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Implementing USD for Game Development Pipelines: An Interview with Polyphony Digital

Nvidia

Unlike previous formats, USD compositions can be used to edit data in a non-destructive manner. Even data containing unique specifications for games can be transferred back and forth between various tools without losing data. It’s necessary to develop your own software according to the game’s specifications.

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Advanced API Performance: CPUs

Nvidia

The main design philosophy of D3D12 and Vulkan is to enable game engines to distribute graphics workloads across multiple CPU cores. Resource allocation and destruction Creating and destroying buffers, textures, and shaders is fundamental to efficient computer graphics. Evenly balance work across all threads for best results.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 8

Mircosoft Game Dev

Import: Fix swapped color channels in ETC1/ETC2 textures, etcpak expects BGRA data ( GH-69448 ). Rendering: Implement CAMERA_VISIBLE_LAYERS as built-in shader variable ( GH-67387 ). Visual Shader: Make custom visual shader nodes automatically updates from script ( GH-69738 ). Linux: Load X11 dynamically ( GH-69449 ).

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Accelerating Load Times for DirectX Games and Apps with GDeflate for DirectStorage

Nvidia

The current Game Ready Driver (version 526.47) contains NVIDIA RTX IO technology, including optimizations for GDeflate. We want to encourage the quick embrace of GDeflate as a data-parallel compression standard, facilitating its adoption across the PC ecosystem and on other platforms. a modern I/O streaming API from Microsoft.

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Godot Showcase - Lumencraft developer talks about his experience

Mircosoft Game Dev

Do you have prior experience with other game engines? I have years of random experience in development with my first games made way back for Commodore 64. I used the most known game engines there were, and some of my obscure games were made in Pascal, and even Matlab. and Global Game Jam.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 8

Mircosoft Game Dev

Import: Fix swapped color channels in ETC1/ETC2 textures, etcpak expects BGRA data ( GH-69448 ). Rendering: Implement CAMERA_VISIBLE_LAYERS as built-in shader variable ( GH-67387 ). Visual Shader: Make custom visual shader nodes automatically updates from script ( GH-69738 ). Linux: Load X11 dynamically ( GH-69449 ).

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ). OS: Expose OS data directory getter methods ( GH-49732 ). Thirdparty library updates: embree 3.13.0,

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