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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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

JANUARY 20, 2023

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 ). Rendering: Remove light from dynamic light list when removing scenario ( GH-71584 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Import: Fix swapped color channels in ETC1/ETC2 textures, etcpak expects BGRA data ( GH-69448 ). Rendering: Use circular fade instead of linear fade for distance fade ( GH-50294 ). Rendering: Tweak shadow bias defaults for DirectionalLight3D and OmniLight3D ( GH-55757 ). GUI: Use system fonts as fallback ( GH-68995 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

GUI: Fix RichTextLabel underline prevents strikethrough from rendering ( GH-56686 ). GUI: Fix TextureButton focus texture logic ( GH-56472 ). Import: Fix glTF scene export crash on null normal texture ( GH-56380 ). Rendering: Fix blend shapes when octahedral compression is used ( GH-56161 ).

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Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

Sketch a rough concept, set some parameters, and Dimensions will generate 3D models, textures, and animations. Free 3D Asset Libraries Sketchfab: This vast platform hosts a staggering collection of free and paid 3D models, textures, and animations from various creators. It can even help define core loops and progression systems.

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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

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

GUI: Fix RichTextLabel underline prevents strikethrough from rendering ( GH-56686 ). GUI: Fix TextureButton focus texture logic ( GH-56472 ). Import: Fix glTF scene export crash on null normal texture ( GH-56380 ). Rendering: Fix blend shapes when octahedral compression is used ( GH-56161 ). Known incompatibilities.

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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

Mobile gaming has become popular in recent times thanks to the growing number of mobile device users. Several mobile game engines are used to create mobile games. However, Unity has stood out as one of the most preferred and trusted mobile game engines. And that’s where Unity wins.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

GUI: Fix RichTextLabel underline prevents strikethrough from rendering ( GH-56686 ). GUI: Fix TextureButton focus texture logic ( GH-56472 ). Import: Fix glTF scene export crash on null normal texture ( GH-56380 ). Rendering: Fix blend shapes when octahedral compression is used ( GH-56161 ). stable or since 3.4.3

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 2, 2022

Import: Fix glTF texture filename decoding ( GH-57685 ). Rendering: GLES2: Unpack blend shape arrays when necessary ( GH-60829 ). Rendering: GLES3: Unbind vertex buffer before calculating blend shapes ( GH-60832 ). Rendering: GLES3: Ignore support for S3TC texture compression on Android and iOS devices ( GH-62909 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 19, 2022

Import: Fix glTF texture filename decoding ( GH-57685 ). Rendering: GLES2: Unpack blend shape arrays when necessary ( GH-60829 ). Rendering: GLES3: Unbind vertex buffer before calculating blend shapes ( GH-60832 ). Rendering: GLES3: Ignore support for S3TC texture compression on Android and iOS devices ( GH-62909 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 30, 2020

While not entirely rendering specific, a lot of nodes are being renamed. 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). Accurate frame render time. Decals are now supported in the engine. Node renames.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Editor: Make texture preview filter setting content aware ( GH-67426 ). Rendering: Add OpenGL timer queries to OpenGL3 backend ( GH-67032 ). Rendering: Improve behaviour of clip_children by clipping to parent alpha value but still retaining parent color ( GH-67043 ). Editor: Added custom Node export ( GH-67055 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 8, 2022

Note: You might need to delete your.godot/imported folder to force reimporting all your textures with the new class name. macOS: Disable window redraw during resize, when rendering in the separate thread ( GH-58738 ). Rendering: Use Filament specular model and parametrization ( GH-51716 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2021

Rendering: Fix 2D software skinning relative transforms ( GH-48402 ). Rendering: Fix usage of proxy textures on GLES2 PanoramaSky ( GH-48541 ). Rendering: Fix refraction offset by manually unpacking normal mappings ( GH-48478 ). Rendering: Disable GIProbe emission when disabled on a material ( GH-48798 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 1, 2021

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 ). Rendering: Prevent shaders from generating code before the constructor finishes ( GH-52475 ). API documentation updates.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Import: Fix texture atlas generation when source sprite is larger than generated atlas ( GH-55094 ). macOS: Enable multithreaded OpenGL engine flag when using multithreaded VisualServer ( GH-54526 ). Rendering: Fix vertex attribute specification for octahedral compression ( GH-54768 ). if something that worked fine in 3.4

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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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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 24, 2022

Rendering: Add multiview support to the clustered forward renderer ( GH-49092 ). Rendering: Add sky cover texture for ProceduralSkyMaterial ( GH-58018 ). Input: Ensure minimum modifiers are pressed when matching actions ( GH-59343 ). macOS: Add missing global menu features ( GH-59410 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 4, 2021

Rendering: VisualServer now sorts based on AABB position ( GH-43506 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Fix CanvasItem bounding rect calculation in some cases ( GH-49160 ). Rendering: Fix flipped binormal in SpatialMaterial triplanar mapping ( GH-49950 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 21, 2020

GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 8, 2020

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. Efficiently packs all texture objects in the lightmap to a texture array, to avoid state or material changes during rendering.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Rendering: VisualServer now sorts based on AABB position ( GH-43506 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Fix CanvasItem bounding rect calculation in some cases ( GH-49160 ). Rendering: Fix flipped binormal in SpatialMaterial triplanar mapping ( GH-49950 ).

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

REAL TIME RAY TRACING MADE EASIER RTX Direct Illumination (RTXDI) Imagine adding millions of dynamic lights to your game environments without worrying about performance or resource constraints. RTXDI makes this possible while rendering in real time. Texture Tools Exporter Version 2021.1.1 Texture Tools Exporter Version 2021.1.1

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Editor: Make texture preview filter setting content aware ( GH-67426 ). Rendering: Add OpenGL timer queries to OpenGL3 backend ( GH-67032 ). Rendering: Improve behaviour of clip_children by clipping to parent alpha value but still retaining parent color ( GH-67043 ). Editor: Added custom Node export ( GH-67055 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). mbedtls 2.16.11.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Import: Fix texture atlas generation when source sprite is larger than generated atlas ( GH-55094 ). Rendering: Fix vertex attribute specification for octahedral compression ( GH-54768 ). Rendering: Update CanvasItem when MultiMesh instance transform changes ( GH-54899 ). All users are advised to upgrade to Godot 3.4.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

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 ). Rendering: Prevent shaders from generating code before the constructor finishes ( GH-52475 ). API documentation updates.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 16, 2021

Rendering: VisualServer now sorts based on AABB position ( GH-43506 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Fix CanvasItem bounding rect calculation in some cases ( GH-49160 ). Rendering: Fix flipped binormal in SpatialMaterial triplanar mapping ( GH-49950 ).

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Mesh Render Bug Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 15, 2021

Rendering: Fix 2D software skinning relative transforms ( GH-48402 ). Rendering: Fix usage of proxy textures on GLES2 PanoramaSky ( GH-48541 ). Rendering: Fix refraction offset by manually unpacking normal mappings ( GH-48478 ). Physics: Create CollisionObject debug shapes using VisualServer ( GH-48588 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Import: Fix texture atlas generation when source sprite is larger than generated atlas ( GH-55094 ). Rendering: Fix vertex attribute specification for octahedral compression ( GH-54768 ). Rendering: Update CanvasItem when MultiMesh instance transform changes ( GH-54899 ). TextEdit: Allow toggling bookmark gutter ( GH-55197 ).

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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

JUNE 27, 2020

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? It has a small cost when enabled.

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