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Spotlight: Convai Reinvents Non-Playable Character Interactions

Nvidia

Some of the fundamental blocks for realistic AI NPCs are facial animations, lip synchronization, and emotion control for the character’s voices, all of which needs to be generated in real time during gameplay. They used NVIDIA Audio2Face to power the facial animations of their characters, and NVIDIA Riva for speech-to-text and text-to-speech.

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Navigation Server for Godot 4.0

Mircosoft Game Dev

Navigation Agent. The agent is also responsible for avoiding collisions. The agent just need a Vector3 as target to reach, and in our case I want to take this position from a spatial node; notice this code in the character script: [.] but what does the agent do if I move the region around? Navigation Obstacle.

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.3

Mircosoft Game Dev

Animation: Expose AnimationNodeOneShot::mix_mode as a property ( GH-37945 ). C#: Allow configuring Mono debugger agent with command line arguments ( GH-56835 ). C#: Fix getting properties state when reloading scripts ( GH-56300 ). GDScript: Clear pending function states when reloading script ( GH-56296 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4.3 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Animation: Expose AnimationNodeOneShot::mix_mode as a property ( GH-37945 ). C#: Allow configuring Mono debugger agent with command line arguments ( GH-56835 ). C#: Fix getting properties state when reloading scripts ( GH-56300 ). GDScript: Clear pending function states when reloading script ( GH-56296 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4.3 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

Animation: Expose AnimationNodeOneShot::mix_mode as a property ( GH-37945 ). C#: Allow configuring Mono debugger agent with command line arguments ( GH-56835 ). C#: Fix getting properties state when reloading scripts ( GH-56300 ). GDScript: Clear pending function states when reloading script ( GH-56296 ).

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Schedule for GodotCon 2019 in Pozna?

Mircosoft Game Dev

Talk: Using Godot for economic simulation and agent-based modelling | Jeremiah Lasquety-Reyes. I talk about how Godot can be used for more intuitive and understandable economic models especially through combining a certain school of economics (Austrian economics) and a certain kind of simulation (agent-based modelling).

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Unity vs. Unreal: What to Choose for Your Game? | Moonmana

Moonmana

However, Unreal is more optimal for 3D visuals, and Unity has a large focus and toolset for 2D animation production. Scripting Unreal uses C++, whereas Unity goes with C#. The best scripting language for your project is one that you’re used to unless you don’t mind challenges. VR and AR games. Multiplayer.

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