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Ask a Game Dev - Untitled Article

Ask a Game Dev

There are two main issues with visualization when it comes to adjustible meshes (the “body sliders”). The way that all of the customizable character data is stored isn’t actually a body at all, but a common default mesh with offsets for each adjustible value. It gets worse with animations, too.

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Creating Your First 3D Character Animation in Unity 

iXie gaming

The ability to imbibe emotions into the animation and produce an immersive visual experience is achieved through the Unity game engine, the choice of 61% of developers surveyed using it, and the second most popular choice as a mobile ad network. This makes it easier to identify and animate objects in Unity. dxf), SketchUp Pro (.skp),

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Optimize Vegetation Generation

Mnenad

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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Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Cocos

See the documentation “Render Debugging - Run Time Using Render debugging”: [link] • When the node animates, add the tween ‘destroySelf’ method to destroy the front nodal point. Fixed an issue where Mesh objects created through MeshUtils.createMesh caused data anomalies. Skip rendering when the UI element Opacity is 0.

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Atlas support returns to Godot 3.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

When doing character animations, specially characters with hundreds of thousands of animation frames (like Cuphead ), using an atlas will not give any increase in performance (as only one frame is drawn at the same time). Region takes up more space, but allows drawing only parts of the image, clipping it, etc. Optimizing Memory.

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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #28

Astral Clock Tower Studios

If you've been keeping up with our dev blogs over the past couple issues, you'll know that we've been working hard to come up with a way to create realistic-looking fur for our various animal-like characters. link] Rigging / Animation. Let us know which clip made you laugh the most. Kristala Bloopers Corner.

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Logjam as mourning wood

Radiator Blog

Here I use a classic gamey-style back-and-forth aiming meter where you have to click at the right time, yet there's a delay between your input and the end of the animation. I spent time animating the chopping feel, calibrating the hand movements and squatting posture to demonstrate good axecraft.