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Making a Top Gun and Star Wars-inspired fan film in Unreal Engine

CG Spectrum

JANUARY 3, 2023

As the excuses he devised not to follow his passion faded, Anthony quit his full-time job to dedicate his efforts to exploring filmmaking within a game engine. So in April 2022, I quit my job to work on making animated short films full-time. After settling on Unreal Engine and attempting to learn via YouTube tutorials, etc.,

Film

Film Engine Engineering Rigging

What is Level of Detail (LOD) in 3D Modeling? | Techniques & software

CG Spectrum

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

3D modelers apply many processes to improve the look and usability of their assets when creating the characters, props, and sets that feature in your favorite video games and films. Not only does LOD support faster rendering, it does so in a way that doesn't negatively impact the visual quality of an asset.

Software

Software Polygon Baking Texture Mapping

Cocos Creator 3.8 Community Beta is now available

Cocos

JUNE 11, 2023

we have completed the transformation of the engine-builtin Custom Pipeline using RenderGraph. It will support the implementation of engine builtin Custom Pipeline and the default Deferred Pipeline. Download Links (Ver. 061006) Windows macOS Key Updates Custom Pipeline Integrated with Post-Processing Effects In version 3.8,

Beta

Beta Lightmap Render Animation

Project Structure - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos

APRIL 14, 2023

For someone who didn’t know Cocos Cyberpunk, it is an open source 3D TPS (Third-person Shooter) game, developed by the Cocos Engine team, which can be published to iOS, Android and Web. 1、animations There is only one animation file under the folder, which is used for camera animation during roaming the scene when start.

Code

Code Culling Lightmap Render

FBX importer rewritten for Godot 3.2.4 and later

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

This work involved adding support for the FBX 3D asset exchange format to Godot. The first version of our FBX importer was added in Godot 3.2 , and relied on the Open Asset Importer library ( Assimp ). Maya is one of the most used 3D assets creation tools in the game industry, and IMVU needed good support for its FBX files.

Mesh

Mesh Animation Animation Beta

How to Use Unity Cinemachine Virtual Cameras

Game Designing

APRIL 21, 2022

Coding camera angles for games and animation has been a pain … Until now. In short, Unity Cinemachine opens up an entirely new world of opportunities for animation, game design and development, and directors working with virtual cameras. This was created by Unity in collaboration with Disney Television Animation.

Animation

Animation Animation Code Software

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

beta just yet as we expect the engine to be unstable until we have more testing done. Throughout the last two years the core of the engine has seen a lot of improvements and refactoring to bring it to the next level in terms of maintainability, reliability, and performance. We don’t recommend migrating large projects to the Godot 4.0

Beta

Beta Engine Engineering Animation

The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #35

Astral Clock Tower Studios

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Kristala does feel like a traditional indie Soulslike game in many ways, but we've also lovingly baked in a ton of elements that will appeal to fans of other genres too. Once she'd finished with the steps for Dalamase, Bianca then started working on some assets that will be featured in the Nisarga clan's capital city of Nisar.

Dev

Dev Concepts Animation Animation

Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

in January 2020, we switched the development focus towards the upcoming Godot 4.0 , which is a major, compatibility-breaking rewrite of the engine's core and rendering. Additional funding will enable us to hire more core developers to work full-time on the engine, and thus further improve its development pace and stability.

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

GSoC 2019 progress report #1 (part 2)

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 18, 2019

As mentioned in the first part of this progress report , Godot is taking part in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) programme for the second time, and we have 8 students working on specific projects for Godot Engine. Godot, being an open source game engine, was built with a never-ending wish of adding new features to it. Next steps.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Scripting Data Asset

The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #21

Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

3D Asset Design. As has been the case for the past couple months, 3D Asset Designer, Nick, has steadily been chipping away at the long list of models he's working on that will be used to help detail our Nasahara Ruins level. We've got a lot of awesomeness to share with you today, so let's get right to it, shall we? Take a look!

Dev

Dev Clipping Demo Concepts

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

After more than 18 months of development, all Godot Engine contributors are proud to present our biggest release so far, Godot 3.0! It brings a brand new rendering engine with state-of-the-art PBR workflow for 3D, an improved assets pipeline, GDNative to load native code as plugins, C# 7.0 New asset workflow. SVG support.

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Android: Add initial support for Play Asset Delivery ( GH-52526 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Android: Add initial support for Play Asset Delivery ( GH-52526 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track featurex ( GH-44558 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Android: Add initial support for Play Asset Delivery ( GH-52526 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Android: Add initial support for Play Asset Delivery ( GH-52526 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Android: Add initial support for Play Asset Delivery ( GH-52526 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Android: Add initial support for Play Asset Delivery ( GH-52526 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Android: Add initial support for Play Asset Delivery ( GH-52526 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Android: Add initial support for Play Asset Delivery ( GH-52526 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #27

Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 20, 2021

3D Asset Design. With the first variant completely finished, Bianca was able to get a successful bake for the second model this month before moving onto the base sculpt for the final rat and armor. Rigging / Animation. Here's a look at a few screenshots from Unreal Engine that show the odd misalignments we referenced above.

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Dev Rigging Concepts Demo

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The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #35

Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

GSoC 2019 progress report #1 (part 2)

The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #21

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #27

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