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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Add transparency support for LightmapGI Currently when baking lightmaps users have to choose between transparent objects casting shadows as if they were fully opaque, or not casting shadows at all. This has been a major limitation in both the quality of lightmap baking and the ergonomics of the lightmap baking workflow.

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How Cookie Run Bakes its Monster Revenue

Deconstructor of Fun

Developing a detailed, polished universe like this presumably took a lot of time and effort from the team, but it pays off in the end as they continuously push out more content over time for player engagement. In terms of content, the plot of Cookie Run: Kingdom advances very quickly while maintaining a grip on the details of the characters.

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Wishlist STARS REACH and its living world

Raph Koster

But it was super apparent this was a ton of work, and players just consumed the content. To go beyond that, you have to simulate. But what is really going on is that we are pulling the evolved version of how the simulation worked in UO and SWG into 3d space. Think about that word. There was no way to keep pace.

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NVIDIA RTX, Unreal Engine 5 Define Future of Game Development and Content Creation

Nvidia

Nanite intelligently streams and processes only the detail you can perceive, largely removing poly count and draw call constraints, and eliminating time-consuming work like baking details to normal maps and manually authoring levels of detail. This allows users to focus less on tedious tasks and more on creativity.

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Q&A: Real-Time Ray Tracing in a Cinematic Scene

Nvidia

Back then, cinematic-quality rendering required computer farms to slowly bake every frame. Back then, cinematic-quality rendering required computer farms to slowly bake every frame overnight—a painstaking process. Six years ago, real-time ray tracing was seen as a pipe dream.

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Updates to NVIDIA’s Unreal Engine 4 Branch, DLSS, and RTXGI Available Now

Nvidia

World position offset simulation for ray traced instanced static meshes (beta) Allows ambient motion of foliage like trees and grass. Uses approximate technique of shared animations to reduce overhead for simulating a full forest. Selectable per instance type.

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2024 Cherry-picks

Mircosoft Game Dev

Using it to check on Godot game development streamers resulted in this funny compilation both the content creators and their viewers expressed happiness that the communities they had built were being recognized by us. The PvP auto-battler with a medieval fantasy theme has quickly gained popularity with content creators! releases.

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