Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 30, 2025

The cover illustration is from The Roottrees are Dead , a detective game where you piece together a family trees billion-dollar paper trail through the power of a dial-up modem! You can buy the game on Steam , and follow the developer on BlueSky. Editor: Add editor setting to globally override project game mode settings ( GH-101283 ).

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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. Types Of Light In Unreal Engine. And lastly we have the Sky light. Directional Light.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2021

Notably, Windows users could experience crashes when baking lightmaps. Games exported with a ZIP data package could also trigger a crash on exit. Additionally, this release includes a number of non-regression bug fixes to various areas of the engine. was thus subject to this crash when baking lightmaps.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

using the Movie Maker mode , for the main menu of the upcoming FRANZ FURY game (made with Godot 3.x). Core: Add feature tags to signify engine float precision ( GH-69538 ). Core: Handle corner cases for curve baking ( GH-69726 ). The illustration picture for this article is from Raffaele Picca 's car scene , rendered in Godot 4.0

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In the fast-paced world of mobile game development , visual effects (VFX) play a pivotal role in creating immersive experiences that captivate players. The constraints of mobile hardware demand innovative solutions to ensure games not only look stunning but also run smoothly.

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Nvidia

AUGUST 31, 2021

The Unreal Engine RTXGI plugin has been updated, making it easy to add the latest version of this global illumination SDK (1.1.40) to your game. And NVIDIA Reflex is now a standard feature in Unreal Engine 4.27. will shorten your development cycles and help make your games look even more stunning. RTXGI 1.1.40

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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.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Trying to hide loading in a game by forcing a player to shimmy. Trying to hide loading in a game by forcing a player to shimmy through narrow passages or take extremely slow elevators breaks immersion. The current Game Ready Driver (version 526.47) contains NVIDIA RTX IO technology, including optimizations for GDeflate.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

The game is currently being ported to Godot 4.0 Follow Kenny Park on Twitter or Mastodon for development updates, and check his website to discover other games and applications. Navigation: Fix for navmesh baking when parsing StaticBody colliders ( GH-70904 ). What’s new. OpenXR: Add Pico controller profile ( GH-70167 ).

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Nvidia

APRIL 5, 2022

Unreal Engine is an open and advanced real-time 3D creation platform. Evolving from its state-of-the-art use in game engines into a multitude of industries, Unreal Engine is an open and advanced real-time 3D creation platform. This metric is ideal for tweaking game, OS, and GPU settings.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2020

I would like to thank hugely Matias Goldberg for his enormous help on this, our patrons for their continued support, and Tim Sweeney and Epic Games for their confidence in helping us finance our research via Epic Megagrant. Ensure your meshes are marked as "Static Bake", then enable SDFGI in the Environment settings.

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iXie gaming

JULY 19, 2024

Have you ever played a game with amazing graphics, but something just didn’t feel right? Bad lighting can make a game world feel dull and lifeless, while great lighting can make a game unforgettable by creating emotions, leading your exploration, and immersing you in a believable world. Baked Lighting.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The world of game development has seen a significant shift with the recent release of Unreal Engine 5, which promises to bring an unprecedented level of realism and interactivity to gaming experiences. With this new iteration, there are several key factors that distinguish Unreal Engine 5 from its predecessor, Unreal Engine 4.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

using the Movie Maker mode , for the main menu of the upcoming FRANZ FURY game (made with Godot 3.x). Core: Add feature tags to signify engine float precision ( GH-69538 ). Core: Handle corner cases for curve baking ( GH-69726 ). The illustration picture for this article is from Raffaele Picca ’s car scene , rendered in Godot 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). Navigation: Fix TileMaps placing baked NavigationPolygons with wrong offset without a Navigation2D node ( GH-66262 ) [regression fix]. Navigation: Fix NavigationObstacle nodes not registering to default navigation map ( GH-64372 ).

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Nvidia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

NVIDIA DLSS Plugin for UE4 NVIDIA DLSS is a deep learning neural network that boosts frame rates and generates beautiful, sharp images for your games. Enjoy great scaling across all RTX GPUs and resolutions, and the new ultra performance mode for 8K gaming. Request access to the beta for NVIDIA DLSS plugin for UE4 here.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 28, 2022

Navigation: Fix NavMesh baking on thread ( GH-59995 ). Godot is a non-profit, open source game engine developed by hundreds of contributors on their free time, and a handful of part or full-time developers, hired thanks to donations from the Godot community. GUI: RichTextLabel: Improve table cell selection ( GH-57871 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). HTML5: Move audio processing to thread when threads are enabled ( GH-42510 ). HTML5: Merged code for web editor prototype ( GH-42790 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D.

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

SDK Updates For Game Developers and Digital Artists GTC is a great opportunity to get hands-on with NVIDIA’s latest graphics technologies. SDK Updates For Game Developers and Digital Artists GTC is a great opportunity to get hands-on with NVIDIA’s latest graphics technologies. Developers can. Version 1.1.30 NvRTX 4.26.1

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2021

In game engines (or even when exported from the 3D modelling application), animation data is baked to a simpler representation because, for games, processing beziers and IKs is way too expensive for real-time. Just decoding the animation, however, is not enough.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2022

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Godot is a non-profit, open source game engine developed by hundreds of contributors on their free time, and a handful of part or full-time developers, hired thanks to donations from the Godot community.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). Navigation: Fix TileMaps placing baked NavigationPolygons with wrong offset without a Navigation2D node ( GH-66262 ) [regression fix]. Navigation: Fix NavigationObstacle nodes not registering to default navigation map ( GH-64372 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

x branch to develop and publish their games today , so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience. As such, most of the focus was on implementing missing features or bugfixes which are critical for publishing 2D and 3D games with Godot 3, and on making the existing features more optimized and reliable.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). HTML5: Merged code for web editor prototype ( GH-42790 ). HTML5: Add AudioWorklet support in multithreaded builds ( GH-43454 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). HTML5: Merged code for web editor prototype ( GH-42790 ). HTML5: Add AudioWorklet support in multithreaded builds ( GH-43454 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). Godot is a non-profit, open source game engine developed by hundreds of contributors on their free time, and a handful of part or full-time developers, hired thanks to donations from the Godot community. or earlier 3.4.x

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Godot uses a considerably different approach to rendering (and rendering abstraction) than other, popular, game engines. Ability to completely reimplement all rendering code if desired, without changing the underlying game. As great as this is, though, only very high-end and high-budget games will really make use of it.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 9, 2023

Written by Laura Taranto and Ahmetcan Demirel , both senior product leaders with vast experience in casual games. Tune in to the Deconstructor of Fun podcast where Laura co-hosts the notorious This Week in Games (TWIG) segment and make sure to read Laura’s previous analysis: Royal Match - The New King from Turkey?

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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. Anthony Koithra loved his job at a big consulting firm but couldn't shake his fascination with filmmaking. Creating realistic characters. Staying organized.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 7, 2021

In particular, this build adds WebXR support for VR games! WebXR support for VR games (new in beta 5). Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). VR: Add WebXR support for VR games ( GH-42397 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 2022

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. back in 2020! if something that worked fine in 3.4.x

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). HTML5: Merged code for web editor prototype ( GH-42790 ). HTML5: Add AudioWorklet support in multithreaded builds ( GH-43454 ). HTML5: Add optional GDNative support ( GH-44076 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2021

WebXR support for VR games. Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). VR: Add WebXR support for VR games ( GH-42397 ). Configurable amount of lights per object , now defaulting to 32 instead of 8.

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Game Designing

APRIL 21, 2022

Coding camera angles for games and animation has been a pain … Until now. In short, Unity Cinemachine opens up an entirely new world of opportunities for animation, game design and development, and directors working with virtual cameras. In short, the Unity Cinemachine is a game-changer. What Is Unity Cinemachine?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2021

New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends, which should fix some issues and improve performance significantly in games using a high number of dynamic objects. WebXR support for VR games. Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Optional GDNative support for HTML5.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. Two years ago (!),

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. Two years ago (!),

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