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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

The most common types of streaming are: Texture streaming : All textures are loaded in a tiny size by default. As textures get closer to the camera, higher resolution versions (or mip-maps) are streamed from disk. Textures which haven’t been used for some frames are freed instead. Visual scripting.

AAA

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Enticing mix of genres in Ghibli-inspired The Brew Barons by Lifetap Studios

PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

“Every plane part, wings, fuselage, pontoons, engine and such, plus every pirate vessel, they all run off just a couple 4098×4098 textures, a single material per entity. That’s very different to most games that tend to use hundreds of textures and multiple materials.

Studios

Studios Prototyping Visual Scripting Art

Unity vs. Unreal Engine: Which is Better for Android Game Development?

Big Games

MARCH 27, 2025

Unreal Engine Created by Epic Games, it is well known for its advanced rendering capabilities and excellent visuals. Although it mostly employs C++, it also provides a visual scripting language called Blueprints that lets programmers construct intricate mechanics without knowing how to code.

Engineering

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Top Emerging Free Game Development Tools and Trends!

Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

Here are some of them: AI-Powered Content Creators Ludo AI: This tool excels at generating gameplay concepts and mechanics based on your preferences. Sketch a rough concept, set some parameters, and Dimensions will generate 3D models, textures, and animations. It can even help define core loops and progression systems.

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Why 70% of Developers Prefer Unity for Mobile Game Development

iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This game engine requires minimal coding knowledge to build mobile games – instead, it offers a visual scripting system and supports third-party solutions such as Bolt. Whether you’re looking for 3D structure, textures, patterns, animations, or even specific sounds, you can get them from Unity’s Asset Store.

Mobile Gaming

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GSoC 2019 progress report #1 (part 2)

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 18, 2019

Improvements to the Visual Scripting System by Swarnim Arun. Instead of computing the amount of light that reaches a certain surface every frame for every light source, we precompute all this information and store it in a single texture. Part 1 ( previous post ): Version Control Systems Integration by Twarit Waikar.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Scripting Data Texture

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

which would have included new multiplayer networking, visual scripting and many other improvements) because we realized that projects using the new features would no longer work in 3.0, It's a long read, so here's a table of contents to easily get to a specific section: New physically based 3D renderer. Visual Scripting.

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Godot reaches 2.1 stable!

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 9, 2016

Godot is used all around the world and, while it always supported Unicode, its reliance on font textures made it pretty difficult to support some languages (especially Asian). It will include a new visual scripting language, support for Mono (C#), high level multiplayer networking and a more advanced audio engine.

Asset

Asset Scripting Engine Engineering

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Unity vs. Unreal: What to Choose for Your Game? | Moonmana

Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Luckily both engines offer asset stores that allow users to download free and paid props, shading, textures, and many more. Although Unity supports normal maps, occlusion maps, base textures, and other standard shading features, it lacks the advanced material editor found in Unreal engine. Unity still lacks the shading details.

Engine

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

such as support for baking environment lighting, lightmap texture atlassing, per-object resolution scaling, cubic filtering of lightmaps at runtime, and last but not least, automatic disabling of baked lights, which eases up the pain of mixing baked and non-baked objects and light in the same scene. For Godot 4.0, 3D editor improvements.

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

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