PreMortem.Games

APRIL 13, 2023

The underlying mesh and overlaying texture are both adjusted instantly. “For example, our character blending technology is an amazing feature. A designer can turn a human into an orc, elf, zombie, lizard-headed alien, or whatever they want by merely moving sliders. It happens instantly.

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Cocos

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The vertical axes of textures and picture pixels is shown above, when sampling textures in shaders, that is from top to bottom, which is top-right corner. If your previous development experience is based on OpenGL, you may find that the texture on your grid is vertically flipped. the RGB of the color will be multiplied by 0.5

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The Knights of Unity

JUNE 5, 2020

And even before an era of SRPs (Scriptable Render Pipelines), there was a good amount of solid features like today’s topic: Render textures. In this post I’m going to explain to you how to use render textures in your game. For shaders, I used Amplify Shader Editor to add some visual effects on top of the render texture.

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 5, 2024

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. Then I unwrapped the low poly mesh model into three UV sets in order to get a good resolution of the textures.

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Cocos

AUGUST 14, 2024

After converting the Maya exported model to.c3t I can see that some Mesh are using default material. However, these textures do not exist. I am using cocos2d-x v3.17.x How can I set them to use the cc.SHADER_POSITION_COLOR and set the color as I want?

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Cocos

MAY 15, 2024

After converting the Maya exported model to.c3t I can see that some Mesh are using default material. However, these textures do not exist. I am using cocos2d-x v3.17.x How can I set them to use the cc.SHADER_POSITION_COLOR and set the color as I want?

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Cocos

MAY 15, 2024

After converting the Maya exported model to.c3t I can see that some Mesh are using default material. However, these textures do not exist. I am using cocos2d-x v3.17.x How can I set them to use the cc.SHADER_POSITION_COLOR and set the color as I want?

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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. Generally, the closer to camera, the more level of detail (surface details, textures, shadows, etc. For example, when viewing an object from far away, only basic features such as color and geometry may need to be visible.

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The Liquid Fire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Resources just feels like it should be things like 3d Models and Textures, but if you want to stick with the original, that’s fine. The first thing to download will be the sprites and textures from the original tutorial. 02_TacticsRPG_Textures.zip Unzip the folder and move Dirt.png into the Textures folder.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

The most common types of streaming are: Texture streaming : All textures are loaded in a tiny size by default. As textures get closer to the camera, higher resolution versions (or mip-maps) are streamed from disk. Textures which haven’t been used for some frames are freed instead.

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Cocos

JUNE 14, 2023

Analysis The whole effect can be split into two parts, one for the simulation of the mesh and one for the rendering of the mesh. Combined with the knowledge of the rendering, the texture is actually very close to the rendering vertex data. If I can pass this texture in between the direct rendering, then I get a 2D real fabric.

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Cocos

MARCH 24, 2024

Hi, I’m trying to use a simple 3d model (with a cube-mesh & material of effect “bultin-standard”) as basic object to be emitted in particleSystem My approach was to set “Render>RenderMode” to “Mesh” and fill the “Mesh” & “CPU Material” as I wanted The problem is the material won’t let me replace it if new material doesn’t use effect as (..)

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Febucci

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In order to understand them and become a wizard/witch, we have to learn a bit about meshes first. A mesh is made (usually!) You can see the mesh as the structure of your object, built by combining its triangles together. UVs are also called texture coordinates and they let you map textures on your objects.

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DameDev.tv

MARCH 7, 2023

In today's post, I'd like to show you how to retrieve an image provided by The Art Institute of Chicago via its public API , how to create a texture from this image, and how to feed this texture to a material and render it on a plane accompanied by a floating text with title, name of the artist and some other details.

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Cocos

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

By test case i am assuming a way to recreate, I simply created a node with a billboard component and used a sprite as the texture. The color changes based on what is behind the billboard: The ‘water’ behind the white icon is a plane mesh I can bring the icon back to normal color by compromising the water material (see next reply)

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Import: Fix swapped color channels in ETC1/ETC2 textures, etcpak expects BGRA data ( GH-69448 ). Rendering: Fix AABB errors on meshes with bones on multiple surfaces ( GH-65035 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Use internal texture name when setting texture uniform location ( GH-69633 ). XR: WebXR is now fully working in Godot 4!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The solution to these problems is to add support for a more traditional lightmapper (pre-baked light texture). Light is precomputed offline and rendered to a texture, which is then used by the geometry. First of all, you need to make sure your meshes have an UV2 layer. Just don't reuse a mesh and instance it in different scales.

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CG Spectrum

JANUARY 26, 2023

Following the competition closely, CG Spectrum was wowed by the creative stories told through such a high caliber of concept and in-motion work — futuristic settlements sprawling across extraterrestrial landscapes draped in dramatic light and shadow, with fantastical creatures lurking in between!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Added to this is a simple ORM material variant, which should make importing textures from GLTF2, or from applications such as Substance Painter, or similar much easier. It takes a single texture with Occlusion, Roughness and Metallic parameters and does not expose a lot more. Likewise, Meshes created in Godot 3.x

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Nvidia

MARCH 1, 2023

Digital sculpting software, however, uses an extremely high-resolution polygon mesh (or a voxel grid). This mesh can be modeled like traditional clay with a vast array of tools, giving modelers more freedom and flexibility in their work. This is similar to the limitations of physical sculptures.

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The Knights of Unity

JULY 21, 2020

Almost every 3D asset is painted using only one atlas texture. As I mentioned before – almost every 3D object uses the same atlas texture. 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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 23, 2018

implement basic texture loading. load meshes. render meshes. implement basic texture loading. The RasterizerStorage interface has methods for creating and modifying various resources such as textures, shaders, materials, meshes and many more. Much of the texture loading code could be taken from the GLES 3.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 6, 2018

In this mega guide, we'll be importing models, their materials, textures AND animations. you are creating your textures in Blender it is likely that you will leave this off too as you will be providing the normal map required for Godot. This is super handy when your models and textures have a one to one mapping. Let's do it!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 16, 2020

The material is what you set to 2D nodes or to 3D meshes in order to draw them. Is every bit of grass a mesh and an object? Not really, games generally just use a texture aligned to the world (that often moves with you), with different colors meaning different things. void fragment() { COLOR = mycolor.rgb; }. How do they do it?

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Mnenad

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

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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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 21, 2018

mesh loading. basic mesh drawing. The drawing to the window happens by using a viewport as a texture and then displaying that in the correct position in the window. mesh loading. cpp file , where the mesh API has to be implemented in order to get the mesh data in a renderable format. basic mesh drawing.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 3, 2023

Lumirithmic generates 3D mesh for heads from facial scans. Omniverse – Lumirithmic 3D Avatar Capture Integration Elevate3D generates photorealistic 3D visualizations of products from 360° video recordings, leveraging neural radiance fields to create 3D meshes with unmatched visual fidelity. motion data powering the character.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

Import: Avoid nested skeletons, and handle skinned meshes with children ( GH-72158 ). XR: Make screen texture and depth texture work in Multiview ( GH-71455 ). GUI: Fix LineEdit and TextEdit context menus not customizable ( GH-72167 ). Import: Handle mipmaps and VRAM compression for glTF binary images ( GH-62499 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Instancing is used to render similar objects (mesh, material and misc settings), reducing the pressure over the rendering API. There are special versions of meshes to render when doing shadow maps or depth pre-pass. Optimized texture formats. For many algorithms, used smaller texture formats to reduce bandwidth.

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Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 24, 2022

We repeat that same process for the Main Texture of the material, and the Occlude Color which will be the color of the game object behind other objects when it has this material attached on it. Again we have the properties which is a texture and a color declared on lines 4 and 5. Then we give it a type – Color.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Refactor the texture API to include more modern texture compression formats. Write a more efficient Mesh format, which allows faster loading/saving. drawn via texture), except that it always works using hardware (ES 2.0 does not mandate vertex texture fetch). This makes loading/saving meshes much more efficient.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ). 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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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 6, 2018

In order to deform the mesh according to the bone transforms, each vertex (generally "point of a triangle") can be influenced by up to 4 bones. The actual deformation usually happens in the vertex shader , where the bone transforms get looked up from a texture. (In In rendering, textures are used for sooo many things.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 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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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 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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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

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 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 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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