CG Spectrum

DECEMBER 4, 2022

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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Mnenad

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Since the last post I’ve been working on the terrain’s vegetation. Static batching : combines static (not moving) GameObjects into big Meshes, and renders them in a faster way.    When batched, the animations from the Advanced Foliage Shader go a bit crazy and make the grass float around.

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Mnenad

APRIL 9, 2018

As I promised in this chapter I will dig deeper into the designing process around the creatures that will be walking on the procedural terrain. Prejudice discussion opened :P  When we think spontaneously of a certain animal, a bird for example, we barely have a certain colour in mind. Designing the game world's creatures.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2023

Unfortunately, we also have to rollback one of the core animations features. This decision allows us to better focus efforts of the Animation team on stabilizing other features. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Reset animation on playback stop ( GH-33733 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

It brings a brand new rendering engine with state-of-the-art PBR workflow for 3D, an improved assets pipeline, GDNative to load native code as plugins, C# 7.0 After meeting the initial goal, we hired karroffel to continue her work on GDNative (more about this below) and work on a new rendering backend. New physically based 3D renderer.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Many innovative visual effects that have become mainstream within the past generation cannot be utilized in Lost Ark, such as physically-based material rendering (PBR), dynamic lighting, etc. The static lighting and shadow rendering are excellent. Oily skin texture). Fortunately, the art design of the game performs well.

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