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What is Level of Detail (LOD) in 3D Modeling? | Techniques & software

CG Spectrum

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

It helps reduce the amount of detail by simplifying polygons and textures as they get further away from the camera. Bump maps are useful for all types of 3D models — from rocks, wood, and concrete surfaces to fabric and other organic materials, adding a finer level of detail without the additional polygons or memory constraints.

Software

Software Polygon Baking Texture Mapping

D2 log 057 – Tiles, pt.2

Catnip Games

MARCH 19, 2022

I got rid of that and switched to a polygon based approach which plugs into Box2D. Material polygons are created as invisible objects in Blender and exported into the game. They are now baked into tiles, so map editing is much easier. I also changed the way fences are placed on the map.

Tile

Tile Polygon Baking Texture

5 Factors Which Vary Unreal Engine 5 from Unreal Engine 4

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. Number of Polygons: The number of polygons that may be used in the engine is likely the biggest change between UE4 and UE5.

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Engine Engineering Polygon Advertising

Godot 4.0 will get a new, modernized lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 8, 2020

Most scenes bake in seconds instead of minutes or hours. branch uses state of the art algorithms to ensure the maximum possible quality: Bakes geometry to lightmap coordinates using the actual rendering code, so any existing shader or material works. Allows baking dynamic and static lights. Features of the new Godot 4.0

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Lightmap Baking Render Shaders

NVIDIA RTX, Unreal Engine 5 Define Future of Game Development and Content Creation

Nvidia

MAY 26, 2021

Nanite enables film-quality source art consisting of millions or billions of polygons to be directly imported into Unreal Engine — all while maintaining a real-time frame rate and without sacrificing fidelity.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Engine Engineering Content

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Core: Handle corner cases for curve baking ( GH-69726 ). If you have existing scenes and resources with navigation polygons and meshes, you might want to skip beta 9 and wait for beta 10 in a few days so that your scenes and resources are ported seamlessly. Buildsystem: Rename float=64 SCons option to precision=double ( GH-67399 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Shaders

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Core: Handle corner cases for curve baking ( GH-69726 ). If you have existing scenes and resources with navigation polygons and meshes, you might want to skip beta 9 and wait for beta 10 in a few days so that your scenes and resources are ported seamlessly. Buildsystem: Rename float=64 SCons option to precision=double ( GH-67399 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Shaders

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. You can move the polygon with the node transform, drag the corners to reshape it, add delete points. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. back in 2020! This should show up initially as a quad.

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Godot's new renderer, progress report #3

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Improve Culling: Portals (rewrite as polygon-based) and Rooms. It must be pre-baked for dynamic scenario geometry, but it offers support for full dynamic lights and dynamic objects. Implement post process effects: DOF Blur, Bloom and Tone Mapping. TODO for Milestone #4 (January 2017). Add Layered/Stencil rendering. Implement Decals.

Render

Render Baking Lightmap Shaders

Optimize Vegetation Generation

Mnenad

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

I just toggled the “Baked Pivots” option in the shader to ON. The polygon reduction object from Cinema4D does not reduce the polygon count effectively. Subdividing the mesh in Cinema4D’s sculpting mode and baking a displacement map works great. That’s it. When

Mesh

Mesh Shaders FPS Polygon

Fill in the blank in the class reference

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 26, 2016

light baking, networking, plugins, pathfinding, etc.). Many cool new concepts are not showcased yet in demos either, such as scene inheritance or navigation polygons. 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.

Demo

Demo Baking Polygon Feature

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. You can move the polygon with the node transform, drag the corners to reshape it, add delete points. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. back in 2020! This should show up initially as a quad.

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

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. You can move the polygon with the node transform, drag the corners to reshape it, add delete points. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. back in 2020! This should show up initially as a quad.

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

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. You can move the polygon with the node transform, drag the corners to reshape it, add delete points. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. You can move the polygon with the node transform, drag the corners to reshape it, add delete points. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

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. You can move the polygon with the node transform, drag the corners to reshape it, add delete points. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. back in 2020! This should show up initially as a quad.

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. You can move the polygon with the node transform, drag the corners to reshape it, add delete points. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

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. You can move the polygon with the node transform, drag the corners to reshape it, add delete points. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

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. You can move the polygon with the node transform, drag the corners to reshape it, add delete points. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. back in 2020! This should show up initially as a quad.

Render

Render Shaders Console Culling

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. You can move the polygon with the node transform, drag the corners to reshape it, add delete points. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

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. You can move the polygon with the node transform, drag the corners to reshape it, add delete points. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view.

Shaders

Shaders Render Mesh Feature

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. You can move the polygon with the node transform, drag the corners to reshape it, add delete points. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

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. You can move the polygon with the node transform, drag the corners to reshape it, add delete points. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

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.

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

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