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Little Racer – 3D Art

The Knights of Unity

A baking light map wouldn’t help either (trees are moveable objects – can be hit by cars passing by), so the only reasonable option was to decrease the number of polys. The main issue was the trees in basic, cottage and winter levels. Because of the amount of flora we’ve observed frame drops.

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

CG Spectrum

Texture baking Texture baking allows you to generate 2D texture maps from a 3D model's high polygon count and is a technique used particularly in video games. Baking takes into account the lighting, shadows, and other surface details of the high polygon model and transfers them onto the texture maps.

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Godot 4.0 will get a new, modernized lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

Most scenes bake in seconds instead of minutes or hours. branch uses state of the art algorithms to ensure the maximum possible quality: Bakes geometry to lightmap coordinates using the actual rendering code, so any existing shader or material works. Allows baking dynamic and static lights. Quality as priority.

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How Cookie Run Bakes its Monster Revenue

Deconstructor of Fun

Arts The art of Cookie Run: Kingdom is core to the game’s global success. This chapter will investigate the art of Cookie Run: Kingdom , its origins, its characteristics, and its efforts to expand into new markets during globalization. Art Style To talk about the characteristics of this art style, we must start at its origin.

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NVIDIA RTX, Unreal Engine 5 Define Future of Game Development and Content Creation

Nvidia

Nanite enables film-quality source art consisting of millions or billions of polygons to be directly imported into Unreal Engine — all while maintaining a real-time frame rate and without sacrificing fidelity. This allows users to focus less on tedious tasks and more on creativity.

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The Convergence of all Entertainment

Game Dev Unchained

“ It feels great to not have to sit around waiting for hours to bake lightmaps. Now we can get instant feedback and the art director can iterate faster than ever before.” Scott Knapp. A game developer in the last 5 years can be best described as a unrestricted nomad.

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Shaping the Future of Graphics with NVIDIA Technologies in Unreal Engine 5

Nvidia

Evolving from its state-of-the-art use in game engines into a multitude of industries, Unreal Engine is an open and advanced real-time 3D creation platform. Evolving from its state-of-the-art use in game engines into a multitude of industries, creators can deliver cutting-edge content, interactive experiences, and immersive virtual worlds.