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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

Breaking changes Animation Audio C# Core Editor GDScript Import Input Physics Platforms Rendering and shaders XR New in Beta 1! This integration ensures developers targeting macOS or iOS can achieve excellent rendering quality and performance on supported Apple hardware. Highlights Many features originally intended for 4.3

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Beta Dev Lightmap Baking

Developer Shares Building Fabrics, Ropes, And Soft Bodies

Cocos

JUNE 14, 2023

Analysis The whole effect can be split into two parts, one for the simulation of the mesh and one for the rendering of the mesh. Rendering is even more straightforward, just use the Graphic component and draw lines directly. If I can pass this texture in between the direct rendering, then I get a 2D real fabric.

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Build Mesh Development Simulation

Pushing Unity to the Limit: How to Optimize Performance for AAA-Quality Gameplay

iXie gaming

APRIL 21, 2025

milliseconds to render visuals, process logic, handle input, run physics, and update the UI. Rendering Decisions That Preserve Visual Quality Across Devices Unitys rendering stack, URP and HDRP, offers flexibility but demands decisiveness. Great rendering doesnt mean doing more. Default settings are rarely optimal.

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AAA Asset Texture Baking

Full Unity 2D Game Tutorial 2019 – Particle Effects CPU and GPU

Game Development

JANUARY 24, 2019

The particle system was developed to be a more efficient way of rendering multiple images quickly to create effects that the normal rendering methods would not be able to do without a huge drain on computational power. Here you can set how the particle is rendered to the user. External Forces. Sub Emitters.

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Render Mesh Games Texture

How do you Choose the Best Game Design Software for your Project?

Big Games

JANUARY 30, 2024

Features and Tools Graphics and Rendering Capabilities Graphics and Rendering Capabilities are essential in game design software because of its graphics and rendering capabilities. The visual aspects of the game significantly impact player engagement and enjoyment.

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Software Game Design Game Designer Cross platform

Godot's 2D engine gets several improvements for upcoming 4.0

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

The main one was performance due to every light being rendered in a separate draw pass. Signed Distance Fields (or SDF), are one of the new trendy algorithms in 3D graphics. The regular CanvasOccluders have a new option to enable them for SDF rendering. Many of these improvements will also accelerate GLES3 and GLES2 back-ends.

Engineering

Engineering Engine Alpha Texture

Turn an Android App into a Godot Quest VR App in 3 Steps

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 31, 2022

It’s even more so if you are not familiar with graphics and game engine-related tools and technologies. A game engine to generate the environment, and power the experience (tracking, input handling, collision, physics, lighting, ambisonic audio, …). This used to be my experience. x ) made that an easy choice.

Game Engine

Game Engine Build Collision Feature

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

our lead developer Juan Linietsky moved on to developing the upcoming Vulkan renderer for Godot 4.0 which will bring a new Vulkan-based rendering backend in lieu of the current OpenGL ES 3.0 / OpenGL 3.3 The curious among you may read Juan's progress reports for details on this new architecture and rendering features implemented for 4.0

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Feature Render Shaders Bug

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

It brings a brand new rendering engine with state-of-the-art PBR workflow for 3D, an improved assets pipeline, GDNative to load native code as plugins, C# 7.0 After meeting the initial goal, we hired karroffel to continue her work on GDNative (more about this below) and work on a new rendering backend. New physically based 3D renderer.

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Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

Lesson 4: Creating and Using Scripts

Game Designing

AUGUST 23, 2023

Beyond that, scripts can be used to create graphical effects, control the physical behavior of objects, or even implement a custom AI system for characters in the game. By default, it needs to render, so it needs its mesh renderer as well as it comes with a collider by default. So we have quite a few that come from the sphere.

Scripting

Scripting Point and Click Localization Code

GSoC 2021 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 30, 2021

Skipping placeholders : People might want to know places where, due to insufficient arguments, placeholders like %s are being rendered without being replaced. Godot provides a lot of tools for game and graphic designers that can get the job done without worrying about coding! Mentor: Ernest Lee ( iFire ). PR: #49343. Introduction.

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Debug Simulation Communications Feature

The Art of 2.5D: How It’s Redefining Game Design

iXie gaming

MARCH 2, 2025

In an industry constantly pushing the boundaries of graphical fidelity, the charm of handcrafted visuals remains timeless. continues to evolve, leveraging AI, modern rendering techniques, and cutting-edge game engines to push the boundaries of game design. While 3D dominates modern game development, 2.5D merges the best of both worlds.

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Art Game Design Game Designer Hitbox

Among Us VR dev talks about how to create immersive worlds

Game Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

And many of the regular tricks that devs use to save on rendering costs are lost when building VR games. “It A collision glitch like that in a PC game that may be funny or silly is a lot more intense in VR.” You’re rendering everything twice You have two screens you’re working with. Double the screens, double the render.

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Dev Playtesting Fantasy Render

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #6

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2018

To implement these different behaviors we could do some complex operations per pixel and possibly index pixels of the skymap and surrounding objects multiple times , but because graphic programmers are very empathic creatures we don't want the PC to do more work than necessary to achieve a believable effect.

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Pixel Texture Render Shaders

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Developer Shares Building Fabrics, Ropes, And Soft Bodies

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Lesson 4: Creating and Using Scripts

GSoC 2021 - Progress report #1

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Among Us VR dev talks about how to create immersive worlds

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #6

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