CG Spectrum

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Example of different LODs on a 3D model and where they would be used in relation to the camera (Image: arm Developer) Which software do you need to create LOD models? Texture baking Texture baking allows you to generate 2D texture maps from a 3D model's high polygon count and is a technique used particularly in video games.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The world of game development has seen a significant shift with the recent release of Unreal Engine 5, which promises to bring an unprecedented level of realism and interactivity to gaming experiences. With this new iteration, there are several key factors that distinguish Unreal Engine 5 from its predecessor, Unreal Engine 4.

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Nvidia

JUNE 4, 2021

Developers, engineers, artists and leaders from game studios across the world gathered virtually at this year’s virtual GTC to learn how the latest NVIDIA. NVIDIA RTX enables developers to create breathtaking, interactive worlds with performance that exceeds gamers expectations.

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

Executable and Project Files Available to Download For Game Developers and Digital Artists [link] Finding ways to improve. Executable and Project Files Available to Download For Game Developers and Digital Artists Finding ways to improve performance and visual fidelity in your games and applications is challenging. Branch (NvRTX).

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Nvidia

APRIL 5, 2022

Unreal Engine is an open and advanced real-time 3D creation platform. Evolving from its state-of-the-art use in game engines into a multitude of industries, Unreal Engine is an open and advanced real-time 3D creation platform. Learn how to set up Hardware Ray Tracing in Unreal Engine 5.

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Nvidia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

To help developers get the most out of Unreal Engine 4 as they head into the new year, NVIDIA RTX UE4.26 To help developers get the most out of Unreal Engine 4 as they head into the new year, NVIDIA RTX UE4.26 has just been released. We have also released the first. has just been released.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 1, 2021

I'm happy to announce that, starting today, I will be working as a full-time Godot developer! My latest big contribution to the engine is the new CPU lightmapper, which will be landing with the 3.2.4 Here you can see some screenshots: Comparison between no indirect lighting (top), and baked indirect lighting (bottom) in the TPS demo.

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Theia Interactive has created award-winning visualizations for hundreds of enterprise clients (including many Fortune 500 companies) in industries spanning automotive, aerospace, manufactured products, and architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC). So pre-baking all of those options would have been nearly impossible.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2025

Subscribe to The Nodeletter to get a regular digest of Godot Engine news directly in your email inbox! For the purpose of this retrospective, we approached the engine maintainers directly, asking them to point us at one particularly compelling change they witnessed in their area of expertise. beta 1 release notes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: String and StringName are now mostly cross-compatible throughout the engine API, as well as in various GDScript-specific expressions and statements ( GH-68747 ). Core: Add feature tags to signify engine float precision ( GH-69538 ). Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 8, 2020

Let's hope this implementation will also be of use to others making their own technology or engines, so they can use it as reference or just copy it. Most scenes bake in seconds instead of minutes or hours. Allows baking dynamic and static lights. is shaping up to be an excellent choice for high end graphics development.

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Cocos

MAY 14, 2023

Cocos Cyberpunk is a complete open-source TPS 3D game developed by the Cocos Engine official team to showcase the engine’s capabilities in creating heavy 3D games and to boost the community’s learning motivation. I hope to help you advance further in 3D game development. real-time culling and offline culling.

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Cocos

APRIL 13, 2023

The purpose of developing Cocos Cyberpunk is to showcase the Cocos Engine’s ability to create complex 3D games on multiple platforms and to motivate the developers in Cocos community to learn game development. How time flies, the Cocos Engine team has released the latest version, Cocos Creator v3.7.

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 5, 2024

At Logic Simplified , a leading game development company , we created an FPS game Mr. 45. With that I have to create a low poly model of the gun on which we will bake the high poly details. Baking (Transfer high poly details in low poly model) The next step is extremely important. I have always been fond of guns as a child.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

Follow Kenny Park on Twitter or Mastodon for development updates, and check his website to discover other games and applications. Navigation: Fix for navmesh baking when parsing StaticBody colliders ( GH-70904 ). The illustration picture for this article is from Gawr Gura: Quest for Bread by Kenny Park. What's new. Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Using an NVIDIA RTX 3090Ti and the NVIDIA RTX Branch of Unreal Engine (NvRTX ), Mebratu spoke to NVIDIA about what his aspirations were for the scene and pushing the limits of real-time lighting. With a prebaked lighting setup, you can incorporate thousands of baked lights without impacting performance, except for the bake time.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The solution to these problems is to add support for a more traditional lightmapper (pre-baked light texture). Lightmapper looks pretty nice: Of course, GIProbe still has the advantages of being real-time, easier to set up (no unwrap or bake), supports rough refletions (which look great), and light affects dynamic objects more accurately.

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Nvidia

APRIL 9, 2021

This year, Microsoft’s free Game Stack Live event (April 20-21), starting at 8am PDT, will offer a wide range of can’t-miss sessions for game developers, in. Traditionally, game developers have baked most lighting and supported a small number of “hero” lights that are computed at runtime.

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Brand Game Development

AUGUST 11, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. You don’t need developer input to play any more. Just here for Highway s & Byways updates?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2021

Notably, Windows users could experience crashes when baking lightmaps. Additionally, this release includes a number of non-regression bug fixes to various areas of the engine. was thus subject to this crash when baking lightmaps. A few regressions made their way among the many bug fixes of 3.3.1, like all future 3.3.x

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: String and StringName are now mostly cross-compatible throughout the engine API, as well as in various GDScript-specific expressions and statements ( GH-68747 ). Core: Add feature tags to signify engine float precision ( GH-69538 ). Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

features start to land in the development branch, and I'm pleased to introduce you the new NavigationServer and NavigationServer2D interfaces. Runtime navigation mesh baking. The Map represents the entire world, it's similar to the space for the physics engine, but this one is used for the navigation. Multi-threading safety.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

Follow Kenny Park on Twitter or Mastodon for development updates, and check his website to discover other games and applications. Navigation: Fix for navmesh baking when parsing StaticBody colliders ( GH-70904 ). The illustration picture for this article is from Gawr Gura: Quest for Bread by Kenny Park. What’s new. Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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Game Dev Unchained

JULY 5, 2023

This episode is sponsored by [link] ⁠ 56% off subscription 20% for one-time purchases with my code GAMEDEV20 Introducing a special guest Max Fink, one of the developers behind the steam sensation, Battle Bit Remastered. This community-driven approach is an integral part of the team’s development process.

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Cocos

JUNE 11, 2023

we have completed the transformation of the engine-builtin Custom Pipeline using RenderGraph. Render Graph The Render Pipeline customization based on Render Graph will be officially available to developers in version 3.8. It will support the implementation of engine builtin Custom Pipeline and the default Deferred Pipeline.

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Cocos

JANUARY 31, 2024

Dear Cocos Developers, Thank you all for your patience and valuable feedback during the public testing of version 3.8.2. Features Engine Enhanced support for multiple lights, CSM, and multiple light shadows in the pipeline. Adapting the engine repository development environment to NodeJS 18.x. is now officially released.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2020

This new technique was developed entirely in the open and implemented under our MIT license, so anyone is welcome to use it in their own engines and games. Ensure your meshes are marked as "Static Bake", then enable SDFGI in the Environment settings. What can it do? How do you use it?

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

SDK Updates For Game Developers and Digital Artists GTC is a great opportunity to get hands-on with NVIDIA’s latest graphics technologies. Developers can. SDK Updates For Game Developers and Digital Artists GTC is a great opportunity to get hands-on with NVIDIA’s latest graphics technologies. Version 1.1.30 Version 1.1.30

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

All Godot contributors are delighted to release our latest milestone today, Godot 3.3 , after more than 7 months of development! While most development focus is on our upcoming Godot 4.0 x branch to develop and publish their games today , so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 28, 2022

Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. Navigation: Fix NavMesh baking on thread ( GH-59995 ). As we are still in the alpha phase of development, there are still many issues to fix, some of which have already been reported and are being worked on. This new 4.0 Known issues.

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Cocos

MAY 9, 2023

ENGINE Features ● Custom Render Pipeline based on Render Graph supports for GLES backend ● Deprecated interfaces, such as addRasterView, addComputeView, etc., Fixed include issue when Custom Engine lacks the external directory. Removed macro Record defined by the engine to avoid conflicts. Cocos Creator 3.7.3

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

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]. Navigation: Fix NavigationObstacle nodes not registering to default navigation map ( GH-64372 ).

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Cocos

APRIL 14, 2023

For someone who didn’t know Cocos Cyberpunk, it is an open source 3D TPS (Third-person Shooter) game, developed by the Cocos Engine team, which can be published to iOS, Android and Web. 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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Cocos

MAY 5, 2023

Cocos Cyberpunk is a complete open-source TPS 3D game developed by the Cocos Engine team to showcase the engine’s capabilities of making heavy 3D games and boost community learning motivation. I hope to help everyone advance further in 3D game development. It includes three passes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 26, 2016

It won't just happen that hundreds of lines of class descriptions are written by the core devs; their time is much better spent developing the great features we are all so fond of waiting for. light baking, networking, plugins, pathfinding, etc.). But there's one thing that we should not be idly waiting for: API documentation.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In the fast-paced world of mobile game development , visual effects (VFX) play a pivotal role in creating immersive experiences that captivate players. In mobile game development , where hardware resources are limited, implementing LOD is essential for maintaining a balance between performance and visual fidelity.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! MeshInstance: Add option for software skinning ( GH-40313 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ).

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