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

Nvidia

MAY 26, 2021

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. Enabling this vision were RTX GPUs with dedicated cores for ray tracing and AI, as well as new hardware capabilities for increased geometric detail and texture streaming.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Engine Engineering Content

Godot 4.0 will get a new, modernized lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 8, 2020

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.

Lightmap

Lightmap Baking Render Shaders

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2021

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.

Lightmap

Lightmap Baking Bug Data

Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2020

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).

Lightmap

Lightmap Texture Baking Mesh

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

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 most common types of streaming are: Texture streaming : All textures are loaded in a tiny size by default. Additionally, Godot 4.0

AAA

AAA Game Developer Game Development Development

Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

All Godot contributors are delighted to release our latest milestone today, Godot 3.3 , after more than 7 months of development! While most development focus is on our upcoming Godot 4.0 x branch to develop and publish their games today , so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience.

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The game is developed by Vedg Studio / NoirosL and was recently ported to Godot 4.0 Rendering: Add optional UV2 logic for lightmapping to primitive shapes ( GH-67975 ). Rendering: Add texture reading code to OpenGL3 renderer for web and mobile ( GH-68138 ). Wishlist it on Steam! What's new. Requires.NET SDK 6.0

Beta

Beta Dev Render Alpha

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The game is developed by Vedg Studio / NoirosL and was recently ported to Godot 4.0 Rendering: Add optional UV2 logic for lightmapping to primitive shapes ( GH-67975 ). Rendering: Add texture reading code to OpenGL3 renderer for web and mobile ( GH-68138 ). Wishlist it on Steam! What’s new. Requires.NET SDK 6.0

Beta

Beta Dev Render Alpha

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

development branch (see our release policy for details on the various Godot versions). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

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). The upcoming Godot 3.4

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

After more than 18 months of development, all Godot Engine contributors are proud to present our biggest release so far, Godot 3.0! It brings a brand new rendering engine with state-of-the-art PBR workflow for 3D, an improved assets pipeline, GDNative to load native code as plugins, C# 7.0 It's also very easy to use.

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

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. Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

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. Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

After a bit more than one year of work, the Godot developers and contributors are delighted to get their new release out the door, Godot 3.1 ! was a massive release, which required large rewrites of the engine codebase and breaking backwards compatibility significantly. Use baked lightmaps instead. Documentation.

Feature

Feature Render Editing Shaders

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

with 17 alpha builds distributed in 2022, and continuous development effort since 2019. the sooner we can start the next feature development cycle for 4.1! with a new project to test out exciting new features and provide valuable feedback to the development team before 4.0 It has been a long road to Godot 4.0 is set in stone.

Beta

Beta Engine Engineering Animation

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Godot 4.0 will get a new, modernized lightmapper

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