The Liquid Fire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Like many people, I’ve recently been looking at other engines for ‘reasons’ and have been checking out Godot. For the past couple weeks I’ve been learning some of the ins and outs of the engine, and getting a feel for how it compares to Unity. It was too old and slow and didn’t like all the fancy graphics.

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Nvidia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Leveling up your games with the cutting-edge technologies found in the biggest blockbusters just got a lot simpler. As of today, Unreal Engine 4 (UE4). Leveling up your games with the cutting-edge technologies found in the biggest blockbusters just got a lot simpler. The NVIDIA RTX UE4 4.25 branches have also received updates.

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Nvidia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Featuring third-generation Ray Tracing Cores and fourth-generation Tensor Cores, they accelerate games that take advantage of the latest neural graphics and ray tracing technology. The latest suite of technologies multiply performance in games while accelerating how quickly developers can create content.

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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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Ask a Game Dev

JULY 11, 2023

There are two main issues with visualization when it comes to adjustible meshes (the “body sliders”). The way that all of the customizable character data is stored isn’t actually a body at all, but a common default mesh with offsets for each adjustible value. The engine gives the thumbs up and the model with those values gets rendered.

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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 ). using the Movie Maker mode , for the main menu of the upcoming FRANZ FURY game (made with Godot 3.x).

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CG Spectrum

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

3D modelers apply many processes to improve the look and usability of their assets when creating the characters, props, and sets that feature in your favorite video games and films. One important technique to master, particularly for video games, is level of detail (LOD). What is level of detail (LOD)?

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Nvidia

JANUARY 11, 2021

In this video, NVIDIA’s Alexey Panteleev explains the key details needed to add performant resampling to modern game engines. In this video, NVIDIA’s Alexey Panteleev explains the key details needed to add performant resampling to modern game engines. He also discusses roadmap plans.

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Cocos

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

GitHub - axmolengine/axmol: Axmol Engine – A Multi-platform Engine for Desktop, XBOX (UWP) and Mobile games. (A axmol is just a fork of cocos2d-x-4.0: A fork of Cocos2d-x-4.0) release notes Add experimental WebAssembly build support(WebGL 2.0) fmtlib: 10.0.0 ==> 10.1.0 FreeType: 2.13.0 ==> 2.13.2 webp: 1.3.0 ==> 1.3.1

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Cocos

MAY 14, 2023

When you’ve made an excellent 3D game, you definitely want it to run on more devices, not just high-end ones, as this would mean losing many users. In this article, I will share the methods I’ve learned from over a decade of 3D game development to make a game run smoothly on high-end, mid-range, and low-end devices.

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CG Spectrum

JANUARY 13, 2023

Read about Aurore's journey from architecture to real-time 3D and see one of the magical worlds she built as part of the Real-time and Virtual Production Course at CG Spectrum, which was featured by Unreal Engine as part of their Community Spotlight! CG Spectrum is an Unreal Engine Authorized Training Center and Academic Partner.

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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 ). using the Movie Maker mode , for the main menu of the upcoming FRANZ FURY game (made with Godot 3.x).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

I've worked in games for a while now, building upon general software development experience from electronics and RF equipment. I found Godot while working on personal game projects, and started being involved as a contributor a bit over a year ago. FBX is the industry-standard 3D asset exchange file format for games.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 29, 2018

And this bold statement is not (only) marketing speak, the winner of GitHub Game Off 2017 was indeed a Godot-made game by Securas, Daemon vs Demon. The 2018 edition of the month-long jam focusing on free and open source game development tools is about to start again on November 1st. Check the details on itch.io: Game Off 2018.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 21, 2018

2D engine merged into master branch. mesh loading. basic mesh drawing. It was a joy to be there and talk with other people about things we love - free and open source software and game development! 2D engine merged into master branch. Done February 2018. meet with other developers at FOSDEM and GodotCon.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

are done, I have spent the past two months optimizing the rendering engine, both on the CPU and GPU side. Instancing is used to render similar objects (mesh, material and misc settings), reducing the pressure over the rendering API. There are special versions of meshes to render when doing shadow maps or depth pre-pass.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

A longtime GameWorks technology, PhysX has become the primary physics engine and a key foundational technology pillar of NVIDIA Omniverse. It is a powerful simulation engine currently used by industry leaders for robotics, deep reinforcement learning, autonomous driving, factory automation, and visual effects.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 30, 2017

GitHub has announced the 5 th edition of its Game Off game jam, hosted on itch.io The main feature of Game Off is its focus on free and open source tools for game development, and this is obviously something that we consider highly in the Godot Engine community, as a fully libre 2D and 3D game engine.

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Theia Interactive has created award-winning visualizations for hundreds of enterprise clients (including many Fortune 500 companies) in industries spanning automotive, aerospace, manufactured products, and architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ).

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Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Lesson 1: Game Designer vs Game Programmer Summary In this video, we’re breaking down the jobs of game designers and game programmers, showing you how sometimes, they wear each other’s hats, especially in small teams. The programmer will bow down to the game designer in terms of choices and decisions made.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Mesh: Fix UV mapping on CSGSphere ( GH-49195 ). mbedtls 2.16.11. Downloads.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2021

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. Import: glTF: Improved error handling around invalid images and invalid meshes ( GH-48904 , GH-48912 ). like all future 3.3.x

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 8, 2017

It even runs games flawlessly on mobile web! Optimize any part of your game by rewriting it transparently in C++, or any language that can compiled to native code for the target platform, wihout recompiling the engine or templates. Godot has now an experimental exporter to WebAssembly and WebGL2, thanks to eska 's work.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Over the course of the last four months the engine has seen many changes, making it more stable and feature complete, and it's getting very close to the state that we would be happy with. More engine enums are now bound with BitField, making their usage more type-safe, especially in C# ( GH-71037 , GH-71045 , GH-71116 ). beta releases.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 20, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Core: Fix debugger error when Dictionary key is a freed Object ( GH-39906 ) [regression fix]. wslay 1.1.1).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 4, 2021

Import: glTF: Fix mesh nodes which are also bones ( GH-49119 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). GridMap: Fix GridMap erasing octants in the wrong order ( GH-50052 ). if something that worked fine in 3.3

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

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. Most of work was aimed at implementing missing features or fixing bugs which are critical for publishing 2D and 3D games with Godot 3.x, This ensures your game will run the same on all machines.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Import: glTF: Fix mesh nodes which are also bones ( GH-49119 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). GridMap: Fix GridMap erasing octants in the wrong order ( GH-50052 ). please file an issue on GitHub.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 24, 2020

C#: Fix restore not called when building game projects ( GH-40596 ) [regression fix]. GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! API documentation updates.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The illustration picture for this article is a screenshot of Sandfire , an upcoming 3D person action-adventure game by Kmitt. The game was recently ported to Godot 4, see Kmitt's YouTube channel and Twitter for devlogs and updates. Rendering: Fix AABB errors on meshes with bones on multiple surfaces ( GH-65035 ). What's new.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). The game is currently being ported to Godot 4.0 Follow Kenny Park on Twitter or Mastodon for development updates, and check his website to discover other games and applications. Fix Tab key usage in the inspector ( GH-71271 ). What's new.

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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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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. Android: Fix Android editor crash when returning from the launched and running game ( GH-72106 ). However, we still try to provide a migration path for your projects.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 4, 2021

glTF is a growing 3D format and has received massive adoption in the game industry. Commonly selected as the format for new software and game engines, glTF can also have new functionality added using extensions. glTF in Godot Engine allows for a combination of in-engine and out-of-engine tooling to work together seamlessly.

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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. Ensure your meshes are marked as "Static Bake", then enable SDFGI in the Environment settings.

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