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From Concept to Completion: Navigating the Game Art Production Pipeline

iXie gaming

MARCH 28, 2025

Behind every immersive world lies a meticulously crafted game art pipeline, a process where raw ideas evolve into interactive, polished assets. Game art isnt just about making things look good. In the early days of game development, creating assets was a fragmented, time-consuming process.

Concepts

Concepts Art Texture Asset

Game Development – New Resources from GTC 21

Nvidia

JUNE 4, 2021

Integrating RTX has never been easier – gain access through popular game engines such as Unreal Engine or through standalone SDKs. You’ll learn how to leverage Nucleus for collaboration, AI for asset tagging, and USD and MDL for ground truth content creation and lighting using ray tracing.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Game Developer Game Development Development

The Complete Guide To Lighting In Unreal Engine

Awesome Tuts

JANUARY 2, 2023

Lights are one of the most important part of any game. With lights you can create a different athmosphere and make your games look stunning. Unreal Engine has the most advanced lighting system out of all game engines. But if a character passes in front of baked light it will not display his shadow at all.

Engineering

Engineering Engine Point and Click Baking

Making a Top Gun and Star Wars-inspired fan film in Unreal Engine

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. The shell of the station and the asteroids came from a mining station asset that I found while trawling through Unreal Engine Marketplace. Staying organized.

Film

Film Engineering Engine Rigging

Cocos Creator 3.8 Community Beta is now available

Cocos

JUNE 11, 2023

Google Play Games on PC Platform Support At this year’s Google IO conference, Google Play Games on PC and the large-screen experience received significant attention as Android platform updates. There are already many well-known Cocos games published on the platform on their own. AGP upgraded to 8.0.2. AGP upgraded to 8.0.2.

Beta

Beta Lightmap Render Animation

Accelerating Load Times for DirectX Games and Apps with GDeflate for DirectStorage

Nvidia

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

We’re looking forward to next-generation game engines benefiting from GDeflate by dramatically reducing loading times. Resource streaming and data compression Today’s video games feature extremely detailed interactive environments, requiring the management of enormous assets. a modern I/O streaming API from Microsoft.

Tile

Tile Data Content Games

Enhancing Mobile Game Performance: Essential VFX Techniques for Visual Excellence

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.

Mobile Gaming

Mobile Gaming Mobile Mobile Texture

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

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. Web editor running the "Ninja Adventure" demo from the eponymous CC0 asset pack by Pixel-Boy and AAA. New CPU lightmapper.

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

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 New asset workflow. SVG support.

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

GSoC 2019 progress report #1 (part 2)

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.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Scripting Data Texture

How to Use Unity Cinemachine Virtual Cameras

Game Designing

APRIL 21, 2022

One of the common comments Unity users make, especially when it comes to adding Cinemachine as a plug-in, is that the program doesn’t seem to hang or lag, even when you have a number of experiments running, especially while importing assets. Importing assets is not just accurate, it is quick. As of yet, there is no distributed baking.

Animation

Animation Animation Code Software

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

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. Previous versions of the engine provided users with a powerful, but obscured mechanism for preparing imported 3D assets.

Beta

Beta Engineering Engine Feature

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Android: Add initial support for Play Asset Delivery ( GH-52526 ). Android: Add initial support for Play Asset Delivery ( GH-52526 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). The main changes coming in Godot 3.4 iOS: Support multiple plist types in plugin ( GH-49802 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Android: Add initial support for Play Asset Delivery ( GH-52526 ). Android: Add initial support for Play Asset Delivery ( GH-52526 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). The main changes coming in Godot 3.4 Input: Exposed setters for sensor values ( GH-53742 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Android: Add initial support for Play Asset Delivery ( GH-52526 ). Android: Add initial support for Play Asset Delivery ( GH-52526 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). The main changes coming in Godot 3.4 Input: Expose Input::flush_buffered_events() [link].

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Android: Add initial support for Play Asset Delivery ( GH-52526 ). Android: Add initial support for Play Asset Delivery ( GH-52526 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). The main changes coming in Godot 3.4 Input: Expose Input::flush_buffered_events() [link].

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

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

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

GSoC 2019 progress report #1 (part 2)

How to Use Unity Cinemachine Virtual Cameras

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

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