How devs can spot AI-generated 3D models
Game Developer
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Baked-in lighting, mushy meshes, and high polygon counts are telltale signs of AI-generated work.
Mesh Baking Your Assets (With Ian Deane)
The GameDev Guru
JUNE 8, 2020
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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These include: Bump mapping Bump mapping is a texture mapping technique that simulates small-scale bumps, wrinkles, ridges, and other surface irregularities by altering the surface normals of a mesh but without actually changing the geometry.
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How to Create a Game-Ready AAA asset
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This is also a stage where you should not rush in order to get a perfect mesh flow. I used a Blinn Shader on the asset to spot any issues with the mesh. A high poly mesh model of the gun came into being. With that I have to create a low poly model of the gun on which we will bake the high poly details.
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Introducing the new "last minute" lightmapper
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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Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities
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Fixed an issue where Mesh objects created through MeshUtils.createMesh caused data anomalies. Fixed an issue where the setter for the Mesh:: _ hash attribute was not bound. Editor • Support baking high-precision lighting maps to get a better baking effect. The native platform supports main.js build templates.
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Theia Interactive Generates Realistic and Interactive Scenes with DLSS and RTX Global Illumination
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However, using a configurator in a built environment presents multiple challenges including 3D meshes changing shape, shadows not lining up, and materials reflecting different lighting and colors. Because the lighting is baked in, it’s difficult to test out multiple lighting scenarios. Photo courtesy of Theia Interactive.
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Navigation Server for Godot 4.0
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Runtime navigation mesh baking. Now the NavigationRegion can be added during gameplay, and it's possible to change its transform or even bake the navigation mesh data at runtime. You can compose the NavigationRegion as you like, mine looks like this: Note: The meshes have a common static body under their node.
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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9
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Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 3D: Switch Mesh surface indexing to start at 0 so string name matches integer index ( GH-70176 ). Core: Handle corner cases for curve baking ( GH-69726 ). Buildsystem: Rename float=64 SCons option to precision=double ( GH-67399 ).
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Optimize Vegetation Generation
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Mainly I focused on generating grass that bends in the wind and some fern like plants, but what comes next is usable for all kind of meshes. Batching means to combine mesh objects that share the same material or that are marked as static in the Unity inspector. In my case I had terrible FPS with just some thousand mesh instances.
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Updates to NVIDIA’s Unreal Engine 4 Branch, DLSS, and RTXGI Available Now
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World position offset simulation for ray traced instanced static meshes (beta) Allows ambient motion of foliage like trees and grass. Inexact Shadows (beta) Deals with potential mesh mismatches of ray traced and raster geometry. Uses approximate technique of shared animations to reduce overhead for simulating a full forest.
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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12
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Little Racer – 3D Art
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To solve the problem we rearranged the mesh and added some edge loops along track parts. Adjusting mesh, rig and skinning needed a couple of iterations. We needed to simplify the mesh and decrease the amount of tiny details for the sake of readability. Static obstacles needed some adjustments as well.
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Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.2
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Notably, Windows users could experience crashes when baking lightmaps. Import: glTF: Improved error handling around invalid images and invalid meshes ( GH-48904 , GH-48912 ). was thus subject to this crash when baking lightmaps. was released a month ago , and we had a first maintenance release last week with Godot 3.3.1.
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Webinar: Top 11 Questions from “Ray Tracing with Unity’s High Definition Render Pipeline”
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Q: Does the scene have to be pre-baked in any way to use ray tracing and/or path tracing? Pierre: The path tracer does not require any pre-baking, thanks to its more brute force (and slower) approach to lighting. The shape of a volume can be a box, a sphere, a custom mesh (concave), or it can be infinitely large (global).
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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9
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Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 3D: Switch Mesh surface indexing to start at 0 so string name matches integer index ( GH-70176 ). Core: Handle corner cases for curve baking ( GH-69726 ). Buildsystem: Rename float=64 SCons option to precision=double ( GH-67399 ).
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The Complete Guide To Lighting In Unreal Engine
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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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12
Mircosoft Game Dev
JANUARY 13, 2023
OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). Navigation: Fix for navmesh baking when parsing StaticBody colliders ( GH-70904 ). A couple fixes to the text resource loader which could impact notably reloading scripts ( GH-71170 ). Fix Tab key usage in the inspector ( GH-71271 ).
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Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination
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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6
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GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).
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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1
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GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).
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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2
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GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).
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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3
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NOVEMBER 2, 2021
GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).
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FBX importer rewritten for Godot 3.2.4 and later
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NOVEMBER 5, 2020
It took us about 14 months to get a proper FBX importer working fully, since we had to engineer everything again: We rewrote all the mesh code to support all formats of FBX meshes correctly. Much like the work we have done with FBX we'd just be repeating work for example with mesh conversion. stable release. Known issues.
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GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1
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This meant that the larger scenes might refuse to bake because they don't fit within the size limits of an image. This will be a draw mode that previews the texel density of lightmaps (without actually (re)baking them). Project overview and progress. Multi-image atlases. How do you show the texel density visually?
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Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 5
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JUNE 27, 2022
The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. And for more advanced use cases, there is now also TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add Word Art to your scenes ;). and backported to 3.5.
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Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 6
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JULY 8, 2022
The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. And for more advanced use cases, there is now also TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add Word Art to your scenes ;). and backported to 3.5.
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Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8
Mircosoft Game Dev
JULY 28, 2022
The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. And for more advanced use cases, there is now also TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add Word Art to your scenes ;). and backported to 3.5.
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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 1
Mircosoft Game Dev
JANUARY 13, 2022
This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Jake Young ( Duroxxigar ) backported the refactored and much improved navigation system that Andrea Catania ( AndreaCatania ) implemented for Godot 4.0 back in 2020!
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Shaping the Future of Graphics with NVIDIA Technologies in Unreal Engine 5
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It uses ray tracing to provide infinite bounce in indirect lighting, without the need to bake lighting or create multiple light setups for scenes. At GTC 2022, NVIDIA introduced an updated Omniverse Connector for Unreal Engine including the ability to export the source geometry of Nanite meshes from Unreal Engine 5.
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Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 7
Mircosoft Game Dev
JULY 22, 2022
The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. And for more advanced use cases, there is now also TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add Word Art to your scenes ;). and backported to 3.5.
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Animation data rework for 4.0
Mircosoft Game Dev
OCTOBER 31, 2021
In game engines (or even when exported from the 3D modelling application), animation data is baked to a simpler representation because, for games, processing beziers and IKs is way too expensive for real-time. Just decoding the animation, however, is not enough. This is key to having character customization or equippable items.
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Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 3
Mircosoft Game Dev
JUNE 1, 2022
The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. And for more advanced use cases, there is now also TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add Word Art to your scenes ;). and backported to 3.5.
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Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop
Mircosoft Game Dev
AUGUST 5, 2022
The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. For more advanced use cases, you can use TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add WordArt to your scenes ;). The whole API is now a lot more flexible than it used to be.
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Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 2
Mircosoft Game Dev
MAY 24, 2022
The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. And for more advanced use cases, there is now also TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add Word Art to your scenes ;). and backported to 3.5.
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Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 4
Mircosoft Game Dev
JUNE 17, 2022
The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. And for more advanced use cases, there is now also TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add Word Art to your scenes ;). and backported to 3.5.
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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 3
Mircosoft Game Dev
MARCH 30, 2022
This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Rendering: Bind mesh merging functionality in MeshInstance ( GH-57661 ). back in 2020! Rendering: Faster editor line drawing - Path2D and draw_line ( GH-54377 ). Rendering: Add OccluderShapePolygon ( GH-57361 ).
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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 4
Mircosoft Game Dev
APRIL 15, 2022
This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Rendering: Bind mesh merging functionality in MeshInstance ( GH-57661 ). back in 2020! Rendering: Faster editor line drawing - Path2D and draw_line ( GH-54377 ). Rendering: Add OccluderShapePolygon ( GH-57361 ).
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5 Factors Which Vary Unreal Engine 5 from Unreal Engine 4
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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. The shapes used to create meshes inside the game engine are called polygons. Its blend of development- and artistic-focused tools allows for unrestricted creative expression.
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Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features
Mircosoft Game Dev
MARCH 13, 2019
Use baked lightmaps instead. Godot now supports 2D meshes , which can be used from code or converted from sprites to avoid drawing large transparent areas. CSG tools have been added for fast level prototyping, allowing generic primitives and custom meshes to be combined via boolean operations to generate more complex shapes.
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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 5
Mircosoft Game Dev
MAY 3, 2022
This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Rendering: Bind mesh merging functionality in MeshInstance ( GH-57661 ). back in 2020! Rendering: Faster editor line drawing - Path2D and draw_line ( GH-54377 ). Rendering: Add OccluderShapePolygon ( GH-57361 ).
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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 2
Mircosoft Game Dev
MARCH 15, 2022
This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Jake Young ( Duroxxigar ) backported the refactored and much improved navigation system that Andrea Catania ( AndreaCatania ) implemented for Godot 4.0 back in 2020!
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Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 1
Mircosoft Game Dev
MAY 18, 2022
This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Rendering: Bind mesh merging functionality in MeshInstance ( GH-57661 ). back in 2020! Rendering: Faster editor line drawing - Path2D and draw_line ( GH-54377 ). Rendering: Add OccluderShapePolygon ( GH-57361 ).
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Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues
Mircosoft Game Dev
JANUARY 29, 2018
Just set up the probe bounds and do a fast pre-bake of static objects. Still, this workflow is easy and efficient as 3D objects get a second set of UVs generated on import, and baking works with instantiated meshes, scenes and even GridMaps. Both indirect light and voxel reflections are provided by this technique.
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