Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The idea of using a game engine for projects other than creating video games is not new. For decades, game engines have been used to create applications, simulations and more. These use cases include architecture visualization, cinema, animation and cutscene rendering. What is Movie Maker mode for?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The idea of using a game engine for projects other than creating video games is not new. For decades, game engines have been used to create applications, simulations and more. These use cases include architecture visualization, cinema, animation and cutscene rendering. What is Movie Maker mode for?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Rendering: Use circular fade instead of linear fade for distance fade ( GH-50294 ). Rendering: Tweak shadow bias defaults for DirectionalLight3D and OmniLight3D ( GH-55757 ). Rendering: Fix AABB errors on meshes with bones on multiple surfaces ( GH-65035 ). Rendering: Allow black metallic materials to reflect IBL ( GH-69522 ).

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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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Cocos

JUNE 11, 2023

we have completed the transformation of the engine-builtin Custom Pipeline using RenderGraph. Render Graph The Render Pipeline customization based on Render Graph will be officially available to developers in version 3.8. We also support Compute Shader capabilities. Download Links (Ver. AGP upgraded to 8.0.2.

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Nvidia

MARCH 17, 2023

Tools Pipeline Engineering Lead Megumi Ando sat down with NVIDIA to discuss the integration process in the company’s latest release as well as their adoption plans in Polyphony’s game development pipeline. There is no environment like KATANA or Houdini SOLARIS where you can lay out the USD, light it, render it, and so on.

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Nvidia

MAY 17, 2023

The main design philosophy of D3D12 and Vulkan is to enable game engines to distribute graphics workloads across multiple CPU cores. Resource allocation and destruction Creating and destroying buffers, textures, and shaders is fundamental to efficient computer graphics. Evenly balance work across all threads for best results.

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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. Rendering: Implement basic ASTC support ( GH-65376 ). Rendering: Added options for sorting transparent objects ( GH-69998 ). GH-59810 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

But we're not there yet and we'll keep having frequent alpha builds until we're ready to slap the beta label on the engine. Some noteworthy changes in this release: Shader preprocessor support and shader includes. Grouping annotations for shaders ( uniform_group ). and prepare the first beta release. So here we go with 4.0

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Cocos

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Today, we have invited wing , an experienced Cocos game developer in our Cocos community to share some technical key points related to 2D post-effect frameworks. Post-processing effects, are used for further processing of rendered results to achieve various advanced and special effects. What are Post-processing Effects?

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iXie gaming

JULY 23, 2023

Unity has rapidly risen in popularity to become one of the most widely used game production engines throughout the globe. This enhances Unity’s reputation as a fantastic game engine. This ensures that players can enjoy their games on any device, regardless of the type of device they use to play them.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 2023

For shaders, we removed the now-redundant SCREEN_TEXTURE , DEPTH_TEXTURE , and NORMAL_ROUGHNESS_TEXTURE ( GH-70967 ). Rendering: Remove SCREEN_TEXTURE , DEPTH_TEXTURE , and NORMAL_ROUGHNESS_TEXTURE ( GH-70967 ). Rendering: Decompress RA_AS_RG formats on Web platform in GLES3 renderer and disable texture swizzling ( GH-71574 ).

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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. Rendering: Implement basic ASTC support ( GH-65376 ). Rendering: Added options for sorting transparent objects ( GH-69998 ). GH-59810 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Add support for FORMAT_{ETC2,DXT5}_RA_AS_RG ( GH-71248 ). See the list below.

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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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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

If you’ve ever wondered what the best game engine is, we invite you to figure it out with us. Let’s discover their pros and cons so it will be easier to decide which engine suits your project better. Unity versus Unreal – this seems to be an ever-lasting battle in the game development world. Unity or Unreal?

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Why is physically accurate lighting important for the games you develop? The rendering pipeline of Justice is built on physically based rendering (PBR). RTX path tracing in a temple scene from the NetEase game , Justice What challenges were you looking to solve with the path tracer? Debugging costs us significant time.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 8, 2022

Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. macOS: Disable window redraw during resize, when rendering in the separate thread ( GH-58738 ). Rendering: Use Filament specular model and parametrization ( GH-51716 ). Rendering: Fix shader compilation error with anisotropy ( GH-58419 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 16, 2022

Rendering: GLES2: Fix compression on blend shapes ( GH-58838 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix incorrect buffer upload size in draw_gui_primitive ( GH-58150 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader state caching when blend shapes used ( GH-58808 ) [regression fix].

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 14, 2014

is to focus on improving the 2D engine with all the feedback that we have gathered during the past months, improving shader support for 2D, visual shader editing (for 2D and 3D), and more draw options such as per-node z-priority. Help us let the world know this little game engine exists! The plan for 1.1

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 8, 2022

Rendering: GLES2: Fix compression on blend shapes ( GH-58838 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader state caching when blend shapes used ( GH-58808 ) [regression fix]. Physics: Update joints on NOTIFICATION_POST_ENTER_TREE ( GH-58642 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 23, 2022

Rendering: GLES2: Fix compression on blend shapes ( GH-58838 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix incorrect buffer upload size in draw_gui_primitive ( GH-58150 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader state caching when blend shapes used ( GH-58808 ) [regression fix].

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

Rendering: Octahedral normal/tangent compression ( GH-60309 ). Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. Editor: Improvements to shader editor ( GH-63582 ). Rendering: Octahedral normal/tangent compression ( GH-60309 ). for instructions. Core: A plethora of renames!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 2, 2022

Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. Rendering: Lots of progress on OpenGL3 with initial 3D support. Rendering: Fix normal and tangent blending in blend shapes ( GH-61217 ). Rendering: Use IGN instead of white noise for sky dithering ( GH-60641 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2021

just a few days ago with a huge array of bugfixes, but a regression was then found for macOS rendering which could cause flickering. Rendering: GLES2: Fix trunc shader function compilation on Android ( GH-56061 ). We released Godot 3.4.1 This new Godot 3.4.2 Godot 3.4.2 is a recommended upgrade for all Godot 3.4 release notes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Rendering: Use circular fade instead of linear fade for distance fade ( GH-50294 ). Rendering: Tweak shadow bias defaults for DirectionalLight3D and OmniLight3D ( GH-55757 ). Rendering: Fix AABB errors on meshes with bones on multiple surfaces ( GH-65035 ). Rendering: Allow black metallic materials to reflect IBL ( GH-69522 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Add support for FORMAT_{ETC2,DXT5}_RA_AS_RG ( GH-71248 ). See the list below.

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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

APRIL 30, 2020

It feels great to be back to doing graphics programming after two months refactoring the core engine. While not entirely rendering specific, a lot of nodes are being renamed. A very common complaint when using shadowmaps in Godot is that tweaking shadow bias is extremely difficult compared to other game engines.

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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

MARCH 15, 2022

and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. 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 13, 2022

and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. Rendering: Add material_overlay property to MeshInstance ( GH-50823 ). The main changes coming in Godot 3.5 Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

This RC 6 has a few notable changes compared to the previous build: In RC 4, async shader compilation and caching was enabled by default on desktop, but several users reported issues with it on some hardware. You can enable it in the Project Settings ( rendering/gles3/shaders/shader_compilation_mode ). and backported to 3.5.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 1, 2022

Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. Editor: Refactored shader editor, now a permanent bottom dock with support to edit multiple files ( GH-61459 ). Rendering: Add support for soft shadows to the GPU lightmapper ( GH-62054 ). Rendering: Fix usage of FSR 1.0 ( GH-62475 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 17, 2021

macOS: Enable multithreaded OpenGL engine flag when using multithreaded VisualServer ( GH-54526 ). Particles: Fix for double use of seed in random shader variables ( GH-55607 ). Rendering: Fix vertex attribute specification for octahedral compression ( GH-54768 ). Rendering: Fix occasional dangling OmniLight RID ( GH-41360 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2022

and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process().

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 24, 2022

Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. Rendering: Add multiview support to the clustered forward renderer ( GH-49092 ). Rendering: Add sky cover texture for ProceduralSkyMaterial ( GH-58018 ). See past alpha releases for details ( alpha 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ).

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