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What is Level of Detail (LOD) in 3D Modeling? | Techniques & software

CG Spectrum

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

3D modelers apply many processes to improve the look and usability of their assets when creating the characters, props, and sets that feature in your favorite video games and films. It helps reduce the amount of detail by simplifying polygons and textures as they get further away from the camera. will be required.

Software

Software Polygon Baking Texture Mapping

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 30, 2025

feature freeze, so our energy has been focused on addressing any new regressions or the aforementioned bugs. 3D: Add flag to enable use of accurate path tangents for polygon rotation in CSGPolygon3D ( GH-94479 ). Rendering: Bake UV2 emission using half float in the compatibility backend ( GH-101730 ). feature release.

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Beta Dev Bug Baking

Strategies for Optimizing Multiplayer Games in Unity

Logic Simplified

APRIL 4, 2025

Choosing the Right Networking Solution Unity offers multiple networking solutions, but selecting the right one depends on the game's complexity, player count, and required features. Non-interactive objects should have their physics features disabled through Rigidbody.isKinematic and Collider.enabled settings. Look no further!

Games

Games Texture Render Balance

D2 log 057 – Tiles, pt.2

Catnip Games

MARCH 19, 2022

I got rid of that and switched to a polygon based approach which plugs into Box2D. Material polygons are created as invisible objects in Blender and exported into the game. They are now baked into tiles, so map editing is much easier. I also changed the way fences are placed on the map.

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Tile Polygon Baking Texture

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

has been in beta for over three months , and the overall feature completeness, stability and usability have improved a lot during that time. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 3D: Switch Mesh surface indexing to start at 0 so string name matches integer index ( GH-70176 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Shaders

Godot 4.0 will get a new, modernized lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 8, 2020

Features of the new Godot 4.0 Most scenes bake in seconds instead of minutes or hours. branch uses state of the art algorithms to ensure the maximum possible quality: Bakes geometry to lightmap coordinates using the actual rendering code, so any existing shader or material works. Allows baking dynamic and static lights.

Lightmap

Lightmap Baking Render Shaders

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

Nvidia

MAY 26, 2021

UE5 represents a generational leap in both workflows and visual fidelity, extending the engine’s support for DirectX Raytracing, NVIDIA DLSS, and NVIDIA Reflex, and adding new features such as Nanite and Lumen that make it faster and easier for games to implement photorealistic visuals, large open worlds and advanced animation and physics.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Engine Engineering Content

5 Factors Which Vary Unreal Engine 5 from Unreal Engine 4

iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Game developers looking to push the boundaries of what is possible in their games will find that Unreal Engine 5 offers a suite of powerful tools and features to help them achieve their vision. Features The Unreal Engine, which was written in C++, is highly portable and supports a variety of systems.

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Engine Engineering Polygon Advertising

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 26, 2016

Waiting for Vulkan, waiting for WebAssembly, waiting for C#, waiting for advanced 3D editor features. It won't just happen that hundreds of lines of class descriptions are written by the core devs; their time is much better spent developing the great features we are all so fond of waiting for. waiting for Godot! Current status.

Demo

Demo Polygon Baking Feature

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

has been in beta for over three months , and the overall feature completeness, stability and usability have improved a lot during that time. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 3D: Switch Mesh surface indexing to start at 0 so string name matches integer index ( GH-70176 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Shaders

Godot's new renderer, progress report #3

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Improve Culling: Portals (rewrite as polygon-based) and Rooms. It must be pre-baked for dynamic scenario geometry, but it offers support for full dynamic lights and dynamic objects. The last remaining big feature is the new particle system, then everything else is simpler, and includes cleaning up the implemented techniques.

Render

Render Baking Lightmap Shaders

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 2022

This new system uses an "ubershader" (big shader supporting all features, slow but compiled on startup) to fill in for all shaders initially while the more efficient and material-specific shaders get compiled asynchronously, and cached for future runs. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. What is it?

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. This beta 4 is a small update with just 83 commits excluding merges, focusing on fixing bugs to stabilize the current feature set for 3.5 Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Like with 4.0

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. This feature is disabled by default, and can be enabled in the Project Settings. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. back in 2020!

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. This feature is disabled by default, and can be enabled in the Project Settings. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. back in 2020!

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2022

beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. This beta adds what should be the last batch of new features (together with a lot of bug fixes, as that's our focus at this stage), with scene unique node names and the new SceneTreeTween backported from Godot 4.0.

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2022

beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. We're getting closer to the Godot 3.5

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. Then smix8 took over the custody of this area, fixing a lot of bugs and improving the feature set greatly, with the help of Pawel Lampe ( Scony ).

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

is out and it comes fully packed with features and quality of life improvements! Most of work was aimed at implementing missing features or fixing bugs which are critical for publishing 2D and 3D games with Godot 3.x, x, and at making the existing features more optimized and reliable. After 9 months of development, Godot 3.5

Shaders

Shaders Render Feature Mesh

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. This feature is disabled by default, and can be enabled in the Project Settings. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. back in 2020!

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. The upcoming Godot 3.5 What is it?

Render

Render Shaders Console Culling

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 17, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. and provide the missing features that 3.5 You can move the polygon with the node transform, drag the corners to reshape it, add delete points.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. stable for all users.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. stable for all users.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

support, Bullet as the 3D physics engine, and many other features which are described in depth below. which would have included new multiplayer networking, visual scripting and many other improvements) because we realized that projects using the new features would no longer work in 3.0, New features of Godot 3.0.

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

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What is Level of Detail (LOD) in 3D Modeling? | Techniques & software

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 2

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Strategies for Optimizing Multiplayer Games in Unity

D2 log 057 – Tiles, pt.2

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Godot 4.0 will get a new, modernized lightmapper

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

5 Factors Which Vary Unreal Engine 5 from Unreal Engine 4

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Godot's new renderer, progress report #3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 4

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 5

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 5

Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 7

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 4

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 2

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

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