CG Spectrum

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Hanny shares her visually stunning final project with us, a short cinematic called Naima , detailing how she created her scenes in Unreal Engine, where she drew her inspiration from, and how the technical and creative support of her industry expert mentors allowed her to bring her vision to fruition. Meet Hanny. So, I signed up!

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Harold Serrano

MAY 22, 2023

If you had the option to rewrite your game engine from scratch, what would you do differently? Bulletproof my engine by providing defaults upon load failures. Use Entity-Component-System I wrote my game engine using C++ and decided to take the OOP approach. OOP served me well until my engine became too complex.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 16, 2024

” The decision to switch engines was only made fairly recently. 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.

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CG Spectrum

JANUARY 3, 2023

As the excuses he devised not to follow his passion faded, Anthony quit his full-time job to dedicate his efforts to exploring filmmaking within a game engine. I experimented with both Unity and Unreal Engine since real-time workflows seemed most practical for me as a solo artist. Building out the space station in Unreal Engine.

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 5, 2024

Even though an AK-47 was not used as an asset, I got the opportunity to test my skill and indulge in my passion. Collecting reference images I believe that before any good asset is created, its image is already imprinted in the mind. I used a Blinn Shader on the asset to spot any issues with the mesh.

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iXie gaming

MARCH 2, 2025

continues to evolve, leveraging AI, modern rendering techniques, and cutting-edge game engines to push the boundaries of game design. allows for stylized, hand-painted visuals, blending nostalgia with modern rendering techniques. From indie studios to AAA developers, 2.5D merges the best of both worlds.

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The Knights of Unity

JUNE 5, 2020

Unity Engine introduces an awesome tools to empower your game development process. And even before an era of SRPs (Scriptable Render Pipelines), there was a good amount of solid features like today’s topic: Render textures. In this post I’m going to explain to you how to use render textures in your game.

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Cocos

JULY 4, 2024

For example, I didn’t see it listed in the 3.8.3

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Logic Simplified

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

3D architectural visualization gives the viewer a graphical representation of the object, assets, and the environment from different sides and angles allowing them to evaluate in detail all the parts of interest and the entire future structure, as opposed to 2D drawings and sketches.

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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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CG Spectrum

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

3D modelers apply many processes to improve the look and usability of their assets when creating the characters, props, and sets that feature in your favorite video games and films. Not only does LOD support faster rendering, it does so in a way that doesn't negatively impact the visual quality of an asset. What is 3D modeling?

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Logic Simplified

JULY 24, 2023

Researchers, professionals or game app developers all need to remain up-to-date with the recent advancements as well as features of the Unity engine to create and enjoy the best games possible. It can handle high-end graphics features such as physically-based rendering, volumetric effects and high dynamic range (HDR) lighting.

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Jaunty Bear Games

APRIL 5, 2023

The Unity engine and Godot are two popular game development engines that have gained significant traction in recent years. While both have their strengths and weaknesses, which engine to use largely depends on the specific needs and requirements of the project.

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 24, 2023

There was augmented and virtual reality making breakthrough advances and with the Unreal Engine coming into the picture, the level of headway has been phenomenal for the development of the video game sector. Motion Capture (2D, 3D, LiveLink) Real-time Rendering One of the standout Unreal Engine features is its support for real-time rendering.

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AWS Games

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Efficient movement and synchronization of enormous media assets, including high-definition video and complex Unreal Engine data is important. For instance, game development studios use GFS solutions to manage game assets, build distribution, and engine data for collaborative work among game designers, developers, and artists.

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Awesome Tuts

JANUARY 2, 2023

Unreal Engine has the most advanced lighting system out of all game engines. This tutorial is meant for beginners as well as experts in Unreal Engine. You can check out the Parasite Platformer tutorial by clicking the link below: Create A Parasite Platformer Game In Unreal Engine. Types Of Light In Unreal Engine.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 2, 2017

alpha1, users need more content to test with the new 3D engine. Sites like Sketchfab provide plenty of PBR-ready assets for downloading, and plugins that export scenes from other popular game engines to this format. The surprise, though, is how good this format is for video game asset exchange. Khronos, with glTF 2.0,

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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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Nvidia

MARCH 1, 2023

Most game engines also require multiple levels of asset detailing, which requires the use of multiple assets and leads to additional production and running costs. The solution also enables users to fill objects in with color, paint over them with an RBG brush, or cover regions with physically based rendering (PBR) materials.

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Nvidia

MARCH 17, 2023

Tools Pipeline Engineering Lead Megumi Ando sat down with NVIDIA to discuss the integration process in the company’s latest release as well as their adoption plans in Polyphony’s game development pipeline. USD technology supports large-scale, multi-user, diverse asset pipelines for video production.

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 22, 2023

The paper shows how a single language can serve as a unified platform for real-time, inverse, and differentiable rendering. For more information about practical examples of Slang with various machine learning (ML) rendering applications, see Differentiable Slang: Example Applications. This is part of a series on Differentiable Slang.

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Cocos

MAY 5, 2023

This article will discuss the new feature of Cocos Creator, Custom Render Pipeline(CRP), and demonstrate how to apply the custom render pipeline already written in Cocos Cyberpunk to your own project. Most of them are asking: How to apply the Custom Render Pipeline in Cocos Cyberpunk to my own project. component onto the node.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Godot is a community developed game engine. In fact, our development process and code quality are, already, arguably in many senses better than commercial game engine counterparts. What is, then, a game engine? A renderer + OS obstraction functions. If Rendering and OS abstraction is only, at much, 2%.

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

Unreal Engine has fast grown to be the most trusted engine in the world. UE5’s features and functionality have further expanded to include experimental new features for rendering, animation and simulation. Expertise Unreal Engine is the most open and advanced real-time 3D creation tool. The steps involved are: 2.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Every beta release so far has included a lot of fixes in one or more key areas, and the next major version of the engine starts to finally look complete. AssetLib: Add support for svg images in the asset lib ( GH-70317 ). Rendering: Implement basic ASTC support ( GH-65376 ). GH-59810 ).

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Nvidia

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Rapidly Generate 3D Assets for Virtual Worlds with Generative AI New generative AI technologies on NVIDIA Omniverse enhance 3D asset creation in virtual environments. An Introduction to Large Language Models: Prompt Engineering and P-Tuning This introduction to LLMs covers key techniques like prompt engineering and tuning.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 4, 2019

This is possible because the engines in which such games are made are actual 3D engines using 2D planes. In the end, doing this is possible but it requires understanding and being familiar with how 3D engines work. Godot 2D engine already has a node named CanvasLayer. Same technique in Godot. Canvas layers.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The character asset and animation are from GDQuest's "godot-3d-mannequin" project and the ground texture is from Kenney's "Prototype Textures" bundle. we introduced the ability to compile the engine with double precision floats instead so that all these calculations happen with much higher precision. In Godot 4.0

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Game From Scratch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Considering the short distance of time since the last release its somewhat staggering the extent of new features in this version, including a new renderer, a rewritten asset system, new light interaction options and … Bevy 0.12 GameFromScratch.com Bevy 0.12 Released Coming just 4 months after the release of Bevy 0.11

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

” The decision to switch engines was only made fairly recently. 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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

This version worked well but we felt it was still far from the usability and features of a modern game engine. The more urgent issue was to improve the 2D engine so we worked hard again and released Godot 1.1, which did in fact improve 2D rendering considerably. Asset sharing. Live scene editing. Spread the love!

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Following several weeks of turmoil at game engine maker Unity , the announcement of its CEO John Riccitiello leaving the firm feels like an unsatisfying sacrifice. While likely more profitable, it will also render Unity more vulnerable. It also doesn’t bode well for everyone else.

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Cocos

MAY 14, 2023

The fastest way to render a model is not to render it at all. This approach enables our games to efficiently eliminate unseen static objects during rendering, reducing the rendering load and enhancing game performance. Too many Draw Calls can cause the CPU to assemble a large number of rendering instructions.

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Game Daily

APRIL 11, 2023

Fresh from raising $13 million in funding, Avalan Corp is beginning to outline its vision for Web3 game development, most particularly the company’s belief in creating development tools that aid world and asset creation, as well as interoperability between games. “For us, that’s all going to work out of the box.

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Game From Scratch

MARCH 27, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Four Godot 4 Graphic Demo Scenes Godot 4 was recently released and contains an all new renderer and plenty of new graphic features. Today we are going to look at 3 free and 1 commercial scenes for showing off the graphic capabilities of the Godot Engine.

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Awesome Tuts

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

And one of those guidelines is choosing the correct game engine for your needs. You see choosing a game engine depends on your goal as a game developer. Some people treat game development as a hobby, and in that case you can choose whichever engine you want. Ureal Engine Blueprint Visual Coding Language.

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Logic Simplified

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The Impact of Game Engines Our gaming solutions company uses the most popular and powerful game development engines like Unity , Unreal Engine , Godot, Phaser, Construct, Cocos Creator, Babylon JS, and many others, based on the game idea and the requirements of the game development process. Read more on how we do that.

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