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Q&A: Real-Time Ray Tracing in a Cinematic Scene

Nvidia

Back then, cinematic-quality rendering required computer farms to slowly bake every frame. Back then, cinematic-quality rendering required computer farms to slowly bake every frame overnight—a painstaking process. Six years ago, real-time ray tracing was seen as a pipe dream. Check them out below: Video.

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Animation data rework for 4.0

Mircosoft Game Dev

In those applications, animation is edited as Bezier curves and many times happens naturally as a result of modifiers such as IK (Inverse Kinematics). This means that animation data can take a large amount of memory and disk, specially animation that comes from mocap or animation used for cinematics.

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A day in the life of a narrative designer

Game Global

We must understand (and preferably help create and document) the game as a whole: from core mechanics to level design to cinematics, and everything in between. Brainstorming, writing, editing, and workshopping text! We need to understand, at least at a high level, all of its features. This is a clip of the Heider-Simmel animation.

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Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Mircosoft Game Dev

Unsupported features will not be visible when editing materials. Unsupported features will not be visible when editing environments. Use baked lightmaps instead. Key editing in inspector. New track type: Animation (play animations of sub-animation player, allowing complex cinematics). GIProbes of course don't work.

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How to Use Unity Cinemachine Virtual Cameras

Game Designing

This can be ideal for cinematics who have been looking for a way to fully automate in game camera systems. As of yet, there is no distributed baking. This basically means you can only bake lightmaps using a single machine. You can even change the edit and color grading.

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How Cookie Run Bakes its Monster Revenue

Deconstructor of Fun

This post is written by the fantastic Game Bakery substack team of Chase, Zixuan, Haiyin, Caitou, Fish, Amy, Chow, Jing, Wanzi and edited by Caitou, Rob. For a 2D game, animated cinematics can significantly help with storytelling in the main campaign. Sign up for their newsletter to be informed when the latest deconstruction drops.

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