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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Cocos

MAY 9, 2023

Fixed error on macOS simulator when selecting “Open simulator with debugger” and “Simulator wait for debugger connection” in Cocos Creator → Preferences → Preview at the same time. Fixed crash issue when baking high-precision Lightmap for the terrain. Fixed getting mismatched writable paths after setting it on Android.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Masters of simulation, this studio is renowned for making popular sim games for mobile. It’s awesome to see some good messaging baked into its core gameplay. We don’t see this often enough in casual simulation games, but there is a lovely open-world feel to this game. Idle Siege: War Simulator by Gameloft.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2020

Ensure your meshes are marked as "Static Bake", then enable SDFGI in the Environment settings. Multiple Bounces: Enable a feedback loop, which simulates multiple bounce lighting. SDFGI is mostly leak free, unlike VCT techniques which are the most common in use today (like SVOGI/GIProbe/etc). How do you use it?

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Nvidia

APRIL 9, 2021

Traditionally, game developers have baked most lighting and supported a small number of “hero” lights that are computed at runtime. RTXDI: Details on Achieving Real-time Performance RTXDI offers realistic lighting of dynamic scenes that require computing shadows from millions of area lights.

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Game Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Let people play out the fantasy Simulation is key for a successful VR game. It’s clear that simulation, as both a genre and concept, is far more popular in VR than in Console and PC games. So many games have that question baked into their core. With that in mind, here’s what Charlie had to say.

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Cocos

JUNE 11, 2023

AGP upgraded to 8.0.2.

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Cocos

JANUARY 31, 2024

Fixed the issue where the simulator might crash when using a custom pipeline. Fixed the issue where moving the probe point after baking the light probe caused the loss of the baked effect of the probe. Fixed the issue of the cc.js cache not being found in the compilation engine cache.

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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

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

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.

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Nvidia

APRIL 1, 2021

Traditionally, most lighting is baked offline, computing just a handful of “hero” dynamic lights at runtime. RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) RTXGI provides developers with a scalable solution for multi-bounce indirect lighting without light leakage, time-intensive offline lightmap baking, or expensive per-frame costs.

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Nvidia

MAY 26, 2021

Nanite intelligently streams and processes only the detail you can perceive, largely removing poly count and draw call constraints, and eliminating time-consuming work like baking details to normal maps and manually authoring levels of detail. This allows users to focus less on tedious tasks and more on creativity.

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Nvidia

APRIL 5, 2022

It uses ray tracing to provide infinite bounce in indirect lighting, without the need to bake lighting or create multiple light setups for scenes. NVIDIA Omniverse Connector for Unreal Engine 5 preview NVIDIA Omniverse is a 3D design collaboration and virtual world simulation platform for creators to connect and enhance 3D workflows.

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) Leveraging the power of ray tracing, the RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) SDK provides scalable solutions to compute multi-bounce indirect lighting without bake times, light leaks, or expensive per-frame costs. Version 1.1.30 allows developers to enable, disable, and rotate individual DDGI volumes.

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Cocos

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Feedback source ) Fix the issue where the simulator may crash when using the custom pipeline. Fix the issue where the baking result of the light probe is lost after moving the probe. Fix the issue where PNG format images exported from Blender fail to import. Feedback source ) Fix the issue where cc.js

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Techniques like pre-computed lighting and baked animations can also reduce the computational load. Additionally, reducing the poly count of models used in VFX and leveraging simpler physics simulations can help maintain high performance.

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Nvidia

JUNE 4, 2021

Traditionally, game developers have baked most lighting and supported a small number of “hero” lights that are computed at runtime. RTXDI RTXDI offers realistic lighting of dynamic scenes that require computing shadows from millions of area lights. Until now, this hasn’t been possible in video games in real-time.

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Designer Notes

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

I would never have bet on a ultra-detailed dwarf simulator using ASCII art. Here’s the rest of the quote from screenwriter William Goldman – Not one person knows for a certainty what’s going to work. Every time out it’s a guess and, if you’re lucky, an educated one. Certainly, that can be said for video games.

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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. Before NVIDIA RTX introduced real-time ray tracing to games, global illumination in games was largely static. Since then, technologies such as RTXGI bring dynamic global illumination to life.

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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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Cocos

APRIL 13, 2023

Reflection Probe Pre-baked Reflection Probe is an excellent technique to enhance the appearance of object’s surface without compromising on performance. Reflection Probes also can be used to simulate shallow puddles on the ground with the projection correction technique.

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iXie gaming

JULY 19, 2024

Simulates how light bounces between surfaces, making lighting look more natural and filling in dark areas. Baked Lighting. For example, global illumination simulates light bouncing between surfaces, adding realism, while volumetric lighting can create effects like God rays and fog. Rasterization. Screen Space Reflections (SSR).

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

Build phase Next, in order to drive the payment conversion, the stats requirements increase quickly in both battle stats and simulations, which means it gets harder to obtain resources. However, card/Team Battle RPG and simulation games are mature genres that players with some experience can easily master.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 9, 2023

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. Wonder how they will expand their Royal-verse.

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Game Design Advice

JUNE 5, 2016

The human brain itself may demonstrate a similar structure. In Thinking Fast and Slow psychologist Daniel Kahneman outlines the two main modules of human congnition – system 1 (snap judgments, intuition, reflex) and system 2 (slow, step-by-step, logical calculation.)

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

You can add 2-3 perks ("weapon trinkets") to guns, e.g. faster reload for a revolver, narrower spread for a shotgun gun perks never affect the gun model or appearance, just affect stats the usual gun upgrades (silencers, scopes) aren't available as swappable trinkets, baked into gun There's a weapon jamming mechanic but it never really comes up after (..)

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