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Popul8 uses AI to assist developers with the creation of digital game characters

PreMortem.Games

This base character comes fully rigged and can be completely edited by the developer. As the designer changes elements of the character (let’s say changing a small young woman into a large werewolf), the rig and assets automatically adapt to the new shape of the character. It happens instantly.

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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. It helps reduce the amount of detail by simplifying polygons and textures as they get further away from the camera. What is level of detail (LOD)?

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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #25

Astral Clock Tower Studios

Today we're serving up some seriously exciting updates, including a look at our new, custom game cursor; updates on our new player character's rigging and animation; and a sneak peek at our newest WIP level area. He was able to finish modeling all three sets before getting started on some seriously impressive texturing. Check it out!

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Little Racer – 3D Art

The Knights of Unity

Almost every 3D asset is painted using only one atlas texture. As I mentioned before – almost every 3D object uses the same atlas texture. To solve the problem we rearranged the mesh and added some edge loops along track parts. Adjusting mesh, rig and skinning needed a couple of iterations.

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Accelerate your Game Design, Development and Build with Unity Asset Store

Jaunty Bear Games

It’s the perfect replacement for Unity’s UI Text and the legacy Text Mesh. . The asset also includes a new confetti-rain type emitter, as well as extra confetti textures, normal maps, documentation and more. TextMeshPro. TextMeshPro is the ultimate text solution for Unity. Universal RP. Standard and URP support. .

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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #31

Astral Clock Tower Studios

We can't wait to see what all these look like when they're fully detailed, textured, and placed in the Kristala game build. Wanna see what this set looks like fully textured and detailed? The sprint, Karena was able to finally nail the crystal-like texture she was aiming for for this important item.

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Filmmaking in Unreal Engine — how Hanny created her arthouse cinematic

CG Spectrum

I started with Gaea for landscape creation, then did the texturing in Unreal Engine. So handling a full landscape with high-resolution Megascan foliage mesh was painful. Hanny's version of the desert road scene in Unreal Engine, applying what she learned in the course to create the landscape and foliage.