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Mesh Baking Your Assets (With Ian Deane)

The GameDev Guru

Today, I had the pleasure to interview Ian Deane, the developer behind Mesh Baker. This famous Unity asset lets you drastically reduce your draw calls so your game runs at substantially higher frame-rate. Let's see what he has to say.

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Godot XR update - February 2025

Mircosoft Game Dev

from GitHub or the Asset Library. from GitHub or the Asset Library. In addition, the XR sample projects are also available on the GitHub release and the Asset Library. mesh formats and thus requires Godot 4.2+. mesh formats and thus requires Godot 4.2+. from GitHub or the Asset Library. and later only.

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How to Create a Game-Ready AAA asset

Logic Simplified

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. This is also a stage where you should not rush in order to get a perfect mesh flow.

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Use Zip to speed up CocosWeb loading

Cocos

This project uses gltf models, the gltf models are split into many meshes and materials. In Cocos, gltf is parsed and split to Cocos assets. 1 Introduction Use Zip to speed up CocosWeb loading Some time ago, I used Cocos3.8 to do a cloud showroom project that required publish to the Web platform (WeChat H5 & browsers).

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Object Placement on Terrain (Mesh)

Mnenad

This chapter is all about how I solved it (so far) to be able to place all kinds of assets like 3D-meshes or self-growing fractal seeds on the terrain. The code calculates Instantiations (spawning assets with the given parameters), which is quite heavy for the system to calculate. Before we start.

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The Top 10 Popular VR Game Development Tools

Logic Simplified

This powerful software allows developers to build their 3D assets and sciences with tools for 3D animation , modeling, rendering, shading, simulation, and more. It is a key tool for creating virtual reality (VR) games because it allows artists to create concept art for characters, environments, and game assets.

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Popul8 uses AI to assist developers with the creation of digital game characters

PreMortem.Games

As the designer changes elements of the character (let’s say changing a small young woman into a large werewolf), the rig and assets automatically adapt to the new shape of the character. The underlying mesh and overlaying texture are both adjusted instantly. These too appropriately retarget if the character changes shape or style. “For

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