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In Retrospect: Three Game Engine Development Choices I'd Change

Harold Serrano

If you had the option to rewrite your game engine from scratch, what would you do differently? Bulletproof my engine by providing defaults upon load failures. Use Entity-Component-System I wrote my game engine using C++ and decided to take the OOP approach. OOP served me well until my engine became too complex.

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From Concept to Completion: Navigating the Game Art Production Pipeline 

iXie gaming

Why it matters: Efficient UV mapping and normal map baking allow high-detail textures to be applied to low-poly models, preserving visual fidelity without unnecessary computational overhead. Adding Realism & Depth A 3D model without textures is lifeless. Why it matters: Improperly mapped textures break immersion.

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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. Unreal - Game Engine Unreal Engine is a powerful and production-proven RT3D (Real-Time 3D) computer graphics game engine developed by Epic Games.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

is coming with huge improvements to texture importing quality and speed thanks to new maintainer Bluecube3310. The import times of textures using the VRAM Compressed import setting have been greatly improved by integrating the GPU-based Betsy texture compressor. Import 4.4 Now 2D performance is comparable between all backends.

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Maintenance release: Godot 4.4.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

GUI: Use Viewport s default texture filter/repeat in GUI tooltips ( GH-103636 ). Rendering: Fix Metal handling of cube textures; assert equal dimensions ( GH-104341 ). GUI: Fix spinbox decimal issues when update_on_text_changed = true ( GH-100684 ). GUI: Fix error when embedded popup is closed while resizing ( GH-102504 ).

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new Quake map: "Taught By Thirst" for Remix Jam

Radiator Blog

However the dark lighting and texturing transform much of the play area into an unpleasant mid-brown mess, and its reliance on Source displacements leaves it feeling a bit blobby and melty. Like a lot of Counter-Strike Source, it often feels more like a game engine tech demo rather than something for humans to play.

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new Quake map: There's a Certain Slant of Light

Radiator Blog

The two big changes I made were the texturing and the monster placement / player flow. One of my big motivations was to use Makkon's updated textures. Yet as I aligned the 100th trim texture on a brush, I wondered whether my level was also anti-brutalist in its own way. In the past I've written about video game brutalism.

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