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From Concept to Completion: Navigating the Game Art Production Pipeline 

iXie gaming

Behind every immersive world lies a meticulously crafted game art pipeline, a process where raw ideas evolve into interactive, polished assets. Game art isnt just about making things look good. Lets break down the seven critical phases of the game art pipeline and explore how studios bring stunning, optimized visuals to life.

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What is Level of Detail (LOD) in 3D Modeling? | Techniques & software

CG Spectrum

It helps reduce the amount of detail by simplifying polygons and textures as they get further away from the camera. Generally, the closer to camera, the more level of detail (surface details, textures, shadows, etc. These texture maps are then applied to the lower polygon count model to give it a more detailed and realistic appearance.

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How to Create a Game-Ready AAA asset

Logic Simplified

Maya is considered the better choice when you are trying to create more complex art. With that I have to create a low poly model of the gun on which we will bake the high poly details. Then I unwrapped the low poly mesh model into three UV sets in order to get a good resolution of the textures. I used Substance Painter for this.

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Setting the Mood: Exploring Lighting and Mood in Game Art 

iXie gaming

Baked Lighting. These are pre-made textures that store lighting info for objects that don’t move. Texture Compression. Makes texture files smaller, speeding up loading times and using less memory. Plan for lighting early, from concept art to level design. Look to photography, film, and art for inspiration.

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Little Racer – 3D Art

The Knights of Unity

Almost every 3D asset is painted using only one atlas texture. As I mentioned before – almost every 3D object uses the same atlas texture. They are textured using the same atlas map and need to fit into the grid size. Obviously that wouldn’t be enough if we didn’t apply different colors assigned to the players.

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Enhancing Mobile Game Performance: Essential VFX Techniques for Visual Excellence 

iXie gaming

Techniques such as using lower-resolution textures, controlling particle spawn rates, and optimizing the lifespan of particles can significantly reduce the load on the GPU. Efficient Use of Textures Textures are a significant component of mobile game visuals, but high-resolution textures can quickly consume memory and processing power.

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Godot 4.0 will get a new, modernized lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

Most scenes bake in seconds instead of minutes or hours. branch uses state of the art algorithms to ensure the maximum possible quality: Bakes geometry to lightmap coordinates using the actual rendering code, so any existing shader or material works. Allows baking dynamic and static lights. Quality as priority.