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NVIDIA RTX, Unreal Engine 5 Define Future of Game Development and Content Creation

Nvidia

Today, Unreal Engine 5 (UE5) is available in Early Access, delivering the next-generation engine from Epic Games that will further propel the industry forward. In 2018, NVIDIA launched our RTX technology alongside a stunning Star Wars demo called Reflections , which was built on Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4.

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Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination

Mircosoft Game Dev

This new technique was developed entirely in the open and implemented under our MIT license, so anyone is welcome to use it in their own engines and games. SDFGI is something akin to a dynamic real-time lightmap (but it does not requiere unwrapping, nor does it use textures). What can it do? How does it work?

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Unity Environment Design Tutorial: How I Built This World in 24 Hours

SOVEREIGN MOON

Today, Sovereign Moon Studios, the makers of your favorite NoCode game development course , will be walking you through our environment design process using Unity’s game engine. As you’ll see, world building can be done quickly if you leave a bit of time for play and experimentation. Let’s jump in!

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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

supports advanced global illumination techniques such as lightmapping (including SH lightmapping), Voxel GI (which is fully real-time) and SDFGI (which is a single click, open world GI solution). The most common types of streaming are: Texture streaming : All textures are loaded in a tiny size by default.

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Setting the Mood: Exploring Lighting and Mood in Game Art 

iXie gaming

Tools and Techniques Game artists use different lighting tools to create realistic worlds. Example: Bright sunlight in an open-world game) Point Light. Lighting changes in the game as you play, making the environment more interactive. Texture Compression. Here are the main types: Directional Light.

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The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

For the first time ever, Godot also comes with a GI technique that can be used with large open worlds — signed distance field global illumination ( SDFGI ). You should also notice a significant bump in textures import speed thanks to the etcpak library, and the new multi-threaded importer.

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