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APRIL 4, 2025

Use Compressed Textures : Textured images can be saved with lower resolutions while compressed formats such as ASTC and DXT1 and DXT5 reduce memory usage without quality reduction. Texture Atlasing combines multiple textures into one atlas to lower the number of texture switches that occur.

Games

Games Texture Render Balance

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

Breaking changes Animation Audio C# Core Editor GDScript Import Input Physics Platforms Rendering and shaders XR New in Beta 1! GH-91333 ) The names of imported blend shapes and animation libraries from glTF files have changed as unsupported characters are automatically removed. Highlights Many features originally intended for 4.3

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NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Associate Development Manager Co-op/Internship - Summer 2025 (Sports FC QV) Game Product Manager Intern (Summer 2025) Music Intern EA Sports FC Franchise Activation Intern Associate Character Artist Intern Client Engineer Intern Visual Effects Co-Op Associate Environment Artist Co-Op (Summer 2025) Game Design Intern (Summer 2025) Game Design Co-Op (..)

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Co-op Game Developer Game Development Development

Game art vs game design: What is the difference?

Logic Simplified

AUGUST 8, 2023

Video game artists specialize in a wide range of digital art forms, such as 2D modeling, animation, concept art and texturing. They create animations for things that are neither objects nor characters. Video game artists must be highly creative, technically skilled and artistic in painting, drawing, animation, 3D, and modeling.

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Game Design Game Designer Art Prop

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Other areas: Animation "reset" track. Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). now defaults to using it for lossless texture compression instead of PNGs, thanks to work from Morris Arroad ( mortarroad ). import folder to force a reimport of all lossless compressed textures using WebP.

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The Best 3D Art Outsourcing Studios in the Industry

iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

They provide comprehensive art outsourcing services, which include character/environment art, level design, in-game animations, 3D modeling, 2D concept art, and more. Specialties: – Game Development, Motion Capture, Art Outsourcing, 3D Animation, 2D Animation, VR, Concept Art, and Co-Development. Bosi Art Studio.

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Art Studios Animation Animation

“Put that planet to the left!”

Played with Fire

DECEMBER 4, 2021

So today we’re going to talk about UX (user experience) in virtual reality games and tell you about the most interesting solutions we used in our game Stargaze! Good UX practices for VR. That’s why we gathered all the best UX practices we know, all based on the example of Stargaze. . ✓ States of interactive objects.

UX

UX Puzzle Animation Animation

A comprehensive guide to in-demand roles in film and games

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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Film Animation Animation Concepts

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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Builds, adjusts, and maintains animation skeletons for animators to make motions with. Sometimes called “ technical animator ”. Animator : [ Sculptor of time ]. Texture Artist : 3D wire frames need skins that make them look right in various lighting situations. Rigger : [ The skeleton master ]. Who makes them work?

Cinematics

Cinematics Writing Animation 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 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). 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 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). 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 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

See this demonstration made by MewPurPur : Improved ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ). The second part of her work has just been merged, and should significantly improve the ColorPicker’s UX. Animation: Add animation slices for individual animations ( GH-40274 ). GUI: Improve ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

See this demonstration made by MewPurPur : Improved ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ). The second part of her work has just been merged, and should significantly improve the ColorPicker's UX. Animation: Add animation slices for individual animations ( GH-40274 ). GUI: Improve ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). 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 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). 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 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). 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 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). 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 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). 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 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). 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

Tiles editor progress report #5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Merging atlases will automatically gather tiles from all atlases and create a new one with its associated new texture. Aside from a lot of bug fixes and small UX improvements, all tiles-related classes are now documented. should feature animated tiles, alongside a set of improvements to collisions. What's next.

Tile

Tile Collision Editing Alpha

Game Sound and Visual Effects Testing: A Complete Guide

iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

This should include an inventory of all game assets, from in-game sounds to character animations. Graphics quality – Assess the overall quality of models, graphics, and textures. UI/UX testing – Assess the user interface to ensure its responsive and intuitive.

Bug

Bug Games Platformer Mechanics

The Lost Ark Has Found its Way

Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Gameplay: A satisfactory and standard production As a title made within the classical Korean MMORPG framework, the core UX is similar to that of other Korean MMORPG, including character design, storyline, career system, raids, etc. However, there are not many innovative areas in the core gameplay and UX. Oily skin texture).

Cutscenes

Cutscenes Art Content Mechanics

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

2D: Pseudo 3D, Texture atlas, AStar2D. our contributor Yuri Roubinsky did a huge rework of the new visual shader's UX , and eventually assumed full maintainership of the feature. animations was greatly improved. FBX files exported from Blender with animations are partially supported. 2D: Pseudo 3D, Texture atlas, AStar2D.

Feature

Feature Render Shaders Bug

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. New CPU lightmapper. For Godot 4.0, Minimap support in GraphEdit.

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Collision Lightmap Baking Render

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