Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 28, 2022

Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Implement animation libraries ( GH-59980 ). Animation: Import scenes as AnimationLibrary ( GH-60177 ). Animation: Make Tween.interpolate_value() static ( GH-60331 ). Navigation: Fix NavMesh baking on thread ( GH-59995 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Animation: Fix AnimationNode has_filter not being called in scripts ( GH-64560 ). Animation: Fix potential bug with node rename in BlendTree editor ( GH-65651 ) [regression fix]. Animation: Fix crash when playing SceneTreeTween right after finishing ( GH-65896 ). Audio: Make audio thread control flags safe ( GH-64608 ).

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CG Spectrum

JANUARY 3, 2023

As the excuses he devised not to follow his passion faded, Anthony quit his full-time job to dedicate his efforts to exploring filmmaking within a game engine. So in April 2022, I quit my job to work on making animated short films full-time. After settling on Unreal Engine and attempting to learn via YouTube tutorials, etc.,

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Nvidia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Uses approximate technique of shared animations to reduce overhead for simulating a full forest. NVIDIA RTXGI Plugin for UE4 Leveraging the power of ray tracing, NVIDIA RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) provides scalable solutions to compute multi-bounce indirect lighting without bake times, light leaks, or expensive per-frame costs.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

With this new iteration, there are several key factors that distinguish Unreal Engine 5 from its predecessor, Unreal Engine 4. These factors include improvements in graphics, lighting, physics, animation, and scalability. What is the Unreal Engine? Below are some of the distinct factors between Unreal Engine 5 and 4: 1.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Animation: Fix AnimationNode has_filter not being called in scripts ( GH-64560 ). Animation: Fix potential bug with node rename in BlendTree editor ( GH-65651 ). Animation: Fix crash when playing SceneTreeTween right after finishing ( GH-65896 ). Audio: Make audio thread control flags safe ( GH-64608 ). or earlier 3.4.x

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Animation: Fix AnimationNode has_filter not being called in scripts ( GH-64560 ). Animation: Fix potential bug with node rename in BlendTree editor ( GH-65651 ) [regression fix]. Animation: Fix crash when playing SceneTreeTween right after finishing ( GH-65896 ). Audio: Make audio thread control flags safe ( GH-64608 ).

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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.

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) Leveraging the power of ray tracing, the RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) SDK provides scalable solutions to compute multi-bounce indirect lighting without bake times, light leaks, or expensive per-frame costs. Unity has announced that DLSS will be natively supported in Unity Engine version 2021.2

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In mobile game development , where hardware resources are limited, implementing LOD is essential for maintaining a balance between performance and visual fidelity. It’s also beneficial to create multiple LOD versions of assets, allowing the game engine to choose the appropriate version based on the device’s capabilities.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

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. Revamped animation editor. Use baked lightmaps instead. is not a fallback but a different platform you should target your game for.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track featurex ( GH-44558 ). Animation: Fix Tween active state and repeat after stop() and then start() ( GH-47142 ). Animation: Allow renaming bones and blend shapes ( GH-42827 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Animation: Fix Tween active state and repeat after stop() and then start() ( GH-47142 ). Animation: Allow renaming bones and blend shapes ( GH-42827 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Animation: Add option to paste animation as duplicate ( GH-60226 ). Animation: New SceneTreeTween backported from Godot 4.0 ( GH-60581 ). UWP: Fix exporting GDNative DLLs ( GH-61262 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Animation: Add option to paste animation as duplicate ( GH-60226 ). Animation: New SceneTreeTween backported from Godot 4.0 ( GH-60581 ). UWP: Fix exporting GDNative DLLs ( GH-61262 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Animation: Add option to paste animation as duplicate ( GH-60226 ). Animation: New SceneTreeTween backported from Godot 4.0 ( GH-60581 ). UWP: Fix exporting GDNative DLLs ( GH-61262 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Animation: Fix Tween active state and repeat after stop() and then start() ( GH-47142 ). Animation: Allow renaming bones and blend shapes ( GH-42827 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Animation: Fix Tween active state and repeat after stop() and then start() ( GH-47142 ). Animation: Allow renaming bones and blend shapes ( GH-42827 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2022

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Animation: Add option to paste animation as duplicate ( GH-60226 ). Animation: New SceneTreeTween backported from Godot 4.0 ( GH-60581 ). back in 2020! if something that worked fine in 3.4.x

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Animation: Add option to paste animation as duplicate ( GH-60226 ). Animation: New SceneTreeTween backported from Godot 4.0 ( GH-60581 ). UWP: Fix exporting GDNative DLLs ( GH-61262 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Last but not least, lightmaps baking is now done using the GPU to speed up the process significantly. The new NavigationServer supports fully dynamic environments and on-the-fly navigation mesh baking. Read more about animation changes in this blog post by Juan. Among them is the new animation retargeting system.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

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. It was reusing parts of the code for baking GIProbes, and that made it quick but not great in terms of quality. New CPU lightmapper.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Animation: Add option to paste animation as duplicate ( GH-60226 ). back in 2020! Android: Fix flickering issues with low processor mode ( GH-59606 ). Audio: Allow configuring loop mode on WAV import ( GH-59170 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Animation: Add option to paste animation as duplicate ( GH-60226 ). Animation: New SceneTreeTween backported from Godot 4.0 ( GH-60581 ). if something that worked fine in 3.4.x

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2022

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Animation: Add option to paste animation as duplicate ( GH-60226 ). back in 2020! Android: Fix flickering issues with low processor mode ( GH-59606 ). Audio: Allow configuring loop mode on WAV import ( GH-59170 ).

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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. They allow very high-budget games to run better and, in the long run, make the job of writing drivers MUCH simpler to hardware manufacturers. This allows beautiful mixing between baked and real-time.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 18, 2019

Here you can see the Sponza demo model, with baked direct lighting, and the corresponding light map: Note that this first pass is not taking occlusion into account yet. Godot, being an open source game engine, was built with a never-ending wish of adding new features to it. That will be added in the following weeks. Next steps.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Animation: Add option to paste animation as duplicate ( GH-60226 ). Animation: New SceneTreeTween backported from Godot 4.0 ( GH-60581 ). if something that worked fine in 3.4.x

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 17, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Animation: Add option to paste animation as duplicate ( GH-60226 ). Animation: New SceneTreeTween backported from Godot 4.0 ( GH-60581 ). if something that worked fine in 3.4.x

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

The new 3D engine is outstanding, with many features out-of-the-box that are still not common in other mainstream engines. The new 3D renderer is state-of-the-art, with features rarely see in game engines today, such as: Full principled BSDF. Just set up the probe bounds and do a fast pre-bake of static objects.

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iXie gaming

MARCH 28, 2025

Today, advancements in tools like ZBrush, Unreal Engine, and Substance Painter have revolutionized the pipeline, making it more streamlined and efficient. But how exactly does a simple sketch transform into a fully animated, game-ready asset? Smooth animation transitions for natural movement.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 30, 2025

Animation: Add validation for rotation axis to SpringBoneSimulator3D ( GH-101571 ). Animation: Clarify SpringBoneSimulator3D s gravity units and improve documentation ( GH-101652 ). Animation: Fix glitch in SpringBoneSimulator3D by storing the previous frames rotation instead of using no rotation when the axis is flipped ( GH-101651 ).

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