I recently saw a game dev youtuber give out bad info when asked what a splat map is, saying that “the splat map is the base texture that covers the entirety of the terrain. The texture map (image) is literally placed (splatted) over the terrain (in the video a satellite image of several city blocks
HDR stands for High Dynamic Range. But what does that mean? Marmoset Skyshop (which I blogged about here) makes a big deal about its use of HDR images. But what are they? Where can I get them? Can I produce them? If I can’t get them and I can’t produce them, is it a deal-breaker
Keep indie start-up costs down by always killing 2 birds with one stone. Buy Marmoset Skyshop instead of Toolbag! Time is money. If you spend less of one, you’ll have to spend more of the other. If you have all the time in the world you can learn skills that render software applications irrelevant. Often
Programming is powerful. It gets its power from variables, functions, and conditionals. A variable is storage for dynamic information. A function is one or more instructions that perform a specific task. A conditional expression decides what should be done in the event that specific information meets particular criteria such as being true or being a