Tips for Optimizing Game Assets in Blender

➤ Grab your FREE copy of Press Start | Your first Blender Project - In this CG Cookie tutorial from Riley Brown, learn how to optimize your game assets using Blender with these valuable techniques! Reduce memory usage and computing resources to improve frame rates and enhance your creative freedom without performance constraints. The video covers topology, baking, and a bonus tip for getting more out of your texture resolution. Discover how to localize geometry, dissolve excess edges, and break up your mesh for better optimization. Explore texture baking to simplify materials, reduce draw calls, and master the art of channel packing for more efficient maps. Don't miss a simple sharpening trick to make lower-resolution maps appear crisper. Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 00:42 - Topology 03:20 - Texture baking in Blender 08:19 - Map Sharpening “WHO IS CG COOKIE?“ We are real people! (OK, maybe some of us are cyborgs - we don't ask.) CG Cookie is a small crew of Blender artists baking fresh videos for the Blender community. 🍪 If you love what we do, consider enrolling to to stream 100's of Blender courses with passionate Blender instructors there to answer your questions. “WHERE SHOULD I START LEARNING BLENDER?“ For Blender beginners, we have a free tutorial series “Getting Started with Blender“ “I WANT MORE CG COOKIE IN MY LIFE!“ Got it. Here's where you can reach us! Want Blender content in your mailbox? Sign up here for our newsletter #CGCookie #blendertutorial #b3d