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

Nvidia

UE5 represents a generational leap in both workflows and visual fidelity, extending the engine’s support for DirectX Raytracing, NVIDIA DLSS, and NVIDIA Reflex, and adding new features such as Nanite and Lumen that make it faster and easier for games to implement photorealistic visuals, large open worlds and advanced animation and physics.

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Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination

Mircosoft Game Dev

This new technique was developed entirely in the open and implemented under our MIT license, so anyone is welcome to use it in their own engines and games. SDFGI is something akin to a dynamic real-time lightmap (but it does not requiere unwrapping, nor does it use textures). What can it do? How does it work?

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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

supports advanced global illumination techniques such as lightmapping (including SH lightmapping), Voxel GI (which is fully real-time) and SDFGI (which is a single click, open world GI solution). The most common types of streaming are: Texture streaming : All textures are loaded in a tiny size by default.

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How to Create Video Game Atmosphere

Game Designing

Both are open-world action-adventure games with fantasy elements and similar mechanics. Things like color palettes, textures, and lighting all help to build a mood, as well as animation and how things in your world move and interact. The best way to understand the atmosphere may be through an example.

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Solo dev Almar works on debut game Repunk “I’ve had some darker moments”

PreMortem.Games

An open-world social simulation of a whole human civilization on Mars. To create textures (materials), but also character portraits, environment (concept) art and pretty much anything I could imagine. How did you come up with the idea for Repunk? The original idea was much more ambitious.

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Design review of Redfall by Arkane Studios Austin

Radiator Blog

I completed the main campaign in Redfall ( official site, Steam , also on Game Pass), a 4 player co-op open world shooter by Arkane Austin, who's mostly known for detailed single player story-filled action games. There are two open world regions, Redfall Commons and Burial Point. OK you get the idea. Let's zoom out.

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