Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 12, 2024

Once upon a time, back when all cutscenes were pre-rendered FMV, it was tremendously expensive to make changes because making any small change required re-rendering the entire video which was enormously expensive. For the specific assets used in the cinematic, it depends on what it costs to make those new assets.

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Nvidia

MARCH 1, 2023

Most game engines also require multiple levels of asset detailing, which requires the use of multiple assets and leads to additional production and running costs. The solution also enables users to fill objects in with color, paint over them with an RBG brush, or cover regions with physically based rendering (PBR) materials.

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CG Spectrum

JANUARY 26, 2023

3D lighting involves simulating the behavior of light in a real-world or fantasy situation, including shadows, reflections, highlights, and color, using specialized lighting software and rendering tools. Scene from the 3D animation Finding Nemo before and after its been lit and rendered by a 3D lighting artist (Image: Pixar).

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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. We previously removed *_degrees properties from 2D and 3D objects in favor of making editing degrees easier in the Inspector.

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Filmustage

JANUARY 10, 2025

VFX studios use specialized software and animation techniques from early planning to final rendering. Asset Creation and Development The asset creation phase builds all digital elements needed in the final composition. VFX merges live-action footage with computer-generated imagery to produce spectacular scenes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 28, 2021

If you are following me on Twitter (where I post my progress on different Godot features I work on), you might have noticed that I took a two month break from rendering to work on many long standing editor improvements and features. Improved Subresource Editing. New 3D asset import workflow. With the new inspector in Godot 3.1,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2015

As many of you know, Vulkan will be the next open and multi platform rendering 2D and 3D API. As this will be undoubtedly the new, de facto, 3D API for games, all work on improving the current 3D renderer has been halted until drivers and API reference are published (which will be this year at some point). Waiting for Vulkan.

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Filmustage

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Provides flexible data management through direct Excel editing capabilities, enabling teams to customize and refine VFX planning documents. Modern VFX pipelines now include real-time rendering capabilities. Breaking Down Environment Assets VFX environment creation starts with careful asset breakdown and proper setup.

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Nvidia

JULY 22, 2021

Collaboration and simulation platform simplifies complex challenges like multi-app workflows, facial animation, asset searching, and building proprietary tools. Collaboration and simulation platform simplifies complex challenges like multi-app workflows, facial animation, asset searching, and building proprietary tools.

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Cocos

DECEMBER 7, 2023

a restart is required to ensure the registration of.shadergraph assets. Creating Asset Right-click in the Assets panel, select Create/Shader Graph to create a.shadergraph asset. Surface (Surface Shader) Unlit (Unlit Shader) Double-click the asset to enter the editing panel. In future versions >= 3.8.3,

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Logic Simplified

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

3D architectural visualization gives the viewer a graphical representation of the object, assets, and the environment from different sides and angles allowing them to evaluate in detail all the parts of interest and the entire future structure, as opposed to 2D drawings and sketches. It adds that extra level of photorealism to your projects.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Edit: When this post was written we were slightly below our second goal of $4,500 - thanks to a soon-to-be-announced Platinum sponsor, we already reached this second goal and are well on our way to the third one! without recompiling the engine (and which can be simply downloaded from our asset library). More hands in rendering.

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Jaunty Bear Games

APRIL 5, 2023

Unity provides a robust 2D and 3D rendering engine, with advanced lighting and shading options. Godot also has a strong 2D and 3D rendering engine, with support for real-time lighting, particles, and physics simulations. In contrast, Unity requires the use of external tools like Visual Studio or MonoDevelop for coding.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

which did in fact improve 2D rendering considerably. Previously, only the root node of a scene was editable. It is now possible to edit any children node of the instanced scene and have the changes persist. Even sub-instances of instances can be edited with persistent modifications. Multiple scene editing.

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Filmustage

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Your post-production budget needs solid planning that covers everything from editing and sound design to visual effects and color grading. A well-equipped facility has mixing stages for sound work, ADR (Automated Dialog Replacement) rooms for voice recording, and dedicated editing bays for picture work.

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Cocos

APRIL 14, 2023

1、 Comprehensive TPS gameplay framework 2、 A reusable implementation of Custom Render Pipeline 3、 Forward & Deferred Rendering, PostProcessing 4、 Usage of Reflection Probes 5、 Static Occlusion Culling 6、 Compatible with High-end, Mid-end and Low-end devices In this article, we will locate the files that correspond to the features above.

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Big Games

JANUARY 30, 2024

Features and Tools Graphics and Rendering Capabilities Graphics and Rendering Capabilities are essential in game design software because of its graphics and rendering capabilities. Choose software with robust asset management tools to streamline the development process.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 9, 2016

The most important ones are: New asset sharing platform. comes with our new asset sharing platform, the Asset Library. The idea is that users can post assets, scripts, addons, etc. The idea is that users can post assets, scripts, addons, etc. Your feedback to make the asset library awesome is vital!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 12, 2022

macOS/iOS: LLVM 14 - Edit: Seems like macOS doesn't like LLVM 14, it's crashing. Core: Implement placeholder assets ( GH-60583 ). Rendering: Add dithering to ProceduralSkyMaterial to combat banding ( GH-60070 ). Rendering: A lot of refactoring work behind the scenes, and work in progress on OpenGL 3 (not usable yet).

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The Liquid Fire

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Edit Blocks. You could edit them one by one, but that would not scale well, especially if you had dozens or more blocks to fix. Unity does actually have a feature that allows you to perform a bulk edit. Unfortunately, some of the changes that you might want to make will not be supported by a bulk edit, such as in custom editors.

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iXie gaming

JULY 23, 2023

The most recent release of Unity comes equipped with an in-built 2D engine and a vast library of assets, making it easier for developers to create games in that dimension. Extensive Asset Store The Asset Store in Unity offers a diverse selection of downloadable content that may be used to improve games.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Unity Asset Store Unity Asset Store was launched in 2010. This feature further simplifies mobile game development by allowing developers to download or purchase various tools, assets, scripts, and plugins. Unity’s Asset Store is a great time saver. This allows developers to turn their vision into reality in no time.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

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 After meeting the initial goal, we hired karroffel to continue her work on GDNative (more about this below) and work on a new rendering backend. New asset workflow.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Some big changes since the previous beta are the promotion of object validity checks to release builds (no more "dangling pointers" release surprises), initial support for Android Play Asset Delivery , and a new ACES Fitted high quality tonemapper. Android: Add initial support for Play Asset Delivery ( GH-52526 ). Highlights.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 4, 2019

Because of this, a new way to implement pseudo 3D was added to the 2D engine, so the same results can be obtained with pure 2D programming, making it much easier to develop this type of games while using all the existing 2D tools (and assets) Godot provides. Everything that is a child or grandchild of it will render on this layer.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

The team is currently working on: A UI for editing the OpenXR action map. Variable Rate Shading support to enable foveated rendering on all platforms. This will provide significant rendering performance improvements, and will also be available for non-VR usage eventually. The plugin can be downloaded from the Asset Library.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

in January 2020, we switched the development focus towards the upcoming Godot 4.0 , which is a major, compatibility-breaking rewrite of the engine's core and rendering. Dynamic BVH for rendering and GodotPhysics. Rendering: Unified 2D batching. More rendering improvements. Improved Inspector sub-resource editing.

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The Liquid Fire

JULY 26, 2023

In this lesson we will fix that by creating some project assets which can be used to load that panel. It is a simple matter to save a project asset. This means you can use the file menu to create instances: Assets -> Create -> Sample Data. If you’ve ever made a Prefab then you’ve already done it.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

A single shot or asset will often travel through numerous artists and multiple departments before being finalized. As an asset takes shape, it must be presented in a turntable so its look can be properly inspected and approved or given notes by relevant supervisors or clients. So, where do you fit into the production pipeline?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Portal occlusion culling. More rendering improvements. Platforms: Android: Scoped storage, Play Asset Delivery, input responsiveness. Assets pipeline: Export 3D scenes as glTF. More rendering improvements. While there's so much rendering work being done for Godot 4.0, Frame delta smoothing.

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The Liquid Fire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

For Renderer, I chose Forward+ because I think it is somewhere between URP and HDRP. The last value we need to change is the roughness to 1(the opposite of the Unity tutorial where we set smoothness to 0) In the Inspector where we are editing the material, there is a save icon at the top.

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Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

Dimensions: This platform focuses on AI-powered 3D asset creation. Set key parameters for your model, like size, shape, or complexity, and Kaidim will automatically adjust the geometry as you make edits. Browse by category, search by keyword, or filter by license type to find assets that fit your needs.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

GLES3 renderer). Android: Add initial support for Play Asset Delivery ( GH-52526 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Highlights.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

GLES3 renderer). Android: Add initial support for Play Asset Delivery ( GH-52526 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Highlights.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 4, 2021

glTF 2.0 ( GL Transmission Format ) is a fully open-source, widely implemented interchange format with built-in support for physically-based rendering standards. We hope that this makes our lives better with asset pipelines for 3D. as THE standard asset exchange format for game engines. What is glTF 2.0?

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The Liquid Fire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Board Data Let’s begin by creating a ScriptableObject that can live as a project asset and hold all the information we will need to represent a board for our combatants to fight upon. This asset will be sort of abstract data, and can be “skinned” with specific tiles at a later point.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Notable changes are in-editor class reference translations (so far Chinese (Simplified), Spanish, and some French), some new rendering features (high quality glow mode, 3D point light attenuation option), and a number of C# marshalling fixes. Android: Add initial support for Play Asset Delivery ( GH-52526 ).

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