at 12 p.m. EST / 5 p.m. GMT on mixer.com/minecraft. If you’re new to Mixer, head over here for tips on getting started viewing and streaming! Official Minecraft Community Events We’ve teamed up [ more… ]

Windows 10 Tip: See your 3D creations take life in Remix 3D Last week, we announced new capabilities in Remix 3D – Parts and Remixes – an all-new way to experience the relationship between 3D content and see how it can transform and take new life when shared with a creative community. Here’s how to get started with Parts and Remixes: On any model page on Remix3D.com, you’ll see two new tabs: Parts and Remixes. Simply click on Parts and scroll down to see the individual parts that make up the model. A dog with a party hat and party favor may have three parts: the dog model, the hat model and the party favor model. But what if someone remixes that dog and adds a birthday cake? That would appear under Remixes. The Remixes tab is a way to [ more… ]

Creating Materials and Lights in the Visual Layer In today’s post, we’re going wrap up this series by combining everything we’ve learned so far and take you through the steps in creating a custom material. We also have an amazing new tool to show you that empowers anyone to design a custom material. To see how you can use these custom materials in your XAML app, be sure to check out the last two posts in this series; XAML and Visual Layer Interop, part one and part two. The Fluent Design Language is an evolving concept, rather than a one-time design language release like MDL and MDL2. It was designed to expand and grow as Microsoft and the community of creators (developers and designers), adds to what it could be. We’ll show you that anything is possible, as designers, developers and [ more… ]