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Scaling Art Production for Live-Service Games: Challenges, Innovations, and Future-Ready Pipelines 

iXie gaming

Titles like Fortnite, Apex Legends, and Genshin Impact have redefined player engagement through frequent content drops, seasonal events, and community-driven updates. Continuous Content Updates: Players expect frequent refreshes in the form of character skins, props, and new environments. These include: (i).

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

This adds parity with Ogg Vorbis audio tracks, and will be a welcome addition for users who want to load user-generated content at runtime (including non-game audio applications). is coming with huge improvements to texture importing quality and speed thanks to new maintainer Bluecube3310. Import 4.4

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3D Content Interoperability with Topology-Free Modeling

Nvidia

In addition, due to the topology creation process, 3D modeling is time consuming and has a high entry barrier for content creation. According to Ashot Gabrelyanov, CEO of Shapeyard development company Magic Unicorn, “As the web evolves, its content form does, too. This makes them inoperable with multiple platforms in the metaverse.

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Trapped Souls major update

Indie DB

Over the past 3 months, I've reworked and polished most of the game, fixed critical bugs, replaced some textures, improved gameplay, improved sounds, and added a lot of new content.

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Creating and Working with Textures in Affinity Designer

2d Game Art Guru

Creating and Working with Textures in Affinity Designer Affinity Designer Video tutorials These two new videos focus on the use of textures in Affinity Designer. Create and work with textures from photos taken with your mobile phone. It’s not entirely necessary for most texturing tasks. older tutorials ].

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The Top 10 Popular VR Game Development Tools

Logic Simplified

Its capabilities for VR content creation include comprehensive 3D modeling tools, advanced texturing and shading, animation and rigging, and integration with VR Devices. Blender Blender is an open-source 3D computer graphics software tool.

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Introducing the Betsy GPU texture compressor

Mircosoft Game Dev

x branch of Ogre aka ogre-next and I wrote Betsy, a GPU texture compressor that runs on GPUs. This work was commissioned by Godot Engine through the Software Freedom Conservancy to solve a major complaint: importing textures is excruciantly slow and takes many minutes. What is texture compression and why you care. ktx A.etc2.ktx

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