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What is Level of Detail (LOD) in 3D Modeling? | Techniques & software

CG Spectrum

These include: Bump mapping Bump mapping is a texture mapping technique that simulates small-scale bumps, wrinkles, ridges, and other surface irregularities by altering the surface normals of a mesh but without actually changing the geometry.

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From Concept to Completion: Navigating the Game Art Production Pipeline 

iXie gaming

Texturing defines how surfaces interact with light, whether through hand-painted styles (ideal for stylized games) or procedural texturing (for realistic environments). Physically Based Rendering (PBR) ensures materials behave consistently under different lighting conditions.

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Texture flushed when coming back from background

Cocos

Are you using a texture map or are they all individual images that’s moving in and out of cache could it be phone freeing up memory space while in background? I have not had this but I use Texture map one big image. ohh edit is it you need to say sprite->retain(); to keep it then you have to sprite->release();

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Dream Textures — Stable Diffusion for Blender

Game From Scratch

Dream Textures is an add-on for Blender that brings Stable Diffusion based A.I Dream Texture can be used to: With the most recent 0.0.9 release Dream Textures got a powerful new ability, depth based texture mapping of 3D scenes. driven image generation directly to Blender.

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What is architectural visualization? | Benefits & industries using it

CG Spectrum

A good knowledge of lighting techniques coupled with texture mapping skills will help make your visuals even more realistic since being able to replicate life-like textures is essential when creating convincing imagery. along with digital tools such as 3ds Max, AutoCAD, SketchUp Pro and rendering software like V-Ray and Arnold.

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World! Of! Warcraft!

Grumpy Gamer

I realize that it's all numbers under the veneer of a texture-map, but it was new for me, and I wanted to be rewarded. It was really disappointing to discover the Mechanical Golems, excitingly enter battle and discover that I got the same XP as I did for the Bear down the road. Can you move a character to another server?

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Differentiable Slang: Example Applications

Nvidia

Example application: Appearance-based BRDF optimization One of the basic building blocks in computer graphics is BRDF texture maps representing multiple properties of materials and describing how the light interacts with the rendered surfaces.

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