Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

It brings much-requested improvements to usability and many important features. was a massive release, which required large rewrites of the engine codebase and breaking backwards compatibility significantly. now and keep on reading about the great features added in this version. New features. As a result, Godot 3.1

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 17, 2023

Video games have become a prominent form of entertainment, deeply ingrained in pop culture, and have shed the previous stigma of being a time-wasting activity. Nowadays, gaming surpasses mainstream movies in terms of audience engagement, and popular game titles consistently generate substantial revenue.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

This tool is unarguably the most common game development tool among developers. Unity is a game engine for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS. You can use it to develop games and the personal edition is free. It comes with a variety of features that aid fast coding. This tool is perfect for making 3D games.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

has been in beta for over two months , and the overall feature completeness, stability and usability have improved a lot during that time. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Add track validator to AnimationPlayerEditor to detect tracks which have error ( GH-68770 ).

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iXie gaming

JUNE 7, 2023

Ever since its release in 2005, the game engine has seen several iterations and has evolved significantly over the years. The game engine has amassed popularity thanks to its versatility and ease of use compared to other engines in the market.

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

Unreal Engine has fast grown to be the most trusted engine in the world. UE5’s features and functionality have further expanded to include experimental new features for rendering, animation and simulation. The potential for building epic games on Unreal by game app developers and creators across industries has increased.

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Logic Simplified

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Architectural visualization has existed since the time of ancient civilizations and has now been revolutionized with the Unreal Engine and its cutting-edge functions and features. Unreal engine is a gaming engine that is powerful, reliable, and high on performance for architectural designs.

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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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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In this multimedia era, games are such an intertwined part of people’s lives that they want them to be realistic and charismatic. Unity is one of the most popular cross-platform tools that help deploy games on multiple platforms like Windows, Mac, Android, and others.

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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. Not only are the updated environments breathtaking, the game supports 1.8 With such detailed models, large texture resolution is a must.

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Cocos

MAY 14, 2023

Next, let’s take a look at the common 3D rendering processes in a 3D game engine: Shadow Map Rendering → 3D Objects Rendering → Screen Space Post-Processing → 2D Elements & UI Rendering. Multiple Render Targets - MRT As mentioned above, the GBuffer consists of a set of render textures that store information used for lighting.

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Cocos

DECEMBER 25, 2023

In simple terms, it involves applying after-effects to game visuals and is an essential feature in game development, often utilized to enhance the visual quality and presentation of games. Conclusion Hello everyone, I’m Wing, based in Chengdu, a senior game developer with over 15 years of experience.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2020

It still lacks a few minor details (like colorspace adjustment via 3D textures) but it's mostly there. Besides now having been rewritten to use Compute, it also supports rendering to half resolution (a very requested feature by users, given SSAO in Goot 3.x While it more or less retains the functionality from Godot 3.x,

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Nvidia

MAY 26, 2021

Unreal Engine is used by more than 11 million creators, making it one of the most popular game engines in the world, and one that continuously pushes the boundaries of what’s possible with real-time technology.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 2023

Such cadence allows us to better measure the overall stability and quickly catch regressions, especially when a lot of features are worked on at the same time. A lot of minor fixes and improvements to TileMap and TileSet, both feature wise and in the editor ( GH-71604 , GH-71615 , GH-71618 , GH-71626 , GH-71630 , GH-71664 ).

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

To show the benefits of GDeflate, we measured system performance without compression, with standard CPU-side decompression, and with GPU-accelerated GDeflate decompression on a representative game-focused dataset, containing texture and geometry data. GDeflate is available as a standard GPU decompression option in DirectStorage 1.1—a

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 13, 2022

Do you have prior experience with other game engines? I have years of random experience in development with my first games made way back for Commodore 64. I used the most known game engines there were, and some of my obscure games were made in Pascal, and even Matlab. and Global Game Jam.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

feature release. As there is no new feature and only bug fixes, this RC 1 should be as stable as 3.3.3-stable Editor: Fix preview grid and preserve source texture margins in SpriteFrames editor ( GH-52910 ). GLES3: Properly clear cubemap filter state when texture array environment disabled ( GH-51938 ).

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 8, 2023

They work closely with game designers as well as developers to build a well-designed and visually attractive game. Video game artists specialize in a wide range of digital art forms, such as 2D modeling, animation, concept art and texturing. Let’s take the popular example of Candy Crush Saga , a level-based puzzle game.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

The beta snapshots cadence allows us to better measure the overall stability and quickly catch regressions, especially when a lot of features are worked on at the same time. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 3D: Make SurfaceTool.generate_normals() behave consistently with smoothing groups ( GH-68034 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 1, 2021

feature release. Editor: Fix preview grid and preserve source texture margins in SpriteFrames editor ( GH-52910 ). GLES3: Properly clear cubemap filter state when texture array environment disabled ( GH-51938 ). This is not the upcoming 3.4 like all future 3.3.x It is a recommended upgrade for all Godot 3.3

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Additionally, all 2D shadows and light textures use a single atlas, resulting in improved performance. the new CanvasTexture texture type has been introduced. A very requested feature for the 2D engine is the possibility to have 2D directional lights and shadows. More work is also going towards the 2D engine.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Split pause() from AnimationPlayer's stop() ( GH-71218 ). Export: Fix missing "debug"/"release" export presets feature tags ( GH-71274 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ).

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Big Games

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Every aspect of the game undergoes examination. Play testers explore the game, checking for bugs, rendering issues, and exploitable features. It’s a critical phase to identify and fix flaws before the game reaches the public. After months of bug fixing and polishing, the game is ready for distribution.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In parallel to our work on the upcoming feature releases Godot 3.5 ( with a first beta ) and 4.0 ( now at alpha 3! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 Core: Fix ProjectSettings.has_setting() to handle feature overrides like get_setting() ( GH-57972 ). GUI: Fix TextureButton focus texture logic ( GH-56472 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

has been in beta for over two months , and the overall feature completeness, stability and usability have improved a lot during that time. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Add track validator to AnimationPlayerEditor to detect tracks which have error ( GH-68770 ).

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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. Only the beta will mark the so-called "feature freeze" As such, we do not recommend porting existing projects to this and other upcoming alpha releases unless you are prepared to do it again to fix future incompatibilities.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 21, 2020

works well, we can take some time to add new features to the 3.2 The main new features in need of testing are highlighted in bold. GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). Now that we're confident that 3.2.3

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: A ton of fixes for all rendering backends, and missing features implemented for the OpenGL3 one. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Android: Upgrade Android gradle plugin to version 7.2.1 ( GH-68497 ). Rendering: Added Viewport canvas cull mask feature ( GH-52350 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 30, 2020

It supported roughness, but it did so in a way where the texture reads appeared rough, but not the reflected image (the edges of the reflected objects remained intact). A very common complaint when using shadowmaps in Godot is that tweaking shadow bias is extremely difficult compared to other game engines. x was rather limited.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

For instance, you could have a workforce of over 500 people working on triple-A games across different countries and locations. Scope of Game, Genres, and Graphics Quality AAA games often offer a variety of modes and features and are story-based. Also, these companies create their own game engines.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

It adds less new features than previous beta snapshots did, but instead has more focus on bugfixing and stabilization, which should make it a much nicer experience than previous betas. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Android: Use proper types for converting Java float/double arrays ( GH-67581 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 10, 2021

As there is no new feature and only bug fixes, this RC 1 should be as stable as 3.3-stable macOS: Update Info.plist to clarify that the minimum required version is now macOS 10.12 (due to use of C++14 features). Rendering: Fix usage of proxy textures on GLES2 PanoramaSky ( GH-48541 ). The upcoming Godot 3.3.1,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 25, 2023

The beta snapshots cadence allows us to better measure the overall stability and quickly catch regressions, especially when a lot of features are worked on at the same time. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 2D: Add a method to get global CanvasItem modulate ( GH-70294 ).

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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. Only the beta will mark the so-called "feature freeze" As such, we do not recommend porting existing projects to this and other upcoming alpha releases unless you are prepared to do it again to fix future incompatibilities.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Split pause() from AnimationPlayer’s stop() ( GH-71218 ). Export: Fix missing “debug”/”release” export presets feature tags ( GH-71274 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ).

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

Reflex Reflex SDK allows developers to implement a low latency mode that aligns game engine work to complete just-in-time for rendering, eliminating GPU render queue and reducing CPU back pressure. introduces a new boost feature that further reduces latency when a game becomes CPU render thread bound. Learn more here.

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