Nvidia

APRIL 5, 2022

Unreal Engine is an open and advanced real-time 3D creation platform. Evolving from its state-of-the-art use in game engines into a multitude of industries, Unreal Engine is an open and advanced real-time 3D creation platform. This metric is ideal for tweaking game, OS, and GPU settings.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Every supported renderer option is now selectable from the project creation screen, which means you can create OpenGL 3 (“Compatibility”) projects without using the command line ( GH-70028 ). The illustration picture for this article is from Raffaele Picca ’s car scene , rendered in Godot 4.0 What’s new.

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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]. Rendering: Fix skeleton 2D stale bounding rect ( GH-63071 ). please file an issue on GitHub.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The world of game development has seen a significant shift with the recent release of Unreal Engine 5, which promises to bring an unprecedented level of realism and interactivity to gaming experiences. With this new iteration, there are several key factors that distinguish Unreal Engine 5 from its predecessor, Unreal Engine 4.

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Nvidia

MAY 26, 2021

Today, Unreal Engine 5 (UE5) is available in Early Access, delivering the next-generation engine from Epic Games that will further propel the industry forward. In 2018, NVIDIA launched our RTX technology alongside a stunning Star Wars demo called Reflections , which was built on Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2021

Notably, Windows users could experience crashes when baking lightmaps. Games exported with a ZIP data package could also trigger a crash on exit. Additionally, this release includes a number of non-regression bug fixes to various areas of the engine. was thus subject to this crash when baking lightmaps.

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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]. Rendering: Fix skeleton 2D stale bounding rect ( GH-63071 ). please file an issue on GitHub.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). Rendering: Fix skeleton 2D stale bounding rect ( GH-63071 ). Rendering: Fix multiple ubershader bugs ( GH-64096 ). Rendering: Portals: Show RayCast debug helper ( GH-65686 ). Windows: Fix list dir handle leak ( GH-64461 ).

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

Executable and Project Files Available to Download For Game Developers and Digital Artists [link] Finding ways to improve. Executable and Project Files Available to Download For Game Developers and Digital Artists Finding ways to improve performance and visual fidelity in your games and applications is challenging.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Trying to hide loading in a game by forcing a player to shimmy. Trying to hide loading in a game by forcing a player to shimmy through narrow passages or take extremely slow elevators breaks immersion. The current Game Ready Driver (version 526.47) contains NVIDIA RTX IO technology, including optimizations for GDeflate.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 28, 2022

Navigation: Fix NavMesh baking on thread ( GH-59995 ). Rendering: More work on splitting up RendererStorage ( GH-59984 ). Rendering: More work on splitting up RendererStorage ( GH-59984 ). Rendering: Restore antialiasing for draw_line ( GH-60171 ). Networking: Allow branch-specific MultiplayerAPIs ( GH-57647 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

rendering may be slower for a second or two, but the slowdown will not be nearly as bad as the typical hiccup caused by classic synchronous compilation. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Full details are available in the updated docs.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

You can enable it in the Project Settings ( rendering/gles3/shaders/shader_compilation_mode ). rendering may be slower for a second or two, but the slowdown will not be nearly as bad as the typical hiccup caused by classic synchronous compilation. This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. Two years ago (!),

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

rendering may be slower for a second or two, but the slowdown will not be nearly as bad as the typical hiccup caused by classic synchronous compilation. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Full details are available in the updated docs.

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

SDK Updates For Game Developers and Digital Artists GTC is a great opportunity to get hands-on with NVIDIA’s latest graphics technologies. SDK Updates For Game Developers and Digital Artists GTC is a great opportunity to get hands-on with NVIDIA’s latest graphics technologies. RTXDI makes this possible while rendering in real time.

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Nvidia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Hybrid Translucency Another way to do ray traced translucency, with greater compatibility, speed and rendering options. NVIDIA DLSS Plugin for UE4 NVIDIA DLSS is a deep learning neural network that boosts frame rates and generates beautiful, sharp images for your games. Request access to the beta for NVIDIA DLSS plugin for UE4 here.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

rendering may be slower for a second or two, but the slowdown will not be nearly as bad as the typical hiccup caused by classic synchronous compilation. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Full details are available in the updated docs.

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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. This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter. Rendering: Add OccluderShapePolygon ( GH-57361 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). YSort: Make rendering order more deterministic ( GH-42375 ). zstd 1.4.5).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2022

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Rendering: Add material_overlay property to MeshInstance ( GH-50823 ). Rendering: Faster editor line drawing - Path2D and draw_line ( GH-54377 ). back in 2020! if something that worked fine in 3.4.x

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2020

I would like to thank hugely Matias Goldberg for his enormous help on this, our patrons for their continued support, and Tim Sweeney and Epic Games for their confidence in helping us finance our research via Epic Megagrant. Ensure your meshes are marked as "Static Bake", then enable SDFGI in the Environment settings.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

x branch to develop and publish their games today , so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience. As such, most of the focus was on implementing missing features or bugfixes which are critical for publishing 2D and 3D games with Godot 3, and on making the existing features more optimized and reliable.

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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. This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter. Rendering: Add OccluderShapePolygon ( GH-57361 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

Notably, it fixes some rendering regressions with transparent materials, and crashing iOS templates and Web editor build in RC 2. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. This ensures your game will run the same on all machines.

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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. This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter. Rendering: Add OccluderShapePolygon ( GH-57361 ).

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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. This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter. Rendering: Add OccluderShapePolygon ( GH-57361 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). YSort: Make rendering order more deterministic ( GH-42375 ). tinyexr 1.0.0, zstd 1.4.5).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). YSort: Make rendering order more deterministic ( GH-42375 ). tinyexr 1.0.0, zstd 1.4.5).

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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. This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter. Rendering: Add OccluderShapePolygon ( GH-57361 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2021

WebXR support for VR games. New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. If you experience a regression in either physics or rendering, you can try these Project Settings to revert back to the previous Octree-based approach and possibly fix the issue. Rendering: New dynamic BVH ( GH-44901 ). mbedtls 2.16.9,

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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. This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter. Read the updated docs for details.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2021

New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends, which should fix some issues and improve performance significantly in games using a high number of dynamic objects. In this beta, the dynamic BVH is the default option for both physics and rendering. WebXR support for VR games. MP3 loading and playback support.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

The fix seems relatively safe but this will require heavy testing to make sure it doesn't regress - if you have 3D games using Bullet physics, please try this RC 2 and report any issue. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

x branch to develop and publish their games today, so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience. Most of work was aimed at implementing missing features or fixing bugs which are critical for publishing 2D and 3D games with Godot 3.x, This ensures your game will run the same on all machines.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 11, 2020

see recent devblogs on GDScript typed instructions , Complex Text Layout , Tiles editor , documentation , and 2D rendering improvements !), Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). tinyexr 1.0.0, zstd 1.4.5).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

WebXR support for VR games. New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. If you experience a regression in either physics or rendering, you can try these Project Settings to revert back to the previous Octree-based approach and possibly fix the issue. Rendering: New dynamic BVH ( GH-44901 ). mbedtls 2.16.9,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 7, 2021

In particular, this build adds WebXR support for VR games! WebXR support for VR games (new in beta 5). Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). VR: Add WebXR support for VR games ( GH-42397 ).

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