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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #21

Astral Clock Tower Studios

Now that he's done with the model itself, Cass will focus on unwrapping the UV's before getting started on the detailed texturing for this colossal beauty. With Shelly's keen eye for detail (and impressive modeling and texturing skills), she's been able to capture exactly that with her new and improved crystal models.

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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #27

Astral Clock Tower Studios

Now that both versions of the Cathedral models are complete, Cass can begin unwrapping the UV's before diving into the tedious texture work. This sprint, Karena was able to tackle the UVs and begin texturing. Take a look! We can't wait to see how all three Kota variants and their detailed armor sets once they're completely done.

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Optimize Vegetation Generation

Mnenad

  Side note: Watch the clip in this link if you’re not familiar or just interested in understanding the difference between CPU and GPU. I just toggled the “Baked Pivots” option in the shader to ON. Subdividing the mesh in Cinema4D’s sculpting mode and baking a displacement map works great.

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Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Cocos

Editor • Support baking high-precision lighting maps to get a better baking effect. When the user turns on high-precision lightmap baking, 16-bit colors are used instead of 8-bit colors, and AO channels are baked separately. Improvements • Move the Light Bake entry from the top item settings menu to the panel menu. •

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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #35

Astral Clock Tower Studios

Kristala does feel like a traditional indie Soulslike game in many ways, but we've also lovingly baked in a ton of elements that will appeal to fans of other genres too. Here's a look at that animation, as well as a few clips of some Kota soldier animations too. and they're not wrong.

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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #28

Astral Clock Tower Studios

After working with the hair cards for awhile, it dawned on Pete that he could actually create a proxy texture that would easily troubleshoot the orientation of each card. During his first official pass, Pete was finally able to make the textures and shaders work in tandem. Convenient, right? 3D Environmental Design.

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