Cocos

JANUARY 31, 2024

Exposed the mechanism for building custom panel plugins to the public, examples have been updated in the build plugin template. Editor Fixed the issue where new scripts would not run after importing a resource package. Fixed the potential freezing of the preview when scripts were frequently modified. cache could not be found.

Baking 40

Baking Texture Platformer Build 40

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 18, 2019

Improvements to the Visual Scripting System by Swarnim Arun. 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. Further optimizations will be done so it isn't necessary to process the same scripts again and again.

Ray Tracing 52

Ray Tracing Scripting Data Texture 52

The Knights of Unity

JULY 21, 2020

All of the moving obstacles have implemented different mechanics, that make player behave in a certain way. In the editor props are spawned procedurally – it took some time to organize scripts and meshes properly. Even though it doesn’t seem to be difficult, it was a bit tricky to make, especially because of the editor system.

Art 52

Art Prop Mesh Racing 52

Cocos

MAY 5, 2023

In the coming articles, I will introduce the mechanism of Cocos CRP, and explain it by taking Cocos Cyberpunk as an example. It includes three passes. DeferredGBufferPass DeferredLightingPass DeferredPostPass Pipeline Selection Next, let’s see how to decide which rendering pipeline to be used in Cocos Cyberpunk.

Render 52

Render Graphics Code Baking 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Last but not least, lightmaps baking is now done using the GPU to speed up the process significantly. Scripting them is simpler now as well. The new NavigationServer supports fully dynamic environments and on-the-fly navigation mesh baking. Sometimes user-level scripting is not enough, though. GDExtension.

Beta 52

Beta Engineering Engine Feature 52

Designer Notes

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

I gave a talk on games and meaning at GDC 2023, which is now available on YouTube: However, I fully scripted the talk ahead of time, so I decided it would be worth taking the time to post the slides online, in three parts to have mercy on your browser. One way to put this is that nobody knows anything.

Mechanics 80

Mechanics Game Design Game Designer Build 80

Game Global

JULY 12, 2021

They’re related, but the difference is this: A game writer’s primary responsibility is to promote the story that the game tells through the scripts they write. We must understand (and preferably help create and document) the game as a whole: from core mechanics to level design to cinematics, and everything in between.

Cutscenes 52

Cutscenes Writing Scripting Localization 52