New #gamedev blog up. In it I showcase how to use vertex weights to control geometry density and UV scale.
This allows you to construct a pipeline where the artists are still in control, but have the full power of automation behind them!
simplygon.com/posts/ae19d9...
hidden geometry removed from scene
New #Unity tutorial up: How to use Simplygon's visibility culling to remove hidden geometry. Never ship a triangle that the player can not see!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXa_...
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Merge distance 0.0 explained.
#Blender #gamedev
Visited Pocket Gamer Connects London and got reminded that mobile dev = managing cash flows: user acquisition, monetization & ongoing updates.
So I wrote about how to cut 3D asset optimization costs for mobile games.
simplygon.com/posts/9bdd27...
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The most common issue in LOD creation is using an incorrect reduction target.
Don't let this happen to your LODs, use max deviation or screen size!
simplygon.com/posts/b83478...
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You Don't Know What A Rework Is
by #arottenbit is pure post-chiptune sludge metal perfection.
arottenbit2029.bandcamp.com/album/you-do...
#music
street light with pixelated shadow
When shadow map is too low res.
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Another of my @msftgamedev.bsky.social articles is up. In it I'll give an overview of how to optimize vegetation assets. I'll cover why those are tricky and what tools we at @simplygon.com has to tackle them.
developer.microsoft.com/en-us/games/...
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To me it is clear that mobile games are becoming more and more 3D focused, and with that developers will face issue of optimizing tons of assets targeting multiple device categories. From Simplygon's point of view, that makes us very happy.
I just came home from Pocket Gamer Connects London. It was a pretty nice, very crowded conference.
Focus of the conference was in the monetization and user acquisition more then tech heavy in my opinion. But that did not stop us from having lots of great meetings with developers.
two yellow cars
Next Microsoft #gamedev blog up; after characters we take a close look at how to optimize cars for racing games.
developer.microsoft.com/en-us/games/...
My third post is up on Microsoft's Game Dev Blog. In it I look at three advanced #gamedev tools for character optimization.
🗿 Keep topology with quad reduction
🧩 Reducing modular characters
Simplified shaders for distant LODs with vertex color
developer.microsoft.com/en-us/games/...
Last week I put out a #gamedev article about how animation hides LOD transition. Key take away:
Animations in the data set I used always made LOD transition harder to spot. So animated objects could be switched closer to camera without player noticing.
simplygon.com/posts/11f004...
Soon traveling to #migs25, what is in your #gamedev survival kit that you can not be without?
New #gamedev tutorial out.
In it we have a look at material merging within #Blender.
This is a good way to reduce draw calls, which is especially important for low end platforms.
youtu.be/kB7Esq5RL80
It is targeted towards game developers who are working with mesh shaders in their rendering pipeline.
These techniques are often called "nanite:ish" around the web. It is related, but not entirely correct.
Rendered in Unity just for visualization purpose.
New #gamedev tool is out - the Clustered meshlet optimizer.
Using clustered meshlets you can get good culling of your model and what is called "continuous LOD", different parts of your model can have different quality. Extremely useful if you have very dense models.
simplygon.com/posts/9886e4...
The pain of setting up #protonmail bridge, #Thunderbird with #Nixos is real. I can't find any good solution to it.
My optimization for mobile games guest article is up.
The main takeaway is that if your monetization comes from microtransactions or gacha mechanics, then asset creation cost correlates directly to profit.
Reducing the cost of optimization == 💰
developer.microsoft.com/en-us/games/...
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Anyone else visiting #MIGS25 next month? First time going there, what can I expect?
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New #gamedev optimization blog is out. In it I have a look at billboards and where they fit.
Spoiler: Those can be very useful for the kind of assets where both triangle reduction and remeshing fails. Often quite loosely connected assets.
LOD5
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New tutorial out! Today we look at visibility culling in #unrealengine
Today I've written about cross impostors. It is a little bit of an older optimization technique.
What perhaps is more interesting in the #gamedev blog is that we delve into how to work with the scene graphs; cloning and moving nodes around.
simplygon.com/posts/1b1eb3...
Finally Volume II, so hype!
Stygian Bought is always on my travel #metal music list.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrz7...
Today I am writing for Microsoft's #gamedev blog. Topic is automated character optimization and which #techart tools that are useful to have in your pipeline.
🔨Triangle reduction
🪛Vertex Weights
⛏️Bone reduction
🖌️Material merging
developer.microsoft.com/en-us/games/...
New Simplygon tutorial dropped.
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Two trees
Today I pushed out a blog on vegetation optimization. Here we look at how to combine billboards and triangle reduction to create a LOD chain in #Unity3d.
simplygon.com/posts/04a899...
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In the #cyberpunk future, parents will have to explain to their kid that kid's best friend Mr. Teddy Bear is not dead, just that AWS is down.
futurism.com/experts-horr...
#gamedev optimization tip:
By reserving a small part in the original texture our remeshed proxy model can reuse the same texture.
Let us show you how!
simplygon.com/posts/453ceb...
