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NVIDIA RTX, Unreal Engine 5 Define Future of Game Development and Content Creation

Nvidia

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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Cocos Creator 3.8 Community Beta is now available

Cocos

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. There are already many well-known Cocos games published on the platform on their own.

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Godot 4.0 will get a new, modernized lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

Lightmaps offer significant advantages over any other technique when the following requirements are met: Performance above anything else (for mobile, lightmaps are still a must-have). If these requirements are met, then lightmapping is probably the best for you. Lighting will not change (lights won't move). Easy to use.

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

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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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 10

Mircosoft Game Dev

Another couple of weeks, another alpha snapshot from the development branch, this time with 4.0 3D: Add support for saving lightmap as multiple images ( GH-61861 ). As we are still in the alpha phase of development, there are still many issues to fix, some of which have already been reported and are being worked on. milestone.

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Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination

Mircosoft Game Dev

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. SDFGI is something akin to a dynamic real-time lightmap (but it does not requiere unwrapping, nor does it use textures).

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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

The features offered are also a lot more reminiscent of AAA games, such as far more material options and advanced visual effects (including circle DOF , volumetric fog, AMD FSR, etc.). The traditional way to make games longer since the beginning of times is to divide them in stages. that don’t come bundled with the engine.

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