Weekly gamedev: # 24 - June 27, 2021

On this week : Epic Games has opened free access for developers to voice chat and anti-cheat developers under the Xbox games can now get access to a preliminary version FidelityFX Super Resolution, Betka Unity 2021.2.





Highlights: Interactive foliage shaders for Unity, the new Feel tool for adding effects in Unity from the creator of Corgi Engine, an article on how to remake Demon's Souls, an extremely sticky gel in Portal 2, tips from the Unity team on optimizing and profiling games.





Updates / releases / news

Epic Games has opened free access to developers to voice chat and anti-cheat

Epic Online Services.





Xbox FidelityFX Super Resolution

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Unity

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Corgi Engine TopDown Engine More Mountains Feel Unity

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Instant Terra Unreal Engine

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Simple Rope Wrap SideFX Labs

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Maxon Redshift 3.0.46

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Unreal Engine 5

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Adobe Adobe Substance 3D:

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Unity 2021.2, Android Chrome OS

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Unity 2021.2

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Demon’s Souls:

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DLC Assassin’s Creed Valhalla

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Full-Body IK Unreal Engine

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Red Dead Redemption 2

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Making an abandoned arcade machine

Shindi Leong shared a breakdown of the Abandoned Arcade project and explained the workflow step by step.





In addition to the analysis itself, the article contains a bunch of links to other useful materials / tutorials.





miscellanea

1920vfx shares VFX breakdown from their "Little Robots" video for IKEA

With the replacement of frames with an actor in a robot costume, a fully digital copy.








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