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. Atlas cells are assigned according to their size in pixels on the screen (e.g.

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DameDev.tv

MARCH 7, 2023

In today's post, I'd like to show you how to retrieve an image provided by The Art Institute of Chicago via its public API , how to create a texture from this image, and how to feed this texture to a material and render it on a plane accompanied by a floating text with title, name of the artist and some other details.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Today, developers can access the latest versions of RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI), RTX Direct Illumination (RTXDI), NVIDIA Real-Time Denoisers (NRD), and OptiX Ray Tracing Engine (OptiX). The updates are available through NVIDIA SDKs and select technologies through the NVIDIA Branch of Unreal Engine (NvRTX). NVIDIA OptiX 7.4

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CG Spectrum

JANUARY 26, 2023

3D lighting involves simulating the behavior of light in a real-world or fantasy situation, including shadows, reflections, highlights, and color, using specialized lighting software and rendering tools. Scene from the 3D animation Finding Nemo before and after its been lit and rendered by a 3D lighting artist (Image: Pixar).

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Nvidia

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

DLSS is a deep learning, super-resolution network that boosts frame rates by rendering fewer pixels and then using AI to construct sharp, higher-resolution. DLSS is a deep learning, super-resolution network that boosts frame rates by rendering fewer pixels and then using AI to construct sharp, higher-resolution images.

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Nvidia

MARCH 24, 2021

NVIDIA set out to redefine real-time rendering through AI-based super resolution — rendering a fraction of the original pixels and then using AI to reconstruct sharp, higher resolution images. DLSS is now available in Unreal Engine 4 through our official DLSS UE 4.26

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Cocos

OCTOBER 14, 2024

This version has not only significantly enhanced performance and rendering but also improved editor experience and stability, which is recommended for everyone to upgrade. Rendering Enhancements 1. The new customizable rendering pipeline mainly has the following benefits: In Cocos Creator 3.8.4 more stable and mature.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Our sprite is 32x32 pixels in size, and it must be drawn at some position. For each pixel drawn to the screen, OpenGL will interpolate the outputs that were generated from the vertex program and use them to fill the triangle. This process is done in the fragment program (pixel shader in DirectX terminology). Fragment Program.

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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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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Taking a different tack from last time , I decided that it would be worth getting really dirty with low-level engine work for the next attempt at map zooming. If we play by the engine rules we get to keep that functionality in its existing simple package, which generally means massive savings on CPU cycles. No crashes, just big tiles.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2021

just a few days ago with a huge array of bugfixes, but a regression was then found for macOS rendering which could cause flickering. Rendering: GLES2: Fix trunc shader function compilation on Android ( GH-56061 ). It is developed by Pixel-Archipel and scheduled to release in early 2022. We released Godot 3.4.1 Godot 3.4.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 30, 2019

for release, I'm almost exclusively dedicating myself to porting the engine to Vulkan, as part of the 4.0 What used to be a few lines of OpenGL/GLX code is a large amount of Vulkan extension code to handle initialization and creation of rendering surfaces. this was not possible without modifying Godot's rendering backend.

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iXie gaming

JUNE 28, 2024

Particle Systems Within Game Engines Unity’s Shuriken and Unreal Engine’s Cascade/Niagara particle systems are powerful tools for creating 2D effects in your games. These tools work smoothly with your game engine, making it easy to use and improve your effects.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 4, 2021

Do you have prior experience with other game engines? We were so excited by the prospect of making a game that he dove headfirst into pixel art and I into programming. We started making Primal Light in Python (using the PyGame module), but when we started getting serious about the project, we decided to shift to a full-fledged engine.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Some noteworthy changes in this release: Re-enable support for Web exports using the OpenGL 3 / WebGL 2 renderer. Implement physical light units in Vulkan renderers. Re-enable per-pixel transparency support on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable.

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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

APRIL 30, 2020

It feels great to be back to doing graphics programming after two months refactoring the core engine. While not entirely rendering specific, a lot of nodes are being renamed. A very common complaint when using shadowmaps in Godot is that tweaking shadow bias is extremely difficult compared to other game engines. Node renames.

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Logic Simplified

MAY 7, 2024

This improves the fill rate because pixels outside the polygon won't be drawn. Smaller size - Spine animations store only the bone data, hence their loading and rendering is stable and fast, even on mobile devices like Android or iOS. This is an important aspect for mobile games.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

I’ve always been interested in experimenting with larger alternative interface layouts, though because I didn’t see much promise in them, and doing so deviates from the core design, the idea was to wait until at least a likely engine update down the road, as well as the completion of most of Cogmind’s content.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 23, 2018

compatible rendering backend for Godot 3.1, The first month I spent on getting started and familiar with the rendering in Godot. Because I am still new to the rendering system in Godot, I might not be experienced enough to make good estimates of what can be achieved, but the rough roadmap looks like this. render meshes.

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Cocos

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Post-processing effects, are used for further processing of rendered results to achieve various advanced and special effects. Analysis of 2D Post-Processing Solutions Cocos Creator currently lacks built-in support for post-processing in the 2D render phase, requiring developers to explore various approaches to achieve the rendering goals.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. Rendering: Various bug fixes to both shaders and the Vulkan setup (including updating to Vulkan SDK 1.3.204 ). Rendering: Various tweaks to default environment and lighting config to balance quality and performance.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

New option to snapping 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions (new in 3.2.4 Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. tinyexr 1.0.0,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). YSort: Make rendering order more deterministic ( GH-42375 ).

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

To help during the game development process, NVIDIA has packaged and released a suite of SDKs through our branch of Unreal Engine for all developers, from independent to AAA, to harness the power of RTX. Today, NVIDIA released RTX Technology Showcase – an interactive demo built from NVIDIA’s RTX Unreal Engine 4.26 Branch (NvRTX).

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

RTXDI makes this possible while rendering in real time. NVIDIA Real Time Denoiser (NRD) NRD is a spatio-temporal API-agnostic denoising library that’s designed to work with low ray-per-pixel signals. NVIDIA RTX Unreal Engine Branch (NvRTX) NvRTX is a custom UE4 branch for NVIDIA technologies on GitHub. Times Square billboards.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 16, 2018

In this case I'm talking about a rather big refactoring of how materials are handled in the GLES2 renderer. perspective rendering. perspective rendering. stabilize 3D rendering (unshaded workflow). The biggest user-facing change in the bindings is, that user-created classes can now directly inherit from engine types.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2021

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 26, 2020

Namely: Python for Godot by Emmanuel Leblond, Benefits of porting Godot Engine to Vulkan by Juan Linietsky, and Reloading Escoria by Julian Murgia. Interior mapping is a technique to render interiors of 3D buildings in outdoor scenes without requiring any additional geometry. Are you tired of 2D pixel art platformers?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

Rendering: Octahedral normal/tangent compression ( GH-60309 ). Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. GUI: Add font LCD sub-pixel anti-aliasing support ( GH-64422 ). Rendering: Octahedral normal/tangent compression ( GH-60309 ). for instructions.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2021

New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends, which should fix some issues and improve performance significantly in games using a high number of dynamic objects. In this beta, the dynamic BVH is the default option for both physics and rendering. New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends (new in beta 6).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 11, 2020

see recent devblogs on GDScript typed instructions , Complex Text Layout , Tiles editor , documentation , and 2D rendering improvements !), New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 17, 2021

macOS: Enable multithreaded OpenGL engine flag when using multithreaded VisualServer ( GH-54526 ). macOS: Fix driver crash when enabling per-pixel transparency on M1 macs ( GH-55464 ). Rendering: Fix vertex attribute specification for octahedral compression ( GH-54768 ). All users are advised to upgrade to Godot 3.4.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 15, 2021

macOS: Enable multithreaded OpenGL engine flag when using multithreaded VisualServer ( GH-54526 ). macOS: Fix driver crash when enabling per-pixel transparency on M1 macs ( GH-55464 ). Rendering: Fix vertex attribute specification for octahedral compression ( GH-54768 ). TextEdit: Allow toggling bookmark gutter ( GH-55197 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ).

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Big Games

MARCH 28, 2025

From the pixelated classics of the 80s to todays immersive and realistic graphics, animation has redefined the gaming experience. Over time, this evolved, incorporating more detailed pixel art, smooth pictorial Movement, and realistic effects. The environment is added with depth and volume for realism. Advancements in 2.5D

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

David Snopek ( dsnopek ) got WebXR minimally working again ( GH-64514 ) using the WebGL 2 renderer implemented by Clay John ( clayjohn ). Rendering: Split rendering driver project setting into rendering_method and rendering/*/driver ( GH-65541 ). Rendering: Fix/restore BackBufferCopy ( GH-65794 ).

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