Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 13, 2022

The game is made in Godot Engine 3, with many custom-made technologies that enable a fully destructible environment, fluid simulation and dynamic lighting. The game releases into Early Access on April 13th, 2022 for Windows, Linux, Steam Deck, and in the near future macOS. Do you have prior experience with other game engines?

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Nvidia

JULY 10, 2023

If you are a DirectX 12 (DX12) game developer, you may have noticed that GPU times displayed in real time in your game HUD may change over time for a given. If you are a DirectX 12 (DX12) game developer, you may have noticed that GPU times displayed in real time in your game HUD may change over time for a given pass.

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iXie gaming

APRIL 24, 2023

Fast forward to today, and Roblox has pioneered the tools and economy around the user-generated content model, making it one of the most successful ongoing gaming platforms in the process. What are the benefits of developing games in Roblox and what are its drawbacks? But what makes Roblox such a success?

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iXie gaming

MAY 8, 2023

WebGL, or Web Graphics Library, is a powerful technology that allows developers to create high-performance 3D graphics and games that run directly in the browser without the need for plugins. With WebGL, developers can harness the power of the GPU to create immersive gaming experiences that can be accessed by a wide range of users.

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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

OCTOBER 5, 2016

About shaders. For most game developers, shaders are this scary monster that presents itself with such a complexity that it seems out of reach. In reality, shaders are quite simple by default and just get more complex the more you add to them. Shaders in Godot. Configuration parameters are sent via uniforms.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 11, 2021

Welcome to another developer interview following the introduction of the Godot Showcase page ! This week, we are interviewing Leonardo "Leocesar3D" Veloso about their game Human Diaspora. My name is Leonardo Veloso and I am a 3D artist working on TV broadcasting in Brazil, in my spare time I am a hobbyist game developer.

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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

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Vulkan rewrite has largely been enhancements to the 3D engine, the 2D side will also see several improvements. A very requested feature for the 2D engine is the possibility to have 2D directional lights and shadows. More work is also going towards the 2D engine. While the focus of Godot 4.0 Improved Performance. CanvasGroup.

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Nvidia

MAY 21, 2021

NetEase Thunder Fire Games Uses Mesh Shading To Create Beautiful Game Environments for Justice In December, we interviewed Haiyong Qian, NetEase Game Engine. Recently, NetEase introduced Mesh Shader support to Justice. Not only are the updated environments breathtaking, the game supports 1.8

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Nvidia

MARCH 24, 2022

This week at GDC, NVIDIA announced a number of new tools for game developers to help save time, more easily integrate NVIDIA RTX, and streamline the creation of. NVIDIA announces a number of new tools for game developers to help save time, more easily integrate NVIDIA RTX, and streamline the creation of virtual worlds.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: String and StringName are now mostly cross-compatible throughout the engine API, as well as in various GDScript-specific expressions and statements ( GH-68747 ). Core: Add feature tags to signify engine float precision ( GH-69538 ). Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

Those typically shouldn’t add instability to the engine, but may require doing some changes in your scripts, scenes, and shaders if you were using the affected APIs. It is developed by Chasing Carrots using Godot 4.0 Rendering: Properly append global uniform buffer name in gl_compatibility shaders ( GH-72138 ).

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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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The idea of using a game engine for projects other than creating video games is not new. For decades, game engines have been used to create applications, simulations and more. Comparing the visual output of graphics settings, shaders, or rendering techniques in an animated scene. Original pull request.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The idea of using a game engine for projects other than creating video games is not new. For decades, game engines have been used to create applications, simulations and more. Comparing the visual output of graphics settings, shaders, or rendering techniques in an animated scene. Original pull request.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 25, 2023

Shaders: Fix code generation for ProximityRange node in visual shader ( GH-71760 ). Note that you need to force recompiling your affected visual shaders by doing any change in their graph. Shaders: Clean up shader parameter remap ( GH-71797 ). Shaders: Fix shader include dependency handling ( GH-71878 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: String and StringName are now mostly cross-compatible throughout the engine API, as well as in various GDScript-specific expressions and statements ( GH-68747 ). Core: Add feature tags to signify engine float precision ( GH-69538 ). Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Every beta release so far has included a lot of fixes in one or more key areas, and the next major version of the engine starts to finally look complete. The illustration picture for this article is from an unnamed RPG by developer bitbrain (working title "cave"). The game started development with Godot 3.x,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

But we're not there yet and we'll keep having frequent alpha builds until we're ready to slap the beta label on the engine. Some noteworthy changes in this release: Shader preprocessor support and shader includes. Grouping annotations for shaders ( uniform_group ). and prepare the first beta release. So here we go with 4.0

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Cocos

JUNE 11, 2023

we have completed the transformation of the engine-builtin Custom Pipeline using RenderGraph. Render Graph The Render Pipeline customization based on Render Graph will be officially available to developers in version 3.8. It will support the implementation of engine builtin Custom Pipeline and the default Deferred Pipeline.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 18, 2021

Welcome to another developer interview following the introduction of the Godot Showcase page ! This week, we are interviewing John Watson about the game Gravity Ace. Hi, I'm John, I'm a (mostly) solo game developer making games that I want to play. My first game was for the One Game A Month challenge.

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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. 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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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 17, 2022

One of the problems with developing games with large game worlds is that objects start to jitter and teleport around as you move away from the world origin. we introduced the ability to compile the engine with double precision floats instead so that all these calculations happen with much higher precision. The Problem.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

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 ). Rendering: Tweak shadow bias defaults for DirectionalLight3D and OmniLight3D ( GH-55757 ). XR: WebXR is now fully working in Godot 4! ( GH-68870 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 14, 2014

In the meanwhile and in the absence of any publicity or mention in the developer press, the user community has silently grown a few orders of magnitude, via just word of mouth. A monthly roundup of development is planned after this release. Godot development is sponsored by Okam, so donations are not currently needed.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 2023

For shaders, we removed the now-redundant SCREEN_TEXTURE , DEPTH_TEXTURE , and NORMAL_ROUGHNESS_TEXTURE ( GH-70967 ). The illustration picture for this article is from Dauphin , a 2D RPG in development by Ben / devduck which was recently ported to Godot 4.0 Add next/reset function to AnimationStateMachine ( GH-71264 , GH-71418 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 20, 2022

There is a Vulkan-like web API called WebGPU in development, but it currently isn't widely supported yet, so WebGL remains the best option for targetting web games. Thus far, we've prioritized the 2D rendering engine to ensure that it is ready for the release of 4.0. However, we are now confident that we will be shipping 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 20, 2022

There is a Vulkan-like web API called WebGPU in development, but it currently isn’t widely supported yet, so WebGL remains the best option for targetting web games. Thus far, we’ve prioritized the 2D rendering engine to ensure that it is ready for the release of 4.0. However, we are now confident that we will be shipping 4.0

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Cocos

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Dear developers, kylin is here. Today, I would like to introduce a developer and the project “Cocosmos” created by him to you. I hope this can showcase the potential of using Cocos Creator for developing non-game 3D projects. I have extensive experience using the Cocos engine for many years as well.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Every beta release so far has included a lot of fixes in one or more key areas, and the next major version of the engine starts to finally look complete. The illustration picture for this article is from an unnamed RPG by developer bitbrain (working title “cave”). The game started development with Godot 3.x, specifically.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2023

This is especially useful for the developers targeting the Steam Deck, as you can configure it to have one-click deploy to your device. Several breaking changes were made to the C# API to bring it closer to the engine core and make it more consistent overall ( GH-71445 , GH-71458 , GH-71423 , GH-71431 , GH-71424 , GH-71456 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 22, 2022

we decided to accept that the approach we took from the start was simply not the right one and decided to remove it from the engine. To be clear, this refers to the VisualScript scripting language, and not to visual shaders. Visual shaders are working well and appreciated by many users, so they're not going anywhere.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 11, 2022

Add often used built-ins to spatial shaders ( NODE_POSITION_WORLD , CAMERA_POSITION_WORLD , CAMERA_DIRECTION_WORLD , NODE_POSITION_VIEW ) ( GH-63597 ). Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. Same deal as usual, lots of bugs fixed and more refactoring and feature work. Known issues.

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Cocos

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Many friends associate post-effects with AAA 3D games, but in reality, their application is also extensive in 2D game development. Properly utilizing post-effects can significantly enhance the visual quality of a 2D game by several levels. I’ve traversed various game engines, and currently, my primary choice is Cocos.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 17, 2022

One of the problems with developing games with large game worlds is that objects start to jitter and teleport around as you move away from the world origin. we introduced the ability to compile the engine with double precision floats instead so that all these calculations happen with much higher precision. The Problem.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Rendering: GLES2: Fix trunc shader function compilation on Android ( GH-56061 ). Godot is a non-profit, open source game engine developed by hundreds of contributors on their free time, and a handful of part or full-time developers, hired thanks to donations from the Godot community. please file an issue on GitHub.

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