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Setting the Mood: Exploring Lighting and Mood in Game Art

iXie gaming

JULY 19, 2024

Tips for Aspiring Game Artists Whether you’re new to game art or have years of experience, mastering lighting can greatly enhance your creativity and storytelling. Here are some key tips: Lighting as a Core Element Treat lighting as a vital part of your game’s visual design, not an afterthought. Join Groups.

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Art Games Texture Culling

Delores Source Code Released!

Grumpy Gamer

MAY 25, 2020

I'm sure everyone is getting tired of playing Animal Crossing, and what better way to exercise your grey-matter than modding your favorite game. Not only did I upload all the source, but I also uploaded all the art and the entire FMOD project (many thanks to FMOD). Releasing the engine source (c++) is problematic for a few reasons.

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Delores Source Code Released!

Grumpy Gamer

MAY 24, 2020

I’m sure everyone is getting tired of playing Animal Crossing, and what better way to exercise your grey-matter than modding your favorite game. But wait… there’s more… (wait for oohs and ahhs) Not only did I upload all the source, but I also uploaded all the art and the entire FMOD project (many thanks to FMOD).

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Code Release Code Engineering Engine

Godot's new renderer, progress report #2

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 3, 2016

Improve Culling: Portals (rewrite as polygon-based) and Rooms. Other popular game engines present hard edges between one probe and the next. It works well to simulate cloth or Mario-Galaxy style art. TODO for Milestone #3 (December 2016). Implement the new version of the Godot SVO-based Light Baker.

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Render Engineering Engine Simulation

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. Rendering: Add option for snapping 2D transforms to whole coordinates, for pixel art motion ( GH-43554 ). Rendering: Various fixes to light culling ( GH-46694 ). Rewritten and greatly improved FBX importer.

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Render Collision Build Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 17, 2022

Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

stable branch in January 2020 as a major update to our free and open source game engine. Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Godot contributors released the Godot 3.2 But Godot 4.0 CSG: Various bug fixes ( GH-38011 ).

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Debug Point and Click Bug Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

After more than 18 months of development, all Godot Engine contributors are proud to present our biggest release so far, Godot 3.0! It brings a brand new rendering engine with state-of-the-art PBR workflow for 3D, an improved assets pipeline, GDNative to load native code as plugins, C# 7.0 Bullet Physics backend.

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Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

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Setting the Mood: Exploring Lighting and Mood in Game Art

Delores Source Code Released!

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Delores Source Code Released!

Godot's new renderer, progress report #2

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 4

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 4

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 5

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 7

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

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