Nvidia

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Back then, cinematic-quality rendering required computer farms to slowly bake every frame. Back then, cinematic-quality rendering required computer farms to slowly bake every frame overnight—a painstaking process. Six years ago, real-time ray tracing was seen as a pipe dream. Check them out below: Video.

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Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

Because of that, Cookie Run: Kingdom created 3-4 different assets for each character: Standing Pose Gacha Pose Cinematic/Campaign Pose 4 different angles of a top down view It is hard to imagine the amount of work that went into creating corresponding animations for each type of asset. victory, failure, captured by players, etc).

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Game Global

JULY 12, 2021

We must understand (and preferably help create and document) the game as a whole: from core mechanics to level design to cinematics, and everything in between. What are the common technical pitfalls to avoid with regard to font choices, text string composition (especially regarding item names), baked-in text, etc? Organization.

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Nvidia

JUNE 22, 2021

This is a challenging task, even in cinematic rendering, because it is difficult to find all the paths of light that contribute meaningfully to an image. They overcome the limited realism of pre-computing “baked” lighting in dynamic worlds and simplify an otherwise tedious lighting design process.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2021

In game engines (or even when exported from the 3D modelling application), animation data is baked to a simpler representation because, for games, processing beziers and IKs is way too expensive for real-time. A common problem of dealing with animations in Godot is that animations are stored uncompressed.

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Game Designing

APRIL 21, 2022

This can be ideal for cinematics who have been looking for a way to fully automate in game camera systems. As of yet, there is no distributed baking. This basically means you can only bake lightmaps using a single machine. If this sounds like a foreign language to you, don’t worry.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

Use baked lightmaps instead. New track type: Animation (play animations of sub-animation player, allowing complex cinematics). As this back-end is intended to run on the lowest end hardware possible, shaders need to be kept very small. As such all lighting is done by using a forward multi-pass approach. GIProbes of course don't work.

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