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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

supports advanced global illumination techniques such as lightmapping (including SH lightmapping), Voxel GI (which is fully real-time) and SDFGI (which is a single click, open world GI solution). This is handled nowadays by a type of technology called “streaming”. Few other technologies work as well in this area.

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The Convergence of all Entertainment

Game Dev Unchained

“ It feels great to not have to sit around waiting for hours to bake lightmaps. You are now a valuable asset that can utilize the same toolset that you have obtained throughout your career and am able to jump to other mediums like movies, architecture, and advertisement seamlessly. Scott Knapp. The greatest value will always be, time.

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

Godot is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing the world with the best possible free and open source game technology. Web editor running the "Ninja Adventure" demo from the eponymous CC0 asset pack by Pixel-Boy and AAA. So you can expect Godot 3.3.1 in the coming weeks with a first batch of fixes.

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How to Use Unity Cinemachine Virtual Cameras

Game Designing

It’s the same as with any new technological development. They won the Technology and Engineering Emmy® award for excellence and engineering creativity. Importing assets is not just accurate, it is quick. As with any new software development or technology, there’s going to be a learning curve. A bit of a learning curve.

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Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

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. No lightmaps or anything of the sort are required, providing a very quick and efficient workflow. has changed how the assets pipeline work.

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