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Game art vs game design: What is the difference?

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Video game artists specialize in a wide range of digital art forms, such as 2D modeling, animation, concept art and texturing. Character artist The character artist shapes the characters through the creation of visual elements like facial expressions, weapons, and clothing through the use of sculpture, rigging and editing.

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Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

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Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). now defaults to using it for lossless texture compression instead of PNGs, thanks to work from Morris Arroad ( mortarroad ). import folder to force a reimport of all lossless compressed textures using WebP. Search "rendering" in the changelog.

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

Improved Inspector sub-resource editing. such as support for baking environment lighting, lightmap texture atlassing, per-object resolution scaling, cubic filtering of lightmaps at runtime, and last but not least, automatic disabling of baked lights, which eases up the pain of mixing baked and non-baked objects and light in the same scene.

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GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Like in previous years, Godot is participating again in the Google Summer of Code program for its 2022 edition. Here are the 3 projects/students with links to the relevant sections in this post: Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker by Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ). Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker. UX updates.

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Tiles editor progress report #5

Mircosoft Game Dev

Tile atlas editing. The first mode allows editing the atlas properties and creating/removing base tiles, the second one allows selecting and editing tiles properties, and the last one is to paint properties over the tiles. Note that, when editing a TileMap, you can replace all cells by their corresponding mapped value.

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GSoC 2019 progress report #1 (part 1)

Mircosoft Game Dev

We also have adopted some UX tips from Unreal Engine 4 for the initialisation of a VCS in a new project, however since Unreal Engine uses an external editor for C++ code by default, we found ourselves looking at something similar to what we already have in Visual Studio/Visual Studio Code. In-graph editable nodes. 3) Symbol cache pool.

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Tiles editor progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

My goal here is to improve the UX of working with tiles, making it both easier to use and more powerful. When a TileMap node is selected, you can now switch between the TileMap view, to pick tiles and draw them on the TileMap, and the TileSet editor, to edit the tile properties (colisions, Z-index, etc.):

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