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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. Bump maps are useful for all types of 3D models — from rocks, wood, and concrete surfaces to fabric and other organic materials, adding a finer level of detail without the additional polygons or memory constraints.

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How thatgamecompany Fosters Human Connections Through Innovative Technology & Developer Mindset

AWS Games

Eventually the player telemetry stream was swapped out for a meshed network approach. To orchestrate the whole experience, additional specialized servers were deployed using larger EC2 instances with network topology changes to mesh them together. Image: Sky’s concert stadium of fully connected players.

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5 Factors Which Vary Unreal Engine 5 from Unreal Engine 4 

iXie gaming

Number of Polygons: The number of polygons that may be used in the engine is likely the biggest change between UE4 and UE5. The shapes used to create meshes inside the game engine are called polygons. Unreal 5 can manage up to 10 billion polygons, whereas Unreal 4 could only handle a few million.

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Optimize Vegetation Generation

Mnenad

Mainly I focused on generating grass that bends in the wind and some fern like plants, but what comes next is usable for all kind of meshes. Batching means to combine mesh objects that share the same material or that are marked as static in the Unity inspector. In my case I had terrible FPS with just some thousand mesh instances.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Mircosoft Game Dev

Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 3D: Switch Mesh surface indexing to start at 0 so string name matches integer index ( GH-70176 ). While we do our best to minimize compatibility breaking changes for existing beta users, there are still occasional changes in the API which may impact your Godot 4 projects.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Mircosoft Game Dev

Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 3D: Switch Mesh surface indexing to start at 0 so string name matches integer index ( GH-70176 ). While we do our best to minimize compatibility breaking changes for existing beta users, there are still occasional changes in the API which may impact your Godot 4 projects.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). TileSet: Fix potential crash when editing polygons ( GH-40560 ). Core: Fix debugger error when Dictionary key is a freed Object ( GH-39906 ) [regression fix]. stb_vorbis 1.20, wslay 1.1.1).