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

Mircosoft Game Dev

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). Streaming is the most important feature missing for managing large scenes or open worlds. Sandbox style simulations.

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New Ray-Tracing, AI, Cloud, and Virtual World Tools Simplify Game Development at GDC 2022

Nvidia

Available now, Kickstart RT makes it easier than ever to add real-time ray tracing to game engines, producing realistic reflections, shadows, ambient occlusion, and global illumination. Traditionally, game engines must bind all active materials in a scene. Unreal Engine 4.27 Learn more about Kickstart RT.

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NVIDIA RTX, Unreal Engine 5 Define Future of Game Development and Content Creation

Nvidia

Today, Unreal Engine 5 (UE5) is available in Early Access, delivering the next-generation engine from Epic Games that will further propel the industry forward. In 2018, NVIDIA launched our RTX technology alongside a stunning Star Wars demo called Reflections , which was built on Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4.

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Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination

Mircosoft Game Dev

Multiple Bounces: Enable a feedback loop, which simulates multiple bounce lighting. Introduction Video: Very large, open world scene with real-time GI: Future. keeps improving and we are fully commited to create an amazing game engine, that you can use with the same freedom as as if it was your own in-house tech.

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The Key Differences Between 2D and 3D Animation in Game Development

Big Games

Uses techniques like key framing, rigging, motion capture, and simulations to show movement. Game Genres Ideal for puzzle games, visual novels, and platformers that require simplicity and style. Popularly used for RPGs, action-adventure, and open-world games, which demand realism and extensive features.

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Sandbox vs themepark

Raph Koster

But either one was radically different in that way than the most popular game engine, which was the Diku style (we called them “codebases” back then). All the content in the game was just data in fields. We used the term actively on MUD-Dev back in the day, making the distinction between simulation and “stagecraft.”

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Visualizing Depth Precision

Nvidia

Many articles and papers have been written on the topic, and a variety of different depth buffer formats and setups are found across different games, engines, and devices. For illustrative purposes, I’m simulating a 4-bit normalized integer depth buffer, so there are 16 evenly-spaced tick marks. Here’s my source code —Python 3.4