Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 25, 2023

Add AudioStreamPolyphonic to simplify sound playback from code ( GH-71855 , GH-71906 ). Audio: Add AudioStreamPolyphonic to simplify sound playback from code ( GH-71855 , GH-71906 ). renderer support ( GH-71848 ). Rendering: Fix Vulkan validation errors related to enabling extensions ( GH-70429 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: A ton of fixes for all rendering backends, and missing features implemented for the OpenGL3 one. Editor: Disable code font ligatures by default in the editor ( GH-68571 ). GUI: Add a Font import option to pre-render all glyphs required for the translation ( GH-68448 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 3, 2016

It's been a month since the first progress report , and progress continues towards the new Godot renderer. Little by little every system falls into place, and rendering starts feeling a lot more mature. Add Layered/Stencil rendering. One of the main features of PBR rendering is having all sort of sources for reflections.

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Real Programming

MAY 11, 2023

Real Programming 4 Kids would like to profile one of our most advanced teachers, so parents can get a better understanding of what their kids can learn after getting some coding classes under their belts. Our online coding program is for the youth, and extracurricular activities for teens and kids need to be fun first and foremost.

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Nvidia

JULY 13, 2022

Attendees can get tips on incorporating real-time rendering across their projects from the editors of Ray Tracing Gems II : Adam Marrs is a principal engineer in the Game Engines and Core Technology group at NVIDIA. in computer science and has shipped graphics code in various AAA games and commercial game engines.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Mobile gaming has become popular in recent times thanks to the growing number of mobile device users. Several mobile game engines are used to create mobile games. However, Unity has stood out as one of the most preferred and trusted mobile game engines. And that’s where Unity wins.

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Cocos

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Today, we have invited wing , an experienced Cocos game developer in our Cocos community to share some technical key points related to 2D post-effect frameworks. Post-processing effects, are used for further processing of rendered results to achieve various advanced and special effects. What are Post-processing Effects?

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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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Logic Simplified

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Architectural visualization has existed since the time of ancient civilizations and has now been revolutionized with the Unreal Engine and its cutting-edge functions and features. Unreal engine is a gaming engine that is powerful, reliable, and high on performance for architectural designs.

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 24, 2023

There was augmented and virtual reality making breakthrough advances and with the Unreal Engine coming into the picture, the level of headway has been phenomenal for the development of the video game sector. Access to Custom and Full Source Code With Unreal engine, you can build a custom-made engine that bests suit your requirements.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

If you’ve ever wondered what the best game engine is, we invite you to figure it out with us. Let’s discover their pros and cons so it will be easier to decide which engine suits your project better. Unity versus Unreal – this seems to be an ever-lasting battle in the game development world. Unity or Unreal?

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Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

We’re talking free game development software , mind-blowing technology, and trends hotter than a dragon’s breath. Think AI that helps you build landscapes, real-time 3D sculpting like magic, and coding made accessible even for total newbies. So, are you ready to unleash your inner game developer? Let’s jump in!

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Using less code to do more tasks is one of HTML5’s prominent features. You can use this engine to build a variety of games, even complicated ones. Additionally, access to an interesting library and the associated code is made available to developers. Engine Chris Colbert’s Kiwi.js leverages Cocoon.JS.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! iOS: Check Xcode output and display errors if code signing, project build or.ipa export failed ( GH-71212 ). Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ).

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iXie gaming

JULY 23, 2023

User-Friendly and Easy-to-Use Interface Unity’s user-friendliness and simplicity in terms of the interface help users in addition to requiring only a fundamental grasp of coding. This enhances Unity’s reputation as a fantastic game engine.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 2023

Rendering: Remove SCREEN_TEXTURE , DEPTH_TEXTURE , and NORMAL_ROUGHNESS_TEXTURE ( GH-70967 ). See the PR for details on the rationale and how to adapt your code. Note that there’s a helpful error in the shader editor telling you how to port code, but there’s a typo: filter_linear_mipmaps should be filter_linear_mipmap (no ‘s’).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: A lot of bug fixes and improvements in these areas particularly, check out the PRs listed below: Animation, Navigation, GDScript, Rendering. However, many of you still used these properties in code, preferring degrees to radians. GH-59810 ).

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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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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

Unreal Engine has fast grown to be the most trusted engine in the world. UE5’s features and functionality have further expanded to include experimental new features for rendering, animation and simulation. The potential for building epic games on Unreal by game app developers and creators across industries has increased.

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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. Rendering: Flag dirty dependencies when GeometryInstance dependencies change in renderer ( GH-71581 ).

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Nvidia

JULY 10, 2023

To know when all background driver optimizations have completed so you can take GPU performance measurements in your in-game profiler, use the following code on Present. Continue to render frames until wantMoreFrames is returned as false.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Godot is a not-for-profit free and open source game engine which aims at empowering all users in their 2D and 3D game development projects. This includes cross-platform OpenXR support, an extended input action system for VR, Vulkan rendering and optimizations on mobile, and more! Implement Vulkan rendering on Android.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Editor: Bring back the renderer options button on the main editor ( GH-70500 ). Editor: Remove compatibility code for MeshInstance3D surface override material ( GH-70466 ). Rendering: Add options for sorting transparent objects ( GH-69998 ). Rendering: Cleanup and improve sky render ( GH-70253 ).

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Nvidia

MAY 17, 2023

The main design philosophy of D3D12 and Vulkan is to enable game engines to distribute graphics workloads across multiple CPU cores. Recommended Use a dedicated thread for resource creation to avoid hidden OS costs and blocking frame rendering, as this can result in costly OS paging work.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ) reworked the features and user experience of Godot’s ColorPicker during Google Summer of Code 2022. Lots of rendering changes. Our rendering contributors keep working on finalizing the implementation of all expected features for Godot 4.0, OpenGL3: Add 2D lights to canvas renderer ( GH-67335 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ) reworked the features and user experience of Godot's ColorPicker during Google Summer of Code 2022. Lots of rendering changes. Our rendering contributors keep working on finalizing the implementation of all expected features for Godot 4.0, OpenGL3: Add 2D lights to canvas renderer ( GH-67335 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! iOS: Check Xcode output and display errors if code signing, project build or.ipa export failed ( GH-71212 ). Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: A lot of bug fixes and improvements in these areas particularly, check out the PRs listed below: Animation, Navigation, GDScript, Rendering. However, many of you still used these properties in code, preferring degrees to radians. GH-59810 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 31, 2022

It’s even more so if you are not familiar with graphics and game engine-related tools and technologies. A game engine to generate the environment, and power the experience (tracking, input handling, collision, physics, lighting, ambisonic audio, …). This used to be my experience. x ) made that an easy choice.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: A ton of fixes for all rendering backends, and missing features implemented for the OpenGL3 one. Editor: Disable code font ligatures by default in the editor ( GH-68571 ). GUI: Add a Font import option to pre-render all glyphs required for the translation ( GH-68448 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Some noteworthy changes in this release: Re-enable support for Web exports using the OpenGL 3 / WebGL 2 renderer. Implement physical light units in Vulkan renderers. For users of previous alphas, we don't always have compatibility code to ease transition. Improve naming of theme properties throughout GUI code ( GH-65437 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 2, 2017

alpha1, users need more content to test with the new 3D engine. Sites like Sketchfab provide plenty of PBR-ready assets for downloading, and plugins that export scenes from other popular game engines to this format. The surprise, though, is how good this format is for video game asset exchange. Khronos, with glTF 2.0,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Editor: Bring back the renderer options button on the main editor ( GH-70500 ). Editor: Remove compatibility code for MeshInstance3D surface override material ( GH-70466 ). Rendering: Add options for sorting transparent objects ( GH-69998 ). Rendering: Cleanup and improve sky render ( GH-70253 ).

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Moonmana

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The engine itself consistently introduced new features that were either poorly executed, such as Multiplayer, which died in its infancy, or underwent multiple reiterations, like Rendering, user interface, or input systems. Competing with its main rival, Unreal Engine, proved challenging.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Rendering: Ensure sibling SubViewports are renderer from top to bottom ( GH-65579 ). Rendering: Properly scale SSR reflection based on metallic value for dielectric materials ( GH-65594 ). Rendering: Fix MSAA initialization in clustered forward renderer ( GH-65676 ). Physics: Implement Area[2D/3D].has_overlapping_[bodies/areas]

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Nvidia

MARCH 20, 2023

NVIDIA at GDC 2023: Frame Generation and Path Tracing Tools Now Available Generate frames with the latest breakthrough in AI rendering Announced with the NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture, DLSS 3 raised the bar not just for visuals but also performance and responsiveness. Frame generation is the latest evolution.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Multiplayer: Move packet relay and peer signaling code to SceneMultiplayer ( GH-67094 ). Rendering: Add OpenGL timer queries to OpenGL3 backend ( GH-67032 ). Rendering: Improve behaviour of clip_children by clipping to parent alpha value but still retaining parent color ( GH-67043 ).

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