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 ). The illustration picture for this article is from Raffaele Picca 's car scene , rendered in Godot 4.0

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Logic Simplified

MAY 7, 2024

Here are some key features of Spine 2D animation software that stand out: Meshes - Instead of drawing rectangles, meshes help you specify a polygon inside your image. This improves the fill rate because pixels outside the polygon won't be drawn. This is an important aspect for mobile games.

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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. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 2D: Simplify isometric tile shape polygon in TileSet to 4 vertices ( GH-70238 ). GH-59810 ).

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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 ). The illustration picture for this article is from Raffaele Picca ’s car scene , rendered in Godot 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 3, 2016

It's been a month since the first progress report , and progress continues towards the new Godot renderer. Little by little every system falls into place, and rendering starts feeling a lot more mature. Improve Culling: Portals (rewrite as polygon-based) and Rooms. Add Layered/Stencil rendering. Introduction.

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Game Daily

APRIL 11, 2023

CEO and founder Sean Pinnock acknowledges that the company’s core offering is a game engine, albeit one made from the ground-up to help resolve Web3 game development’s most pressing challenges. In the meantime, Avalon is not currently planning to release its own content, preferring to focus on its engine work.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

This version worked well but we felt it was still far from the usability and features of a modern game engine. The more urgent issue was to improve the 2D engine so we worked hard again and released Godot 1.1, which did in fact improve 2D rendering considerably. Live scene editing. Improved anchoring tool.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2023

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 ). Rendering: Fix polyline not supporting closed polygons and not having a uniform width ( GH-62236 ).

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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. To learn more about the implementation and results, we sat down with Yuheng Zou, game engine developer at NetEase. And we decided to try it out. Q: How do Mesh Shaders solve this?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Core: Fix polygon generation in BitMap ( GH-68732 ). Rendering: Fix Variable Rate Shading issues ( GH-68710 ). Rendering: Finish implementing Canvas Background mode ( GH-68805 ). Rendering: Fix drawing of 2D skeletons in the RD renderer ( GH-68863 ). Core: Fix Image rotate_90 / rotate_180 methods ( GH-64284 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 30, 2016

It's been a month since the second progress report , and progress continues towards the new Godot renderer. Improve Culling: Portals (rewrite as polygon-based) and Rooms. Add Layered/Stencil rendering. renderer works entirely in linear space (Gamma is no longer supported). Introduction. Implement Decals. Glow Processor.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2021

Batching: Fix light pass modulate , a potential crash, polygon rotation from vertex shader, and 2D skinning with unrigged polygons ( GH-48151 , GH-48125 , GH-48457 , GH-48647 )). Rendering: Fix 2D software skinning relative transforms ( GH-48402 ). Rendering: Fix usage of proxy textures on GLES2 PanoramaSky ( GH-48541 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2016

As many of you have probably heard, a new rendering backend is being worked on for Godot. Our goal is to have a modern, clustered renderer that supports everything mainstream engines support, including PBR, global illumination and flexible shader editing. Optimize scene rendering to use less function calls. In ES 2.0,

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CG Spectrum

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Head of VFX Daniel Hourigan ( Aquaman , The Hunger Games: Mockingjay , Terminator: Dark Fate ) takes us through how he built his KitBash3D Mission to Minerva settlement in Houdini, detailing key steps from his recent informative livestreams, including a great workaround for creating a fast rendering volumetric glow. Select unique points.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

iXie is an Indian company that was founded in 2011 and is a division of Indium, a global digital engineering company. Art Services, Engineering, Audio Services, Functionality QA, Localization, Localization QA, and Player Support. Below are 10 reliable outsourcing studios that you’ll find extremely helpful: 1. Specialties:-.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 15, 2021

Batching: Fix light pass modulate , a potential crash, polygon rotation from vertex shader, and 2D skinning with unrigged polygons ( GH-48151 , GH-48125 , GH-48457 , GH-48647 )). Rendering: Fix 2D software skinning relative transforms ( GH-48402 ). Rendering: Fix usage of proxy textures on GLES2 PanoramaSky ( GH-48541 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

Donations and corporate grants play a vital role in enabling us to develop Godot at this sustained pace, since they are our only source of income, and are used 100% to pay developers to work on the engine. Godot can render at frame rates independent from the fixed physics tick rate. Many new features have been added in Godot 3.5,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 2022

This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter. Switch on physics/common/physics_interpolation , and Godot will now automatically interpolate objects on rendered frames so they look super smooth. x no longer works in 3.5

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 8, 2020

Let's hope this implementation will also be of use to others making their own technology or engines, so they can use it as reference or just copy it. branch uses state of the art algorithms to ensure the maximum possible quality: Bakes geometry to lightmap coordinates using the actual rendering code, so any existing shader or material works.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Imagine developing a character of your choice and rendering it with actions and movements that breathe life into your world of storytelling. With advanced features in the Unity game engine, you can bring your characters to life in real-time, captivating gamers and immersing them in an unforgettable gaming experience.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Core: Fix polygon generation in BitMap ( GH-68732 ). Rendering: Fix Variable Rate Shading issues ( GH-68710 ). Rendering: Finish implementing Canvas Background mode ( GH-68805 ). Rendering: Fix drawing of 2D skeletons in the RD renderer ( GH-68863 ). Core: Fix Image rotate_90 / rotate_180 methods ( GH-64284 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 24, 2020

Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). TileSet: Fix potential crash when editing polygons ( GH-40560 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Thirdparty library updates (mbedtls 2.16.7,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 10, 2021

Batching: Fix light pass modulate , a potential crash, and polygon rotation from vertex shader ( GH-48151 , GH-48125 , GH-48457 )). Rendering: Fix 2D software skinning relative transforms ( GH-48402 ). Rendering: Fix usage of proxy textures on GLES2 PanoramaSky ( GH-48541 ). stable ( GH-48268 ). no longer works in 3.3.1

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 31, 2020

Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). Rendering: Properly calculate Polygon2D AABB with skeleton ( GH-40869 ). TileSet: Fix potential crash when editing polygons ( GH-40560 ). Thirdparty library updates (mbedtls 2.16.7,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). Rendering: Properly calculate Polygon2D AABB with skeleton ( GH-40869 ). TileSet: Fix potential crash when editing polygons ( GH-40560 ). Thirdparty library updates (mbedtls 2.16.7,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter. Switch on physics/common/physics_interpolation , and Godot will now automatically interpolate objects on rendered frames so they look super smooth.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 21, 2020

Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). Rendering: Properly calculate Polygon2D AABB with skeleton ( GH-40869 ). TileSet: Fix potential crash when editing polygons ( GH-40560 ). Thirdparty library updates (mbedtls 2.16.7,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2022

This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter. Switch on physics/common/physics_interpolation , and Godot will now automatically interpolate objects on rendered frames so they look super smooth. x no longer works in 3.5

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2022

This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter. Switch on physics/common/physics_interpolation , and Godot will now automatically interpolate objects on rendered frames so they look super smooth.

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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 New audio engine. GPU particles.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

Notably, it fixes some rendering regressions with transparent materials, and crashing iOS templates and Web editor build in RC 2. This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter. Jump to the Downloads section.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

rendering may be slower for a second or two, but the slowdown will not be nearly as bad as the typical hiccup caused by classic synchronous compilation. This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

There were fixes all around the engine to address regressions, backport new fixes from the master branch, as well as a wide array of usability enhancements and documentation improvements. Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). Rendering: Properly calculate Polygon2D AABB with skeleton ( GH-40869 ). TileSet: Fix potential crash when editing polygons ( GH-40560 ). Thirdparty library updates (mbedtls 2.16.8,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

You can enable it in the Project Settings ( rendering/gles3/shaders/shader_compilation_mode ). rendering may be slower for a second or two, but the slowdown will not be nearly as bad as the typical hiccup caused by classic synchronous compilation. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. and backported to 3.5.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2022

This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter. Switch on physics/common/physics_interpolation , and Godot will now automatically interpolate objects on rendered frames so they look super smooth.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

rendering may be slower for a second or two, but the slowdown will not be nearly as bad as the typical hiccup caused by classic synchronous compilation. This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter.

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