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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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.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

This design became common in game engines and libraries in the early 2010s. Godot uses plenty of data-oriented optimizations for physics, rendering, audio, etc. Game logic. Still (while, by far, not the majority) some types of games will see a performance benefit when using ECS in the game logic side.

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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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Porting: Add support for embedding game process in the Android Editor ( GH-102492 ). Porting: Fix game and editor freeze when clicking on the games title bar ( GH-102744 ). Rendering: Reduce mobile pipeline compilations ( GH-102217 ). Changelog 65 contributors submitted 141 improvements for this release.

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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. I hope to help you advance further in 3D game development. The rendering stages involved in Deferred Rendering.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

Flag dirty dependencies when GeometryInstance dependencies change in renderer ( GH-71581 ). The illustration picture for this article is from Halls of Torment , a roguelite action RPG with retro late-90s pre-rendered 2D graphics. Rendering: Flag dirty dependencies when GeometryInstance dependencies change in renderer ( GH-71581 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Godot is a not-for-profit free and open source game engine which aims at empowering all users in their 2D and 3D game development projects. This includes cross-platform OpenXR support, an extended input action system for VR, Vulkan rendering and optimizations on mobile, and more! VR support in Godot. As of Godot 3.2,

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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. Some popular games built with Unity include Angry Birds 2 and Pokémon Go”. In its update, 2022.2.11, HDRP/Nature/SpeedTree8.shadergraph

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Editor: Bring back the renderer options button on the main editor ( GH-70500 ). Rendering: Add options for sorting transparent objects ( GH-69998 ). Rendering: Cleanup and improve sky render ( GH-70253 ). Rendering: Ignore depth draw optimization when using depth draw alpha prepass ( GH-70884 ).

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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. After first revealing its new pricing structure for game developers, which didn’t go over well , Unity was forced to walk it all back and apologize.

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Real Programming

MAY 11, 2023

As for programming, Gabe loves 3D computer graphic modelling and rendering and visual arts. While he loves teaching coding to students of all levels, he has worked hard on our latest experimental course, Elite Game Engine. For example, Java is relied on for mobile developments, especially Android.

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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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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.

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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. The potential for building epic games on Unreal by game app developers and creators across industries has increased.

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Logic Simplified

MAY 7, 2024

This is an important aspect for mobile games. 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 improves the fill rate because pixels outside the polygon won't be drawn.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Editor: Bring back the renderer options button on the main editor ( GH-70500 ). Rendering: Add options for sorting transparent objects ( GH-69998 ). Rendering: Cleanup and improve sky render ( GH-70253 ). Rendering: Ignore depth draw optimization when using depth draw alpha prepass ( GH-70884 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 17, 2021

comes closer and closer, we wanted to spend some words to clarify the direction that Godot 4 has taken in regard of rendering back-ends. The renderer design and all resulting code had to be re-implemented entirely from scratch in order to support Vulkan and modern rendering techniques. The GLES2 renderer in Godot 3.x

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Improving the Native web to suit native mobile apps. Phaser 2D Game Framework Phaser came into prominence in 2013 to make game development engaging and enjoyable. Phaser 2D Game Framework Phaser came into prominence in 2013 to make game development engaging and enjoyable. Below are its three aims: 1.

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Moonmana

JUNE 7, 2023

This time we’ll unveil the most common reasons why studios choose Unity for creating a game for Android in 2023. When it comes to choosing a game engine for Android , the best solution you can ever find is undoubtedly Unity. Is Unity Good for Mobile Games? What features do Android video games have?

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

If you’ve ever wondered what the best game engine is, we invite you to figure it out with us. Let’s discover their pros and cons so it will be easier to decide which engine suits your project better. Unity versus Unreal – this seems to be an ever-lasting battle in the game development world. Unity or Unreal?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 18, 2021

It has flown under the radar somewhat but Godot was one of the first game engines to show off OpenXR support. The focus for March lies with getting the Vulkan renderer working on Android after which we'll start making changes to the rendering engine to support a better way of doing stereoscopic rendering then we had in Godot 3.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2015

As many of you know, Vulkan will be the next open and multi platform rendering 2D and 3D API. CAD and 3D DCC applications will most likely continue to using OpenGL, but for anything related to games OpenGL will be no more. It will also work on any modern mobile devices, iOS and Android. Waiting for Vulkan.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 14, 2014

One of the areas where Godot is still weak is the 3D renderer, which while it is still relatively powerful, it is designed for compatibility and optimized for mobile and low end-PCs. 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

MARCH 13, 2019

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. x branch used OpenGL ES 2.0 / OpenGL 2.1 ( GLES2 ) as its rendering API. renderer was removed. renderer was removed. Revamped inspector.

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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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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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Cocos

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Therefore, dividing the vast universe into scale models and rendering it in layers helps Cocosmos present content logically and facilitates resource management. Surface Rendering Even with just the eight major planets, differences in composition and volume mass can lead to variations in rendering. Since version 3.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 8, 2022

macOS: Disable window redraw during resize, when rendering in the separate thread ( GH-58738 ). Rendering: Use Filament specular model and parametrization ( GH-51716 ). Rendering: Use properly use non-perceptual roughness when filtering radiance ( GH-58418 ). Rendering: Fix shader compilation error with anisotropy ( GH-58419 ).

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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). Efficiently packs all texture objects in the lightmap to a texture array, to avoid state or material changes during rendering. Similar to Godot 3.x,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 31, 2022

It’s even more so if you are not familiar with graphics and game engine-related tools and technologies. My primary background was in Android mobile development and so when I initially approached the field of Virtual Reality, I was at a loss and quickly ran into a wall. This used to be my experience. x ) made that an easy choice.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

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. Rendering: Use prefiltered radiance for Sky high quality update mode ( GH-58177 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 19, 2022

Ignore support of S3TC compression format on mobile devices to ensure the use of ETC2 for GLES3 (fixes issues with Meta Quest 2 after a recent system update). Rendering: GLES2: Unpack blend shape arrays when necessary ( GH-60829 ). Rendering: GLES3: Unbind vertex buffer before calculating blend shapes ( GH-60832 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 2, 2022

Ignore support of S3TC compression format on mobile devices to ensure the use of ETC2 for GLES3 (fixes issues with Meta Quest 2 after a recent system update). Rendering: GLES2: Unpack blend shape arrays when necessary ( GH-60829 ). Rendering: GLES3: Unbind vertex buffer before calculating blend shapes ( GH-60832 ).

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