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. OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). when dealing with PackedArrays) which many beta 11 users experienced ( GH-71228 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: Animated sprites, both 2D and 3D, now support options for more precise timing of individual frames ( GH-65609 ). More engine enums are now bound with BitField, making their usage more type-safe, especially in C# ( GH-71037 , GH-71045 , GH-71116 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

Animation: Complete implementation of Animation Retargeting ! Animation: Complete implementation of Animation Retargeting ! Animation: Make cubic_interpolate() consider key time in animation ( GH-63602 ). Animation: Improve animation track optimizer ( GH-64132 ). for instructions.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

With this new iteration, there are several key factors that distinguish Unreal Engine 5 from its predecessor, Unreal Engine 4. These factors include improvements in graphics, lighting, physics, animation, and scalability. What is the Unreal Engine? Below are some of the distinct factors between Unreal Engine 5 and 4: 1.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 4, 2021

glTF is a growing 3D format and has received massive adoption in the game industry. Commonly selected as the format for new software and game engines, glTF can also have new functionality added using extensions. We want Godot to be accessible to programmers, animators, and character artists. Godot Engine team - [link].

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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. OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). when dealing with PackedArrays) which many beta 11 users experienced ( GH-71228 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 4, 2021

Animation: Fixed issue where bones become detached if multiple SkeletonIK nodes are used ( GH-49031 ). Import: glTF: Fix mesh nodes which are also bones ( GH-49119 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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Nvidia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

World position offset simulation for ray traced instanced static meshes (beta) Allows ambient motion of foliage like trees and grass. Uses approximate technique of shared animations to reduce overhead for simulating a full forest. Inexact Shadows (beta) Deals with potential mesh mismatches of ray traced and raster geometry.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 16, 2022

stable: Animation: Fix cubic interpolate when looping ( GH-58651 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix broken normals in meshes with blend shapes ( GH-59159 ) [regression fix]. Jump to the Downloads section. As usual, you can try it live with the online version of the Godot editor updated for this release. Here are the main changes since 3.4.3-stable:

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Animation: Fixed issue where bones become detached if multiple SkeletonIK nodes are used ( GH-49031 ). Import: glTF: Fix mesh nodes which are also bones ( GH-49119 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Add track validator to AnimationPlayerEditor to detect tracks which have error ( GH-68770 ). Animation: Refactor process of animation to retrive keys more exactly ( GH-69336 ). See the list of PRs with the breaks compat label for details.

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CG Spectrum

DECEMBER 15, 2022

I currently work at a game company called Directive Games as a technical artist where I first learned the general workflow of creating games and how to use a game engine. Hanny's adaptation of the Paris, Texas scene in Unreal Engine. I am originally from China and recently moved to Iceland.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 16, 2021

Animation: Fixed issue where bones become detached if multiple SkeletonIK nodes are used ( GH-49031 ). Import: glTF: Fix mesh nodes which are also bones ( GH-49119 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 23, 2022

Animation: Fix cubic interpolate when looping ( GH-58651 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix broken normals in meshes with blend shapes ( GH-59159 ) [regression fix]. See the curated changelog , or the full commit history on GitHub on in text form for an exhaustive overview of the fixes in this release. We encourage all users to upgrade to 3.4.4.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. And for more advanced use cases, there is now also TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add Word Art to your scenes ;). and backported to 3.5. This was merged fairly late (3.5

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 12, 2020

In this introductory tutorial series, we’ll teach beginners how to use the basic controls within Gogot’s game engine. Godot is a free and open source game development software that game devs can use to make beautiful 2D and 3D games. . A Crash Course Into The Basics of Godot’s Game Engine.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. And for more advanced use cases, there is now also TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add Word Art to your scenes ;). and backported to 3.5. This was merged fairly late (3.5

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. And for more advanced use cases, there is now also TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add Word Art to your scenes ;). and backported to 3.5. This was merged fairly late (3.5

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. And for more advanced use cases, there is now also TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add Word Art to your scenes ;). and backported to 3.5. This was merged fairly late (3.5

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 17, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. And for more advanced use cases, there is now also TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add Word Art to your scenes ;). and backported to 3.5. This was merged fairly late (3.5

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In this multimedia era, games are such an intertwined part of people’s lives that they want them to be realistic and charismatic. Unity is one of the most popular cross-platform tools that help deploy games on multiple platforms like Windows, Mac, Android, and others. This makes it easier to identify and animate objects in Unity.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. And for more advanced use cases, there is now also TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add Word Art to your scenes ;). and backported to 3.5. This was merged fairly late (3.5

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. And for more advanced use cases, there is now also TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add Word Art to your scenes ;). and backported to 3.5. This was merged fairly late (3.5

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 2, 2022

Animation: Fix looping issue in AnimationNodeStateMachinePlayback with "At End" switch mode ( GH-60247 ). Editor: Fix GridMap cursor showing the wrong mesh ( GH-58624 ). When upgrading to 3.4.5 for projects using Android custom builds, you have to manually set the "Target Sdk" option to 31 in your export preset.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 19, 2022

Animation: Fix looping issue in AnimationNodeStateMachinePlayback with "At End" switch mode ( GH-60247 ). Editor: Fix GridMap cursor showing the wrong mesh ( GH-58624 ). When upgrading to 3.4.5 for projects using Android custom builds, you have to manually set the "Target Sdk" option to 31 in your export preset.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2022

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Animation: Add option to paste animation as duplicate ( GH-60226 ). Animation: New SceneTreeTween backported from Godot 4.0 ( GH-60581 ). back in 2020! Rendering: Add OccluderShapePolygon ( GH-57361 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Animation: Add option to paste animation as duplicate ( GH-60226 ). Rendering: Bind mesh merging functionality in MeshInstance ( GH-57661 ). back in 2020! Rendering: Add OccluderShapePolygon ( GH-57361 ).

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

Unity has announced that DLSS will be natively supported in Unity Engine version 2021.2 Reflex Reflex SDK allows developers to implement a low latency mode that aligns game engine work to complete just-in-time for rendering, eliminating GPU render queue and reducing CPU back pressure. later this year. Learn more here.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Animation: Expose AnimationNodeOneShot::mix_mode as a property ( GH-37945 ). version after its release, which may affect your project: Rendering issues for both GLES2 and GLES3 with 3D meshes using blend shapes and octahedral compression ( GH-58789 ). Here are some of the main changes since 3.4.2-stable: Known incompatibilities.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2022

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Animation: Add option to paste animation as duplicate ( GH-60226 ). Rendering: Bind mesh merging functionality in MeshInstance ( GH-57661 ). back in 2020! Rendering: Add OccluderShapePolygon ( GH-57361 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 3, 2021

Finger tracking itself is fully supported both through updating orientation of meshes, for which a sample scene is included in the plugin, and through animating a skeleton and bone deformation. Windows Mixed Reality headsets are currently only supported through SteamVR as WMR natively only supports DirectX game engines.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2021

has now been completed, resulting in much improved usability when dealing animation data. Animation data. While there are upcoming improvements on the general animation system, one key aspect that required a strong redesign and subsequent rework in Godot is the way that animation data is stored.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

Several other areas got improvements, like the editor (which has been vastly reworked), UI system, multiplayer, navigation, audio, animation, etc. Mesh streaming : Models are loaded as low detail (few vertices). Animation streaming : Modern games have long cinematics, which require a lot of animation data.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 9, 2016

More resource types are supported and thumbnailing of internal scene resources is also supported, allowing previews of materials, meshes, etc. To do this, we added multiple animation support to it, and the ability of simple auto-playing of animations at a given speed without the need of using an AnimationPlayer. Our goal with 3.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ).

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