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CGS Dept. Head of VFX enters KitBash3D's Mission to Minerva Challenge

CG Spectrum

Create new groups to separate geometry or use the groups provided by KitBash3D, which are especially handy for splitting up assets for destruction or animation. Selecting a base terrain. In the Mission to Minerva Kit, there are three different terrain materials supplied. What could be happening in this scene?

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Strategies for Optimizing Multiplayer Games in Unity

Logic Simplified

Optimization Strategies: Static Batching unites several stationary game elements into a single GPU drawing operation (such as terrain together with buildings). Optimizing Animations for Smooth Performance Animations add realism but can strain multiplayer performance.

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Scaling Art Production for Live-Service Games: Challenges, Innovations, and Future-Ready Pipelines 

iXie gaming

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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Accelerate your Game Design, Development and Build with Unity Asset Store

Jaunty Bear Games

Fortunately the Unity 3D platform has a great selection of packages and assets to accelerate the build of tools, models, shaders, sound effects, animations etc. Terrain Tools. The Terrain Tools package adds additonal terrain sculpting brushes and tools to your project to help create stunning terrain assets and ease the workflows. .

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 13

Mircosoft Game Dev

Unfortunately, we also have to rollback one of the core animations features. This decision allows us to better focus efforts of the Animation team on stabilizing other features. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Reset animation on playback stop ( GH-33733 ).

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Develop a 3D game in 2 hours with AI? Is it possible?

Cocos

The game will be a 3D Snake, with innovative gameplay and a complex terrain. Terrain The terrain part is quite challenging, so a new chat has been started for it. Here, we need ChatGPT to generate code for randomly placing plants on the terrain. Preface Habitually, let’s start with a mind map to determine what to include.

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Indie game capsule reviews: Immortality, Wayward Strand, Cult of the Lamb, Betrayal at Club Low, Atuel

Radiator Blog

You can totally miss important conversations and scenes because you're stuck in the stairwell climbing animation at exactly the wrong time. Your cute animal cult will follow whatever "Doctrines" you declare. The weakest is perhaps the wolf form, where the animation doesn't quite match the movement physics. But also veganism?

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