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

CG Spectrum

They can be rigged and animated, placed as a stationary object in a scene, combined with other assets to create a set/environment, simmed or destroyed, and used for shadows or holdouts. 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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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #27

Astral Clock Tower Studios

With the first variant completely finished, Bianca was able to get a successful bake for the second model this month before moving onto the base sculpt for the final rat and armor. Rigging / Animation. This sprint, Allie was able to fully finish the facial rig after working on the jowl, nose bridge, and bottom-lip control joints.

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Little Racer – 3D Art

The Knights of Unity

Adjusting mesh, rig and skinning needed a couple of iterations. A baking light map wouldn’t help either (trees are moveable objects – can be hit by cars passing by), so the only reasonable option was to decrease the number of polys. Creating animations for animals wasn’t an easy part.

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Leveling Up Graphics and Performance with RTX, DLSS and Reflex at NVIDIA GTC

Nvidia

RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) Leveraging the power of ray tracing, the RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) SDK provides scalable solutions to compute multi-bounce indirect lighting without bake times, light leaks, or expensive per-frame costs. Version 1.1.30 allows developers to enable, disable, and rotate individual DDGI volumes.

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Making a Top Gun and Star Wars-inspired fan film in Unreal Engine

CG Spectrum

Control rigs for the crew and X-Wing models. Building Control Rigs for a crew member. For specific types of standardized movement, you can create a Control Rig in Unreal Engine, which is a rigged set of controls that you can grab and move to drive the movement of part of the model — a bit like the strings of a puppet.

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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. link] Rigging / Animation. Many of our friends who've already had a chance to play early builds of Kristala have lovingly referred to it as Cat Souls.

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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #21

Astral Clock Tower Studios

Bianca manually did the retopology for the nymph, unwrapped and laid out the maps, baked the details, and started to spend time learning more about texturing in Substance Painter. NISARGA CLAN: MYRTUNA CLAN: TANDARA CLAN: KEOZA CLAN: SYKOMANA CLAN: LYUMINA CLAN: Animation / Rigging / Game Production.

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