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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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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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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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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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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

It means that assets are pulled from disk on demand (loaded only at the time they are needed), rather than as a part of a larger stage. Mesh streaming : Models are loaded as low detail (few vertices). There is also a risk of running out of memory if too many assets are loaded in parallel instead of streaming them.

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3D Content Interoperability with Topology-Free Modeling

Nvidia

Digital sculpting software, however, uses an extremely high-resolution polygon mesh (or a voxel grid). This mesh can be modeled like traditional clay with a vast array of tools, giving modelers more freedom and flexibility in their work. This is similar to the limitations of physical sculptures.

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Importing 3D assets from Blender (GameDev.tv)

Mircosoft Game Dev

He is collaborating with Yann Burrett and Ben Tristem on their upcoming Godot course on Udemy , and offered to share a tutorial on how to import 3D assets from Blender using Godot's "Better" Collada exporter. Importing 3D assets. So you want to import 3D assets into Godot? Has no mesh modifiers. Let's do it!

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