Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Import: bcdec: Fix unnecessary alignment of texture resolution when only one of its dimensions isnt divisible by 4 ( GH-103259 ). Porting: Fix Embedded Game does not focus when mouse over on Windows ( GH-103052 ). GUI: Label: Fix rounding errors with fractional scale ( GH-103224 ). rc1 snapshot.

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Radiator Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

However the dark lighting and texturing transform much of the play area into an unpleasant mid-brown mess, and its reliance on Source displacements leaves it feeling a bit blobby and melty. Like a lot of Counter-Strike Source, it often feels more like a game engine tech demo rather than something for humans to play.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 26, 2025

GUI: Use Viewport s default texture filter/repeat in GUI tooltips ( GH-103636 ). Rendering: Fix Metal handling of cube textures; assert equal dimensions ( GH-104341 ). GUI: Fix spinbox decimal issues when update_on_text_changed = true ( GH-100684 ). GUI: Fix error when embedded popup is closed while resizing ( GH-102504 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 21, 2025

Rendering: Fix Metal handling of cube textures; assert equal dimensions ( GH-104341 ). 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: macOS: Update mouse-entered state when subwindow closes ( GH-104328 ).

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CG Spectrum

JANUARY 3, 2023

As the excuses he devised not to follow his passion faded, Anthony quit his full-time job to dedicate his efforts to exploring filmmaking within a game engine. I experimented with both Unity and Unreal Engine since real-time workflows seemed most practical for me as a solo artist. Building out the space station in Unreal Engine.

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Game From Scratch

APRIL 4, 2024

specifically in this example) game engine. We cover topics including lighting and shadows, world environment, emissive textures, global illumination and more. GameFromScratch.com Godot 4.x x (Godot 4.2 The tutorial is video only and uses assets from the GameMasters […] The post Godot 4.x

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Cocos

AUGUST 31, 2023

I have 5 games out there, the first 3 do not have the issue and the last 2 do have it. They all use the same version of cocos (3.17) and the same game engine that we put on top of cocos. However, the last 2 games had some major modifications/new features etc in the game engine.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 14, 2025

GUI: Use Viewport s default texture filter/repeat in GUI tooltips ( GH-103636 ). 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. GUI: Fix spinbox decimal issues when update_on_text_changed = true ( GH-100684 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Vulkan rewrite has largely been enhancements to the 3D engine, the 2D side will also see several improvements. Additionally, all 2D shadows and light textures use a single atlas, resulting in improved performance. the new CanvasTexture texture type has been introduced. More work is also going towards the 2D engine.

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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.

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Game From Scratch

MAY 9, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Cyclops Level Builder For Godot Cyclops is a new free and open source add-on for the Godot game engine that enables rapid level creation. This enables you to rapidly block-in or white box levels in Godot, with tools for block creation, quick texturing, snapping and more.

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Logic Simplified

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Computer software like Unreal Engine has been in the works to build 3D models of structures. Architectural visualization has existed since the time of ancient civilizations and has now been revolutionized with the Unreal Engine and its cutting-edge functions and features. Some strong features that are worth mentioning are as follows.

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Radiator Blog

JUNE 22, 2021

Follow this guide to acquiring Quake and a suitable source port (aka game engine) or try the Quakestarter: The Quake Singleplayer Starter Pack (Windows only). Follow this guide to acquiring Quake and a suitable source port (aka game engine) or try the Quakestarter: The Quake Singleplayer Starter Pack (Windows only).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 8, 2025

Changing editor language without restart Godot has built-in support for handling multiple languages, both for the games you create and the editor itself. However, in contrast to games built with the engine, it wasnt possible to change the current language on-the-fly within the editor itself.

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

Looking for a Real Unreal Game Development Company? Unreal Engine has fast grown to be the most trusted engine in the world. The potential for building epic games on Unreal by game app developers and creators across industries has increased. We use them to achieve the highest level of photorealism in video games.

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Cocos

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

If we use a custom game engine. we can go to the source file and resize the texture. Well you can’t, but you can make this to reduce the file size. In any photo image editor we can resize the files. Now what I really want to do but seems to be the best option for now.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Import: Fix swapped color channels in ETC1/ETC2 textures, etcpak expects BGRA data ( GH-69448 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Use internal texture name when setting texture uniform location ( GH-69633 ). GDScript: Fix LSP crash by keeping GDScriptAnalyzer alive for whole parse() ( GH-69606 ). XR: WebXR is now fully working in Godot 4!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

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. XR: Make screen texture and depth texture work in Multiview ( GH-71455 ). Shaders: Several shader preprocessor parser fixes and improvements ( GH-72058 ).

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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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Nvidia

MAY 21, 2021

NetEase Thunder Fire Games Uses Mesh Shading To Create Beautiful Game Environments for Justice In December, we interviewed Haiyong Qian, NetEase Game Engine. Not only are the updated environments breathtaking, the game supports 1.8 With such detailed models, large texture resolution is a must.

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Logic Simplified

MAY 28, 2024

The combination of plug-ins, assets, community support, and other features that the Unity Asset Store provides support game developers to find advanced solutions to complex problems. This covers all information including guides and scripts regarding the Unity game engine platform.

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iXie gaming

JUNE 7, 2023

Unity is synonymous with game developers around the world. Ever since its release in 2005, the game engine has seen several iterations and has evolved significantly over the years. The game engine has amassed popularity thanks to its versatility and ease of use compared to other engines in the market.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Techniques such as using lower-resolution textures, controlling particle spawn rates, and optimizing the lifespan of particles can significantly reduce the load on the GPU. Efficient Use of Textures Textures are a significant component of mobile game visuals, but high-resolution textures can quickly consume memory and processing power.

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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. And that’s where Unity wins.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2020

and December I had a lot of other engine related tasks that piled up that I had to solve. It still lacks a few minor details (like colorspace adjustment via 3D textures) but it's mostly there. Godot auto-detects the use of both textures in a shader and it automatically fixes the roughness texture (although it can be done manually too).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Textures are simply bound to bind points starting from 0, and the bind point number is sent via attributes too. In this case, the UV coordinate (for reading the texture). We use the sprite texture uniform to read the sprite pixels. Of course, if you are working on a game there is a lot more things going on.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Godot uses a considerably different approach to rendering (and rendering abstraction) than other, popular, game engines. Rendering engineers are rare to find, so this can be a starting point. As for DirectX12, it's only relevant for Windows/UWP, so there is no strong incentive for us to support it as a cross-platform engine.

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iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

In this piece, we shall be looking at the best 10 tools to use for game development, including tools to make art, code, and music. This tool is unarguably the most common game development tool among developers. Unity is a game engine for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS. This tool is perfect for making 3D games.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ). 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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 2023

Rendering: Decompress RA_AS_RG formats on Web platform in GLES3 renderer and disable texture swizzling ( GH-71574 ). Support 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.

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Cocos

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

I have been working on game and front-end interactive development projects for many years, and I also consider myself a part-time astronomy enthusiast. I have extensive experience using the Cocos engine for many years as well. This becomes particularly evident in crashes on platforms such as mini-games and low-end devices.

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 8, 2023

They work closely with game designers as well as developers to build a well-designed and visually attractive game. Video game artists specialize in a wide range of digital art forms, such as 2D modeling, animation, concept art and texturing. Let’s take the popular example of Candy Crush Saga , a level-based puzzle game.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 23, 2017

In my opinion, this feature is rather useless and I don't think any mainstream 3D engine supports extra object pivots either. It's a very, very rare use case for artists to re-use the same model and apply different textures to it. The reasoning behind this is that animation is imported in game engines mostly from characters.

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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?

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Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

Sketch a rough concept, set some parameters, and Dimensions will generate 3D models, textures, and animations. Free 3D Asset Libraries Sketchfab: This vast platform hosts a staggering collection of free and paid 3D models, textures, and animations from various creators. It can even help define core loops and progression systems.

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Nvidia

MARCH 1, 2023

Changing the resolution of a finished mesh (for a mobile game, for example) requires an even less detailed model to run efficiently, forcing the modeler to recreate it from scratch. Most game engines also require multiple levels of asset detailing, which requires the use of multiple assets and leads to additional production and running costs.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

To show the benefits of GDeflate, we measured system performance without compression, with standard CPU-side decompression, and with GPU-accelerated GDeflate decompression on a representative game-focused dataset, containing texture and geometry data. GDeflate is available as a standard GPU decompression option in DirectStorage 1.1—a

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