Awesome Tuts

JANUARY 2, 2023

Well, Unreal Engine has 2 different lighting methods: baked (static) lighting and dynamic lighting. But if a character passes in front of baked light it will not display his shadow at all. Static and Stationary Movable options are for baked lights, and Movable is for dynamic lights.

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Cocos

MAY 5, 2023

Today, let’s take a look at the basic content of the three pipelines. Folder Contents and Code Structure To help you get started easily, in this article, we’ll first look at the code structure to help you quickly locate the content you want to see. It is very simple and has only two passes. It includes three passes.

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Cocos

JANUARY 31, 2024

Fixed the issue where moving the probe point after baking the light probe caused the loss of the baked effect of the probe. Documentations Updated the model resource documentation with additional content on model optimization, simplification, and compression: Cocos Creator 3.8 Cocos Creator 3.8

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Nvidia

JUNE 4, 2021

You’ll learn how to leverage Nucleus for collaboration, AI for asset tagging, and USD and MDL for ground truth content creation and lighting using ray tracing. Traditionally, game developers have baked most lighting and supported a small number of “hero” lights that are computed at runtime.

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Nvidia

DECEMBER 20, 2023

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.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

With a prebaked lighting setup, you can incorporate thousands of baked lights without impacting performance, except for the bake time. There’s a significant concern regarding artistic freedom when working with a fully dynamic GI system.

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

RTX Global Illumination provides scalable solutions to compute multi-bounce indirect lighting without bake times, light leaks, or expensive per-frame costs. RTX Direct Illumination lets artists add millions of dynamic lights to game environments without worrying about performance or resource constraints, in real time.

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Nvidia

JUNE 22, 2021

They overcome the limited realism of pre-computing “baked” lighting in dynamic worlds and simplify an otherwise tedious lighting design process. Its speed makes it possible to train the network live during gameplay in order to keep up with arbitrary dynamic content. NVIDIA’s fully fused neural networks outperforming TensorFlow v2.5.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 26, 2016

light baking, networking, plugins, pathfinding, etc.). That's why we plan to make a complete review of the existing content, reorganise it and start a coordinated effort to, again, fill in the blank.

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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. We are are approaching a point where artists can change jobs seamlessly across all industries and the only thing that matters is the type of content we want to work with. Scott Knapp. Proceduralism in Games with Luiz Kruel | Episode 263.

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Cocos

APRIL 14, 2023

2、LightFX The lightmaps generated by the Lightmap Baking System will be automatically stored in this folder, and there is no need to manually modify the contents inside it. 5、scene The cube textures produced by the Reflection Probe baking system will be automatically saved in a folder specific to each scene.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

stable: Android: Fix issue preventing the Android Editor from displaying the project content ( GH-64420 ). Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). Navigation: Fix TileMaps placing baked NavigationPolygons with wrong offset without a Navigation2D node ( GH-66262 ) [regression fix].

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Nvidia

DECEMBER 20, 2023

I’m not ready to say what exactly is left to make all the remastered maps and models work really well with the NVIDIA RTX renderer at this time, but I guess there’s some content work to be done, such as authoring PBR materials. Do you believe that path tracing will ultimately be the standard for lighting and rendering in games?

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Radiator Blog

APRIL 11, 2024

Botany Manor is a 3 hour first person puzzle game about growing plants while exploring a big beautiful fancy house that smells like British Bake-Off. Is it heat, wind, light, acidity, soil sugar content, or any of the previous puzzle mechanics we spent the last 2 hours tutorializing? What affects this plant's color?

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The bulk of a game’s content package is made up of resources that naturally target the GPU: textures, materials, and geometry data. Traditional data compression techniques are applicable to game content that rarely changes. However, it may result in variation in latency when delivering the resource contents to their final locations.

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Nvidia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

NVIDIA RTXGI Plugin for UE4 Leveraging the power of ray tracing, NVIDIA RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) provides scalable solutions to compute multi-bounce indirect lighting without bake times, light leaks, or expensive per-frame costs.

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Cocos

MAY 9, 2023

Fixed not being able to get input content in time for an input box on Android. Fixed crash issue when baking high-precision Lightmap for the terrain. . ● Fixed potential focus loss issue when switching the input box on iOS. Fixed possible obstruction of an OK button when the keyboard pops up on iOS.

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Nvidia

APRIL 5, 2022

Evolving from its state-of-the-art use in game engines into a multitude of industries, creators can deliver cutting-edge content, interactive experiences, and immersive virtual worlds. It uses ray tracing to provide infinite bounce in indirect lighting, without the need to bake lighting or create multiple light setups for scenes.

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Deconstructor of Fun

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The first question around non-PVP content (single player campaign, Zombies) was resourcing: non-PVP content required the most development heads and was the least retentive in the long term, since players tended to not return after completing it.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 22, 2017

There’s lots of blog articles about building a Twitter following, but I think they’re largely half-baked. The first is what I call Content Mix. Having great content is half the battle. This guide is going to be very detailed. It will be the longest article I’ve ever made. There’s just one issue.

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Mnenad

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Doing it before starting the actual game would mean to already generate all the content that needs to be batched at the beginning, which is no solution for a theoretically “endless procedurally generated” terrain. I just toggled the “Baked Pivots” option in the shader to ON. That’s it. When

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Game Refinery

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Puzzle Duel was added to Toy Blast in July 2023 and runs every Monday to Wednesday, expanding the LiveOps framework Matchington Mansion Developer Magic Tavern has taken this idea a step further in Matchington Mansion with its 1v1 competitive event, Bake-Off. They advance through the reward track each time they win a match.

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Nvidia

AUGUST 31, 2021

UE4 plugin (Download here ) Leveraging the power of ray tracing, RTXGI provides scalable solutions to compute multi-bounce indirect lighting without bake times, light leaks, or expensive per-frame costs. RTXGI 1.1.40

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

stable: Android: Fix issue preventing the Android Editor from displaying the project content ( GH-64420 ). Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). Navigation: Fix TileMaps placing baked NavigationPolygons with wrong offset without a Navigation2D node ( GH-66262 ) [regression fix].

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AWS Games

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Game developers often need to compile large amounts of C++ code, which requires lots of CPU resources, and developers also need to process other types of heavy compute tasks such as; shader compilation, rendering, asset creation, image conversion, lightmap baking and more. If there isn’t appropriate IAM role, create it here.

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Game Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

So many games have that question baked into their core. Not only does it help your team manage the workload, but it means you can roll out more content to keep your players engaged later. Make the gameplay satisfying Helping a player experience their fantasy is only half of the work. Does it feel good when playing?

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 9, 2023

One could even suppose that it makes content transfer (levels, features) even easier between the two games. Now onto the differences… A new way to define ‘casual player vs player’ (PvP) The biggest glaring difference between the two games is the new attack mechanic that is baked into the natural linear progression and appears every 10 levels.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

It was reusing parts of the code for baking GIProbes, and that made it quick but not great in terms of quality. Also, the new lightmapper brings support for denoising using Open Image Denoise , which results in better-looking lightmaps in the same bake time range. New CPU lightmapper. The lightmapper in the previous 3.x

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

stable: Android: Fix issue preventing the Android Editor from displaying the project content ( GH-64420 ). Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). As usual, you can try it live with the online version of the Godot editor updated for this release. Here are the main changes since 3.5-stable:

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Cocos

AUGUST 16, 2023

Blurring is handled by using the contents of the frame after the last process. Prioritize the scene to use lightmap to bake AO so that even if HBAO is turned off, the effect is still not bad. The render function will be executed every frame, so you need to call context.clearBack() to clean up the background.

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Game Refinery

MAY 30, 2024

We saw games igniting player competition and social interaction through innovative LiveOps events, collaborating with beloved IPs to launch all-new gameplay experiences, weaning narrative threads into their content plans, leveraging seasonal themes to keep things fresh, and more.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

This, together with dynamic or baked-in lighting and shadows, enables the creation of amazing photorealistic material that nevertheless operates in real time. Its blend of development- and artistic-focused tools allows for unrestricted creative expression. For its materials and graphics, it employs the widely used PBR technique.

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CG Spectrum

JANUARY 3, 2023

I spent a week trying to figure out how to use a Control Rig to drive the undercarriage animation of my X-Wing models before giving up and just baking the animation into its own asset, which I can reuse easily. Staying organized. Power up your real-time skills in real time! UNREAL CONNECTORS PROGRAM.

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Game Dev Unchained

JULY 5, 2023

In an era where large studios often release glitch-ridden, half-baked games only to spend months patching them up, these developers offers a refreshing contrast. One pivotal player in this growth was the content creator, ‘ Blue Drake ‘, whose enthusiastic promotion of the game helped kickstart its rise in popularity.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

It’s awesome to see some good messaging baked into its core gameplay. They removed all of the F2P monetization, polished some of the features, and released a new batch of content for season 4. In the game, you run your own farm, create your own products, and sell to the local community through your own small business.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

Developing a detailed, polished universe like this presumably took a lot of time and effort from the team, but it pays off in the end as they continuously push out more content over time for player engagement. In terms of content, the plot of Cookie Run: Kingdom advances very quickly while maintaining a grip on the details of the characters.

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Game Global

JULY 12, 2021

How should I space out my content to create the pacing I want? What are the common technical pitfalls to avoid with regard to font choices, text string composition (especially regarding item names), baked-in text, etc? How can I get this NPC to convey a specific emotion if I don’t have that specific animation in my toolbox?

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