Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

alpha 17 release to ensure that things work as best as we can reasonably expect before the beta phase. Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds. alpha in general, have a look at the detailed release notes for 4.0 beta 1, and to do so we're having a (last?)

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 24, 2022

We're continuing on our fortnightly release schedule for alpha snapshots of Godot 4.0 - this time with 4.0 See past alpha releases for details ( alpha 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ). Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds. Known issues. Bug reports.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 6, 2022

We're continuing on our fortnightly release schedule for alpha snapshots of Godot 4.0 - this time with 4.0 See past alpha releases for details ( alpha 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ). Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds. GH-59807 ). Known issues. Bug reports.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 12, 2022

Another fortnight, another alpha snapshot of the development branch, this time with 4.0 See past alpha releases for details ( alpha 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 ). Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds. This release is built from commit 917fd657.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 15, 2022

Another couple of weeks, another alpha snapshot from the development branch, this time with 4.0 Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds. alpha in general, have a look at the detailed release notes for 4.0 Jump to the Downloads section. What's new.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 28, 2022

alpha 7 comes with one week delay on our every-other-week release schedule, since I was taking some time off :) But that means it got time for even more features and bug fixes to be finalized, reviewed and merged. See past alpha releases for details ( alpha 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ). alpha builds. This new 4.0 Bug reports.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

While this process is ongoing, we'll keep releasing alpha builds so here's 4.0 This alpha doesn't include official builds with.NET 6 support yet, as we still have more work to do to enable this. Rendering: Octahedral normal/tangent compression ( GH-60309 ). alpha builds. Core: A plethora of renames!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

alpha 1 ― the first official alpha build of our upcoming major milestone, enabling all interested users to try it out and report bugs, as well as provide feedback on the new features. branch, we're going to release new alpha builds every other week, so that testers can always have a recent version to test the latest changes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 11, 2019

We released a first alpha build last week, and we want to keep a relatively short iteration cycle on future alpha and beta builds until the final 3.2 alpha 2 as a second snapshot, fixing various issues from the last build. alpha 2 as a second snapshot, fixing various issues from the last build. development build.

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

Looking for a Real Unreal Game Development Company? 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. Is it well-defined?

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The Knights of Unity

JUNE 5, 2020

Unity Engine introduces an awesome tools to empower your game development process. And even before an era of SRPs (Scriptable Render Pipelines), there was a good amount of solid features like today’s topic: Render textures. In this post I’m going to explain to you how to use render textures in your game.

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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. The game is developed by Vedg Studio / NoirosL and was recently ported to Godot 4.0 GUI: Add a Font import option to pre-render all glyphs required for the translation ( GH-68448 ). Wishlist it on Steam! What's new.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. since early alpha releases; follow them on Twitter for updates. Editor: Bring back the renderer options button on the main editor ( GH-70500 ). What's new. Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Godot uses a considerably different approach to rendering (and rendering abstraction) than other, popular, game engines. This document was written in hopes to find more developers that would like to help us write rendering code, as it explains the overall design. Running the whole graphics rendering in a separate thread.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! Follow Kenny Park on Twitter or Mastodon for development updates, and check his website to discover other games and applications. Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Add support for FORMAT_{ETC2,DXT5}_RA_AS_RG ( GH-71248 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 3, 2016

It's been a month since the first progress report , and progress continues towards the new Godot renderer. Little by little every system falls into place, and rendering starts feeling a lot more mature. Add Layered/Stencil rendering. One of the main features of PBR rendering is having all sort of sources for reflections.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 5, 2023

Some ray-traced effects, like reflections or shadows, require support for out-of-frustum objects for rendering accuracy. Alpha tested geometry. High-poly geometry, with alpha testing like hair and fur, can be challenging for direct tracing. Parallel mesh processing for instance data generation. Dynamic objects selection.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 31, 2022

was released with the hopes of rewriting the rendering architecture using Vulkan as a target API. After it, 17 alphas followed in total. As much as Godot is developed very efficiently online, the main developers meeting personally is a great way to move forward with a lot of issues that are difficult to discuss online.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. since early alpha releases; follow them on Twitter for updates. Editor: Bring back the renderer options button on the main editor ( GH-70500 ). What’s new. Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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Cocos

MAY 14, 2023

This article will delve into the principles, implementation details, common issues and solutions, memory overhead, and compatibility of the Deferred Rendering technique. I hope to help you advance further in 3D game development. The rendering stages involved in Deferred Rendering.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 31, 2022

was released with the hopes of rewriting the rendering architecture using Vulkan as a target API. After it, 17 alphas followed in total. As much as Godot is developed very efficiently online, the main developers meeting personally is a great way to move forward with a lot of issues that are difficult to discuss online.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! Follow Kenny Park on Twitter or Mastodon for development updates, and check his website to discover other games and applications. Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Add support for FORMAT_{ETC2,DXT5}_RA_AS_RG ( GH-71248 ).

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Nvidia

MARCH 1, 2023

It enables developers to create, export, and stream one model into multiple platforms simultaneously–and in multiple levels of detail–with the model topology generated automatically. According to Ashot Gabrelyanov, CEO of Shapeyard development company Magic Unicorn, “As the web evolves, its content form does, too.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

After years of development and countless hours spent by our contributors, we believe it’s finally ready for production use. First, Godot’s lead developer Juan Linietsky (reduz) worked alone in a branch where he modernized the renderer (making a switch from OpenGL 2.1 TL;DR: We are getting closer than ever to releasing Godot 4.0.

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Nvidia

MARCH 20, 2023

At GDC 2023, NVIDIA released new tools that make real-time path tracing more accessible to developers while accelerating the creation of ultra-realistic game. At GDC 2023 , NVIDIA released new tools that make real-time path tracing more accessible to developers while accelerating the creation of ultra-realistic game worlds.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 23, 2022

In parallel to our work on the upcoming feature releases Godot 3.5 ( with a second beta ) and 4.0 ( now at alpha 4! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 Rendering: GLES2: Fix compression on blend shapes ( GH-58838 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Last month's 3.4.3

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Game Development

JANUARY 23, 2019

Full Unity 2D Game Tutorial 2019 – Mini Map Render Texture. Our Camera is still working like a normal camera, we want it to render its view to an image instead of to us the player. In order to do that we first need to make a render texture. To display our new mini map render texture we will be using the canvas UI.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 1, 2017

We will take the chance to do deep changes in Godot internals, which (while for the better) will render it incompatible with previous versions. release is discouraged - unless you want to help find and fix bugs in the development code of course. Please wait at least until we can release an Alpha! Some time before the 3.0

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Big Games

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Game development isn’t as smooth and glamorous as many newbies imagine. It comes with challenges like tight deadlines, production obstacles, publisher pressures, and long work hours, which are just a glimpse of every developer’s hurdles. Many newbies ask the question, what are the stages of game development ?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

But the "1" in beta 1 means that it's only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we're going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. Rendering: Add OpenGL timer queries to OpenGL3 backend ( GH-67032 ). Rendering: Fix drawing of 2D primitives in OpenGL3 renderer ( GH-67416 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 26, 2017

After almost one year of development, the master branch (future Godot 3.0) We are therefore releasing a first alpha snapshot for existing users to play with and report bugs. IMPORTANT: This is an alpha build, which means that it is not suitable for use in production, nor for press reviews of what Godot 3.0 game in the alpha?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 14, 2017

It's been a while since the last progress report, and there have been lots of changes in the development branch that you might not have heard of yet. Thanks for your contributions, and we hope to see you stick around and become core developers! compatible renderer can be used optimally. and WebAssembly support.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 16, 2022

Rendering: GLES2: Fix compression on blend shapes ( GH-58838 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix incorrect buffer upload size in draw_gui_primitive ( GH-58150 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader state caching when blend shapes used ( GH-58808 ) [regression fix].

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 5, 2016

For most game developers, shaders are this scary monster that presents itself with such a complexity that it seems out of reach. Properly drawing the shader in base and additive passes of forward rendering, deferred, shadow, etc. render queue position, render type such as alpha or opaque, etc.). About shaders.

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Nvidia

JUNE 21, 2023

Unreal Engine developers can get started now. Instead of manually integrating the DLSS Frame Generation libraries, you identify which resources (motion vectors, depth, and so on) are required for the desired plug-in and then trigger when to execute the plug-ins in the rendering pipeline. Plugin and Streamline 2.1

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

The main one was performance due to every light being rendered in a separate draw pass. The regular CanvasOccluders have a new option to enable them for SDF rendering. while(accum < max_dist) { float d = texture_sdf(at); accum+=d; if (d < 0.01) { break; } at += d * dir; } float alpha = 1.0-min(1.0,accum/max_dist);

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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 GUI: Fix RichTextLabel underline prevents strikethrough from rendering ( GH-56686 ). Rendering: Fix blend shapes when octahedral compression is used ( GH-56161 ).

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