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Enticing mix of genres in Ghibli-inspired The Brew Barons by Lifetap Studios

PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

As we were prototyping there was still a feeling the game needed more action. Special plane shader With Porco Rosso being such a great source of inspiration it feels only natural to have the game also look like a Ghibli film. ” Elaborating on the game’s aesthetics, Hartley feels particularly proud of the plane shader.

Studios

Studios Prototyping Visual Scripting Art

Why I still use Unity

Radiator Blog

APRIL 18, 2022

Unity's imperfect WebGL export is objectively more promising than Unreal publicly dropping web support in 2020 (not that Epic's web support was ever good anyway) I tried using UE4 already , learning enough to prototype basic game mechanics and build 90% art passed levels. I'm not an expert, but I've learned much more than a beginner.

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Engine Engineering Bug Rigging

Simplex noise lands in Godot 3.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

A Godot voxel world prototype by Zylann, using his own OpenSimplex module which can now be replaced by the built-in implementation. 2D noise textures are really useful when creating cloudy or wavy effects. But the true power of noise textures becomes available when used in combination with text shaders: Getting started.

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Texture Terrain Prototyping Shaders

Emulating Double Precision on the GPU to Render Large Worlds

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The character asset and animation are from GDQuest's "godot-3d-mannequin" project and the ground texture is from Kenney's "Prototype Textures" bundle. The solution should be easy, let’s just use doubles in all of our shaders! Doubles in Shaders. So how does it work?

Render

Render Shaders Engine Engineering

Accelerate your Game Design, Development and Build with Unity Asset Store

Jaunty Bear Games

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Fortunately the Unity 3D platform has a great selection of packages and assets to accelerate the build of tools, models, shaders, sound effects, animations etc. It is both designer and programmer-friendly allowing for quick prototyping and implementing of unique behaviors. Unity Technologies Assets. Addressables by Unity Technologies.

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Asset Game Designer Game Design Build

Emulating Double Precision on the GPU to Render Large Worlds

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The character asset and animation are from GDQuest’s “godot-3d-mannequin” project and the ground texture is from Kenney’s “Prototype Textures” bundle. The solution should be easy, let’s just use doubles in all of our shaders! Doubles in Shaders. Can we get away with just passing those two matrices in as doubles?

Render

Render Shaders Engine Engineering

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 7, 2021

It also adds a much-requested minimap to GraphEdit , and thus to the VisualScript and Visual Shader editors. Improved Web editor prototype and AudioWorklet support for multithreaded HTML5 builds. GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ).

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Beta Dev Bug Build

Oscar Salandin, developer of BOTSU Ridicuous Robots: “Solo dev can be lonely”

PreMortem.Games

JULY 29, 2024

Although we weren’t making games, the tech for Mixed Reality was identical to making games, so I picked up a lot of technical ability with Unity, game dev, shaders and more.” Spending time with them demystified the process of making games and the industry for me, and it began to look like something more achievable.

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Dev Development Sandbox Indy

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

Visual Shaders overhaul. 2D: Pseudo 3D, Texture atlas, AStar2D. There is a burgeoning community of Quest VR developers already publishing interesting Godot-based prototypes, and the stable 3.2 Holger Dammertz's Voxel Works Quest prototype made with Godot for Oculus Quest. Visual Shaders overhaul. Coding tools.

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Feature Render Shaders Bug

Introducing the Godot glTF 2.0 scene exporter

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 4, 2021

For example, creating a blockout or prototyping within Godot, then exporting as glTF to further edit in Blender, and finally bringing the geometry back into Godot. bin + textures). Animation skinning and blend shapes are using compute shaders. You can also use the Godot glTF export pipeline to create and modify world geometry.

Animation

Animation Animation Engine Engineering

Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

Visual shader editor. Some shader features will not work and throw an error when used (which is to be expected when using an older OpenGL version). As this back-end is intended to run on the lowest end hardware possible, shaders need to be kept very small. Visual shader editor. Revamped 2D editor. New TileSet editor.

Feature

Feature Render Editing Shaders

Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

Building upon the initial prototype , we've now reached a state where we're happy to release the Web editor in sync with the native version, so you can find the latest stable version on editor.godotengine.org. "2D Pixel" preset for textures), but until there was no easy way to configure all presets easily in a unified interface.

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

A comprehensive guide to in-demand roles in film and games

CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

If they don’t create textures themselves, 3D modelers will work especially closely with texture artists and look development artists (aka surfacing artists) who will add realism and detail to their model through texture maps and shaders. They may also be required to use software that processes scans and photogrammetry.

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Film Animation Animation Concepts

Godot Showcase - Lumencraft developer talks about his experience

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 13, 2022

Paweł and I are teaching classes on simulations and game dev that are heavily based on Godot Engine mostly due to Godot being perfect for fast prototyping. Another thing that was quite useful is the option to quickly test shaders. We would like to make use of compute shaders and array uniforms in shaders.

Development

Development Shaders Terrain Engine

Unity vs. Unreal: What to Choose for Your Game? | Moonmana

Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Luckily both engines offer asset stores that allow users to download free and paid props, shading, textures, and many more. Although Unity supports normal maps, occlusion maps, base textures, and other standard shading features, it lacks the advanced material editor found in Unreal engine. Additionally, UE is good for prototyping.

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Enticing mix of genres in Ghibli-inspired The Brew Barons by Lifetap Studios

Why I still use Unity

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Simplex noise lands in Godot 3.1

Emulating Double Precision on the GPU to Render Large Worlds

Accelerate your Game Design, Development and Build with Unity Asset Store

Emulating Double Precision on the GPU to Render Large Worlds

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 5

Oscar Salandin, developer of BOTSU Ridicuous Robots: “Solo dev can be lonely”

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Introducing the Godot glTF 2.0 scene exporter

Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

A comprehensive guide to in-demand roles in film and games

Godot Showcase - Lumencraft developer talks about his experience

Unity vs. Unreal: What to Choose for Your Game? | Moonmana

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