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

CG Spectrum

3D modelers apply many processes to improve the look and usability of their assets when creating the characters, props, and sets that feature in your favorite video games and films. 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.

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Little Racer – 3D Art

The Knights of Unity

Players are able to create their own tracks using road parts, obstacles and props. Majority of props work on the same principles as the rest of assets. In the editor props are spawned procedurally – it took some time to organize scripts and meshes properly. Track components .

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A day in the life of a narrative designer

Game Global

Dialogue scripts, combat barks, scripts for cutscenes, UI text, website text, marketing copy, in-game audio, and text props… Some projects have full-time game writers in their team handling all of this, some outsource the cinematic cutscenes and write the rest in-house, and some have narrative designers doing all the writing.

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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #27

Astral Clock Tower Studios

With Cass tackling Nasahara, one of our talented 3D Generalists, Karena, continued working through various models for 3D props and items found in the Nisargan capital city of Nisar. Stay tuned to hear more about the Cathedral and the mysterious attic NPC in future social posts and development blogs!

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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #28

Astral Clock Tower Studios

While building up the hair shader, however, Pete struggled to find a way to actually bake out the flow map information (meaning: the directional flow of the hair cards) onto an image pulled from the 3D suites our modeling team typically uses, like Maya and Blender. Convenient, right?

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

Deconstructor of Fun

Prop Hunt mode was developed by Raven for CoDO as a novelty mode inspired by the same mode in Ni-Zhan and Crossfire (inspired by Garry’s mod’s Prop Hunt experience) and then made its way (also courtesy of Raven) into MW Remaster in 2017. The team also experimented with a third person-only melee mode.

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Deathloop deconstruction / design thoughts

Radiator Blog

They're small little bottles that blend-in with junk prop set dressing from a distance. And they usually do! Like 2-4 piles per arena. but health pickups aren't big glowing breadcrumb items (unlike shooters today). see screenshot above).