Harold Serrano

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Components: The data attached to entities, like meshes, physics, or animations. Systems: These handle the logic, such as rendering, animations, or physics calculations. This modular approach keeps everything clean and efficient, allowing developers to focus on their game logic instead of wrestling with tangled code.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 20, 2025

Animation: Support hiding functions calls in Method Tracks ( GH-96421 ). Import: Use UID in addition to path for extracted meshes, materials and animations ( GH-100786 ). Rendering: Clean up more dynamic allocations in the RD renderers with a focus on 2D ( GH-103889 ).

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Game Industry News

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Hey all, I’m back with another of the standout series from the Fall for this week’s Anime Sunday. I sincerely hope that it actually works out for them as characters, and I’m not alone since they were voted as one of the top anime couples of 2022 by many others. Not for those who don’t like: Any of the above.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 14, 2025

Animation: Fix missing process_state error in blend spaces ( GH-104018 ). Rendering: Add ASTC HDR format variants ( GH-102777 ). Rendering: Fix voxelizer normals ( GH-102893 ). Rendering: Fix 2D quad primitive missing lighting data in GLES3 renderer ( GH-102908 ).

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Logic Simplified

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Its capabilities for VR content creation include comprehensive 3D modeling tools, advanced texturing and shading, animation and rigging, and integration with VR Devices. Looking for stunning 3D product renders for your ecommerce website? Get 20-min free consultation on how Unreal can change your game idea.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Specifically there are some performance implications of rendering a world from a far out zoom level, and also loading of content becomes a bit more complicated when you can transition quickly between the different worlds.” The art, sounds, and animation need to communicate the puzzle logic effectively.”

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 8, 2025

Fragment density map support When rendering for VR headsets, the pixels around the outside of the viewport are less important, because they will be somewhat distorted by the lens, and players will tend to turn their head rather than move their eyes too far from the center. 3D: Allow customizing debug color of Path3D ( GH-82321 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

has an entirely new rendering architecture, which is divided into modern and compatibility backends. The modern one does rendering via RenderingDevice (which is implemented in drivers such as Vulkan, Direct3D 12, and more in the future). Rendering is significantly more efficient in Godot 4.0, Low level rendering access.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Animation: Fix incomplete FPS spinbox display in sprite frames editor ( GH-101798 ). Export: Disable Metal and Vulkan renderers in simulator builds. Rendering: 2D: Fix clip children and rendering artefacts ( GH-102161 ). Rendering: Add loop annotations to ubershaders to prevent loop unrolling ( GH-102480 ).

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Cocos

AUGUST 20, 2024

I have a problem with 3D animation. When a keep animation full time of it everything oke. But when a split it in small animation with a range of frame time. Render problem appear at the same frame in 2 animation full and splitted like image below.

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Unity Blog

JULY 5, 2023

Our new sample, Happy Harvest , shows new techniques for creating 2D lights, shadows, animation, and VFX with the Universal Render Pipeline in Unity 2022 LTS.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 21, 2025

Animation: Fix console errors and crash in cleanup code for PhysicalBoneSimulator3D ( GH-103921 ). Animation: Fix rest translation space in LookAtModifier3D ( GH-104217 ). Rendering: Vulkan: Disable layers in editor deemed buggy by RenderDoc ( GH-104154 ).

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CG Spectrum

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Animation has come a long way since ancient Greek pottery drawings. Animation is the art of bringing 2D drawings or 3D models to life. Learn more about this fun and expressive art form and how to get started as a digital animator! Learn more about this fun and expressive art form and how to get started as a digital animator!

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Filmustage

DECEMBER 1, 2024

The stunning visuals in "Avatar: The Way of Water" (2022) and Pixar's "Elemental" (2023) demonstrate how both live-action and animation redefine the limits of visual effects. They capture real actors' performances in live action and build complete worlds from scratch in animation. Animated films craft every visual element digitally.

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iXie gaming

MARCH 2, 2025

Art direction, lighting, and animations must remain uniform, even as new artists or external studios contribute to asset creation. Apex Legends: Respawn Entertainment ensures that character animations and cosmetics remain stylistically cohesive across battle passes and hero releases. Common pitfalls include: (i).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The cover illustration is from Tiny Pasture , an endearing literal desktop pet that has cute pixel art animals grazing at the bottom of your screen while you do other things. Editor: Always allow selecting any rendering driver in the settings, add auto option ( GH-103026 ). in the previous 4.4 Changelog As we released 4.4

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DameDev.tv

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

SheepIT is a free Blender render farm that I've wanted to test for quite some time. The basic idea is very simple: you help in the rendering of other's people projects, and in exchange, other people help you to render. SheepIT is "a free distributed render farm for Blender" Let's break it down.

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CG Spectrum

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Head of VFX Daniel Hourigan ( Aquaman , The Hunger Games: Mockingjay , Terminator: Dark Fate ) takes us through how he built his KitBash3D Mission to Minerva settlement in Houdini, detailing key steps from his recent informative livestreams, including a great workaround for creating a fast rendering volumetric glow.

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Unity Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

Discover how Chocolate Tribe used Ziva’s powerful simulation and deformation software to create a photoreal, animated Muhammad Ali for an advertisement.

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Cocos

JULY 1, 2024

My 3d model animation work fine in preview. But when i put it in scene and run, It’s have a mistake of render at the teeth and neck of character like the picture below. I use baked animation but it just a little help. It work fine on other engine like Unity but i have a problem in Cocos Creator 3.8.3.

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Big Games

MARCH 28, 2025

In todays dynamic game development world, animation plays a vital role in defining player experiences and shaping game aesthetics. From the pixelated classics of the 80s to todays immersive and realistic graphics, animation has redefined the gaming experience. How did 2D and 3D Animation Evolve in Gaming? So, lets dive in!

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AWS Games

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Animation has boomed in recent years and it’s now present in nearly every film or television show. The increase in popularity is caused by animation’s ability to storytell and hold an audience’s attention. Although, crafting animations isn’t a cakewalk by any means. Why would a cloud infrastructure like AWS help?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: Animated sprites, both 2D and 3D, now support options for more precise timing of individual frames ( GH-65609 ). Animation: Add animation_started/finished signals to AnimationTree and fix time accuracy in StateMachine ( GH-70278 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Add track validator to AnimationPlayerEditor to detect tracks which have error ( GH-68770 ). Animation: Refactor process of animation to retrive keys more exactly ( GH-69336 ). Rendering: Properly remap roughness when reading from radiance map ( GH-69514 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: A lot of bug fixes and improvements in these areas particularly, check out the PRs listed below: Animation, Navigation, GDScript, Rendering. So with this beta release *_degrees properties are restored for use in code and animations ( GH-70263 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This post will talk about animation retargeting, a new feature coming in Godot 4.0. Recently, a lot of attention has been paid to the 3D features of Godot 4 that have been improved such as rendering, physics, etc. I am so honored to write this blog post as a member of Godot's animation team. Godot has a simple animation system.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

Flag dirty dependencies when GeometryInstance dependencies change in renderer ( GH-71581 ). Fix a handful of regressions from some of the bigger input and animation changes merged for beta 15. The illustration picture for this article is from Halls of Torment , a roguelite action RPG with retro late-90s pre-rendered 2D graphics.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Imagine developing a character of your choice and rendering it with actions and movements that breathe life into your world of storytelling. It also acts as an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that assists developers with all the 3D animation tools required for game development on a single platform.

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Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

This version optimizes some rendering and lighting capabilities, fixes a series of key issues recently reported by users, and recommends that all v3.x Engine • Added DebugView at runtime UI control rendering debugging function. Skip rendering when the UI element Opacity is 0. Skip rendering when the UI element Opacity is 0.

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CG Spectrum

JANUARY 26, 2023

3D lighting involves simulating the behavior of light in a real-world or fantasy situation, including shadows, reflections, highlights, and color, using specialized lighting software and rendering tools. Scene from the 3D animation Finding Nemo before and after its been lit and rendered by a 3D lighting artist (Image: Pixar).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Tokage greatly optimized the animation blend tree process, which should give a nice performance boost on complex animations ( GH-68593 ). Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Optimize animation blend tree process ( GH-68593 ). Rendering: Fix Variable Rate Shading issues ( GH-68710 ).

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Game From Scratch

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This release is packed with new features including Direct3D 12 and Vulkan being default renderers, massive performance improvements across the board, new animation and rendering tools and much more. GameFromScratch.com Unigine 2.18 Released The Unigine game engine just released Unigine 2.18. Highlight features of the Unigine 2.18

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Game Designing

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Great things are created with a good plan, which is why any animation project must begin with a storyboard. Before an animation project is greenlit, a storyboard often must be presented to the decision-makers. And when it is approved, a more comprehensive storyboard is developed to outline all the details of the animated story.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 2023

Animation: Tweak the name for new animations in the editor ( GH-48570 ). Animation: Add next/reset function to AnimationStateMachine ( GH-71264 ). Animation: Allow AnimationStateMachine / AnimationNode to restart when transitioning to the same state ( GH-71418 ).

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 16, 2024

For example, one of the things DOTS handled really well was rendering large amounts of entities. Without it, rendering the 800.000 tiles that compromise the game map became problematic, so the team had to spend a week on optimizing that. For every animal we design, we try to come up with both a unique look and role in the game for it.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Deserted house in the night, rendered In RedShift. Blue car on the street with sunlight , rendered In RedShift. Red fabric with golden texture rendered with Houdini XPU. For the most performance-minded with memory to spare, curves can be rendered much faster by using the build flag OPTIX_BUILD_FLAG_PREFER_FAST_TRACE.

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Terminology in the world of animation and video editing can stop you in your tracks. What exactly are they, and why are they so important to animators and video editors? What exactly are they, and why are they so important to animators and video editors? What Is Keyframe Animation? Every video has a keyframe.

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