Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Godot uses a considerably different approach to rendering (and rendering abstraction) than other, popular, game engines. This document was written in hopes to find more developers that would like to help us write rendering code, as it explains the overall design. Running the whole graphics rendering in a separate thread.

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Jaunty Bear Games

APRIL 5, 2023

The Unity engine and Godot are two popular game development engines that have gained significant traction in recent years. While both have their strengths and weaknesses, which engine to use largely depends on the specific needs and requirements of the project.

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iXie gaming

MARCH 2, 2025

Real-time feedback loops between artists, designers, and engineers. Slow rendering and iteration cycles, delaying content updates. Cross-Platform Considerations Live-service games must be optimized for PC, console, and mobile. AWS Game Development for cloud-rendering scalability. Key solutions: (i).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 3, 2016

It's been a month since the first progress report , and progress continues towards the new Godot renderer. Little by little every system falls into place, and rendering starts feeling a lot more mature. Add Layered/Stencil rendering. One of the main features of PBR rendering is having all sort of sources for reflections.

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Awesome Tuts

JANUARY 2, 2023

Unreal Engine has the most advanced lighting system out of all game engines. This tutorial is meant for beginners as well as experts in Unreal Engine. You can check out the Parasite Platformer tutorial by clicking the link below: Create A Parasite Platformer Game In Unreal Engine. Types Of Light In Unreal Engine.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

release and head on directly towards Godot 3.0 , the long-awaited upgrade that should bring brand new 2D and 3D renderers based on OpenGL ES 3.0 mobile) and OpenGL 3.3 Nowadays, Godot is a great engine for making 2D games, and the interest of the growing community is starting to move on to 3D, with corresponding needs for improvements.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In the fast-paced world of mobile game development , visual effects (VFX) play a pivotal role in creating immersive experiences that captivate players. However, achieving this level of visual excellence without compromising performance on mobile devices is a delicate balancing act.

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

Unreal Engine has fast grown to be the most trusted engine in the world. UE5’s features and functionality have further expanded to include experimental new features for rendering, animation and simulation. Expertise Unreal Engine is the most open and advanced real-time 3D creation tool. The steps involved are: 2.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Rendering: Reduce mobile pipeline compilations ( GH-102217 ). While engine maintainers try their best to ensure that each preview snapshot and release candidate is stable, this is by definition a pre-release piece of software. Porting: Add support for embedding game process in the Android Editor ( GH-102492 ). beta3 snapshot.

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Logic Simplified

JULY 24, 2023

Researchers, professionals or game app developers all need to remain up-to-date with the recent advancements as well as features of the Unity engine to create and enjoy the best games possible. It can handle high-end graphics features such as physically-based rendering, volumetric effects and high dynamic range (HDR) lighting.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

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. Let’s find out. And that’s where Unity wins.

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Cocos

MAY 14, 2023

This article will delve into the principles, implementation details, common issues and solutions, memory overhead, and compatibility of the Deferred Rendering technique. The rendering stages involved in Deferred Rendering. The problems that are solved by Deferred Rendering. Solution for transparent object rendering.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 25, 2023

renderer support ( GH-71848 ). Rendering: Fix Vulkan validation errors related to enabling extensions ( GH-70429 ). Rendering: Fix DirectionalLight3D shadow opacity on Forward Mobile rendering backend ( GH-71690 ). Rendering: Use proper space for forward GI reflections ( GH-71694 ). iOS: Restore OpenGL ES 3.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 14, 2014

is to focus on improving the 2D engine with all the feedback that we have gathered during the past months, improving shader support for 2D, visual shader editing (for 2D and 3D), and more draw options such as per-node z-priority. Eventually, the plan is to create a new next-gen renderer, with support for PBM and real-time global illumination.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 30, 2016

It's been a month since the second progress report , and progress continues towards the new Godot renderer. Add Layered/Stencil rendering. renderer works entirely in linear space (Gamma is no longer supported). an edge in quality over existing mainstream engines. Introduction. Implement Decals. Glow Processor.

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iXie gaming

APRIL 3, 2023

Mobile gaming has grown into a multibillion-dollar industry, with millions of users spending time playing games on their smartphones and tablets. As the mobile gaming market continues to expand, mobile game developers must find ways to make their games stand out in a crowded marketplace. So, let’s dive in!

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Ask a Game Dev

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

I don't think that we'll ever see pre-rendered cutscenes go away permanently. As in-engine rendering improves, AAA games will likely move away from pre-rendered cutscenes but AAA games are far from the only games that use cutscenes and have engines that can render high quality cinematic visuals (e.g.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: A ton of fixes for all rendering backends, and missing features implemented for the OpenGL3 one. GUI: Add a Font import option to pre-render all glyphs required for the translation ( GH-68448 ). Physics: Implement adjusting the maximum number of physics steps per rendered frame ( GH-65836 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Rendering: Use circular fade instead of linear fade for distance fade ( GH-50294 ). Rendering: Tweak shadow bias defaults for DirectionalLight3D and OmniLight3D ( GH-55757 ). Rendering: Fix AABB errors on meshes with bones on multiple surfaces ( GH-65035 ). Rendering: Allow black metallic materials to reflect IBL ( GH-69522 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

Flag dirty dependencies when GeometryInstance dependencies change in renderer ( GH-71581 ). Those typically shouldn’t add instability to the engine, but may require doing some changes in your scripts, scenes, and shaders if you were using the affected APIs. Rendering: Fix LCD font AA on OpenGL renderer ( GH-72125 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Over the course of the last four months the engine has seen many changes, making it more stable and feature complete, and it's getting very close to the state that we would be happy with. More engine enums are now bound with BitField, making their usage more type-safe, especially in C# ( GH-71037 , GH-71045 , GH-71116 ). beta releases.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

This design became common in game engines and libraries in the early 2010s. This can be understood by examining the Engine and Game Logic parts separately: Engine. Godot uses plenty of data-oriented optimizations for physics, rendering, audio, etc. Components provide data and the means to interact with the whole world.

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Cocos

JUNE 6, 2023

Otherwise, I have proposed a feature request in our engine repo github.com/cocos/cocos-engine Add screen size and resolution APIs opened 03:47AM - 07 Jun 23 UTC pandamicro Feature Request Env: Native Module: PAL ### Use Case Screen size API is important for Desktop apps, and dynamic adjust … should be available at runtime.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 26, 2024

Unreal Engine training Currently, Bukola focuses on inspiring children, especially girls, to embrace technical subjects early. Through initiatives like mobile game jams and interschool esports, she aims to foster girls’ interest in STEAM fields. ” With her architectural background, she heavily favours Unreal Engine.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2021

We are delighted to announce that the Godot Engine project is receiving a new grant from Meta's Reality Labs to support our work on the XR capabilities of the engine. This renews Reality Labs' engagement to support the free and open source Godot game engine, after a first grant in December 2020. Looking back at 2021.

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Nvidia

MARCH 1, 2023

Topology-based 3D models have limited interoperability due to the topology creation process The Shapeyard solution Shapeyard, available on a variety of mobile devices, is proving to be a powerful and user-friendly 3D modeling tool. This process is called retopology and represents an industry of its own. Video 1.

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Real Programming

MAY 11, 2023

RP4K hires a range of teachers with computer engineering and computer science backgrounds, and our lessons prioritize fun over everything else, even learning to code ! As for programming, Gabe loves 3D computer graphic modelling and rendering and visual arts. In addition to simulation, he also works with engineering and perception.

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Cocos

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Please use the issues in our engine repo GitHub Issues · cocos/cocos-engine Cocos Engine is an open-source framework for building 2D & 3D real-time rendering and interactive contents, especially video games, which can be deployed to mobile, desktop and web. It is inher.

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Cocos

JUNE 12, 2023

halx99: I think you needs this fork which implement win32 video player based on microsoft media foundation: [link] now axmol support play video with sprite render on all platforms: GitHub GitHub - axmolengine/axmol: Axmol Engine – A Multi-platform Engine for.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Following several weeks of turmoil at game engine maker Unity , the announcement of its CEO John Riccitiello leaving the firm feels like an unsatisfying sacrifice. While likely more profitable, it will also render Unity more vulnerable. It also doesn’t bode well for everyone else.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

One of the (not so apparent) benefits of this is the fact that I had more time to work with other contributors, help them around the engine and spend more time helping them with their contributions. Thanks to her work, it's possible to do all sorts of amazing things, such as: Develop using C++ for all platforms without recompiling the engine.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Over the course of the last four months the engine has seen many changes, making it more stable and feature complete, and it’s getting very close to the state that we would be happy with. More engine enums are now bound with BitField, making their usage more type-safe, especially in C# ( GH-71037 , GH-71045 , GH-71116 ). beta releases.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 3, 2021

Windows Mixed Reality headsets are currently only supported through SteamVR as WMR natively only supports DirectX game engines. Godot 4 stereoscopic rendering through Multiview. One of the bigger changes we did to enabled XR support in Godot 4 is implementing multiview support into the rendering engine.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2025

Subscribe to The Nodeletter to get a regular digest of Godot Engine news directly in your email inbox! For the purpose of this retrospective, we approached the engine maintainers directly, asking them to point us at one particularly compelling change they witnessed in their area of expertise. beta 1 release notes.

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

This is why many HTML5 engines abound on the market because of their ease of use. Improving the Native web to suit native mobile apps. Apart from the fact that this framework is free to use, it’s also compatible with web and mobile browsers. You can use this engine to build a variety of games, even complicated ones.

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Cocos

JULY 8, 2024

I created a game in which I added a shader; it works fine in web mobile and Android, but in iOS it gives an error during rendering. How to solve this issue version-3.8.2 17:49:37 [ERROR]: [ERROR] file /Applications/Cocos/Creator/3.8.2/CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/resources/3d/engine/native/cocos/renderer/gfx-metal/MTLCommandBuffer.mm:

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Cocos

JULY 7, 2024

I created a game in which I added a shader; it works fine in web mobile and Android, but in iOS it gives an error during rendering. How to solve this issue version-3.8.2 17:49:37 [ERROR]: [ERROR] file /Applications/Cocos/Creator/3.8.2/CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/resources/3d/engine/native/cocos/renderer/gfx-metal/MTLCommandBuffer.mm:

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