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What is Level of Detail (LOD) in 3D Modeling? | Techniques & software

CG Spectrum

It helps reduce the amount of detail by simplifying polygons and textures as they get further away from the camera. Generally, the closer to camera, the more level of detail (surface details, textures, shadows, etc. These texture maps are then applied to the lower polygon count model to give it a more detailed and realistic appearance.

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NVIDIA RTX, Unreal Engine 5 Define Future of Game Development and Content Creation

Nvidia

Unreal Engine 5 Early Access available now with DirectX RayTracing, NVIDIA DLSS, and NVIDIA Reflex support. Today, Unreal Engine 5 (UE5) is available in Early. Unreal Engine 5 Early Access available now with DirectX RayTracing, NVIDIA DLSS, and NVIDIA Reflex support.

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Cocos Creator 3.8.2 LTS has been released!

Cocos

Features Engine Enhanced support for multiple lights, CSM, and multiple light shadows in the pipeline. Adapting the engine repository development environment to NodeJS 18.x. Optimized texture compression task scheduling and build progress display during compression. Added ASTC compressed texture support for Alipay platform.

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Cocos Creator v3.8.2 Community Test Version

Cocos

Download link 【120601】 Windows MacOSX Update description (partial) Engine New features / optimizations Pipeline supports multiple light sources, CSM, and multiple light shadow support. Fix the error when passing the visualize parameter into the build-engine module. may not be found in the compilation engine cache.

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Cocos Creator 3.7.3 comes with an update to Cocos Effect

Cocos

ENGINE Features ● Custom Render Pipeline based on Render Graph supports for GLES backend ● Deprecated interfaces, such as addRasterView, addComputeView, etc., Fixed bone animation texture size error on some platforms that don’t support float point texture format. Removed macro Record defined by the engine to avoid conflicts.

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Godot 4.0 will get a new, modernized lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

Let's hope this implementation will also be of use to others making their own technology or engines, so they can use it as reference or just copy it. Most scenes bake in seconds instead of minutes or hours. Efficiently packs all texture objects in the lightmap to a texture array, to avoid state or material changes during rendering.

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Introducing the new "last minute" lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

The solution to these problems is to add support for a more traditional lightmapper (pre-baked light texture). Light is precomputed offline and rendered to a texture, which is then used by the geometry. Godot lightmapper works with one texture per mesh, so sharing UVs between meshes will not give you more optimization.