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From Concept to Completion: Navigating the Game Art Production Pipeline 

iXie gaming

A well-defined art style, whether realistic, stylized, or pixel-based, guides asset complexity, rendering performance, and development timelines. Why it matters: Efficient UV mapping and normal map baking allow high-detail textures to be applied to low-poly models, preserving visual fidelity without unnecessary computational overhead.

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2024 Cherry-picks

Mircosoft Game Dev

Until Then Nominated for a plethora of awards, the visual novel Until Then tells the emotional story of the highschooler Mark in polished pixel art. This years poll had more responses than ever before, once again proving the incredible growth the Godot community is experiencing. July The Godot robot plushies took the internet by storm.

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Godot 3's renderer design explained

Mircosoft Game Dev

For example: On GLES3+ we can use UBOs to optimize shader parameters. Shader abstraction. This may sound like the obvious way of doing things but, in truth, it creates a big bottleneck on allowing users to write shaders. Users need to learn not only the language, but how the engine internals work regarding shaders.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

It also adds a much-requested minimap to GraphEdit , and thus to the VisualScript and Visual Shader editors. New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ).

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

Web editor running the "Ninja Adventure" demo from the eponymous CC0 asset pack by Pixel-Boy and AAA. It was reusing parts of the code for baking GIProbes, and that made it quick but not great in terms of quality. New CPU lightmapper. The lightmapper in the previous 3.x x releases was quickly put together before the 3.0

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Android: Implement per-pixel transparency ( GH-51935 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Android: Implement per-pixel transparency ( GH-51935 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ).

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