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Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

Mircosoft Game Dev

Godot is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing the world with the best possible free and open source game technology. The biggest difference with the old lightmapper is that the new one features proper path tracing, which results in better looking lightmaps. So you can expect Godot 3.3.1 Supporting the project.

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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). This is handled nowadays by a type of technology called “streaming”. Few other technologies work as well in this area.

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Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

which would have included new multiplayer networking, visual scripting and many other improvements) because we realized that projects using the new features would no longer work in 3.0, Visual Scripting. No lightmaps or anything of the sort are required, providing a very quick and efficient workflow. Mid- and post-processing.

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How to Use Unity Cinemachine Virtual Cameras

Game Designing

Before Unity Cinemachine, camera movement needed to be directly keyframed or, using code, had to be carefully scripted. When using Cinemachine, you don’t need to know how to write code, though coding is still essential for some components, such as scripting how a user zooms using a mouse wheel, for example. What Is Unity Cinemachine?