CG Spectrum

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

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. Texture baking Texture baking allows you to generate 2D texture maps from a 3D model's high polygon count and is a technique used particularly in video games.

Software 97

Software Polygon Baking Texture Mapping 97

Logic Simplified

APRIL 4, 2025

The utilization of Baked Lighting for static region precomputation results in enhanced runtime performance. Simplify Rigs: Remove unnecessary controllers, constraints, and bones. Light Probes operate as temporary data storage units to store lighting information to prevent continuous real-time calculations.

Games 78

Games Texture Render Balance 78

CG Spectrum

JANUARY 3, 2023

Control rigs for the crew and X-Wing models. Building Control Rigs for a crew member. For specific types of standardized movement, you can create a Control Rig in Unreal Engine, which is a rigged set of controls that you can grab and move to drive the movement of part of the model — a bit like the strings of a puppet.

Film 98

Film Engine Engineering Rigging 98

iXie gaming

APRIL 21, 2025

Reduce variants, embrace GPU instancing, and bake lighting when possible. Budget them like you would any feature, and when possible, bake effects directly into scene assets. Run QA on low-end hardware , not just your development rig. Avoid runtime compilation; its a silent performance killer in fast-paced scenes.

AAA 52

AAA Asset Texture Baking 52

The Knights of Unity

JULY 21, 2020

Adjusting mesh, rig and skinning needed a couple of iterations. A baking light map wouldn’t help either (trees are moveable objects – can be hit by cars passing by), so the only reasonable option was to decrease the number of polys. Creating animations for animals wasn’t an easy part.

Art 52

Art Prop Mesh Racing 52

Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) Leveraging the power of ray tracing, the RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) SDK provides scalable solutions to compute multi-bounce indirect lighting without bake times, light leaks, or expensive per-frame costs. Version 1.1.30 allows developers to enable, disable, and rotate individual DDGI volumes.

Ray Tracing 52

Ray Tracing Graphics Render Technology 52

Game Designing

APRIL 21, 2022

As of yet, there is no distributed baking. This basically means you can only bake lightmaps using a single machine. After that, it’s best to learn how to use the free look composition feature, which includes orbiting a transform, customizing player input, and adjusting composition at different stages of a rig.

Animation 52

Animation Animation Code Software 52