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Try NVIDIA Game Development SDKs in the Interactive RTX Technology Showcase

Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

Executable and Project Files Available to Download For Game Developers and Digital Artists [link] Finding ways to improve. Executable and Project Files Available to Download For Game Developers and Digital Artists Finding ways to improve performance and visual fidelity in your games and applications is challenging.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Technology Game Developer Game Development

Essential Ray Tracing SDKs for Game and Professional Development

Nvidia

APRIL 1, 2021

Game and professional visualization developers need the best tools to create the best games and real-time interactive content. To help them achieve this goal, Game and professional visualization developers need the best tools to create the best games and real-time interactive content.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Development Baking Lightmap

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

Nvidia

DECEMBER 20, 2023

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. Now we have 500 RTX games and apps using RT or DLSS. These games shaped my love for art and real-time graphics.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Cinematics Render Baking

NVIDIA Research: Learning and Rendering Dynamic Global Illumination with One Tiny Neural Network in Real-Time

Nvidia

JUNE 22, 2021

Solving this problem through brute force requires hundreds, sometimes thousands of paths per pixel, but this is far too expensive for real-time rendering. Before NVIDIA RTX introduced real-time ray tracing to games, global illumination in games was largely static. Direct illumination alone (left) lacks indirect reflections.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Render Technology Baking

2024 Cherry-picks

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2025

What a year it has been, with the number of Godot submissions in game jams rising to new heights, more people working for the Godot Foundation than ever before , and most industry award shows featuring one if not more games made with Godot. And with that, the 2024 season comes to an end. A busy year inside the project as well.

Engineering

Engineering Engine Mechanics Co-op

VFX Breakdown Process From Concept to Final Render

Filmustage

JANUARY 16, 2025

Grab your virtual toolkit - we're about to journey through the wonderful world where imagination dances with pixels, and dreams become digital reality. Buckle up, future VFX virtuoso - this ride through the pixels is about to get exciting! It's not just the fancy pixels or mind-bending effects - it's the stories they tell!

Render

Render Concepts Pixel Scripting

Shaping the Future of Graphics with NVIDIA Technologies in Unreal Engine 5

Nvidia

APRIL 5, 2022

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. Evolving from its state-of-the-art use in game engines into a multitude of industries, creators can deliver cutting-edge content, interactive experiences, and immersive virtual worlds.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Technology Engineering Engine

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

New option to snapping 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions (new in 3.2.4 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 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). Rewritten and greatly improved FBX importer.

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Build

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 7, 2021

In particular, this build adds WebXR support for VR games! New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. WebXR support for VR games (new in beta 5). Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Optional GDNative support for HTML5.

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Build

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 11, 2020

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). Rewritten and greatly improved FBX importer.

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Render

Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

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.

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2021

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. 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 ). Optional GDNative support for HTML5.

Render

Render Bug Build Beta

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 6

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. New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. WebXR support for VR games.

Beta

Beta Dev Collision Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. 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 ). Optional GDNative support for HTML5.

Render

Render Build Bug Collision

Leveling Up Graphics and Performance with RTX, DLSS and Reflex at NVIDIA GTC

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 In version 2.0, NvRTX 4.26.1

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Graphics Render Technology

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. 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 ). Optional GDNative support for HTML5.

Render

Render Build Bug Editing

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. 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 ). Optional GDNative support for HTML5.

Render

Render Collision Build Bug

Godot 3's renderer design explained

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.

Render

Render Shaders Texture Engineering

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Android: Implement per-pixel transparency ( GH-51935 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Android: Improve input responsiveness on underpowered Android devices ( GH-42220 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Android: Implement per-pixel transparency ( GH-51935 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Android: Improve input responsiveness on underpowered Android devices ( GH-42220 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Android: Implement per-pixel transparency ( GH-51935 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Android: Improve input responsiveness on underpowered Android devices ( GH-42220 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Android: Implement per-pixel transparency ( GH-51935 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Android: Improve input responsiveness on underpowered Android devices ( GH-42220 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

From Concept to Completion: Navigating the Game Art Production Pipeline

iXie gaming

MARCH 28, 2025

Behind every immersive world lies a meticulously crafted game art pipeline, a process where raw ideas evolve into interactive, polished assets. Game art isnt just about making things look good. Whether its a photorealistic RPG or a stylized indie game, every visual element follows a structured journey from concept to integration.

Concepts

Concepts Art Texture Asset

Setting the Mood: Exploring Lighting and Mood in Game Art

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. The problem might be the lighting.

Art

Art Games Texture Culling

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Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

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