Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In parallel to our work on Godot 3.5 ( with a first beta ) and 4.0 ( now at alpha 2! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 GUI: Fix TextureButton focus texture logic ( GH-56472 ). Import: Fix glTF scene export crash on null normal texture ( GH-56380 ). XR: Fix external textures being freed by Godot ( GH-56148 ).

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Big Games

DECEMBER 5, 2023

After months of bug fixing and polishing, the game is ready for distribution. Developers make final touches to enhance immersion, like adding depth to landscapes or improving textures. The level of polish depends on factors like the game engine used and how close it is to the launch date.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

But the “1” in beta 1 means that it’s only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we’re going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. Editor: Make texture preview filter setting content aware ( GH-67426 ). We released Godot 4.0 Editor: Added custom Node export ( GH-67055 ).

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

Texturing: Textures are the flat images that are added to the model to give it colour and detail. Testing: Each feature, as well as the mechanics of the game, need to be tested for quality control. VR Character and Environment Development Unreal Engine's PBR capabilities are far more advanced than other gaming engines.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ). Rendering: Take alpha antialising options into account when setting up materials ( GH-71261 ). Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Add support for FORMAT_{ETC2,DXT5}_RA_AS_RG ( GH-71248 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 30, 2020

It supported roughness, but it did so in a way where the texture reads appeared rough, but not the reflected image (the edges of the reflected objects remained intact). A very common complaint when using shadowmaps in Godot is that tweaking shadow bias is extremely difficult compared to other game engines. x was rather limited.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! branch, there's a lot of surface covered in a game engine and some bug fixes might have an impact on your projects if you somehow used a bug as a feature. Known incompatibilities.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 9, 2016

Thanks to the development work done by Alket Rexhepi and Bojidar Marinov , this frontend will soon reach the alpha status and be announced officially, so that all community members can start submitting assets to the library. This new version allows you to drop any TTF or OTF file in the project and use it directly in your games, at any size.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: Use opaque rendering pipeline for alpha hash materials ( GH-61884 ). Rendering: Add texture reading code to OpenGL3 renderer for web and mobile ( GH-68138 ). Rendering: Fix alpha hash by correcting typos and doing calculations in object space ( GH-68673 ).

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Cocos

MAY 14, 2023

Next, let’s take a look at the common 3D rendering processes in a 3D game engine: Shadow Map Rendering → 3D Objects Rendering → Screen Space Post-Processing → 2D Elements & UI Rendering. Multiple Render Targets - MRT As mentioned above, the GBuffer consists of a set of render textures that store information used for lighting.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Textures are simply bound to bind points starting from 0, and the bind point number is sent via attributes too. In this case, the UV coordinate (for reading the texture). We use the sprite texture uniform to read the sprite pixels. It's much, much simpler and the reason people use game engines in the first place :).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Additionally, all 2D shadows and light textures use a single atlas, resulting in improved performance. the new CanvasTexture texture type has been introduced. A very requested feature for the 2D engine is the possibility to have 2D directional lights and shadows. accum/max_dist); if (accum < fade_margin) { alpha *= max(0.0,accum

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Nvidia

MARCH 1, 2023

Changing the resolution of a finished mesh (for a mobile game, for example) requires an even less detailed model to run efficiently, forcing the modeler to recreate it from scratch. Most game engines also require multiple levels of asset detailing, which requires the use of multiple assets and leads to additional production and running costs.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: Use opaque rendering pipeline for alpha hash materials ( GH-61884 ). Rendering: Add texture reading code to OpenGL3 renderer for web and mobile ( GH-68138 ). Rendering: Fix alpha hash by correcting typos and doing calculations in object space ( GH-68673 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Godot uses a considerably different approach to rendering (and rendering abstraction) than other, popular, game engines. At the end of the day, the use case where Vulkan and DirectX12 make the most sense is when you have hundreds of thousands of objects, which are all different (different geometry, textures, etc.),

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

But the “1” in beta 1 means that it’s only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we’re going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. Import: Respect texture filtering when importing glTF ( GH-59481 ). We’re now at beta 3, making good progress on fixing the issues that testers are reporting.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

But the "1" in beta 1 means that it's only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we're going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. Import: Respect texture filtering when importing glTF ( GH-59481 ). GUI: Improve ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 3, 2016

Shadow atlases exist for Spot and Omni lights (Directional uses its own texture, and multiple directional lights need several passes). How the atlas texture is organized is up to the user, though the default is sensible enough to work in most cases. Other popular game engines present hard edges between one probe and the next.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

with 17 alpha builds distributed in 2022, and continuous development effort since 2019. You may have already seen some of this content on social media, in blog posts, or in alpha release notes. It was added relatively recently and so has not been tested in the alphas as much as other features. It has been a long road to Godot 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 6, 2022

alpha 1 and later. In the end, we settled on using 3 textures the size of the froxel buffer each with a single 32 bit unsigned integer per cell. Note: FogVolumes are available in 4.0 This post provides a technical overview for a feature that is already available in the current 4.0 On top of the existing non-volumetric fog, Godot 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

The new 3D engine is outstanding, with many features out-of-the-box that are still not common in other mainstream engines. The new 3D renderer is state-of-the-art, with features rarely see in game engines today, such as: Full principled BSDF. Unfortunately, the visual material editor from Godot 2.1 Still, Godot 3.0

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