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Object Placement on Terrain (Mesh)

Mnenad

This chapter is all about how I solved it (so far) to be able to place all kinds of assets like 3D-meshes or self-growing fractal seeds on the terrain. The code calculates Instantiations (spawning assets with the given parameters), which is quite heavy for the system to calculate. Before we start. Multithreading.

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#Drive Rally by Pixel Perfect Dude is a love letter to the golden age of rally games

PreMortem.Games

We tested numerous physics plugins from the Unity Asset Store, but each fell short, being either too realistic or not flexible enough for our vision. We initially used tools like Gaia & Gena, which were great but had limitations in customizing tracks to our exact needs, such as adjusting terrain and placing racing assets effectively.

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Scaling Art Production for Live-Service Games: Challenges, Innovations, and Future-Ready Pipelines 

iXie gaming

How do top game studios maintain a constant flow of high-quality assets without bottlenecks? With the right strategies, game studios can accelerate asset creation, streamline workflows, and maintain artistic consistency, ensuring their live-service games remain visually compelling and player-focused. Key solutions: (i).

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

CG Spectrum

Work within the supplied KitBash3D Mission to Minerva Houdini file — all assets and associated materials are already loaded and ready to use. Organize assets into groups (e.g., Create new groups to separate geometry or use the groups provided by KitBash3D, which are especially handy for splitting up assets for destruction or animation.

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

Jaunty Bear Games

Fortunately the Unity 3D platform has a great selection of packages and assets to accelerate the build of tools, models, shaders, sound effects, animations etc. Unity Technologies Assets. The Addressable Asset System allows the developer to ask for an asset via its address. Once an asset (e.g. Terrain Tools.

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Strategies for Optimizing Multiplayer Games in Unity

Logic Simplified

Memory leaks occur because of reference retention issues and inadequate resource disposal and temporary asset allocation that both lead to a decrease in system performance. The Resources.UnloadUnusedAssets system releases unused assets to avoid memory spikes that occur when scenes change.

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.0.4

Mircosoft Game Dev

causing crashing of the asset library on systems with low threadcount CPUs. We took this opportunity to add some documentation fixes as well as a fix for Bullet physics to allow Marc Gilleron (Zylann) 's terrain plugin to function with Godot 3.0.4. Fixed crasher in asset library on systems with a low threadcount CPU.

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