Animation, Shaders and Visual Scripting

Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

Several other areas got improvements, like the editor (which has been vastly reworked), UI system, multiplayer, navigation, audio, animation, etc. Animation streaming : Modern games have long cinematics, which require a lot of animation data. Loading those animations require a lot of memory and loading them takes a lot of time.

AAA

AAA Game Development Game Developer Development

Enticing mix of genres in Ghibli-inspired The Brew Barons by Lifetap Studios

PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

As avid fans of Studio Ghibli’s animated movie Porco Rosso, Rob Hartley and Diccon Yamanaka were inspired to create a game about seaplanes flying around in a beautiful Mediterranean setting. Special plane shader With Porco Rosso being such a great source of inspiration it feels only natural to have the game also look like a Ghibli film.

Studios

Studios Prototyping Visual Scripting Art

Top Tools and Software for Creating Visual FX in Games

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.

Software

Software Simulation Sprite Animation

Godot gets a new Inspector

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2018

Sub-Resources wil open within the same list of edited properties: It also makes animation easier, as any sub-resource property can be animated transparently. Same goes for dictionaries, which can be visualized and edited within their parent objects: Future. This no longer applies to the new inspector. Named layers.

Editing

Editing Visual Scripting Animation Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track featurex ( GH-44558 ). Animation: Fix Tween active state and repeat after stop() and then start() ( GH-47142 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track featurex ( GH-44558 ). Animation: Fix Tween active state and repeat after stop() and then start() ( GH-47142 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track featurex ( GH-44558 ). Animation: Fix Tween active state and repeat after stop() and then start() ( GH-47142 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Animation: Fix Tween active state and repeat after stop() and then start() ( GH-47142 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

and included in this beta are: Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Animation: Allow renaming bones and blend shapes ( GH-42827 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

and included in this beta are: Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Animation: Allow renaming bones and blend shapes ( GH-42827 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

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, Materials and shaders. Visual Scripting. Materials and shaders. Unfortunately, the visual material editor from Godot 2.1

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Animation: Fix Tween active state and repeat after stop() and then start() ( GH-47142 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Animation: Fix Tween active state and repeat after stop() and then start() ( GH-47142 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Godot reaches 2.1 stable!

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 9, 2016

To do this, we added multiple animation support to it, and the ability of simple auto-playing of animations at a given speed without the need of using an AnimationPlayer. It will include a new visual scripting language, support for Mono (C#), high level multiplayer networking and a more advanced audio engine.

Asset

Asset Scripting Engine Engineering

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

New vertex formats allow many more custom shaders and cases to take advantage of batching than before, and optional 2D software skinning has been added which should allow using 2D skeletal animation on a far wider range of hardware than was previously available. Uģis' original proposal. Minimap support in GraphEdit.

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

Unity vs. Unreal: What to Choose for Your Game? | Moonmana

Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

However, Unreal is more optimal for 3D visuals, and Unity has a large focus and toolset for 2D animation production. Unreal Engine, on the other hand, provides a choice between C++ programming and Blueprint visual scripting. Both engines provide great capabilities to create high-quality and immersive graphics.

Engine

Engine Engineering Game Engine Games

Game Developers Network

Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Enticing mix of genres in Ghibli-inspired The Brew Barons by Lifetap Studios

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Top Tools and Software for Creating Visual FX in Games

Godot gets a new Inspector

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Godot reaches 2.1 stable!

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

Unity vs. Unreal: What to Choose for Your Game? | Moonmana

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