Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 8, 2020

Lightmaps offer significant advantages over any other technique when the following requirements are met: Performance above anything else (for mobile, lightmaps are still a must-have). If these requirements are met, then lightmapping is probably the best for you. Lighting will not change (lights won't move). Quality as priority.

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Nvidia

MAY 26, 2021

Nanite enables film-quality source art consisting of millions or billions of polygons to be directly imported into Unreal Engine — all while maintaining a real-time frame rate and without sacrificing fidelity.

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Game Dev Unchained

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

“ It feels great to not have to sit around waiting for hours to bake lightmaps. Now we can get instant feedback and the art director can iterate faster than ever before.” Scott Knapp. A game developer in the last 5 years can be best described as a unrestricted nomad.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

It brings a brand new rendering engine with state-of-the-art PBR workflow for 3D, an improved assets pipeline, GDNative to load native code as plugins, C# 7.0 The new 3D renderer is state-of-the-art, with features rarely see in game engines today, such as: Full principled BSDF. It's also very easy to use.

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iXie gaming

JULY 19, 2024

Tips for Aspiring Game Artists Whether you’re new to game art or have years of experience, mastering lighting can greatly enhance your creativity and storytelling. Plan for lighting early, from concept art to level design. Look to photography, film, and art for inspiration. What role does lighting play in game art?

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Radiator Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

I'm proud of this moment, leveraging some recent dynamic lightmap tech built into Copper. Once the player has unlocked all the silver gates, they press two buttons to open a ceiling hatch, and climbs a spiral stairwell into the sunlight. However, building these spiral stairs was a bit annoying. Because brutalism.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2018

This is why for pixel-art games you often either change the filtering mode of textures or need to disable mipmaps to make the game look nice and sharp. ). Done May 2018. enviroment relections. cubemap filtering. implement BRDF. omni lights. lambert+phong. normal maps. rewrite OAHashMap to use RobinHood hashing. Planned June 2018.

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