Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 14, 2025

Animation: Fix missing process_state error in blend spaces ( GH-104018 ). Rendering: Add ASTC HDR format variants ( GH-102777 ). Rendering: Fix voxelizer normals ( GH-102893 ). Rendering: Fix 2D quad primitive missing lighting data in GLES3 renderer ( GH-102908 ). if something that worked fine in previous 4.x

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

has an entirely new rendering architecture, which is divided into modern and compatibility backends. The modern one does rendering via RenderingDevice (which is implemented in drivers such as Vulkan, Direct3D 12, and more in the future). Rendering is significantly more efficient in Godot 4.0, Low level rendering access.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Animation: Fix incomplete FPS spinbox display in sprite frames editor ( GH-101798 ). Export: Disable Metal and Vulkan renderers in simulator builds. Rendering: 2D: Fix clip children and rendering artefacts ( GH-102161 ). Rendering: Add loop annotations to ubershaders to prevent loop unrolling ( GH-102480 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 21, 2025

Animation: Fix console errors and crash in cleanup code for PhysicalBoneSimulator3D ( GH-103921 ). Animation: Fix rest translation space in LookAtModifier3D ( GH-104217 ). Rendering: Vulkan: Disable layers in editor deemed buggy by RenderDoc ( GH-104154 ). if something that worked fine in previous 4.x

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The cover illustration is from Tiny Pasture , an endearing literal desktop pet that has cute pixel art animals grazing at the bottom of your screen while you do other things. Developed by CaveLiquid ( Bluesky , website ), the game was just released on Steam. Porting: Fix Embedded Game startup location on Windows ( GH-103021 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 8, 2025

Fragment density map support When rendering for VR headsets, the pixels around the outside of the viewport are less important, because they will be somewhat distorted by the lens, and players will tend to turn their head rather than move their eyes too far from the center. 3D: Allow customizing debug color of Path3D ( GH-82321 ).

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Game From Scratch

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Released The Unigine game engine just released Unigine 2.18. This release is packed with new features including Direct3D 12 and Vulkan being default renderers, massive performance improvements across the board, new animation and rendering tools and much more. GameFromScratch.com Unigine 2.18

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Add track validator to AnimationPlayerEditor to detect tracks which have error ( GH-68770 ). Animation: Refactor process of animation to retrive keys more exactly ( GH-69336 ). Rendering: Properly remap roughness when reading from radiance map ( GH-69514 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: Animated sprites, both 2D and 3D, now support options for more precise timing of individual frames ( GH-65609 ). More engine enums are now bound with BitField, making their usage more type-safe, especially in C# ( GH-71037 , GH-71045 , GH-71116 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: A lot of bug fixes and improvements in these areas particularly, check out the PRs listed below: Animation, Navigation, GDScript, Rendering. So with this beta release *_degrees properties are restored for use in code and animations ( GH-70263 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Tokage greatly optimized the animation blend tree process, which should give a nice performance boost on complex animations ( GH-68593 ). Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Optimize animation blend tree process ( GH-68593 ). Rendering: Fix Variable Rate Shading issues ( GH-68710 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

Flag dirty dependencies when GeometryInstance dependencies change in renderer ( GH-71581 ). Fix a handful of regressions from some of the bigger input and animation changes merged for beta 15. The illustration picture for this article is from Halls of Torment , a roguelite action RPG with retro late-90s pre-rendered 2D graphics.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 2023

Animation: Tweak the name for new animations in the editor ( GH-48570 ). Animation: Add next/reset function to AnimationStateMachine ( GH-71264 ). Animation: Allow AnimationStateMachine / AnimationNode to restart when transitioning to the same state ( GH-71418 ).

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Imagine developing a character of your choice and rendering it with actions and movements that breathe life into your world of storytelling. In this multimedia era, games are such an intertwined part of people’s lives that they want them to be realistic and charismatic. This makes it easier to identify and animate objects in Unity.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

A refactor of Animation APIs to change the stop(reset: bool) to two separate stop() and pause() methods ( GH-71218 ), as was heavily requested by the community. As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Split pause() from AnimationPlayer's stop() ( GH-71218 ).

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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. This may change in the future, though.

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Big Games

MARCH 28, 2025

In todays dynamic game development world, animation plays a vital role in defining player experiences and shaping game aesthetics. From the pixelated classics of the 80s to todays immersive and realistic graphics, animation has redefined the gaming experience. How did 2D and 3D Animation Evolve in Gaming?

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Game From Scratch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Unreal Engine 5.3 Released Epic Games have just released Unreal Engine 5.3. The popular Unreal game engine gets several new improvements with the 5.3 Released Read More The post Unreal Engine 5.3 Released appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2023

Unfortunately, we also have to rollback one of the core animations features. This decision allows us to better focus efforts of the Animation team on stabilizing other features. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Reset animation on playback stop ( GH-33733 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Animation: Add "Trimming" option to cut un-keyed timeline before first key in glTF animation ( GH-68665 ). Rendering: Vulkan: Improve logic for detecting and tracking extensions ( GH-68833 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Fix drawing of Mesh2D ( GH-69135 ). Android: Enable GLES3 support ( GH-69355 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: Animated sprites, both 2D and 3D, now support options for more precise timing of individual frames ( GH-65609 ). More engine enums are now bound with BitField, making their usage more type-safe, especially in C# ( GH-71037 , GH-71045 , GH-71116 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: A lot of bug fixes and improvements in these areas particularly, check out the PRs listed below: Animation, Navigation, GDScript, Rendering. So with this beta release *_degrees properties are restored for use in code and animations ( GH-70263 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 7, 2018

The existing animation system in Godot was already one of the most powerful of any game engine, but its age was starting to show (it was written 10 years ago and barely improved). Animation editing was one of the first distinctive Godot features. All is done transparently by simply animating property states.

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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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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The idea of using a game engine for projects other than creating video games is not new. For decades, game engines have been used to create applications, simulations and more. These use cases include architecture visualization, cinema, animation and cutscene rendering. What is Movie Maker mode for?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

A refactor of Animation APIs to change the stop(reset: bool) to two separate stop() and pause() methods ( GH-71218 ), as was heavily requested by the community. As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Split pause() from AnimationPlayer’s stop() ( GH-71218 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 2, 2017

alpha1, users need more content to test with the new 3D engine. Sites like Sketchfab provide plenty of PBR-ready assets for downloading, and plugins that export scenes from other popular game engines to this format. The surprise, though, is how good this format is for video game asset exchange. Great animation support.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The idea of using a game engine for projects other than creating video games is not new. For decades, game engines have been used to create applications, simulations and more. These use cases include architecture visualization, cinema, animation and cutscene rendering. What is Movie Maker mode for?

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Cocos

JUNE 11, 2023

Render Graph The Render Pipeline customization based on Render Graph will be officially available to developers in version 3.8. It will support the implementation of engine builtin Custom Pipeline and the default Deferred Pipeline. There are already many well-known Cocos games published on the platform on their own.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The character asset and animation are from GDQuest's "godot-3d-mannequin" project and the ground texture is from Kenney's "Prototype Textures" bundle. What is happening here is that the positions are being downcast into single-precision floats before being sent to the GPU for rendering.

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CG Spectrum

DECEMBER 15, 2022

I currently work at a game company called Directive Games as a technical artist where I first learned the general workflow of creating games and how to use a game engine. Hanny's adaptation of the Paris, Texas scene in Unreal Engine. I am originally from China and recently moved to Iceland.

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iXie gaming

JUNE 28, 2024

Spine Spine is the best tool for 2D skeletal animation. It has a flexible system that uses bones to create smooth and expressive animations, which can be easily reused and customized. DragonBones DragonBones is a strong tool for 2D skeletal animation, focusing on making the work process easy and quick.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 23, 2017

In game engines, for performance, vertices have, instead, a list of bones they are affected by and how much. This is done usually by two attributes in the vertex array "bone indices" and "bone weights" Attributes are limited to vectors of four (vec4) maximum and no game engine that I know crosses this limit.

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Logic Simplified

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Our Gaming Solutions Can Transform Your Next Gaming Project In the competitive gaming industry, our services and solutions maximize the chances of a game’s success by focusing on the features, functionalities, and overall quality of the game. Read more on how we do that.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The character asset and animation are from GDQuest’s “godot-3d-mannequin” project and the ground texture is from Kenney’s “Prototype Textures” bundle. What is happening here is that the positions are being downcast into single-precision floats before being sent to the GPU for rendering.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

3D Modelling 3D Animation FX Concept Art 2D Animation Game Design Game Programming 3D Modelling: Shaping Virtual Worlds “3D modelling is a rewarding career where you get to bring concepts and 2D imagery to life, sculpting personality and story into characters, objects, and environments.

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Logic Simplified

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Architectural visualization has existed since the time of ancient civilizations and has now been revolutionized with the Unreal Engine and its cutting-edge functions and features. Unreal engine is a gaming engine that is powerful, reliable, and high on performance for architectural designs.

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