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Powerful Shader Insights: Using Shader Debug Info with NVIDIA Nsight Graphics

Nvidia

As ray tracing becomes the predominant rendering technique in modern game engines, a single GPU RayGen shader can now perform most of the light simulation of a. As ray tracing becomes the predominant rendering technique in modern game engines, a single GPU RayGen shader can now perform most of the light simulation of a frame.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 13

Mircosoft Game Dev

You can now deploy your projects to all desktop platforms over SSH, as well as run a remote debug session similar to what we already offered for Android and Web. As the number of remote debug options is quite big by now, we’ve packed them neatly in a single drop-down menu ( GH-63312 , GH-70701 ). Jump to the Downloads section.

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Why 70% of Developers Prefer Unity for Mobile Game Development 

iXie gaming

Mobile gaming has become popular in recent times thanks to the growing number of mobile device users. Several mobile game engines are used to create mobile games. However, Unity has stood out as one of the most preferred and trusted mobile game engines. And that’s where Unity wins.

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2022 was a waste for my engine until this happened

Harold Serrano

But the main reason was the lack of direction for the game engine. For most of the year, I had no idea what to do with my game engine. I wanted to niche down my game engine to a game genre. But could not decide on the game genre. My instinct was to make the Untold Engine a Football Game Engine.

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In-Game GPU Profiling for DirectX 12 Using SetBackgroundProcessingMode

Nvidia

As a result, running with a Debug build of an application may result in less optimal GPU workloads, for instance. By using the DX12 SetBackgroundProcessingMode API in your game engine in this way during development, your in-game GPU profiler will provide more reliable information.

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In fighting games counting (comparing) frames on moves/animations is important, even for players. For other types of games, do developers or animators count or tweak to the frame? And when counting small amounts of time like that, how do most studios do it? Frames? Milliseconds?

Ask a Game Dev

Using a more specific measurement of real time is more helpful, since the game engine can calculate real time from its (variable) frame time in order to maintain accuracy. Our debug logging keeps tabs on everything in terms of milliseconds so we can see how temporally far apart events in the log fire.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

Editor: Add button to keep the debug server open ( GH-69164 ). Godot is a non-profit, open source game engine developed by hundreds of contributors on their free time, and a handful of part or full-time developers, hired thanks to donations from the Godot community. Editor: Add Black (OLED) editor theme preset ( GH-67871 ).

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