In a #GDCRewind video, GDC breaks down how the Ghost of Yotei team taught faction behavior during the game's opening phase, with the full session available in the GDC Vault. The talk is titled Meaningful Reasons to Wander: Creating Open World Engagement in 'Ghost of Yōtei' and focuses on the design of motivation for open world exploration.
Unreal Engine has put out tutorial videos on connecting MCP in UE and UEFN, along with workflow examples for PCG and MCP. Two YouTube videos demonstrate how to connect MCP in UE and UEFN respectively, and a Fab link points to UE City Sample for exploring how PCG and MCP work together.
Why it matters: The two videos demonstrate the steps for connecting MCP in UE and UEFN respectively, and City Sample additionally offers a workflow combining PCG with MCP for reference.
Digital Puppets co-founder Antony Evans demonstrated how to use the AI plugin Headshot 3 together with Reallusion's Character Creator 5 and iClone 8 to turn AI-generated concept art into rigged, animation-ready stylized 3D characters.
Inworld AI Head of Research Aleksey Tikhonov explains how voice steering in TTS-2 works: using instructions to tell a speech model how to deliver a line. The post focuses on how to measure whether those instructions actually take effect — automated audio judging fell short in its tests, so the team turned to measuring changes in the speech itself. He also discusses why instruction wording matters and why the same direction produces different results across voices; these metrics are used to track changes between model versions, and they have their limits.
Unity showed an agent workflow in which handing concept art and a short description to an agent is enough to build a runnable UI Toolkit main menu through the Unity CLI. The agent also runs Play mode UI tests itself and captures Game view screenshots to check its changes and keep iterating, with the user guiding the process. The original includes a link to the full tutorial video.
Why it matters: It demonstrates an agent workflow that goes from concept art to a runnable UI Toolkit menu, with the agent running Play mode tests itself and checking screenshots to iterate.
Unity has released a tutorial video showing how an AI agent, working through the Unity CLI and starting from concept art and a short brief, can build a usable main menu interface directly inside the Unity editor.
Why it matters: The original walks through the full agent workflow from concept art to a runnable main menu, and its approach of command-line testing with screenshot feedback can be carried over to your own projects.
GDC released a replay clip discussing how the Kingdom Come: Deliverance II team handles crime perception at far and mid LOD. The material comes from the session Supporting Thousands of NPCs in 'Kingdom Come: Deliverance' & 'Kingdom Come: Deliverance II'; the full session is available on GDC Vault: https://gdcvault.com/
Rather than porting the previous game, RUST LTD rewrote H3VR2 from scratch in a brand-new Unity project, spending nearly six months first on architecture and tools. The team numbers more than 20 people, firearm internals are simulated by an in-house system, and ballistics are built on ECS for Unity and Burst; the project moved from H3VR to Unity 6.3, with an emphasis on the SRP Batcher, shader compilation improvements and tile post-processing.
AI and Games examined how the AI in Command & Conquer and Red Alert is implemented, drawing on the source code EA released alongside Command & Conquer Remastered Collection and made available on GitHub.
Why it matters: Using the remastered edition source code EA made public, the article breaks down unit tasks, commander states and pathfinding in the two early RTS games.