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Strategies for Optimizing Multiplayer Games in Unity

Logic Simplified

The Unity Profiler provides tools for detecting issues that affect CPU, GPU, rendering, and memory performance. Rendering Analysis: Monitors draw calls, overdraw, and other performance metrics. Rendering Analysis: Monitors draw calls, overdraw, and other performance metrics.

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Object Placement on Terrain (Mesh)

Mnenad

This chapter is all about how I solved it (so far) to be able to place all kinds of assets like 3D-meshes or self-growing fractal seeds on the terrain. Because the computer won’t render the next frame until all the needed calculations are done! Before we start. This struggle is visible for the player as a freezing screen.

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CGS Dept. Head of VFX enters KitBash3D's Mission to Minerva Challenge

CG Spectrum

Head of VFX Daniel Hourigan ( Aquaman , The Hunger Games: Mockingjay , Terminator: Dark Fate ) takes us through how he built his KitBash3D Mission to Minerva settlement in Houdini, detailing key steps from his recent informative livestreams, including a great workaround for creating a fast rendering volumetric glow. Selecting a base terrain.

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

iXie gaming

Slow rendering and iteration cycles, delaying content updates. Procedural Generation By automating terrain, foliage, and props, procedural generation: (i). AWS Game Development for cloud-rendering scalability. Real-Time Rendering Advances Next-gen rendering technologies streamline production and improve fidelity: (i).

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Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Cocos

This version optimizes some rendering and lighting capabilities, fixes a series of key issues recently reported by users, and recommends that all v3.x Engine • Added DebugView at runtime UI control rendering debugging function. Skip rendering when the UI element Opacity is 0. Skip rendering when the UI element Opacity is 0.

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D2 log 074 – New level format

Catnip Games

I export the rendered terrain from Blender as a RGBA image but with alpha value set to depth. The custom terrain shader uses the z-channel to draw water in lower areas of the level. The graphics backend rewrite took a while. However, the situation is now good. Interactive elements will be placed using the in-game editor.

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Tiles editor progress report #3

Mircosoft Game Dev

Most of TileSet's systems (rendering, collisions, physics, navigation, …) are now using a concept of "layers" (this might be renamed). Terrains are the more powerful replacement of autotiles. Unlike autotiles, terrains can support transitions from one terrain to another, as a tile may define several terrains at once.

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