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Q&A: Real-Time Ray Tracing in a Cinematic Scene

Nvidia

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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How Cookie Run Bakes its Monster Revenue

Deconstructor of Fun

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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A day in the life of a narrative designer

Game Global

Our most important storytelling tool is not the written word: We use the game’s feature set to tell its story. We need to understand, at least at a high level, all of its features. That’s why we have to understand the feature set. Which other teams’ work will this feature affect? Organization.

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Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Mircosoft Game Dev

It brings much-requested improvements to usability and many important features. now and keep on reading about the great features added in this version. While this article focuses mostly on the new features of the engine, it's worth mentioning that Godot's documentation has seen a lot of work from dozens of contributors.

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Animation data rework for 4.0

Mircosoft Game Dev

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. While the animation system is powerful, the 3D part of it lacked several basic features that standard animation packages offer.

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How to Use Unity Cinemachine Virtual Cameras

Game Designing

This can be ideal for cinematics who have been looking for a way to fully automate in game camera systems. However, the way that Unity has developed Cinemachine makes it streamlined, with a quick learning curve, and robust features that make it worth the investment. As of yet, there is no distributed baking.

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Call of Duty: Online is dead. Long live Call of Duty: Online!

Deconstructor of Fun

As a consequence, most Chinese players had only played CoD offline campaigns, since there were no official servers running in China, and their experience of the franchise was less around the twitch-y FPS brand CoD was known for, and more about cinematic single player missions.

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