Radiator Blog

AUGUST 25, 2021

While I appreciate "oral history" approaches at Polygon like with their Morrowind roundtable , this type of format is, less charitably, just a lazy loosely organized transcript with minimal analysis. Interview current community members and synthesize their perspectives to try to capture the current zeitgeist.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 26, 2024

It made sense to me that lower polygon models and mostly solid color textures would make things easier when the time comes to tackle optimization. Availability of compatible models and performance. With Dungeons & Kingdoms being my first game I was aware of performance concerns.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 9, 2020

Each rectangle, polygon, line, etc., Scenes making heavy use of polygons, meshes, or other non-rect primitives will not benefit from the current work, batching will be extended to those other types once the current rendition of batching is properly tested. Soon we will be migrating this work to the 4.0 How it works.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2021

Batching: Fix light pass modulate , a potential crash, polygon rotation from vertex shader, and 2D skinning with unrigged polygons ( GH-48151 , GH-48125 , GH-48457 , GH-48647 )). Rendering: Fix usage of proxy textures on GLES2 PanoramaSky ( GH-48541 ). Here are some of the main changes since 3.3-stable:

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 18, 2019

In cases where a lot of objects need to be drawn, having them all share the same texture (or material) may reduce draw calls or state changes. When working on tile-sets, it's normal to have everything already drawn to a single texture but if the level uses a lot of separate images, then using an atlas may make sense to improve performance.

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Moonmana

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In low poly style, everything in a game is made of geometrical shapes – polygons. Low poly art has no textures but poses a strong focus on shapes, materials, and lighting. . In many titles, the number of polygons exceeds a million! The most popular tool for texturing and creating materials is Photoshop.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 15, 2021

Batching: Fix light pass modulate , a potential crash, polygon rotation from vertex shader, and 2D skinning with unrigged polygons ( GH-48151 , GH-48125 , GH-48457 , GH-48647 )). Rendering: Fix usage of proxy textures on GLES2 PanoramaSky ( GH-48541 ). Here are some of the main changes since 3.3-stable: stable ( GH-48268 ).

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Nvidia

MAY 21, 2021

Soon we found we can combine Mesh Shaders with auto-generated LODs to achieve almost only-resolution-relevant rendering complexity, instead of polygon number. With such detailed models, large texture resolution is a must. We will pay more attention to texture loading or streaming. And we decided to try it out.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

add polygon and GUI primitive rendering. A Ninepatch element is a (usually textured) rectangle that has a fixed margin for the borders. The same approach shouldn't be used in GLES2, since some drivers work a lot better if no dependent texture reads are performed. add polygon and GUI primitive rendering. Done January 2018.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 8, 2020

Uses an efficient conservative rendering approximation to ensure thin polygons are not lost, but also avoids growing geometry too much (which reduces bake performance). Efficiently packs all texture objects in the lightmap to a texture array, to avoid state or material changes during rendering.

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Nvidia

MAY 26, 2021

This laid out a vision of a new era of computer graphics for video games that featured photorealistic, ray-traced lighting, AI-powered effects and complex worlds with massive amounts of geometry and high-resolution textures.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Simplify the geometry: Optimize the 3D model by reducing the polygon count that makes up the 3D model using mesh simplification. Enhance the appearance: Import texture files in compatible formats (PNG, JPEG, TIFF) to be used in Unity. ’ Apply the chosen texture to the material by selecting it in the Project window. .’

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Refactor the texture API to include more modern texture compression formats. Improve Culling: Portals (rewrite as polygon-based) and Rooms. drawn via texture), except that it always works using hardware (ES 2.0 does not mandate vertex texture fetch). Refactor the Image class to include modern data types.

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iXie gaming

JUNE 19, 2024

By automating the tedious tasks involved in building 3D art, AI and ML will potentially generate more intricate textures, characters, and materials faster and more effectively. Advances in technology allow for higher polygon counts, better textures, and real-time lighting effects, making games more visually appealing and engaging.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 10, 2021

Batching: Fix light pass modulate , a potential crash, and polygon rotation from vertex shader ( GH-48151 , GH-48125 , GH-48457 )). Rendering: Fix usage of proxy textures on GLES2 PanoramaSky ( GH-48541 ). Buildsystem: Various compilation fixes for some platforms/compilers, and Linux packaging fixes. stable ( GH-48268 ).

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Mnenad

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

  Some very basic tips: Rather be sure how much polygons you need before-hands and keep it as low as possible. The polygon reduction object from Cinema4D does not reduce the polygon count effectively. So, I started to remodel some meshes in Cinema4D, my prefered 3D modelling software.   And it has just twelve vertices.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Improve Culling: Portals (rewrite as polygon-based) and Rooms. Implement post process effects: DOF Blur, Bloom and Tone Mapping. TODO for Milestone #4 (January 2017). Implement Particle Shaders, with support for: Sorting, Collision and Soft Particles. Add Clustered lighting (before this all is forward). Add Layered/Stencil rendering.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

TileSet: Fix potential crash when editing polygons ( GH-40560 ). Sprite3D: The material_override now overrides the texture when drawing. So when using a material_override you will have to set the Sprite3D 's texture and the albedo_texture to the same texture. Windows: DirectInput: Use correct joypad ID ( GH-40927 ).

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

For instance, a model may also need to be under a certain polygon count, or it may need to be constructed in a way that will optimize the deformation and animation process. 3D modeling software 3D modelers use a range of software for modeling, sculpting, and texturing. 3D model by Christoph Jurgens What does a 3D modeler do?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 3, 2016

Improve Culling: Portals (rewrite as polygon-based) and Rooms. Shadow atlases exist for Spot and Omni lights (Directional uses its own texture, and multiple directional lights need several passes). How the atlas texture is organized is up to the user, though the default is sensible enough to work in most cases.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

Ignore support for S3TC texture compression on Android and iOS devices in GLES3 (already done since 3.4 You can move the polygon with the node transform, drag the corners to reshape it, add delete points. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Fix a regression with file copy performance on Android. for GLES2).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

You can move the polygon with the node transform, drag the corners to reshape it, add delete points. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. such as a 2D gradient texture you can use for lights, particle placeholders, and masking. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

You can move the polygon with the node transform, drag the corners to reshape it, add delete points. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Rendering: GLES3: Ignore support for S3TC texture compression on Android and iOS devices ( GH-62909 ). This should show up initially as a quad.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

makes up for it by providing an extremely powerful default material (which supports detail textures, triplanar mapping and other nice features) and an extremely easy-to-use shader language. Godot will pick the right compression for textures when importing for mobile, and supply them over the network. Still, Godot 3.0

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Mnenad

APRIL 9, 2018

I admit having trouble with exporting textures and stuff sometimes in the past, but at the moment I think it does its job quite well. One thing I had to keep in mind was again the number of polygons I want to use for each model. As I mentioned in my first post I use Cinema4d as my preferred software when it comes to 3D modelling.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

Another specialty of Nuare Studio is 2D art, 3D high and low poly modeling, texturing, and VFX. Specialties: – Low Polygon Modeling, High Polygon Modeling, Textures: photo source or hand-painted, Digital Sculpting, Target Rendering, Rigging and Animation, and Concepts. AAA Game Art Studio. Bon Art Studio.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Oily skin texture). In-game models used in the cutscenes are obviously not suitable for close-up cutscenes in terms of texture or polygon quality. In addition, the use of UE3 is not particularly good, as the common “greasy” issue with UE3 can be seen everywhere. Fortunately, the art design of the game performs well.

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