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What are your thoughts on reselling assets in games? Criticisms imply that, if you bought the assets in a previous game, any other game reusing them should be reused n the base game already or be brought in via free updates, so that nobody has to buy for the same thing again, otherwise it’s money predatory, greedy, and shady in every possible way. But how do you and other devs see this practice?

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A single purchasable asset is never atomic - the purchased item is comprised of many parts like the 3D model, the diffuse textures, normal map, occlusion map, any other materials, rigging, animations, shaders, and so on. The argument tends to break down if you poke at it.

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Practical Use of Render Textures

The Knights of Unity

And even before an era of SRPs (Scriptable Render Pipelines), there was a good amount of solid features like today’s topic: Render textures. In this post I’m going to explain to you how to use render textures in your game. For shaders, I used Amplify Shader Editor to add some visual effects on top of the render texture.

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Enticing mix of genres in Ghibli-inspired The Brew Barons by Lifetap Studios

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Special plane shader With Porco Rosso being such a great source of inspiration it feels only natural to have the game also look like a Ghibli film. A large majority of the art was created from scratch, but Hartley admits having used a few asset packs to help speed up development. “I

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Accelerate your Game Design, Development and Build with Unity Asset Store

Jaunty Bear Games

Fortunately the Unity 3D platform has a great selection of packages and assets to accelerate the build of tools, models, shaders, sound effects, animations etc. Unity Technologies Assets. The Addressable Asset System allows the developer to ask for an asset via its address. Once an asset (e.g. Terrain Tools.

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How to write Shaders in Unity using HLSL

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Shaders are used to create many effects, like “water”, “fire” and more. UVs are also called texture coordinates and they let you map textures on your objects. You’re basically saying to the computer: “hey, I want this texture drawn from here to here”. Shaders Theory. Shader Example.

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Escape the sinking ship in Globiss Interactive’s VR game Titanic: A Space Between

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“After we spent a few months playing around with lighting, we realized that we had reached a place where it was convincing enough to start adapting our assets to a more realistic style. 99% of our assets are self-modeled and textured, as we believe in creating a product that’s totally our own.

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Sprite Outline Shader in Unity

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Simply, the Inner Sprite Outline shader is drawn “inside” the sprite, while “Outer” is the opposite. Read more about “Texture’s Texel Size” here. Get it on the Unity Asset Store. Amplify Shader. In this “Unity Sprite Outline” tutorial we’ll discover how to create both a “Sprite Innerline” and a “Outer Sprite Outline”.

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