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• Azimuth
  ...- if you shake your head "no," you are rotating in azimuth. Most [[Engines|engines]] count from 0 to 360 degrees, starting out pointed straight forward, turni ...s similar to the way most [[FPS]] games work. It is preferred in some game engines because it keeps the viewer level no matter where he points. But this syste
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• Lighting
  ...oset [http://www.marmoset.co/ Toolbag and Skyshop] are real-time rendering engines that use image based lighting.
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• Special Effects
  == Particle Systems in Game Engines ==
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• Texturing
  ...ns to be in powers of two: 2,4,8,16,3164,128,256,512,1024,2048,4096. Other engines may not require it, but an off-sized image can potentially harm performance
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• Rendering
  Topics explaining how game engines render an artist's artwork.
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• Whitepapers
  How game engines work, game graphics examples, effect breakdowns, etc.
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• Coordinate
  It is a very efficient way to describe space, so most game engines use this system.
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• Declination
  Most [[Engine|engines]] count from +90 to -90 degrees, starting out pointed straight up, turning ...milar to the way most [[FPS|FPS]] games work. It is preferred in some RT3D engines because it keeps the [[Viewer|viewer]] level no matter where it points. But
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• Engine
  Game engines often come with a level editor and other tools which help artists create co * [http://www.indiedb.com/engines?sort=rating-desc Indie DB: Top Rated Game Engines]
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• Fog
  In some of the newer [[:Category:GameEngines|game engines]], volume fog and ground fog are supported, where the fog is localized to a
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• FullBright
  ...nsity, unaffected by real-time lighting. Some [[:Category:GameEngines|game engines]] do not have [[DynamicLighting|dynamic lighting]], so all textures are dra
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• Value correction
  ...which is great for dynamic lighting with normal maps and specular in most engines.
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• NateWhitePortfolioAdvice
  ...K is a good place to get your feet wet, but there are plenty of other free engines to use and get a good understanding of pipelines.
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• Offline vs. Real-Time Rendering
  ...me of animation might take hours to render. Real-time renderers, like game engines and simulators, tend to emphasize constant frame rate to keep animations sm
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• OldSiteResources
  == Individual Games and Engines == ...of the team-based gameplay scene, Tribes and Tribes 2 have some very solid engines.
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• OldSiteResourcesGeneral
  Again the same thing here, the tutorials are not necessarily meant for Quake engines or Unreal. you can apply what is being said in these tutorials to many diff
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• OldSiteResourcesGeneralMilkshape
  ...s, speifically for use in real-time 3D engines such as the Quake series of engines. These tutorials are based in Milkshape, but the principles can be applied
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• OldSiteResourcesGeneralModelingAndAnimation
  ...s, speifically for use in real-time 3D engines such as the Quake series of engines. These tutorials are based in Milkshape, but the principles can be applied
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• OldSiteResourcesGeneralTools
  ...d. It sounds like it will be a skinning and modeling tool for the Quake2/3 engines.
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• Mip Mapping
  ...mage by [http://developer.nvidia.com/ NVIDIA].]]<br clear="all"/>Most game engines will create the mips automatically, if mips don't already exist in the text
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• Pitch
  ...in action. The term comes from aviation. Most [[:Category:GameEngines|game engines]] count from +90 to -90 degrees, starting out pointed straight up, turning
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• Polygon
  ...is made of two triangles, a pentagon is made of three triangles, etc. Some engines support multiple polygon types, but triangles are the most common.
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• Polygon Count
  ...ttleneck] article by Guillaume Provost. Typical performance issues in game engines, and how the artwork affects them.
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• Quad
  ...eEngines|game engines]] use quads instead of triangular polygons, but most engines just use tris.
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• RGB
  ...colors are in [[BitDepth|8bit]] scale which is usually 0 to 255. But game engines prefer a simpler scale, representing all colors with the values 0 to 1. For
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• Roll
  Most [[:Category|GameEngines|game engines]] count from -180 to 180 degrees, starting out rolled upside-down all the w
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• Rotational Axis
  Most RT3D engines count from 90 to -90 degrees, starting out pointed straight up, turning dow Most RT3D engines count from 0 to 360 degrees, starting out pointed straight forward, turning
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• RT3D
  ...in real-time on a computer. Game artists use [[:Category:GameEngines|game engines]] to do this.
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• Smoothing Groups
  ...s workflow. However the resulting mesh creates shading errors in some game engines.
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• Subtractive Color Model
  ...be what subtractive means, but you can use any colors. In fact, since RT3D engines display on a computer screen, you are really in the end just using the addi
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• Texture Coordinates
  Game engines commonly use two texture coordinates, U and V, for mapping the width and he
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• Shaders for Artists
  Everyone has heard of shaders, or shader-based engines or software, but most people don't know what they are, or what the craze is ...ted from the application like this are in [[Object Space]] (many rendering engines allow you to take variables, such as light position, in world space or obje
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• TrilinearFiltering
  ...is a method of [[Texture filtering]] used by [[:Category:GameEngines|game engines]].
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• VertexNormal
  Some game engines do not import edited vertex normals. Check your engine's documentation, or ...ormals have a strong influence on tangent-space [[Normal map]]s. Some game engines require a bit more geometry near areas that have a lot of change in angle (
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• Yaw
  Most [[:Category:GameEngines|game engines]] count from 0 to 360 degrees, starting out pointed straight forward, turni
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• Texture Baking
  ...rectly. You can move them back if you want, it doesn't matter to most game engines. Be aware that ZBrush does use UV offsets to manage mesh visibility, howeve
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• Game Engine
  Some famous engines are:
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• Polycount
  |[[:Category:GameEngines|Game Engines]]
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