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Realistic Lighting in Justice with Mesh Shading

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. Recently, NetEase introduced Mesh Shader support to Justice. Not only are the updated environments breathtaking, the game supports 1.8

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The Spine Animation Story at Logic Simplified

Logic Simplified

MAY 7, 2024

Spine is a 2D skeletal animation tool for game development and other animation projects. Abhishek had to reinvent the pose to what can be called ‘resting but still ready for action’ (if you hire game designers from us, this is how you will find them during lunch hour.) Each image part was converted to mesh. How does it work?

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Animation Animation Mesh Software

The Top 10 Popular VR Game Development Tools

Logic Simplified

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Similarly, in a game development setup, various virtual reality tools have become easily accessible to both creators and consumers to create and encounter immersive experiences. 10 Popular VR Game Development Tools There are a range of tools and frameworks that are being used for VR game development projects.

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

The features offered are also a lot more reminiscent of AAA games, such as far more material options and advanced visual effects (including circle DOF , volumetric fog, AMD FSR, etc.). The traditional way to make games longer since the beginning of times is to divide them in stages. Rendering is significantly more efficient in Godot 4.0,

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Top Unreal Game Development Companies in 2024

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. Pre-production This is the primary stage when the game is planned.

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New Video: Light Resampling In Practice with RTXDI

Nvidia

JANUARY 11, 2021

In this video, NVIDIA’s Alexey Panteleev explains the key details needed to add performant resampling to modern game engines. In this video, NVIDIA’s Alexey Panteleev explains the key details needed to add performant resampling to modern game engines. He also discusses roadmap plans.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Render Game Engine Mesh

3D Content Interoperability with Topology-Free Modeling

Nvidia

MARCH 1, 2023

Digital sculpting software, however, uses an extremely high-resolution polygon mesh (or a voxel grid). This mesh can be modeled like traditional clay with a vast array of tools, giving modelers more freedom and flexibility in their work. This process is called retopology and represents an industry of its own.

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Content Polygon Mesh Asset

Avalon seeks partners to build Web3 gaming’s interoperable future

Game Daily

APRIL 11, 2023

Fresh from raising $13 million in funding, Avalan Corp is beginning to outline its vision for Web3 game development, most particularly the company’s belief in creating development tools that aid world and asset creation, as well as interoperability between games. “For us, that’s all going to work out of the box. .

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A small defense of glTF 2.0 on its comparison against OpenGEX

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 23, 2017

In a scene description format, materials can be contained in instances (as in, the instance is the mesh used, the transform in the world, and the material) or inside meshes (mesh comes with a material). does to meshes (the later). OpenGEX and Collada apply materials to instances (the former), while glTF 2.0

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

using the Movie Maker mode , for the main menu of the upcoming FRANZ FURY game (made with Godot 3.x). Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 3D: Switch Mesh surface indexing to start at 0 so string name matches integer index ( GH-70176 ). Also check out Raffaele's Beat Invaders released earlier this year.

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5 Factors Which Vary Unreal Engine 5 from Unreal Engine 4

iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The world of game development has seen a significant shift with the recent release of Unreal Engine 5, which promises to bring an unprecedented level of realism and interactivity to gaming experiences. With this new iteration, there are several key factors that distinguish Unreal Engine 5 from its predecessor, Unreal Engine 4.

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Engineering Engine Polygon Advertising

Ultra-Realism Made Accessible with NVIDIA AI and Path Tracing Technologies

Nvidia

MARCH 20, 2023

At GDC 2023, NVIDIA released new tools that make real-time path tracing more accessible to developers while accelerating the creation of ultra-realistic game. At GDC 2023 , NVIDIA released new tools that make real-time path tracing more accessible to developers while accelerating the creation of ultra-realistic game worlds.

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Ray Tracing Technology AI Shaders

Shaping the Future of Graphics with NVIDIA Technologies in Unreal Engine 5

Nvidia

APRIL 5, 2022

Unreal Engine is an open and advanced real-time 3D creation platform. Evolving from its state-of-the-art use in game engines into a multitude of industries, Unreal Engine is an open and advanced real-time 3D creation platform. This metric is ideal for tweaking game, OS, and GPU settings.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Technology Engineering Engine

Updates to NVIDIA’s Unreal Engine 4 Branch, DLSS, and RTXGI Available Now

Nvidia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

World position offset simulation for ray traced instanced static meshes (beta) Allows ambient motion of foliage like trees and grass. Inexact Shadows (beta) Deals with potential mesh mismatches of ray traced and raster geometry. Enjoy great scaling across all RTX GPUs and resolutions, and the new ultra performance mode for 8K gaming.

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Ray Tracing Engineering Engine Beta

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.3 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 4, 2021

Import: glTF: Fix mesh nodes which are also bones ( GH-49119 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). GridMap: Fix GridMap erasing octants in the wrong order ( GH-50052 ). if something that worked fine in 3.3

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

using the Movie Maker mode , for the main menu of the upcoming FRANZ FURY game (made with Godot 3.x). Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 3D: Switch Mesh surface indexing to start at 0 so string name matches integer index ( GH-70176 ). Also check out Raffaele’s Beat Invaders released earlier this year.

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Beta Dev Render Shaders

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.3

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Import: glTF: Fix mesh nodes which are also bones ( GH-49119 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). GridMap: Fix GridMap erasing octants in the wrong order ( GH-50052 ). please file an issue on GitHub.

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Render Mesh Bug Collision

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ).

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Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ).

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Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Mesh: Fix UV mapping on CSGSphere ( GH-49195 ). or earlier no longer works in 3.4

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Beta Dev Mesh Render

Creating Your First 3D Character Animation in Unity

iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In this multimedia era, games are such an intertwined part of people’s lives that they want them to be realistic and charismatic. Unity is one of the most popular cross-platform tools that help deploy games on multiple platforms like Windows, Mac, Android, and others. fbx), Collada.dae, Interchange.obj, Drawing Exchange Format (.dxf),

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Animation Animation Clipping Scripting

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 8

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The illustration picture for this article is a screenshot of Sandfire , an upcoming 3D person action-adventure game by Kmitt. The game was recently ported to Godot 4, see Kmitt's YouTube channel and Twitter for devlogs and updates. Rendering: Fix AABB errors on meshes with bones on multiple surfaces ( GH-65035 ). What's new.

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Get ready for the GitHub Game Off with Godot

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 30, 2017

GitHub has announced the 5 th edition of its Game Off game jam, hosted on itch.io The main feature of Game Off is its focus on free and open source tools for game development, and this is obviously something that we consider highly in the Godot Engine community, as a fully libre 2D and 3D game engine.

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Concepts Demo Engineering Engine

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). The game is currently being ported to Godot 4.0 Follow Kenny Park on Twitter or Mastodon for development updates, and check his website to discover other games and applications. Fix Tab key usage in the inspector ( GH-71271 ). What's new.

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Beta Dev Collision Render

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2021

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. Import: glTF: Improved error handling around invalid images and invalid meshes ( GH-48904 , GH-48912 ). We encourage all users to upgrade to 3.3.2.

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GitHub Game Off and Godot are a winning combination

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 29, 2018

And this bold statement is not (only) marketing speak, the winner of GitHub Game Off 2017 was indeed a Godot-made game by Securas, Daemon vs Demon. The 2018 edition of the month-long jam focusing on free and open source game development tools is about to start again on November 1st. Check the details on itch.io: Game Off 2018.

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Alpha Demo Engineering Engine

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.3 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 16, 2021

Import: glTF: Fix mesh nodes which are also bones ( GH-49119 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). GridMap: Fix GridMap erasing octants in the wrong order ( GH-50052 ). if something that worked fine in 3.3

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Bug Render Mesh Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Module 4: Designing vs. Programming (Lessons 1-3)

Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Lesson 1: Game Designer vs Game Programmer Summary In this video, we’re breaking down the jobs of game designers and game programmers, showing you how sometimes, they wear each other’s hats, especially in small teams. The programmer will bow down to the game designer in terms of choices and decisions made.

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Game Design Game Designer Tile Engineering

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.3 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 20, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Core: Fix debugger error when Dictionary key is a freed Object ( GH-39906 ) [regression fix]. wslay 1.1.1).

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Godot Tutorial: The Basics For Beginners

SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 12, 2020

In this introductory tutorial series, we’ll teach beginners how to use the basic controls within Gogot’s game engine. Godot is a free and open source game development software that game devs can use to make beautiful 2D and 3D games. . A Crash Course Into The Basics of Godot’s Game Engine.

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Asset Editing Code Scripting

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 24, 2020

C#: Fix restore not called when building game projects ( GH-40596 ) [regression fix]. GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). C#: Fix crash when pass null in print array in GD.Print ( GH-40078 ). stb_vorbis 1.20, wslay 1.1.1).

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Collision Bug Mesh Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 16, 2022

Rendering: GLES3: Fix broken normals in meshes with blend shapes ( GH-59159 ) [regression fix]. 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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Render Shaders Bug Build

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.4

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 23, 2022

Rendering: GLES3: Fix broken normals in meshes with blend shapes ( GH-59159 ) [regression fix]. 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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Render Alpha Shaders Editing

Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2020

I would like to thank hugely Matias Goldberg for his enormous help on this, our patrons for their continued support, and Tim Sweeney and Epic Games for their confidence in helping us finance our research via Epic Megagrant. Ensure your meshes are marked as "Static Bake", then enable SDFGI in the Environment settings.

Lightmap

Lightmap Texture Baking Mesh

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). The game is currently being ported to Godot 4.0 Follow Kenny Park on Twitter or Mastodon for development updates, and check his website to discover other games and applications. Fix Tab key usage in the inspector ( GH-71271 ). What’s new.

Beta

Beta Dev Collision Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 31, 2020

C#: Fix restore not called when building game projects ( GH-40596 ) [regression fix]. GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). C#: Fix potential crash with nested classes ( GH-40777 ). if something that worked fine in 3.2.1

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

C#: Fix restore not called when building game projects ( GH-40596 ) [regression fix]. GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). Backup your project files before upgrading. C#: Add Visual Studio support ( GH-39784 ).

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Bug Collision Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 21, 2020

C#: Fix restore not called when building game projects ( GH-40596 ) [regression fix]. GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). Backup your project files before upgrading. C#: Add Visual Studio support ( GH-39784 ).

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Bug Collision Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2020

C#: Fix restore not called when building game projects ( GH-40596 ) [regression fix]. GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). C#: Fix potential crash with nested classes ( GH-40777 ). if something that worked fine in 3.2.1

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Bug Collision Mesh Build

Realistic Lighting in Justice with Mesh Shading

The Spine Animation Story at Logic Simplified

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A small defense of glTF 2.0 on its comparison against OpenGEX

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

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Release candidate: Godot 3.3.3 RC 1

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.3

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Creating Your First 3D Character Animation in Unity

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 8

Get ready for the GitHub Game Off with Godot

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.2

GitHub Game Off and Godot are a winning combination

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.3 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Module 4: Designing vs. Programming (Lessons 1-3)

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.3 beta 1

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Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.4 RC 2

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.4

Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 3

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Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 4

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 2

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