Tako Studio

Game and real-time interactive experiences
Unreal Engine • Mobile • PC • console
Creators of Nihon Legacy and Minimal Move • Tokyo 🇯🇵

[Tako Studio @StudioTako]

Months of work. One shrine. Now on your phone.

Nihon Legacy open beta is now live.

Explore Meiji Jingu in a real-time 3D experience built with Unreal Engine 5 for mobile.

Try it here 👇
https://t.co/qWncQ2xWRc

#UnrealEngine #UE5 #MobileDev #GameDev #RealTime3D

[Jonathan Duval @JonathanDuvalTS]

New UE5 mobile lighting tutorial is now live.

Covering:
• Deferred and Forward Rendering
• Light Mobility
• Lightmaps and Baking
• Mobile Preview

Full tutorial ↓
https://t.co/ngxL78ckGl

#UnrealEngine #UE5 #GameDev #MobileDevelopment #RealTime3D

[Jonathan Duval @JonathanDuvalTS]

Want large scenes to run on mobile?

Use a Cull Distance Volume.

• Cover your entire scene
• Set distances based on object size

Less objects rendered.
Better performance.

#UnrealEngine #UE5 #GameDev #RealTime3D #Mobile

[Tako Studio @StudioTako]

@simplydt Thanks!
Runs on low-end devices, and I’m getting a steady 60 FPS on more recent phones.
Still gathering data on mid-range.
Using baked lighting + LODs and culling 👍

[Tako Studio @StudioTako]

Months of work. One shrine. Now on your phone.

Nihon Legacy open beta is now live.

Explore Meiji Jingu in a real-time 3D experience built with Unreal Engine 5 for mobile.

Try it here 👇
https://t.co/qWncQ2xWRc

#UnrealEngine #UE5 #MobileDev #GameDev #RealTime3D

[Tako Studio @StudioTako]

I’d really appreciate your feedback, especially on performance across devices🙏
https://t.co/h03d3HpntV

The beta is currently limited to selected countries on Google Play, and the page is still rolling out.
Expanding soon.

[Jonathan Duval @JonathanDuvalTS]

One tree might be fine on mobile…
But a forest?

Foliage can quickly become expensive.

The fix:
• Fewer, larger leaves
• Leaf clusters instead of single leaves
• Simpler branches

Same look. Much lighter.

#UnrealEngine #UE5 #GameDev #MobileOptimization #SpeedTree

[Jonathan Duval @JonathanDuvalTS]

Unreal Engine 30-Second Tip 02

Baked lighting makes foliage shadows static.

The fix:

• Cast Dynamic Shadow on foliage
• Use a Stationary light
• Adjust shadow distance

A good balance between performance and visual quality.

#UnrealEngine #UE5 #gamedev

[Tako Studio @StudioTako]

@EyeOfScar Totally agree. Trim sheets, tiling textures and decals are great ways to keep environment texture budgets under control.

[Tako Studio @StudioTako]

Unreal Engine tip

Getting “Video Memory Has Been Exhausted”?

The culprit might be your textures.

Quick fix:
• Pack channels (RMA)
• Reduce to 512px

Result:
94 MB → 710 KB (~99% VRAM saved)

#UnrealEngine #UE5 #GameDev #MobileOptimization

[Tako Studio @StudioTako]

@EyeOfScar Good point! Limiting the max texture resolution is another great way to reduce memory usage in-game. In this case I reduced the textures directly to keep the project size smaller.

[Tako Studio @StudioTako]

5/ Same environment.
Two different technical pipelines.

Working within mobile constraints while keeping a believable look is what makes the process interesting.

Unreal Engine · Mobile · Real-time 3D · Nihon Legacy

#UnrealEngine #gamedev #realtime3d

[Tako Studio @StudioTako]

Cinematic UE5 environment → mobile.

Porting a scene built for high-end rendering to mobile
required optimizing several parts of the pipeline.

Here’s a quick breakdown of some of the main optimizations I implemented for Nihon Legacy

[Tako Studio @StudioTako]

4/ Vegetation

Foliage is expensive on mobile.

Reducing overdraw, draw calls and triangle count was essential to keep performance stable.

[Tako Studio @StudioTako]

Cinematic UE5 scene → mobile.
No Nanite. No Lumen.
Baked lighting, optimised assets.

Challenging. Still worth carrying your work in your pocket.

#UnrealEngine #mobiledev

[Tako Studio @StudioTako]

Recreating a real Japanese heritage place in Unreal Engine 5.
Real-time 3D, optimized for mobile.
More soon.
#UnrealEngine #gamedev #UE5

[Tako Studio @StudioTako]

公式トレーラーを公開しました。
トレーラーはこちら：
https://t.co/gvOceczsho
Google Play 事前登録：
https://t.co/pnaSjvabUb
公式サイト：
https://t.co/xV45JTxx72

[Tako Studio @StudioTako]

Nihon Legacy – 公式トレーラー公開

日本の文化遺産をテーマにした
モバイル / VR 向けリアルタイム3D体験。

↓トレーラーはこちら

#NihonLegacy #UnrealEngine #インディーゲーム #文化遺産