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Nvidia

MAY 26, 2021

Unreal Engine 5 Early Access available now with DirectX RayTracing, NVIDIA DLSS, and NVIDIA Reflex support. Today, Unreal Engine 5 (UE5) is available in Early. Unreal Engine 5 Early Access available now with DirectX RayTracing, NVIDIA DLSS, and NVIDIA Reflex support.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Engine Engineering Content

Cocos Creator 3.8 Community Beta is now available

Cocos

JUNE 11, 2023

we have completed the transformation of the engine-builtin Custom Pipeline using RenderGraph. It will support the implementation of engine builtin Custom Pipeline and the default Deferred Pipeline. There are already many well-known Cocos games published on the platform on their own. Download Links (Ver. AGP upgraded to 8.0.2.

Beta

Beta Lightmap Render Animation

Godot 4.0 will get a new, modernized lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 8, 2020

Lightmaps offer significant advantages over any other technique when the following requirements are met: Performance above anything else (for mobile, lightmaps are still a must-have). If these requirements are met, then lightmapping is probably the best for you. Lighting will not change (lights won't move). lightmapper.

Lightmap

Lightmap Baking Render Shaders

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

supports advanced global illumination techniques such as lightmapping (including SH lightmapping), Voxel GI (which is fully real-time) and SDFGI (which is a single click, open world GI solution). Core engine. The core engine has been significantly optimized, especially on the memory and data-oriented areas. GDExtension.

AAA

AAA Game Development Game Developer Development

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2021

Notably, Windows users could experience crashes when baking lightmaps. Games exported with a ZIP data package could also trigger a crash on exit. Additionally, this release includes a number of non-regression bug fixes to various areas of the engine. was thus subject to this crash when baking lightmaps.

Lightmap

Lightmap Baking Bug Data

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 10

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 15, 2022

Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. 3D: Add support for saving lightmap as multiple images ( GH-61861 ). You can test it on a separate copy of your project with the --convert-3to4 command line argument. 2D: Fix terrains for isometric tilemaps ( GH-61998 ).

Alpha

Alpha Dev Terrain Bug

Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2020

This new technique was developed entirely in the open and implemented under our MIT license, so anyone is welcome to use it in their own engines and games. SDFGI is something akin to a dynamic real-time lightmap (but it does not requiere unwrapping, nor does it use textures). What can it do?

Lightmap

Lightmap Texture Baking Mesh

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: Add optional UV2 logic for lightmapping to primitive shapes ( GH-67975 ). 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.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Bug

Setting the Mood: Exploring Lighting and Mood in Game Art

iXie gaming

JULY 19, 2024

Lighting changes in the game as you play, making the environment more interactive. This makes the game run faster since it doesn’t need to calculate the lighting all the time. Learn the lighting features in your game engine and explore software like Unreal Engine, Unity, or Blender. Learn Lighting Software.

Art

Art Games Texture Culling

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

in January 2020, we switched the development focus towards the upcoming Godot 4.0 , which is a major, compatibility-breaking rewrite of the engine's core and rendering. Additional funding will enable us to hire more core developers to work full-time on the engine, and thus further improve its development pace and stability.

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

After more than 18 months of development, all Godot Engine contributors are proud to present our biggest release so far, Godot 3.0! 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 New audio engine. GPU particles.

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

new Quake map: There's a Certain Slant of Light

Radiator Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In the past I've written about video game brutalism. Technically from a game engine / rendering perspective, any use of textures is ornament. I'm proud of this moment, leveraging some recent dynamic lightmap tech built into Copper. However, building these spiral stairs was a bit annoying.

Texture

Texture Fighting Lightmap Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: Add optional UV2 logic for lightmapping to primitive shapes ( GH-67975 ). 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.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Bug

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

beta just yet as we expect the engine to be unstable until we have more testing done. Throughout the last two years the core of the engine has seen a lot of improvements and refactoring to bring it to the next level in terms of maintainability, reliability, and performance. We don’t recommend migrating large projects to the Godot 4.0

Beta

Beta Engine Engineering Feature

Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

was a massive release, which required large rewrites of the engine codebase and breaking backwards compatibility significantly. If you use and enjoy Godot, plan to use it, or want support the cause of having a mature, high quality free and open source game engine, then please consider becoming our patron. As a result, Godot 3.1

Feature

Feature Render Editing Shaders

How to Use Unity Cinemachine Virtual Cameras

Game Designing

APRIL 21, 2022

They won the Technology and Engineering Emmy® award for excellence and engineering creativity. With that in mind, Cinemachine is a feature-rich plug-in that was also designed with game developers at the forefront of their thoughts. You have to pay for extra plug-ins to export, for example, FBX meshes out of an engine.

Animation

Animation Animation Code Software

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Input: Allow checking for exact matches with Action events ( GH-50874 ). iOS: Add pen pressure support for Apple Pencil ( GH-47469 ). API documentation updates.

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Input: Exposed setters for sensor values ( GH-53742 ). iOS: Add pen pressure support for Apple Pencil ( GH-47469 ). API documentation updates. beta 6 and RC 1.

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Input: Expose Input::flush_buffered_events() [link]. iOS: Disable half float on GLES2 via platform override ( GH-54229 ). API documentation updates. RC 2 and RC 3.

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Input: Expose Input::flush_buffered_events() [link]. iOS: Disable half float on GLES2 via platform override ( GH-54229 ). API documentation updates. RC 1 and RC 2.

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

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