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Mesh Baking Your Assets (With Ian Deane)

The GameDev Guru

This famous Unity asset lets you drastically reduce your draw calls so your game runs at substantially higher frame-rate. Today, I had the pleasure to interview Ian Deane, the developer behind Mesh Baker. Let's see what he has to say.

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

CG Spectrum

3D modelers apply many processes to improve the look and usability of their assets when creating the characters, props, and sets that feature in your favorite video games and films. One important technique to master, particularly for video games, is level of detail (LOD). What is level of detail (LOD)?

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[Tutorial]Static-Occlusion-Culling, A great solution for improving culling performance during rendering - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos

This approach enables our games to efficiently eliminate unseen static objects during rendering, reducing the rendering load and enhancing game performance. I hope to help you advance further in 3D game development. The essence of offline culling is: pre-baking scene visibility and quickly culling unseen models during rendering.

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Game Development – New Resources from GTC 21

Nvidia

Developers, engineers, artists and leaders from game studios across the world gathered virtually at this year’s virtual GTC to learn how the latest NVIDIA. Integrating RTX has never been easier – gain access through popular game engines such as Unreal Engine or through standalone SDKs.

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Use Custom Render Pipeline to Enhance your Game Graphics - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos

Cocos Cyberpunk is a complete open-source TPS 3D game developed by the Cocos Engine team to showcase the engine’s capabilities of making heavy 3D games and boost community learning motivation. I hope to help everyone advance further in 3D game development. This camera is the one to roam the scene when the game begins.

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Project Structure - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos

For someone who didn’t know Cocos Cyberpunk, it is an open source 3D TPS (Third-person Shooter) game, developed by the Cocos Engine team, which can be published to iOS, Android and Web. Open the scene named scene-game-start and click on the preview button to run the game, you will see the following screen.

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Accelerating Load Times for DirectX Games and Apps with GDeflate for DirectStorage

Nvidia

Trying to hide loading in a game by forcing a player to shimmy. Trying to hide loading in a game by forcing a player to shimmy through narrow passages or take extremely slow elevators breaks immersion. The current Game Ready Driver (version 526.47) contains NVIDIA RTX IO technology, including optimizations for GDeflate.

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