Jaunty Bear Games

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

There are many aspects to consider when building a game. This requires a lot of knowledge, skills and time to build and integrate all the components. Fortunately the Unity 3D platform has a great selection of packages and assets to accelerate the build of tools, models, shaders, sound effects, animations etc. Universal RP.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Porting: Enable raycast/embree module build for Web and Windows x86_32 ( GH-69169 ). Rendering: Use circular fade instead of linear fade for distance fade ( GH-50294 ). Rendering: Tweak shadow bias defaults for DirectionalLight3D and OmniLight3D ( GH-55757 ). Rendering: Allow black metallic materials to reflect IBL ( GH-69522 ).

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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 Jump to the Downloads section.

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Nvidia

MARCH 20, 2023

At GDC 2023, NVIDIA released new tools that make real-time path tracing more accessible to developers while accelerating the creation of ultra-realistic game. At GDC 2023 , NVIDIA released new tools that make real-time path tracing more accessible to developers while accelerating the creation of ultra-realistic game worlds.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! Follow Kenny Park on Twitter or Mastodon for development updates, and check his website to discover other games and applications. Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. They've been building upon Godot 4.0 Buildsystem: Allow building X11 without Vulkan ( GH-70677 ). Editor: Bring back the renderer options button on the main editor ( GH-70500 ).

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Nvidia

MARCH 1, 2023

It enables developers to create, export, and stream one model into multiple platforms simultaneously–and in multiple levels of detail–with the model topology generated automatically. Digital sculpting software, however, uses an extremely high-resolution polygon mesh (or a voxel grid). Video 1.

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CG Spectrum

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Not only does LOD support faster rendering, it does so in a way that doesn't negatively impact the visual quality of an asset. Level of detail (LOD) refers to the level of complexity in a 3D-generated model and is primarily used in real-time rendering for video games and interactive tools.

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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 Jump to the Downloads section.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

Flag dirty dependencies when GeometryInstance dependencies change in renderer ( GH-71581 ). The illustration picture for this article is from Halls of Torment , a roguelite action RPG with retro late-90s pre-rendered 2D graphics. It is developed by Chasing Carrots using Godot 4.0 NET 6 build (C#, GDScript, GDExtension).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! Follow Kenny Park on Twitter or Mastodon for development updates, and check his website to discover other games and applications. Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ).

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DameDev.tv

MARCH 7, 2023

In today's post, I'd like to show you how to retrieve an image provided by The Art Institute of Chicago via its public API , how to create a texture from this image, and how to feed this texture to a material and render it on a plane accompanied by a floating text with title, name of the artist and some other details.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

development branch (see our release policy for details on the various Godot versions). This beta 5 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. C#: macOS: Mono builds are now universal builds with support for both x86_64 and arm64 architectures ( GH-49248 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 16, 2022

Rendering: GLES2: Fix compression on blend shapes ( GH-58838 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix incorrect buffer upload size in draw_gui_primitive ( GH-58150 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader state caching when blend shapes used ( GH-58808 ) [regression fix].

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

development branch (see our release policy for details on the various Godot versions). With this first Release Candidate , we completely freezes feature development, and comes after a long series of beta builds to fix a number of bugs reported against previous builds (as well as against previous stable branches).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

development branch (see our release policy for details on the various Godot versions). This beta 6 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. C#: macOS: Mono builds are now universal builds with support for both x86_64 and arm64 architectures ( GH-49248 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

development branch (see our release policy for details on the various Godot versions). This beta 4 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. C#: macOS: Mono builds are now universal builds with support for both x86_64 and arm64 architectures ( GH-49248 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

development branch (see our release policy for details on the various Godot versions). With this third Release Candidate , we have frozen feature development and are nearly ready to release the stable version. GLES3 renderer). Core: Promote object validity checks to release builds ( GH-51796 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

development branch (see our release policy for details on the various Godot versions). With this second Release Candidate , we have frozen feature development and are nearly ready to release the stable version. GLES3 renderer). Core: Promote object validity checks to release builds ( GH-51796 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. They’ve been building upon Godot 4.0 Buildsystem: Allow building X11 without Vulkan ( GH-70677 ). Editor: Bring back the renderer options button on the main editor ( GH-70500 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

development branch (see our release policy for details on the various Godot versions). We had a beta 2 build ten days ago , and a number of issues have since been found and fixed, so it's time for Godot 3.4 C#: macOS: Mono builds are now universal builds with support for both x86_64 and arm64 architectures ( GH-49248 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

There's still more I want to add over coming days, but there's no reason to delay the publication of the beta 2 builds. macOS: Mono builds are now universal builds with support for both x86_64 and arm64 architectures. Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Highlights.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 4, 2021

stable: Android: Add GDNative libraries to Android custom Gradle builds ( GH-49912 ). Android: Disable resource optimizations for legacy release builds ( GH-50664 ). Import: glTF: Fix mesh nodes which are also bones ( GH-49119 ). Rendering: VisualServer now sorts based on AABB position ( GH-43506 ). Bug reports.

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Cocos

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

fixes many bugs that were found by the staff and developers when upgrading to 3.7. Cocos Creator 3.7.1 We appreciate your help and work to improve the engine. We also have added a new demo project that will share many of the new upgrades that have come with 3.7 and previous updates. You can download it from the Cocos Store.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 3, 2023

To accelerate the development of 3D worlds and the metaverse, NVIDIA has launched numerous AI research projects to help creators across industries unlock new. Lumirithmic generates 3D mesh for heads from facial scans. GET3D enables you to rapidly generate 3D animals and other shapes and meshes to populate a scene.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 16, 2021

RC 2 is that the Android builds now target API level 30 as required by Google Play , and have partial support for Android scoped storage. Android: Add GDNative libraries to Android custom Gradle builds ( GH-49912 ). Android: Disable resource optimizations for legacy release builds ( GH-50664 ). A notable change in 3.3.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. 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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. You can enable it in the Project Settings ( rendering/gles3/shaders/shader_compilation_mode ). The upcoming Godot 3.5 stable for all users.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. Notably, it fixes some rendering regressions with transparent materials, and crashing iOS templates and Web editor build in RC 2. Give it a try!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. so we'll need your help to test Android export templates in this build and confirm that they work as expected. The upcoming Godot 3.5 stable for all users.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Porting: Enable raycast/embree module build for Web and Windows x86_32 ( GH-69169 ). Rendering: Use circular fade instead of linear fade for distance fade ( GH-50294 ). Rendering: Tweak shadow bias defaults for DirectionalLight3D and OmniLight3D ( GH-55757 ). Rendering: Allow black metallic materials to reflect IBL ( GH-69522 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Android: Add GDNative libraries to Android custom Gradle builds ( GH-49912 ). Android: Disable resource optimizations for legacy release builds ( GH-50664 ). Import: glTF: Fix mesh nodes which are also bones ( GH-49119 ). Rendering: VisualServer now sorts based on AABB position ( GH-43506 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. This RC 7 has a few notable changes compared to the previous build: Fix accumulated input handling on iOS. The upcoming Godot 3.5 stable for all users.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The illustration picture for this article is a screenshot of Godot 4 Beginners , an Early Access interactive course for Godot 4, made with Godot 4, developed by Bramwell. Physics: Optimized support function for large meshes ( GH-64382 ). Rendering: Add OpenGL timer queries to OpenGL3 backend ( GH-67032 ). What's new.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 17, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. stable for all users.

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Nvidia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

To help developers get the most out of Unreal Engine 4 as they head into the new year, NVIDIA RTX UE4.26 To help developers get the most out of Unreal Engine 4 as they head into the new year, NVIDIA RTX UE4.26 Hybrid Translucency Another way to do ray traced translucency, with greater compatibility, speed and rendering options.

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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. Rendering: GLES2: Fix compression on blend shapes ( GH-58838 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ).

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