Game Dev Unchained

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

“ It feels great to not have to sit around waiting for hours to bake lightmaps. A game developer in the last 5 years can be best described as a unrestricted nomad. If you are an artist in the game industry then you are faced with more opportunities than ever before. Proceduralism in Games with Luiz Kruel | Episode 263.

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Cocos

MAY 9, 2023

Game supports fixed step updates ● Support for Taobao Mini Games ● [XR] Added HEADTRACKING & PASSTHROUGH to XR build template ● [XR] Support for EYE RENDER END callback Fixes ● Fixed frame rate settings issue for high-refresh devices on the Web and optimized the stability of FPS using RAF. Hid unnecessary WebGL error messages.

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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. SDFGI is something akin to a dynamic real-time lightmap (but it does not requiere unwrapping, nor does it use textures).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 15, 2022

3D: Add support for saving lightmap as multiple images ( GH-61861 ). Godot is a non-profit, open source game engine developed by hundreds of contributors on their free time, and a handful of part or full-time developers, hired thanks to donations from the Godot community. 2D: Fix terrains for isometric tilemaps ( GH-61998 ).

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AWS Games

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Game developers often need to compile large amounts of C++ code, which requires lots of CPU resources, and developers also need to process other types of heavy compute tasks such as; shader compilation, rendering, asset creation, image conversion, lightmap baking and more. Incredibuild for Cloud Optimization on the AWS Marketplace.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

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. As such, most of the focus was on implementing missing features or bugfixes which are critical for publishing 2D and 3D games with Godot 3, and on making the existing features more optimized and reliable.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

The features offered are also a lot more reminiscent of AAA games, such as far more material options and advanced visual effects (including circle DOF , volumetric fog, AMD FSR, etc.). The traditional way to make games longer since the beginning of times is to divide them in stages. Additionally, Godot 4.0 The answer is “it depends”.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

It is now possible to center your game window with OS.center_window(). The lightmap baker will now use all available cores on Windows like it does on macOS and Linux. release, so at least a few months more, and afterwards with security fixes for games in production. If you missed them you can enable them in the editor settings.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2018

This is why for pixel-art games you often either change the filtering mode of textures or need to disable mipmaps to make the game look nice and sharp. ). Done May 2018. enviroment relections. cubemap filtering. implement BRDF. omni lights. lambert+phong. normal maps. rewrite OAHashMap to use RobinHood hashing. Planned June 2018.

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Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

Reduced GFX Buffer memory consumption for WeChat games in iOS 14 high-performance mode. Fixed an issue with Facebook instant games not starting. When the user turns on high-precision lightmap baking, 16-bit colors are used instead of 8-bit colors, and AO channels are baked separately. Fixed Mat4.getRotation getRotation issue.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The game is developed by Vedg Studio / NoirosL and was recently ported to Godot 4.0 Rendering: Add optional UV2 logic for lightmapping to primitive shapes ( GH-67975 ). Wishlist it on Steam! What's new. If you're interested in an overview of what's new in Godot 4.0 beta in general, have a look at the detailed release notes for 4.0

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Radiator Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In addition to color, Barragán's brutalism offers another lesson for video game levels: sometimes you must have the courage to let a wall be a wall. In the past I've written about video game brutalism. Technically from a game engine / rendering perspective, any use of textures is ornament. How can you go back?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

The new 3D renderer is state-of-the-art, with features rarely see in game engines today, such as: Full principled BSDF. No lightmaps or anything of the sort are required, providing a very quick and efficient workflow. For low-end systems or mobile devices, we provide a more classical lightmapping workflow. within a few weeks.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The game is developed by Vedg Studio / NoirosL and was recently ported to Godot 4.0 Rendering: Add optional UV2 logic for lightmapping to primitive shapes ( GH-67975 ). Wishlist it on Steam! What’s new. If you’re interested in an overview of what’s new in Godot 4.0 beta in general, have a look at the detailed release notes for 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 30, 2016

The new GI probe implementation in Godot is a game changer, and gives Godot 3.0 As the aim of Godot is to run nicely on low end hardware, a novel algorithm was implemented, which allows high quality bluring of near objects in a single separable pass: The result is a little less correct, but the performance benefits are large.

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Game Designing

APRIL 21, 2022

Coding camera angles for games and animation has been a pain … Until now. In short, Unity Cinemachine opens up an entirely new world of opportunities for animation, game design and development, and directors working with virtual cameras. In short, the Unity Cinemachine is a game-changer. What Is Unity Cinemachine?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

As always, please remember that we are a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing the world with the best possible free and open source game technology. If you use and enjoy Godot, plan to use it, or want support the cause of having a mature, high quality free and open source game engine, then please consider becoming our patron.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Import: Fix potential crash importing invalid BMP files ( GH-46555 ). Breaks compat slightly by changing the value of some of the JoystickList enum constants.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Import: Fix potential crash importing invalid BMP files ( GH-46555 ). Breaks compat slightly by changing the value of some of the JoystickList enum constants.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Import: Fix potential crash importing invalid BMP files ( GH-46555 ). Breaks compat slightly by changing the value of some of the JoystickList enum constants.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Import: Fix potential crash importing invalid BMP files ( GH-46555 ). Breaks compat slightly by changing the value of some of the JoystickList enum constants.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

As much as we love exciting new features, we also want to see people create games on the full spectrum of devices for everyone to enjoy. Last but not least, lightmaps baking is now done using the GPU to speed up the process significantly. There are new CPU architecture options in the export dialog for exporting a game.

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