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How different types of shoes can affect game development and how games deal with this in practice.

Updated my GTA V fountain article with this cool opaque fountain made by Taras Tereshchenko.

I released the new episode of my Game Dev Podcast and if you understand German, you will find three hours of in-depth information about the wonderful game Drova.

Florian Smolka shared two breakdowns for effects he did for Mother Machine (including meshes & textures).

Nice breakdown from Lisa Kaschner of a very satisfying ice bomb spell showing textures, materials and freeze/dissolve shader.

Incredible well-made lightning spell by Matheus Fortunato, including a breakdown of the used textures and meshes.

jinyi shao shared two short but very useful videos, how to add good punch to a laser beam and a tornado. I also love that the tornado gets resembled by a simple quad to demonstrate the motion even clearer.

These exercises by Devlyn JD are a great example that mastering timing doesn't need advanced tech - just a pen and a paper (or a stylus and an tablet).

From the same author, we got this amazing 2D fire tutorial! Make sure to check out the rest of their work! The whole portfolio is amazing!!

Stumbled across this YT channel where some references from Elden Ring are gathered.

ゴロペコ paints textures in Blender while the effect/shader is running and provides a live feedback. How cool is that?!

A free simple generator for VFX textures directly in your browser. If you like this one, you should also check out Effect Texture Maker.

13 years old article but still worth a read when it comes to mirrors in games.

This channel from Cem Yuksel offers a massive amount of detailed videos explaining various rendering techniques.

This video compares nanite and non-nanite rendering and how optimization could be done my reducing draw calls and if it's even necessary. Note: The example scene is quite basic (just similar static meshes) and a "real" game would be required to get better results of such an experiment.

Thanks for reading! Have a lovely day/night! 💘
Simon