Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

features start to land in the development branch, and I'm pleased to introduce you the new NavigationServer and NavigationServer2D interfaces. Runtime navigation mesh baking. Now the NavigationRegion can be added during gameplay, and it's possible to change its transform or even bake the navigation mesh data at runtime.

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Nvidia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Branch offers all of the benefits of mainline UE4.26, while providing some additional features: Faster ray tracing NVRTX includes a number of improvements to ray tracing performance. Enables approximations that improve performance in the management of ray tracing data. NVIDIA RTX UE4.26 The new NVIDIA UE4.26

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

GDeflate: An Open GPU Compression Standard GDeflate is a high-performance, scalable, GPU-optimized data compression scheme that can help applications make use of the sheer amount of data throughput available on modern NVMe devices. Data throughput of various data compressed formats compared to varying staging buffer sizes Figure 2.

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Cocos

MAY 9, 2023

ENGINE Features ● Custom Render Pipeline based on Render Graph supports for GLES backend ● Deprecated interfaces, such as addRasterView, addComputeView, etc., Fixed Toon shader data issue on iOS Wechat. EDITOR Features ● Support for manually inputting iOS developer accounts. Cocos Creator 3.7.3 from the Cocos Dashboard.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Such maintenance releases focus on fixing bugs and not on integrating new features. GUI: Fix color modulation of the grayscale glyphs in font with mixed color / grayscale data ( GH-64745 ) [regression fix]. Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). We released Godot 3.5

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Cocos

JANUARY 31, 2024

Below are some feature improvements, issue fixes, and documentation updates in version 3.8.2. Features Engine Enhanced support for multiple lights, CSM, and multiple light shadows in the pipeline. Fixed the issue where bundle configuration was imported, and missing scene data in the bundle was not automatically completed.

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Game Dev Unchained

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

“ It feels great to not have to sit around waiting for hours to bake lightmaps. Say a competitor adds a new feature or was mentioned in the news; with Appfigures you can see if that brought in more downloads. You don’t need a large budget or a data science degree to do this kind of thing anymore. Scott Knapp.

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Game Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

So many games have that question baked into their core. Don’t bite off more than you can chew Once you have the base gameplay sorted, your next job is to decide what other features to add. That’s interesting and new gameplay for Among Us” There were plenty more features and mechanics the team considered adding.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 21, 2020

works well, we can take some time to add new features to the 3.2 The main new features in need of testing are highlighted in bold. glTF: Fix parsing base64-encoded buffer and image data ( GH-42501 , GH-42504 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). Now that we're confident that 3.2.3

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Cocos

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Download link 【120601】 Windows MacOSX Update description (partial) Engine New features / optimizations Pipeline supports multiple light sources, CSM, and multiple light shadow support. Editor New features / optimizations Optimize the display of build task time. Web pipeline enables object pooling.

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Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

relied on data to figure out what they wanted this game to be. Going the extra mile with your game and adding in just a few more features or touches does make a difference. That doesn’t mean you should add features for the sake of it. It’s awesome to see some good messaging baked into its core gameplay. And explosions.

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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. This wonderful feature needs to be included in Godot!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Such maintenance releases focus on fixing bugs and not on integrating new features. GUI: Fix color modulation of the grayscale glyphs in font with mixed color / grayscale data ( GH-64745 ) [regression fix]. Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). We released Godot 3.5

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Adding to the first beta version from last month ago, we now have even more great features coming in 3.2.4: The main new features in need of testing are highlighted in bold. glTF: Fix parsing base64-encoded buffer and image data ( GH-42501 , GH-42504 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ).

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Game Global

JULY 12, 2021

Our most important storytelling tool is not the written word: We use the game’s feature set to tell its story. We need to understand, at least at a high level, all of its features. That’s why we have to understand the feature set. Which other teams’ work will this feature affect? Localization.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 9, 2023

Dream Games has joined that list by bolstering its hold on match-3 puzzles and widening its already mass-market audience through the addition of its newest game, Royal Kingdom , which features one of the smoothest casual PvP designs in the market. Without insight into their plan and profitability, it’s pure speculation from our perspective.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

The main new features in need of testing are highlighted in bold. glTF: Fix parsing base64-encoded buffer and image data ( GH-42501 , GH-42504 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 7, 2021

This new beta 5 comes with 4 weeks' worth of bugfixes and enhancements over the previous dev snapshots, as well as some nice new features. Moreover, there have been many fixes to features introduced in previous betas, so make sure to test this build and ensure that everything works as you'd want it.

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) Leveraging the power of ray tracing, the RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) SDK provides scalable solutions to compute multi-bounce indirect lighting without bake times, light leaks, or expensive per-frame costs. Version 1.1.30 allows developers to enable, disable, and rotate individual DDGI volumes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2021

stable release to bring the numerous new features and even more important bug fixes to all Godot users. The main new features are highlighted in bold. glTF: Fix parsing base64-encoded buffer and image data ( GH-42501 , GH-42504 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). documentation.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 11, 2020

This new beta 4 adds a new round of bugfixes and enhancements over the previous dev snapshots, as well as some nice new features. The main new features in need of testing are highlighted in bold. glTF: Fix parsing base64-encoded buffer and image data ( GH-42501 , GH-42504 ). , a lot of work is also being done on the 3.2

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Game Designing

APRIL 21, 2022

However, the way that Unity has developed Cinemachine makes it streamlined, with a quick learning curve, and robust features that make it worth the investment. You can even store cinematography data so it doesn’t need to be coded directly to the Unity camera you are currently using. As of yet, there is no distributed baking.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

again I've just heard that it's possible for Aleksis to escape if this is a real feature, I guess it would feel really bad if his escape kept ruining the end of a golden loop run the weapon jamming stuff is to make Far Cry 2 nerds happy but it never really comes up COMBAT DESIGN Fast paced modern shooter feel. Loadout is 3 guns. Kind of sad.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 With this first Release Candidate , we completely freezes feature development, and comes after a long series of beta builds to fix a number of bugs reported against previous builds (as well as against previous stable branches). The upcoming Godot 3.4

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2021

release is going to be packed with many new features. The main new features in need of testing are highlighted in bold. glTF: Fix parsing base64-encoded buffer and image data ( GH-42501 , GH-42504 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). While our main focus stays on the 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 This beta 6 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 With this second Release Candidate , we have frozen feature development and are nearly ready to release the stable version. Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4 Please report any issue.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 With this third Release Candidate , we have frozen feature development and are nearly ready to release the stable version. Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4 Please report any issue.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The main new features are highlighted in bold. glTF: Fix parsing base64-encoded buffer and image data ( GH-42501 , GH-42504 ). Previously built-in iOS features like ARKit, camera support, GameCenter, ICloud and InAppStore modules are now first-party plugins which can be installed from godot-ios-plugins. documentation.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

is going to be incredibly feature-packed, and we're taking the time necessary to ensure that it will also be stable. After a lot of testing and additional work, we decided that the new 2D snapping features weren't working as we want them to yet, so they has been reverted in 3.2.4 The main new features are highlighted in bold.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

A few late features have also been included because they were too good to keep waiting (such as improved Inspector subresource editing and node copy-paste support ). The main new features are highlighted in bold. glTF: Fix parsing base64-encoded buffer and image data ( GH-42501 , GH-42504 ). Godot 3.2.4 documentation.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 19, 2021

The version change doesn't mean that we're reopening the branch for new features, and so Godot 3.3 The main new features are highlighted in bold. glTF: Fix parsing base64-encoded buffer and image data ( GH-42501 , GH-42504 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). stable version).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2021

The main new features are highlighted in bold. glTF: Fix parsing base64-encoded buffer and image data ( GH-42501 , GH-42504 ). Previously built-in iOS features like ARKit, camera support, GameCenter, ICloud and InAppStore modules are now first-party plugins which can be installed from godot-ios-plugins. documentation.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Retrieving data from VisualServer is slow, as it may need synchronization. We can also access newer GL features via extensions, so we don't miss much. A very harcoded way of passing user data to shaders is often used. This allows beautiful mixing between baked and real-time. This may change in the future, though.

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Game Design Advice

JUNE 5, 2016

If we can describe what makes certain problems interesting in this particular way then we may learn something about “interestingness” in general, about the difference between data and meaning. Could it be that one of these features simply is the property we’re looking for? So what exactly are these features?

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