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arXiv cs.GR details a mesh-flow theorem that guarantees non-intersecting trajectories from a discrete vector field. The setup starts with a harmonic function on a spherical triangle mesh, then rotates its …
Catlike Coding Unity details a Burst conversion for Hex Map 5.7, turning SetTerrainTypeJob into a true IJobFor. The change caches noise samples outside the job, swaps in native cell/climate data, …
arXiv cs.GR details Structural Affinity, a cage-based deformation method that couples inner and outer control cages to keep edits coherent. The approach cuts self-intersections and mesh distortion while adding only …
The GameDev Guru breaks down why five binary shader features yielding 32 variants is only a starting point, not a performance verdict. The practical takeaway for Unity teams: choose between …
arXiv cs.GR details SplatQ, a new pruning method for 3D Gaussian Splatting that tries to keep reconstruction quality balanced while cutting render cost. Instead of simple top-K pruning, it models …
arXiv cs.GR details JamTet, a GPU-parallel sphere-packing mesher for Lagrangian mesh morphing that keeps interior-node identity through large shape changes. The method aims to avoid the inversion and correspondence loss …
Unity details how Moonlight Kids built Echo Weaver, a time-loop metroidbrainia in Unity 6. The team breaks down chunk streaming, loop-reset architecture, and 2D optimization choices that keep the game …
arXiv cs.GR details a way to approximate smooth 3D functions with a coarse lookup table plus tetrahedral interpolation. For graphics and tools teams, the draw is a tiny 38 KiB …
Box2D details a new inscribed-sphere culling scheme for SAT that can cut expensive convex-hull contact work before edge-pair tests even run. The approach uses cheap dot products and Gauss-map arcs …
arXiv cs.GR details a deterministic, adjoint-based workflow for optimizing profile extrusion dies without relying on manual trial-and-error. The method uses non-boundary-conforming geometry representation to keep meshes stable as shapes change, …
GamesIndustry.biz reports that IO Interactive has pushed 007 First Light on Switch 2 to March 2027, marking a third delay for the port. Technical producer Cristina Vega said the team …
Game Developer details how ARM’s Peter Hodges thinks about game development tools, with a side trip into the 1969 short Lemon. The conversation is most relevant to teams building or …
Unity details how Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor was reworked for mobile, where thousands of enemies, projectiles, and UI events had to fit inside a 3 GB iPad and a wildly …
AMD GPUOpen says ADLX 2.0 adds AI extensions and MCP servers so apps can monitor, manage, and optimize AMD graphics hardware. For game teams, that opens the door to agent-driven …
Godot has been tightening CPU-side renderer code, and one Polygon2D case showed why that matters: a scene with only about 20 animated characters was spending 15.7 ms in Polygon2D::_notification() and …
A new HKTex acceleration method drops the mesh eigensystem bottleneck that has made heat-kernel texture workflows expensive to initialize. Two variants, LocalHK and ThermalRF, keep the trainer and compositing pipeline …
A new reconfigurable rover uses a variable-geometry truss to change its contact shape on the fly, cutting the coordination burden of traversal planning. The system reuses low-dimensional contact primitives instead …
Researchers have introduced TBR, a transport-based rendering method that turns inverse graphics into an ordered stroke program. The approach targets marbling-style deposition strokes, preserving area while deforming earlier marks. It …
Unity details how Garage Collective is using ECS to render DrakkenRidge’s huge mobile VR world with far less overhead. The two-person team says the game can show thousands of objects …
A new layout-generation framework, LayoutShop, uses content constraints and optimization to build creative article compositions from templates. It extracts eligible structures, solves their geometry, then ranks results with neural assessment …