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Optimize Vegetation Generation

Mnenad

Since the last post I’ve been working on the terrain’s vegetation. Static batching : combines static (not moving) GameObjects into big Meshes, and renders them in a faster way.     Some very basic tips: Rather be sure how much polygons you need before-hands and keep it as low as possible.

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CGS Dept. Head of VFX enters KitBash3D's Mission to Minerva Challenge

CG Spectrum

Head of VFX Daniel Hourigan ( Aquaman , The Hunger Games: Mockingjay , Terminator: Dark Fate ) takes us through how he built his KitBash3D Mission to Minerva settlement in Houdini, detailing key steps from his recent informative livestreams, including a great workaround for creating a fast rendering volumetric glow. Selecting a base terrain.

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Coherent Creature Design

Mnenad

As I promised in this chapter I will dig deeper into the designing process around the creatures that will be walking on the procedural terrain. My personal solution was to program my own shape generator, based on values from the terrain generator. The upper image is a rapidly made rendering in Cinema4D. Shape generation tool.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 13

Mircosoft Game Dev

Editor: Keep terrain choice when changing layer in TileMap editor ( GH-70601 ). Rendering: Fix polyline not supporting closed polygons and not having a uniform width ( GH-62236 ). Rendering: Fix scaling issue in draw_line and similar methods ( GH-69851 ). Editor: Move remote debug buttons to a single menu ( GH-70701 ).

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Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

It brings a brand new rendering engine with state-of-the-art PBR workflow for 3D, an improved assets pipeline, GDNative to load native code as plugins, C# 7.0 After meeting the initial goal, we hired karroffel to continue her work on GDNative (more about this below) and work on a new rendering backend. New physically based 3D renderer.

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The Lost Ark Has Found its Way

Deconstructor of Fun

Many innovative visual effects that have become mainstream within the past generation cannot be utilized in Lost Ark, such as physically-based material rendering (PBR), dynamic lighting, etc. The static lighting and shadow rendering are excellent. Oily skin texture). Fortunately, the art design of the game performs well.