CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

3D Modelling 3D Animation FX Concept Art 2D Animation Game Design Game Programming 3D Modelling: Shaping Virtual Worlds “3D modelling is a rewarding career where you get to bring concepts and 2D imagery to life, sculpting personality and story into characters, objects, and environments.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

Several other areas got improvements, like the editor (which has been vastly reworked), UI system, multiplayer, navigation, audio, animation, etc. The most common types of streaming are: Texture streaming : All textures are loaded in a tiny size by default. Textures which haven’t been used for some frames are freed instead.

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 5, 2024

Maya is also more effective for animations. The gun has metallic surfaces and I wanted that successfully simulated. Then I unwrapped the low poly mesh model into three UV sets in order to get a good resolution of the textures. UV sets are the coordinates that map the 2D texture images onto the 3D model surface.

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CG Spectrum

JANUARY 18, 2023

Anatomy Understanding anatomy is essential whenever drawing humans, animals, or plants. helps you illustrate, sculpt, or animate more realistic poses and movements, such as walking, jumping over a fence, or picking up an object from a table. featured] Think of early artist sketches for animation storyboards.

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Art Animation Animation Concepts 98

Nvidia

AUGUST 7, 2023

It empowers designers to render high-quality images and animations of their products, helping them visualize and iterate on designs more effectively. Realistic lighting and materials can be accurately simulated, providing a more realistic representation of the final product. Rendered with Chaos V-Ray.

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 17, 2023

Use asset stores wisely Unity Asset Store offers a wide range of free and paid assets, such as 3D models, textures, sound effects, and plugins. Shader programming allows you to manipulate lighting, textures, and visual effects, resulting in unique and optimized visuals. Be mindful of memory usage, especially on mobile platforms.

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Cocos

JULY 2, 2024

Fixed the issue where the gizmo icon of nodes in the animation panel was not displayed when selecting nodes in the animation edit mode. Fixed the issue where multiple bones were added in the skeleton texture layout in the project settings, but there was no scrollbar.

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Cocos

JULY 2, 2024

Fixed the issue where the gizmo icon of nodes in the animation panel was not displayed when selecting nodes in the animation edit mode. Fixed the issue where multiple bones were added in the skeleton texture layout in the project settings, but there was no scrollbar.

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Beta Terrain Texture Editing 40

Cocos

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The vertical axes of textures and picture pixels is shown above, when sampling textures in shaders, that is from top to bottom, which is top-right corner. If your previous development experience is based on OpenGL, you may find that the texture on your grid is vertically flipped. the RGB of the color will be multiplied by 0.5

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

UE5’s features and functionality have further expanded to include experimental new features for rendering, animation and simulation. Look for companies that offer full-cycle game development services, that cover everything from art, animation, VR/AR/XR-based development, right up to game testing. Is it well-defined?

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

NVIDIA is researching tools and developing ways to accelerate and simplify digital human creation and we believe that AI and simulation are the key to doing this. There are three main components to making a digital human, and each of these requires a different combination of art and technologies: generation, animation , and intelligence.

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iXie gaming

JUNE 16, 2023

Dedicate time to practicing drawing and sculpting human figures and animals. Refine Your Texturing Techniques Hone Your Texturing Techniques to enhance the materiality of objects in your game art. The texture is crucial for conveying realism. By refining your texturing techniques, you bring your game art to life.

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Art Texture Concepts Games 52

Game Designing

OCTOBER 2, 2023

You may have seen some 2D or 3D animated movies and video games that look like they were hand-drawn or have a cartoon-like style. Usually, Japanese anime films and video games feature this distinct look. This type or technique of animation is known as cel-shading animation. Some also refer to it as toon shading.

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Cocos

JANUARY 31, 2024

Adjusted the scrollbar of various module panels in the project settings, optimized texture compression interface interaction (need to test if there are any abnormal displays on various pages, especially the texture compression page). Optimized texture compression task scheduling and build progress display during compression.

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Baking Texture Platformer Scripting 40

Big Games

JANUARY 30, 2024

Different software may cater to specific genres, whether it is first-person shooter, role-playing game, strategy game, or simulation. 3D Modeling and Animation Tools For games that involve three-dimensional environments and characters, 3D modeling and animation tools are indispensable.

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iXie gaming

MAY 24, 2023

Artists have always played a crucial role in game development, meticulously creating characters, environments, and animations. Machine learning algorithms now generate realistic textures, procedural landscapes, and lifelike animations, reducing the time and effort required by human artists.

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AI Art Simulation Games 52

Cocos

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Adjust the scrollbars of each panel in the project setting module, and optimize the interaction of texture compression interface (need to test whether the display is normal on each page, especially the texture compression page). Fix the issue where opening other prefabs from the animation mode prompts that node data cannot be found.

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Texture Engine Engineering Baking 40

Logic Simplified

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

It offers high-quality lighting for applications and for making iterations of animations and still images. The Marketplace ecosystem in the Unreal engine offers high-quality textures, plugins, add-ons, and other assets for sale.

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Filmustage

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In his groundbreaking film "A Trip to the Moon" (1902) , Méliès used stop-motion animation, miniatures, and practical effects to create fantastical scenes. One of the prominent figures of this era was Ray Harryhausen , a stop-motion animator known for his meticulous craftsmanship.

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Moonmana

DECEMBER 20, 2022

It’s fair to say that 3D game art styles are used everywhere – in film and cartoon production, animation, interior design, and architecture fields, and especially in game development. A vast majority of all triple-A projects – simulators, shooters, strategy games, and others – are developed in this style.

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Game Daily

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

” Avatars and Connect Roblox already features various in-game chat applications, but videos with animated facial tracking technology, in a game-like context, is something new. ” He said that adding video and animation is a natural next step. ” He said that adding video and animation is a natural next step.

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Awesome Tuts

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Character Animation Blueprint. To animate the character we need to create the animation blueprint. Give the new animation blueprint name BP_Player_Animation and open it in the editor. Inside the Player_Character folder Right Click and create a new folder called Blend_Spaces.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Additionally, all 2D shadows and light textures use a single atlas, resulting in improved performance. the new CanvasTexture texture type has been introduced. x is that, several times, sprites are separated in many nodes in order to be animated or assembled. Improved 2D materials. Using normal mapping in 2D was also hit or miss.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 16, 2020

As an example, the grass and some bushes will bend when the player is close, simulating being pushed: 2. Not really, games generally just use a texture aligned to the world (that often moves with you), with different colors meaning different things. Do they make animations for each piece of grass? How do they do it?

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Shaders Mesh Texture Editing 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 24, 2022

Animation: Fix blend animation to solve TRS track bug & blend order inconsistency ( GH-57675 ). GUI: Add options to embolden and transform font outlines to simulate bold and italic typefaces ( GH-59013 ). Rendering: Add sky cover texture for ProceduralSkyMaterial ( GH-58018 ).

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

CREATING AND SIMULATING PHOTO-REALISTIC GRAPHICS OptiX OptiX is an application framework for achieving optimal ray tracing performance on the GPU. Texture Tools Exporter Version 2021.1.1 With the Audio2Face app, Omniverse users can generate AI-driven facial animation from audio sources. Download the latest version here.

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Ray Tracing Graphics Render Technology 52

Nvidia

MAY 26, 2021

UE5 represents a generational leap in both workflows and visual fidelity, extending the engine’s support for DirectX Raytracing, NVIDIA DLSS, and NVIDIA Reflex, and adding new features such as Nanite and Lumen that make it faster and easier for games to implement photorealistic visuals, large open worlds and advanced animation and physics.

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Ray Tracing Engine Engineering Content 52

The Liquid Fire

APRIL 25, 2024

This time we’ll be working on some scripts to make working with anchor points in code a bit simpler, and allow us to animate some things in our UI. The best way to put grid lines on the ParentPanel would probably be through a texture, but we can simulate the same thing with a couple more objects. 7thSage again.

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Point and Click Scripting Animation Animation 52

Played with Fire

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Astronomical observatory simulator, manipulating telescope POV, rotating planets on lens display like dioramas or puzzle boxes, relaxing, immersive 360 experience in space, UX pillars: precision, real-time, comfortable distances, avoiding locomotion sickness. . ✓ Poses & Suggestive shapes / animations (hand & object).

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Game Designing

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Things like color palettes, textures, and lighting all help to build a mood, as well as animation and how things in your world move and interact. Though often humorously described as a ‘walking simulator’ this is actually a major element in driving the game’s atmosphere. All of this can add to the atmosphere.

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Games Mechanics Fantasy Art 136

Nvidia

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Red fabric with golden texture rendered with Houdini XPU. that keeps denoising coherence from frame to frame in an animated sequence of frames. Temporal AOV denoising gives you both features in one package—coherence in denoising across different layers and across animated sequences. Image Courtesy © 2021 Paul Esteves.

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Ray Tracing Render Feature Animation 52

Game Errors

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Additionally, outdated graphics drivers may contribute to suboptimal GPU performance, and the heavy load on the CPU from the game’s intricate simulations can lead to decreased frame rates. Heavy CPU Load: The game’s complex simulations and calculations may overload your CPU, potentially leading to decreased FPS.

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Nvidia

MARCH 1, 2023

Moreover, objects that are further animated (such as characters) maintain their own strict set of topology requirements for the deformation to work efficiently. In addition to intuitive, nondestructive editing capabilities–including the application of textures–Shapeyard enables automatic human-grade retopology.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Overall I feel it's an OK game that's basically playable, despite the bugs and aggressive texture streaming and general unfinished feeling. Instead there's cutscenes without animation, scripted conversations without choreography, and readables you rarely read because the game never pauses. But not really.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

However, Unreal is more optimal for 3D visuals, and Unity has a large focus and toolset for 2D animation production. Luckily both engines offer asset stores that allow users to download free and paid props, shading, textures, and many more. Kerbal Space Program This is a popular simulation game developed by Squad and released in 2015.

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Designer Notes

APRIL 2, 2023

They added real texture to the experience and, perhaps more importantly, variety. The truth is that games like Crusader Kings and Europa Universalis are really more like simulations than they are like games, and one important fact about 4X games is that they are g-a-m-e-s games. Maybe I was old-fashioned!

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Radiator Blog

APRIL 9, 2021

For an upcoming project commission, I'm making a 2D game with crowd simulation and simple controls that works well on mobile browsers. The engine should be able to render and simulate 200+ lightweight game objects -- frame-animated sprites with simple collision, no fancy physics or shaders. Reminder: for iOS, that means WebGL 1.0

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