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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 10

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: A lot of bug fixes and improvements in these areas particularly, check out the PRs listed below: Animation, Navigation, GDScript, Rendering. We previously removed *_degrees properties from 2D and 3D objects in favor of making editing degrees easier in the Inspector.

Beta

Beta Dev Animation Animation

3D Content Interoperability with Topology-Free Modeling

Nvidia

MARCH 1, 2023

The more polygons that an object has, the more detailed it appears, but high numbers of polygons demand more computing power. The polygon layout, or topology, of these items must be planned efficiently and created in advance to minimize the number of polygons and generate objects of the highest grade.

Content

Content Polygon Mesh Asset

Godot's new renderer, progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2016

As many of you have probably heard, a new rendering backend is being worked on for Godot. Our goal is to have a modern, clustered renderer that supports everything mainstream engines support, including PBR, global illumination and flexible shader editing. Optimize scene rendering to use less function calls. Implement PBR.

Render

Render Shaders Texture Mesh

CGS Dept. Head of VFX enters KitBash3D's Mission to Minerva Challenge

CG Spectrum

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Head of VFX Daniel Hourigan ( Aquaman , The Hunger Games: Mockingjay , Terminator: Dark Fate ) takes us through how he built his KitBash3D Mission to Minerva settlement in Houdini, detailing key steps from his recent informative livestreams, including a great workaround for creating a fast rendering volumetric glow. Select unique points.

Terrain

Terrain Animation Animation Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 10

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: A lot of bug fixes and improvements in these areas particularly, check out the PRs listed below: Animation, Navigation, GDScript, Rendering. We previously removed *_degrees properties from 2D and 3D objects in favor of making editing degrees easier in the Inspector.

Beta

Beta Dev Animation Animation

"Quake Renaissance" for Rock Paper Shotgun

Radiator Blog

AUGUST 25, 2021

While I appreciate "oral history" approaches at Polygon like with their Morrowind roundtable , this type of format is, less charitably, just a lazy loosely organized transcript with minimal analysis. And extra special thanks to Ben "Makkon" Hale , who made the amazing Quake logo renders you see in the articles.

Writing

Writing Polygon Dev Software

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2021

Batching: Fix light pass modulate , a potential crash, polygon rotation from vertex shader, and 2D skinning with unrigged polygons ( GH-48151 , GH-48125 , GH-48457 , GH-48647 )). Editor: Fix race condition in font preview generation which could lock the editor on first edit ( GH-48308 ).

Polygon

Polygon Render Scripting Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.1 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 15, 2021

Batching: Fix light pass modulate , a potential crash, polygon rotation from vertex shader, and 2D skinning with unrigged polygons ( GH-48151 , GH-48125 , GH-48457 , GH-48647 )). Editor: Fix race condition in font preview generation which could lock the editor on first edit ( GH-48308 ). stable ( GH-48268 ).

Polygon

Polygon Bug Render Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.1 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 10, 2021

Batching: Fix light pass modulate , a potential crash, and polygon rotation from vertex shader ( GH-48151 , GH-48125 , GH-48457 )). Editor: Fix race condition in font preview generation which could lock the editor on first edit ( GH-48308 ). Rendering: Fix 2D software skinning relative transforms ( GH-48402 ).

Bug

Bug Build Polygon Render

Godot Engine reaches 2.0 stable

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

which did in fact improve 2D rendering considerably. Previously, only the root node of a scene was editable. It is now possible to edit any children node of the instanced scene and have the changes persist. Even sub-instances of instances can be edited with persistent modifications. Multiple scene editing.

Engineering

Engineering Engine Editing Debug

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2020

Edit 2020-07-30: We found that 3.2.3 Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). TileSet: Fix potential crash when editing polygons ( GH-40560 ). As such these commits are not part of this 3.2.3 RC 2 build: changelog between 3.2.3

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 31, 2020

Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). Rendering: Properly calculate Polygon2D AABB with skeleton ( GH-40869 ). TileSet: Fix potential crash when editing polygons ( GH-40560 ). Thirdparty library updates (mbedtls 2.16.7,

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 24, 2020

Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). TileSet: Fix potential crash when editing polygons ( GH-40560 ). Project Settings: Fix overriding compression related settings ( GH-40340 ).

Collision

Collision Bug Mesh Build

Moving to Vulkan (and ES 2.0) instead of OpenGL ES 3.0

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Edit: Changed post title for clarity (previously Abandoning OpenGL ES 3.0 Edit 2: This article is now outdated. See About Godot 4, Vulkan, GLES3 and GLES2 for up-to-date information about the planned rendering backends transition. rendering backend is pointless as it will be rewritten. for Vulkan (and ES 2.0) ).

Render

Render Mobile Mobile Writing

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 21, 2020

Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). Rendering: Properly calculate Polygon2D AABB with skeleton ( GH-40869 ). TileSet: Fix potential crash when editing polygons ( GH-40560 ). Thirdparty library updates (mbedtls 2.16.7,

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). Rendering: Properly calculate Polygon2D AABB with skeleton ( GH-40869 ). TileSet: Fix potential crash when editing polygons ( GH-40560 ). Thirdparty library updates (mbedtls 2.16.7,

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). Rendering: Properly calculate Polygon2D AABB with skeleton ( GH-40869 ). TileSet: Fix potential crash when editing polygons ( GH-40560 ). Thirdparty library updates (mbedtls 2.16.8,

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Render

Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

Godot can render at frame rates independent from the fixed physics tick rate. This can lead to problems where the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, causing unsightly jitter. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Physics interpolation in 3D.

Shaders

Shaders Render Feature Mesh

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.3

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). Rendering: Properly calculate Polygon2D AABB with skeleton ( GH-40869 ). TileSet: Fix potential crash when editing polygons ( GH-40560 ). Thirdparty library updates (mbedtls 2.16.8,

Bug

Bug Build Collision Texture

A comprehensive guide to in-demand roles in film and games

CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

For instance, a model may also need to be under a certain polygon count, or it may need to be constructed in a way that will optimize the deformation and animation process. These equations are then combined and rendered using a graphics processing unit that outputs a rough but legible animated scene known as a 'playblast.'

Film

Film Animation Animation Concepts

Sony’s State of Play 2022- Delving into the Exclusivity

iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The trailer shown was rendered game footage running on a PlayStation 5. The enhanced edition is set to release early 2023 for the PSVR2. Bandai Namco had previously teased the release of the new entry in the long running fighting series as we get our first impressions on Tekken 8. Pacific Drive.

Fighting

Fighting Open World Content Editing

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.

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

Coherent Creature Design

Mnenad

APRIL 9, 2018

On the third image, I tried to programed a draw mode option to directly edit the shapes in the generation process. One thing I had to keep in mind was again the number of polygons I want to use for each model. The upper image is a rapidly made rendering in Cinema4D. 96. Critique helps.

Terrain

Terrain Concepts Art Mesh

The Lost Ark Has Found its Way

Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

This post is written by the fantastic Game Bakery substack team of Chase, Zixuan, Haiyin, Caitou, Fish, Amy, Chow, Jing, Wanzi and edited by Caitou, Rob. The static lighting and shadow rendering are excellent. In-game models used in the cutscenes are obviously not suitable for close-up cutscenes in terms of texture or polygon quality.

Cutscenes

Cutscenes Art Content Mechanics

Game Developers Network

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 10

3D Content Interoperability with Topology-Free Modeling

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Godot's new renderer, progress report #1

CGS Dept. Head of VFX enters KitBash3D's Mission to Minerva Challenge

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 10

"Quake Renaissance" for Rock Paper Shotgun

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.1

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.1 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.1 RC 1

Godot Engine reaches 2.0 stable

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 1

Moving to Vulkan (and ES 2.0) instead of OpenGL ES 3.0

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 4

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 5

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 6

Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.3

A comprehensive guide to in-demand roles in film and games

Sony’s State of Play 2022- Delving into the Exclusivity

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Coherent Creature Design

The Lost Ark Has Found its Way

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