Radiator Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

I completed the main campaign in Redfall ( official site, Steam , also on Game Pass), a 4 player co-op open world shooter by Arkane Austin, who's mostly known for detailed single player story-filled action games. There are two open world regions, Redfall Commons and Burial Point. OK you get the idea. Let's zoom out.

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Studios Co-op Open World Cutscenes 246

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

supports advanced global illumination techniques such as lightmapping (including SH lightmapping), Voxel GI (which is fully real-time) and SDFGI (which is a single click, open world GI solution). The most common types of streaming are: Texture streaming : All textures are loaded in a tiny size by default.

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AAA Game Developer Game Development Development 145

Game Designing

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Both are open-world action-adventure games with fantasy elements and similar mechanics. Things like color palettes, textures, and lighting all help to build a mood, as well as animation and how things in your world move and interact. The best way to understand the atmosphere may be through an example.

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Games Mechanics Fantasy Art 136

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2020

This new technique was developed entirely in the open and implemented under our MIT license, so anyone is welcome to use it in their own engines and games. SDFGI is something akin to a dynamic real-time lightmap (but it does not requiere unwrapping, nor does it use textures). What can it do? How does it work?

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Lightmap Texture Baking Mesh 54

Nvidia

MAY 26, 2021

UE5 represents a generational leap in both workflows and visual fidelity, extending the engine’s support for DirectX Raytracing, NVIDIA DLSS, and NVIDIA Reflex, and adding new features such as Nanite and Lumen that make it faster and easier for games to implement photorealistic visuals, large open worlds and advanced animation and physics.

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Ray Tracing Engine Engineering Content 52

PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

An open-world social simulation of a whole human civilization on Mars. To create textures (materials), but also character portraits, environment (concept) art and pretty much anything I could imagine. How did you come up with the idea for Repunk? The original idea was much more ambitious.

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Dev Playtesting Art Games 160

Big Games

MARCH 28, 2025

Uses techniques like key framing, rigging, motion capture, and simulations to show movement. Involves creation of 3D models by applying textures and developing detailed materials and rigs. Processes like modeling, texturing, lighting, rigging, dynamics, and rendering involve tools such as 3DS Max, Maya, and Adobe After Effects.

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Animation Animation Game Developer Game Development 52