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In fighting games counting (comparing) frames on moves/animations is important, even for players. For other types of games, do developers or animators count or tweak to the frame? And when counting small amounts of time like that, how do most studios do it? Frames? Milliseconds?

Ask a Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Animators typically count things in terms of frames. Our debug logging keeps tabs on everything in terms of milliseconds so we can see how temporally far apart events in the log fire. Some designers care about frames specifically too, but engineers and designers generally use milliseconds or decimal seconds (e.g.

Animation

Animation Animation Debug Dev

Button animations are broken on Android devices (v3.7.3)

Cocos

MAY 20, 2023

When playing the game on an Android device, button animations don’t function properly (at least both Sprite and Scale transition types are affected). Also any tips or advice on how I can research and debug this issue further would be really appreciated. After some testing, it seems like this problem has started with Cocos Creator v3.7.0

Animation

Animation Animation Sprite Debug

How mastering three diverse skills has shaped Steve Mwangi’s success

PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 13, 2023

He’s not just an indie game developer; he’s a music producer and a 3D animator. His impeccable animation skills shine in the teaser videos he meticulously moulded for his debut title Kanairo 101. After discovering the world of frame-by-frame animation he turned his school books into flipbooks.

Animation

Animation Animation Fighting Media

Godot gets new Animation Tree + State Machine

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 25, 2018

After a long time coming, and as part of the trend of modernizing many old Godot subsystems, the animation tree has been rewritten from scratch and it's now brand new, with plenty of new features. Save for animation, any of those nodes can contain other types of nodes. It's a run of the mill animation blend tree. Compatibility.

Animation

Animation Animation Scripting Debug

Music turns off in windows [SOLVED]

Cocos

DECEMBER 7, 2023

What my game does in those methods is pause the animation and music, and then resume them. Well, on the Windows version, something is definitely pausing the music, but it doesn’t resume, and when I debug with breakpoints, neither of those methods is getting called.

Debug

Debug Animation Animation Games

Why 70% of Developers Prefer Unity for Mobile Game Development

iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Whether you’re looking for 3D structure, textures, patterns, animations, or even specific sounds, you can get them from Unity’s Asset Store. Seamless Debugging Debugging is a crucial part of mobile game development. As a result, you can track and debug visual components in real-time.

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Does Spine work with USE_INSTANCING?

Cocos

JANUARY 10, 2024

I’ve tried the different animation cache modes, and enable/disable batch. Hello, I’m working on a custom material/effect with a USE_INSTANCING branch that works on sprites, but does not work on a spine character. The effect is a duplicate of builtin-spine , with the instancing branches added and the two_color branch removed.

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Texture Mesh Alpha Sprite

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Animation: Add "Trimming" option to cut un-keyed timeline before first key in glTF animation ( GH-68665 ). Editor: Add button to keep the debug server open ( GH-69164 ). Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Android: Bump the minimum Android target API to 21 (Android Lollipop) ( GH-67610 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Render

Coding Pitfalls to Avoid When Learning How to Make an Android Game

Big Games

OCTOBER 16, 2023

You should carefully consider the character design, animation, and environment because doing so improves the gaming experience. It also provides powerful tools for debugging, testing, and coding. Polished Graphics and Art Stunning images can increase the immersion of players. What Coding Pitfalls You Need to Avoid?

Code

Code Debug Games Concepts

2022 was a waste for my engine until this happened

Harold Serrano

DECEMBER 28, 2022

I also learned that the most tedious part of a sports game is the animation/physics synchronization and the AI system. I kept thinking about how can I fix these issues, and it hit me: I need a Debug Visualization Tool in my engine to help me visualize what the AI sees. This realization changed everything. Thank you for reading.

Engine

Engine Engineering Game Engine AI

Cocos Shader Tutorial 1.0 - about UV

Cocos

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

By dynamically changing this value, a simple animation effect can be achieved. More applications of UV in Shader UV can be widely used in effects such as frame animation and water ripples. The following shows a small application of UV effect vec4 frag() { vec4 col = mainColor * texture(mainTexture, v_uv); vec2 uv = v_uv; if(uv.y>0.5){

Shaders

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

A refactor of Animation APIs to change the stop(reset: bool) to two separate stop() and pause() methods ( GH-71218 ), as was heavily requested by the community. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Split pause() from AnimationPlayer's stop() ( GH-71218 ). A lot more GDScript fixes and improvements!

Beta

Beta Dev Collision Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

and included in this beta are: Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Animation: Fix Tween active state and repeat after stop() and then start() ( GH-47142 ). Highlights. The main changes coming in Godot 3.4

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 22, 2022

Not because it's necessarily harder to program or harder to make assets for, but it's much, much harder to debug. It's typically used for facial animations, like lip sync. There does seem to be an open request to fix this, which I would implement myself if I was confident enough to debug an entire game engine.

Development

Development Engine Engineering Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

and included in this beta are: Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Animation: Fix Tween active state and repeat after stop() and then start() ( GH-47142 ). Highlights. The main changes coming in Godot 3.4

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

A refactor of Animation APIs to change the stop(reset: bool) to two separate stop() and pause() methods ( GH-71218 ), as was heavily requested by the community. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Split pause() from AnimationPlayer’s stop() ( GH-71218 ). A lot more GDScript fixes and improvements!

Beta

Beta Dev Collision Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track featurex ( GH-44558 ). Animation: Fix Tween active state and repeat after stop() and then start() ( GH-47142 ). Animation: Allow renaming bones and blend shapes ( GH-42827 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Maintenance release: Godot 3.5.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Animation: Fix AnimationNode has_filter not being called in scripts ( GH-64560 ). Animation: Fix potential bug with node rename in BlendTree editor ( GH-65651 ) [regression fix]. Animation: Fix crash when playing SceneTreeTween right after finishing ( GH-65896 ). Rendering: Portals: Show RayCast debug helper ( GH-65686 ).

Baking

Baking Render Collision Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.5.1 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Animation: Fix AnimationNode has_filter not being called in scripts ( GH-64560 ). Animation: Fix potential bug with node rename in BlendTree editor ( GH-65651 ). Animation: Fix crash when playing SceneTreeTween right after finishing ( GH-65896 ). Rendering: Portals: Show RayCast debug helper ( GH-65686 ).

Render

Render Bug Collision Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Animation: Add “Trimming” option to cut un-keyed timeline before first key in glTF animation ( GH-68665 ). Editor: Add button to keep the debug server open ( GH-69164 ). Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Android: Bump the minimum Android target API to 21 (Android Lollipop) ( GH-67610 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Render

Updates to NVIDIA’s Unreal Engine 4 Branch, DLSS, and RTXGI Available Now

Nvidia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

New tools New debugging tools like the BVH viewer and Ray Timing Visualization allows developers to get a handle on ray tracing cost in their scene and get it tuned for speed. Uses approximate technique of shared animations to reduce overhead for simulating a full forest. NVIDIA RTX UE4.26 The new NVIDIA UE4.26

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Engine Engineering Beta

[Share] 2D Post-Processing & Lighting Framework

Cocos

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Surprise - 2D Lighting Effects I believe that not long ago, some people had already seen this animated image. The technology is not complicated, but the number of points is more or less limited, and debugging is also troublesome. This is a 2D lighting effect created with Cocos Creator. I tested it with an image.

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Render Texture Shaders Pixel

How to Begin Metaverse Game Development

iXie gaming

MAY 8, 2023

Design tools and Resources: In addition to game engines and development frameworks, you’ll also need design tools and resources such as 3D modeling software, animation software, and sound editing software. Testing and debugging the game: This is an essential step in Metaverse game development.

Game Developer

Game Developer Game Development Development Concepts

Maintenance release: Godot 3.5.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Animation: Fix AnimationNode has_filter not being called in scripts ( GH-64560 ). Animation: Fix potential bug with node rename in BlendTree editor ( GH-65651 ) [regression fix]. Animation: Fix crash when playing SceneTreeTween right after finishing ( GH-65896 ). Rendering: Portals: Show RayCast debug helper ( GH-65686 ).

Baking

Baking Render Collision Bug

Fantasy Strike patch notes, August 2016

Sirlin

AUGUST 17, 2016

Also worth noting are lots of new animations for Valerie, a new character model for Grave that has over 3x the polygons as before, and a preview of a new character select screen that will be used for modes other than local versus and training. New debug option in training mode to stay in dragon form forever once you enter it.

Fantasy

Fantasy Polygon Hitbox Animation

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.4

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 23, 2022

Edit 2022-03-24 @ 12:15 UTC: There was a slight packaging mistake affecting the macOS editor, and the iOS and macOS export templates, as well as a build issue affecting the iOS debug template. Animation: Fix cubic interpolate when looping ( GH-58651 ). These binaries have been updated on the mirror, users who downloaded Godot 3.4.4

Render

Render Alpha Shaders Editing

Leveling Up Graphics and Performance with RTX, DLSS and Reflex at NVIDIA GTC

Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

Nsight Graphics Nsight Graphics is a standalone developer tool that enables you to debug, profile, and export frames built with DirectX12, Vulkan, OpenGL, and OpenVR. All of the powerful debugging and profiling features in Nsight Graphics are available for realtime ray tracing, which includes support for DXR and Vulkan Ray Tracing.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Graphics Render Technology

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2021

stable: Animation: Fix skinning initialization in MeshInstance when loaded from thread ( GH-48217 ). Physics: Create CollisionObject debug shapes using VisualServer ( GH-48588 ). See the curated changelog , or the full commit history on GitHub for an exhaustive overview of the fixes in this release.

Polygon

Polygon Render Scripting Racing

FBX importer rewritten for Godot 3.2.4 and later

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Due to these roadblocks, we decided to rewrite the importer fully and tailor it to Godot, instead of trying to keep things generic as done in Assimp - Assimp can importer dozens of file formats, which is great, but imposes many restrictions on the support of individual complex formats like FBX, especially for animations. Pivots are hard.

Mesh

Mesh Animation Animation Beta

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.1 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 10, 2021

Here are some of the main changes in this build: Animation: Fix skinning initialization in MeshInstance when loaded from thread ( GH-48217 ). Physics: Create CollisionObject debug shapes using VisualServer ( GH-48588 ). As usual, you can try it live with the online version of the Godot editor updated for this release.

Bug

Bug Build Polygon Render

Godot Engine reaches 2.0 stable

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Animation editor. Debug on hardware devices. It is also now now possible to debug a game running on an actual devices. Make sure to enable "Deploy Remote Debug" option in the remote options menu. If you have a device with Android 5.0+, Godot can take advantage and debug over the USB cable directly.

Engine

Engine Engineering Editing Debug

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.3 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 4, 2021

Animation: Fixed issue where bones become detached if multiple SkeletonIK nodes are used ( GH-49031 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision ( GH-49075 ). Here are some of the main changes since 3.3.2-stable: stable: Android: Add GDNative libraries to Android custom Gradle builds ( GH-49912 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Bug Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.1 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 15, 2021

stable: Animation: Fix skinning initialization in MeshInstance when loaded from thread ( GH-48217 ). Physics: Create CollisionObject debug shapes using VisualServer ( GH-48588 ). As usual, you can try it live with the online version of the Godot editor updated for this release. See the full changelog since 3.3-stable RC 1 for details.

Polygon

Polygon Bug Render Build

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.3

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Animation: Fixed issue where bones become detached if multiple SkeletonIK nodes are used ( GH-49031 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision ( GH-49075 ). Android: Add GDNative libraries to Android custom Gradle builds ( GH-49912 ). Android: Disable resource optimizations for legacy release builds ( GH-50664 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Bug Collision

Godot Tutorial: The Basics For Beginners

SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 12, 2020

In the bottom panel , you’ll see your output, debug, audio and animation windows. We might need another node to act as our character’s collision mesh to ensure then they do things like bump into walls that they are stopped and don’t walk through them and we might need other nodes to handle things like animations or physics.

Asset

Asset Editing Scripting Code

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.3 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 16, 2021

Animation: Fixed issue where bones become detached if multiple SkeletonIK nodes are used ( GH-49031 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision ( GH-49075 ). Android: Add GDNative libraries to Android custom Gradle builds ( GH-49912 ). Android: Disable resource optimizations for legacy release builds ( GH-50664 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Bug Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2022

Animation: Add option to paste animation as duplicate ( GH-60226 ). Animation: New SceneTreeTween backported from Godot 4.0 ( GH-60581 ). Animation: Fix AnimatedSprite doesn't emit animation_finished when changing playback direction ( GH-61085 ). Audio: Allow configuring loop mode on WAV import ( GH-59170 ).

Render

Render Shaders Console Culling

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

Animation: Add option to paste animation as duplicate ( GH-60226 ). Animation: New SceneTreeTween backported from Godot 4.0 ( GH-60581 ). Animation: Fix AnimatedSprite doesn't emit animation_finished when changing playback direction ( GH-61085 ). Android: Fix the logic to restart the Godot application ( GH-61332 ).

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Godot Showcase - Little Red Dog Games talk about their experience

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Importing 3D assets and animations can sometimes be a pain. We have also encountered difficult-to-trace crashes in our exports that are exceedingly difficult to debug because they are not captured in the release build. We've got a console partnership that we'll be excited to reveal soon that has gone very smoothly.

Engine

Engine Engineering Asset Games

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

Animation: Add option to paste animation as duplicate ( GH-60226 ). Animation: New SceneTreeTween backported from Godot 4.0 ( GH-60581 ). Animation: Fix AnimatedSprite doesn't emit animation_finished when changing playback direction ( GH-61085 ). Android: Fix the logic to restart the Godot application ( GH-61332 ).

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

Animation: Add option to paste animation as duplicate ( GH-60226 ). Animation: New SceneTreeTween backported from Godot 4.0 ( GH-60581 ). Animation: Fix AnimatedSprite doesn't emit animation_finished when changing playback direction ( GH-61085 ). Android: Fix the logic to restart the Godot application ( GH-61332 ).

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

Animation: Add option to paste animation as duplicate ( GH-60226 ). Animation: New SceneTreeTween backported from Godot 4.0 ( GH-60581 ). Animation: Fix AnimatedSprite doesn't emit animation_finished when changing playback direction ( GH-61085 ). Android: Fix the logic to restart the Godot application ( GH-61332 ).

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 17, 2022

Animation: Add option to paste animation as duplicate ( GH-60226 ). Animation: New SceneTreeTween backported from Godot 4.0 ( GH-60581 ). Animation: Fix AnimatedSprite doesn't emit animation_finished when changing playback direction ( GH-61085 ). Android: Fix the logic to restart the Godot application ( GH-61332 ).

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

Animation: Add option to paste animation as duplicate ( GH-60226 ). Animation: New SceneTreeTween backported from Godot 4.0 ( GH-60581 ). Animation: Fix AnimatedSprite doesn't emit animation_finished when changing playback direction ( GH-61085 ). Android: Fix the logic to restart the Godot application ( GH-61332 ).

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

In fighting games counting (comparing) frames on moves/animations is important, even for players. For other types of games, do developers or animators count or tweak to the frame? And when counting small amounts of time like that, how do most studios do it? Frames? Milliseconds?

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