Astral Clock Tower Studios

MARCH 20, 2021

Welcome back to ACS headquarters for another rousing installment of the Kristala game dev blog. We can't say too much just yet, but you're definitely gonna wanna tune into next month's dev blog to see how ACS kicks development into high gear. Stay tuned to next month's dev blog issue for a look at the finished piece!

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Game Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

So many games have that question baked into their core. And many of the regular tricks that devs use to save on rendering costs are lost when building VR games. “It Make the gameplay satisfying Helping a player experience their fantasy is only half of the work. You have to make the game satisfying to keep them hooked.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. MeshInstance: Add option for software skinning ( GH-40313 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. See the full changelog on GitHub ( part 1 , part 2 ).

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Beta Dev Bug Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 2022

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). back in 2020! For now, you can check the full changelog since 3.4-stable

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Welcome back to the newest issue of the Kristala Dev Blog, a monthly compilation chronicling all the magic and mystery the Astral Clocktower Studios dev team puts into indie ARPG Kristala every development sprint. Stay tuned for updates in future Kristala dev blog issues. We can't wait to see what else he has in store.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 7, 2021

This new beta 5 comes with 4 weeks' worth of bugfixes and enhancements over the previous dev snapshots, as well as some nice new features. Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users.

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Beta Dev Bug Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 11, 2020

This new beta 4 adds a new round of bugfixes and enhancements over the previous dev snapshots, as well as some nice new features. Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users.

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Beta Dev Render Bug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. MeshInstance: Add option for software skinning ( GH-40313 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D.

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Beta Dev Bug Render 52

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. The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). back in 2020! For now, you can check the full changelog since 3.4-stable

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Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. MeshInstance: Add option for software skinning ( GH-40313 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D.

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Beta Dev Bug Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2022

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). back in 2020! For now, you can check the full changelog since 3.4-stable

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Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

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. The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). back in 2020! For now, you can check the full changelog since 3.4-stable

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Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

Brand Game Development

MAY 22, 2017

I am thrilled that many of you enjoyed Setting Up Social Media as a Board Game Dev: A Primer Course. There’s lots of blog articles about building a Twitter following, but I think they’re largely half-baked. Making connections is so important that I spent weeks getting ready to launch a game dev Discord group.

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Dev Games Advertising Point and Click 130

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2021

Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. Physics: Fix multiple issues with one-way collisions ( GH-42574 ). Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ).

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Beta Dev Collision Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 21, 2017

And that's just as well, since a lot of work continues to be done every day to fix issues in the master branch and improve usability, and Juan even took the time to sneak in a couple past-deadline but very requested features, like a lightmapper for static light baking (to provide an alternative to the real-time but resource-heavy GIProbe).

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Beta Dev Bug Demo 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 8, 2020

Most scenes bake in seconds instead of minutes or hours. branch uses state of the art algorithms to ensure the maximum possible quality: Bakes geometry to lightmap coordinates using the actual rendering code, so any existing shader or material works. Allows baking dynamic and static lights. Features of the new Godot 4.0

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Radiator Blog

APRIL 11, 2024

Botany Manor is a 3 hour first person puzzle game about growing plants while exploring a big beautiful fancy house that smells like British Bake-Off. I'm disappointed, but I understand why the devs made these choices. Many would also compare this to The Witness' soft visual style and sprawling sunny gardens. How do we filter the clues?

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Puzzle Games Mechanics Baking 69

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 1, 2021

Here you can see some screenshots: Comparison between no indirect lighting (top), and baked indirect lighting (bottom) in the TPS demo. Cornell box test using baked indirect lighting. My latest big contribution to the engine is the new CPU lightmapper, which will be landing with the 3.2.4 Scene by NHodgesVFX. finish line.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 30, 2017

It’s baked into our culture, especially the United States, how important hard work and persistence are. The post Be Brave appeared first on Brandon the Game Dev. As you’d expect, the Internet has capitalized on this fear, and is rife with blogs and thinkpieces ceaselessly extolling the virtues of persistence and hard work.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The solution to these problems is to add support for a more traditional lightmapper (pre-baked light texture). Lightmapper looks pretty nice: Of course, GIProbe still has the advantages of being real-time, easier to set up (no unwrap or bake), supports rough refletions (which look great), and light affects dynamic objects more accurately.

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Lightmap Baking Mesh Texture 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Runtime navigation mesh baking. Now the NavigationRegion can be added during gameplay, and it's possible to change its transform or even bake the navigation mesh data at runtime. Remember to hit the button Bake NavMesh to bake the navigation data, as you used to do in 3.x! Runtime baking. Multi-threading safety.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2021

Notably, Windows users could experience crashes when baking lightmaps. was thus subject to this crash when baking lightmaps. was released a month ago , and we had a first maintenance release last week with Godot 3.3.1. A few regressions made their way among the many bug fixes of 3.3.1, so here's another maintenance release to fix them.

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Lightmap Baking Bug Data 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). Navigation: Fix TileMaps placing baked NavigationPolygons with wrong offset without a Navigation2D node ( GH-66262 ) [regression fix]. Navigation: Fix NavigationObstacle nodes not registering to default navigation map ( GH-64372 ).

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Baking Render Collision Bug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Baked SDF Collision. It bakes an area of a custom resolution as a signed distance field. They are dynamic and can be moved around in real-time, colliding with any particle system which matches the cull mask. Still, for complex interiors, creating all the collisions with boxes and spheres can be a hassle.

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Collision Shaders Terrain Baking 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). Navigation: Fix wrong method called when setting NavigationRegion travel_cost ( GH-64068 ).

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Render Bug Collision Animation 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). Navigation: Fix TileMaps placing baked NavigationPolygons with wrong offset without a Navigation2D node ( GH-66262 ) [regression fix]. Navigation: Fix NavigationObstacle nodes not registering to default navigation map ( GH-64372 ).

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Baking Render Collision Bug 40

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 26, 2016

It won't just happen that hundreds of lines of class descriptions are written by the core devs; their time is much better spent developing the great features we are all so fond of waiting for. light baking, networking, plugins, pathfinding, etc.). waiting for Godot!

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Game Dev Unchained

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

“ It feels great to not have to sit around waiting for hours to bake lightmaps. Now we can get instant feedback and the art director can iterate faster than ever before.” Scott Knapp. A game developer in the last 5 years can be best described as a unrestricted nomad.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 1, 2014

A long time in the baking, but the first release candidate is here. Edit: Release Candidate 2 is now up. This does not mean Godot is now without bugs, but that nothing should be too serious to affect your productivity. After stable release, we’ll keep fixing issues and then head over to 1.1 (see see roadmap !).

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Baking Editing Bug Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

It was reusing parts of the code for baking GIProbes, and that made it quick but not great in terms of quality. Also, the new lightmapper brings support for denoising using Open Image Denoise , which results in better-looking lightmaps in the same bake time range. New CPU lightmapper. The lightmapper in the previous 3.x

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

Welcome back to another magically entrancing issue of the Kristala dev blog. Stay tuned to the Kristala dev blog—and to all our socials—to learn how you can get exclusive, behind-the-scenes access into Harold's entire, step-by-step process. Hello, faithful feline-lovin' friends and fantasy aficionados! Convenient, right?

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Dev Concepts Demo Texture 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2020

Ensure your meshes are marked as "Static Bake", then enable SDFGI in the Environment settings. SDFGI is mostly leak free, unlike VCT techniques which are the most common in use today (like SVOGI/GIProbe/etc). As long as walls are thicker than a voxel for a given cascade, light won't go through. How do you use it?

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Lightmap Texture Baking Mesh 54

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. Rendering: CPU lightmapper: Account for ambient light settings when baking lights ( GH-62260 ). The whole API is now a lot more flexible than it used to be. You can check the full changelog since 3.4-stable

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Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

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. Rendering: CPU lightmapper: Account for ambient light settings when baking lights ( GH-62260 ). The whole API is now a lot more flexible than it used to be. You can check the full changelog since 3.4-stable

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Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

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. Rendering: CPU lightmapper: Account for ambient light settings when baking lights ( GH-62260 ). The whole API is now a lot more flexible than it used to be. You can check the full changelog since 3.4-stable

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Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

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. Rendering: CPU lightmapper: Account for ambient light settings when baking lights ( GH-62260 ). The whole API is now a lot more flexible than it used to be. You can check the full changelog since 3.4-stable

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Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2021

Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. Physics: Fix multiple issues with one-way collisions ( GH-42574 ). Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ).

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