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GamesAid has invited the games industry to a bake off

Game Development News

GamesAid is hosting its first ever national baking competition and sale

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Mesh Baking Your Assets (With Ian Deane)

The GameDev Guru

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

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Triband finds the absurd in mundane things “You never expect a car to have legs”

PreMortem.Games

Drømmekage (Danish Dream Cake) Cake: 9 oz all-purpose flour / 9 oz sugar / 2 oz butter / 3 eggs / 4/5 cup milk / 2 tsp baking powder / 1 tsp vanilla sugar (or vanilla essence) Topping: 4 1/2 oz butter / 1/5 cup milk / 7 oz brown sugar / 3 1/2 oz coconut flakes Instructions: Whisk eggs and sugar until fluffy.

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

Cocos

The essence of offline culling is: pre-baking scene visibility and quickly culling unseen models during rendering. Baking)Divide the area into a certain number of culling blocks, and use the ray searching algorithm to pre-record the visible models of different blocks in the editor. Bake : Click to bake.

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Introduction to Light Probes in Unity

Game Development for Beginners

In our last tutorial on Unity lights, we learnt that baked lights do not affect dynamic objects. You can very well use a real time light to solve this issue but having multiple real time lights in your scene can really affect the performance. Also, gameobject are affected only by direct light in case of. Read more

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The Bright Side of Ray-Traced Global Illumination in Unity

The GameDev Guru

See what's a better fit for you: baked GI, screen-space GI and ray-traced GI. Let's get back to ray tracing with Unity global illumination.

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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.