Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 4, 2021

I prototyped a little top-down Zelda clone and showed it to my friend Jeff one night while we were hanging out at his apartment. We were so excited by the prospect of making a game that he dove headfirst into pixel art and I into programming. That was around August 2017. How has Godot helped you advance on your project?

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Sirlin

MARCH 18, 2015

Rather than each “pixel” of coin being on or off, you can carve a 3D shape into it. To accomplish this, I did my own “artist’s rendering” of what the metal coin should look like with various curves and different heights: That looks pretty good, but I cheated here. Here’s my artist’s rendering of that: Looking really good now!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2021

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. HTML5: Merged code for web editor prototype ( GH-42790 ). Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). New CPU lightmapper.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. HTML5: Merged code for web editor prototype ( GH-42790 ). Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). New CPU lightmapper.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. Note that the project settings from the rendering/quality/2d section have now been moved to rendering/2d , so if you used any of those, you will need to re-enable them under the new section in 3.2.4. New CPU lightmapper.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. GLES2: Improve PCF13 shadow rendering by using a soft PCF filter ( GH-46301 ). HTML5: Merged code for web editor prototype ( GH-42790 ). mbedtls 2.16.9,

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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. Dynamic BVH for rendering and GodotPhysics. Rendering: Unified 2D batching. More rendering improvements. Dynamic BVH for rendering and GodotPhysics.

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Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

Buckle up, aspiring developers, because the barrier to entry just shrunk to the size of a pixel! While still in the early stages, it offers promising rapid prototyping and brainstorming potential. Utilize powerful rendering tools, built-in networking features, and cloud-based tools to streamline the development process.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 4, 2017

You want a different renderer? GDScript is an excellent language for making games and quick prototyping. I want to keep this section short. A Native script is not a module. Modules have access to all the C++ classes available in Godot and can extend engine functionality. You want to add networking capabilities to all nodes ( ahem )?

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

Although the role is highly creative, it is also quite technical, and modelers must be able to determine scale, optimize geometry and renders, and troubleshoot software issues and bugs. These equations are then combined and rendered using a graphics processing unit that outputs a rough but legible animated scene known as a 'playblast.'

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