Harold Serrano

JULY 28, 2025

After several months away from YouTube, I’ve been heads-down working on one thing: improving my engine’s renderer. Through sheer persistence — and a lot of early mornings — I managed to build out several key features that make the renderer feel more complete and polished. Now, seeing the renderer in this state, I genuinely feel proud.

Engine

iXie gaming

JULY 11, 2025

Unity + Universal Render Pipeline (URP) Why it works: URP’s Shader Graph empowers artists to create customized shaders for visual blending. Unreal Engine + Paper2D Use Case: Perfect for cinematic experiences, Unreal’s power for real-time rendering combined with Paper2D’s sprite handling enables expressive 2D overlays on 3D environments.

Art

Cocos

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

This release focuses on package size reduction, rendering pipeline improvements, and editor usability, alongside extensive bug fixes and platform compatibility enhancements. Rendering pipeline improvements : Added support for PipelinePass in the new pipeline. 3D empty project (default settings) : Reduced by 384 KB.

Electronics

Harold Serrano

AUGUST 4, 2025

In this video, you’ll see: Before/after comparisons of SSAO in action A quick explanation of how SSAO works Why it’s worth adding to your renderer How I integrated it into my lighting pipeline If you're building your own engine or renderer, or just want to level up your graphics knowledge, this one's for you.

Render

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 26, 2025

Rendering: Add ASTC HDR format variants ( GH-102777 ). Rendering: Fix voxelizer normals ( GH-102893 ). Rendering: Fix 2D quad primitive missing lighting data in GLES3 renderer ( GH-102908 ). Rendering: Fix uninitialized value in Tonemap ( GH-103092 ). Rendering: Fix incorrect parameters passed to VMA ( GH-103730 ).

Render

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 1, 2025

Rendering: Allow double precision modelview ( GH-106951 ). Rendering: Fix baked VoxelGI using the wrong color space ( GH-107776 ). Rendering: Fix GLES3 stereo output (sRGB + lens distortion) ( GH-107698 ). XR: OpenXR: Add support for render models extension ( GH-107388 ).

Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 18, 2025

Breaking changes Animation Audio / Video C# Core Documentation Editor GDScript GUI Import Input Internationalization Navigation Physics Platforms Rendering and shaders XR Breaking changes We try to minimize breaking changes, but sometimes they are necessary in order to fix high priority issues. Rendering and shaders Stencils!

Beta

Game Developer

AUGUST 12, 2025

Game Market Research Watch GDC Talks on GDC Vault Attend or Exhibit at GDC Advertise With Game Developer Newsletter Sign-Up Newsletter Sign-Up Trending Now Related Topics Layoffs & Studio Closures Generative AI & Machine Learning Lawsuits & Legal News Remote Work & RTO Recent in Trending Now Top Stories A photograph of the Arkane office (..)

Dev

Harold Serrano

DECEMBER 1, 2024

The engine includes the following systems: Rendering System Physics System Steering System Animation System Collision System (coming soon) PBR (Physically-Based Rendering) support Although the rewrite is not yet complete, the Untold Engine has reached a stage where you can create simple games.

Engine

Harold Serrano

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Systems: These handle the logic, such as rendering, animations, or physics calculations. This design keeps the engine modular and scalable, separating the game logic into three straightforward parts: Entities: These are the game objects (think players, cars, obstacles).

Engine

Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Usually, you want a subject matter expert to handle issues with the subject - an engine programmer to work on the engine, a rendering programmer to work on the renderer, and so on. It happens on occasion, but not super often.

Render

Logic Simplified

APRIL 4, 2025

The Unity Profiler provides tools for detecting issues that affect CPU, GPU, rendering, and memory performance. Rendering Analysis: Monitors draw calls, overdraw, and other performance metrics. Rendering Analysis: Monitors draw calls, overdraw, and other performance metrics.

Games

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2025

adds support for Meta’s Dynamic Resolution feature, which will dynamically scale down the render resolution in response to system load. This has been shown to increase an application’s frame budget by about ~70%, which can allow rendering higher fidelity graphics than would otherwise be possible on standalone VR hardware. Version 4.0.0

Render

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

Breaking changes Animation Audio C# Core Editor GDScript Import Input Physics Platforms Rendering and shaders XR New in Beta 1! This integration ensures developers targeting macOS or iOS can achieve excellent rendering quality and performance on supported Apple hardware. Highlights Many features originally intended for 4.3

Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 14, 2025

Rendering: Add ASTC HDR format variants ( GH-102777 ). Rendering: Fix voxelizer normals ( GH-102893 ). Rendering: Fix 2D quad primitive missing lighting data in GLES3 renderer ( GH-102908 ). Rendering: Fix uninitialized value in Tonemap ( GH-103092 ). Rendering: Fix incorrect parameters passed to VMA ( GH-103730 ).

Shaders

Cocos

JUNE 26, 2025

x version Polygon sprite, arbitrary polygon texture rendering that can be batched RiveAnimation, load Rive format animation, supports WeChat and Douyin mini games SpriterAnimation, load animation exported by Spriter, supports all platforms Supported engine versions Engine version: Cocos Creator 3.6.0 opengles2.0) can run, webgl2.0(opengles3.0)

Polygon

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 20, 2025

Rendering: Clean up more dynamic allocations in the RD renderers with a focus on 2D ( GH-103889 ). Rendering: Optimize _fill_instance_data function in Forward+ renderer ( GH-103547 ). Rendering: Significantly reduce per-frame memory allocations from the heap in the Mobile renderer ( GH-103794 ).

Dev

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 25, 2025

Rendering: Ameliorate performance regression due to directional shadow fade_start ( GH-99536 ). Rendering Ameliorate performance regression due to directional shadow fade_start ( GH-99536 ). Performance regression due to directional shadow fade_start Users noticed a drop in performance in 3D scenes with DirectionalLight in Godot 3.6

Bug

GameDev.Net

JULY 7, 2025

2D and 3D Art How to Implement Texture LOD on a Rendered Earth Sphere in OpenGL? Cancel Save Advertisement Popular Topics C++ - Putting the entire game instance in a heap object? Engines and Middleware Overlapping vertices? Graphics and GPU Programming Weird issue retrieving bits from an integer.

Game Design

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 29, 2025

Rendering: Always perform color correction and debanding on nonlinear sRGB values ( GH-107782 ). Rendering: Fix crash when creating voxel GI data ( GH-108397 ). Rendering: Fix underculling of occulusion culling ( GH-108347 ). Multiplayer: Fix node cache errors on nested MultiplayerSpawners ( GH-101416 ).

Beta

Cocos

AUGUST 14, 2025

However, the video ignores the UI hierarchy and is always rendered on top of everything. In my project, I wanted to place a video (mp4, etc.) naturally within the UI, so I tried using the VideoPlayer component. Is there a better way to handle this? Cocos Creator: 3.8.6

Render

Cocos

JULY 18, 2025

I’ve already written a number of optimizations for rendering using in-game logic, and I’ve achieved significant gains, but still not the ones I’d like. Can you tell me if significant improvements in 3D rendering performance are planned in 3.8.7? I use Cocos to build a complex 3D level and I can’t achieve the desired performance.

Render

iXie gaming

AUGUST 8, 2025

Essential Tools Used by Game Art Production Studios: Function Tools & Software 3D Modeling Blender, Maya, 3ds Max, ZBrush Texturing Substance Painter, Adobe Photoshop, Quixel Animation & Rigging Spine, Autodesk MotionBuilder, Mixamo Rendering Marmoset Toolbag, Arnold, Unreal Engine Version Control Perforce, Git LFS Project Management (..)

Art

Nvidia

JUNE 2, 2025

Artificial intelligence is bridging the gap between game visuals and state-of-the-art CGI in films. It is evolving traditional graphics programming and giving. Artificial intelligence is bridging the gap between game visuals and state-of-the-art CGI in films.

Render

iXie gaming

AUGUST 8, 2025

UV Mapping & Texturing Modern Physically Based Rendering (PBR) workflows are critical here, ensuring materials react realistically to light within the game engine. Artists unwrap 3D models and apply textures to define surface detail.

Art

Logic Simplified

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Looking for stunning 3D product renders for your ecommerce website? This powerful software allows developers to build their 3D assets and sciences with tools for 3D animation , modeling, rendering, shading, simulation, and more. Get 20-min free consultation on how Unreal can change your game idea.

Game Developer

Game From Scratch

JUNE 9, 2025

with a long awaited feature – Vulkan rendering support! GameFromScratch.com Blender 4.5 Beta Arrives with Vulkan Support The Blender Foundation have just shipped Blender 4.5 This is not enabled by default and requires a restart but once enabled it should provide a significant performance boost for most users.

Beta

iXie gaming

MARCH 2, 2025

Slow rendering and iteration cycles, delaying content updates. AWS Game Development for cloud-rendering scalability. Real-Time Rendering Advances Next-gen rendering technologies streamline production and improve fidelity: (i). Common issues include: (i). Manual handoffs between concept artists, modelers, and animators. (ii).

Art

iXie gaming

JULY 11, 2025

Lighting and Rendering : Designing lighting setups, often pre-baked, that enhance mood and performance across platforms. Texturing : Using Photoshop or Substance Painter to craft materials, often hand-painted for stylized looks or photorealistic for AAA realism.

Art

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Export: Disable Metal and Vulkan renderers in simulator builds. Rendering: 2D: Fix clip children and rendering artefacts ( GH-102161 ). Rendering: Add loop annotations to ubershaders to prevent loop unrolling ( GH-102480 ). Rendering: Fix shadow peter-panning with default spotlight ( GH-101952 ).

Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2025

Rendering: D3D12: Fix shader model check, initialization error handling ( GH-108919 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Fix crash at startup with “Thread Model” set to “Separate” ( GH-109057 ). Navigation: Fix path post-processing edgecentered ( GH-109196 ). Physics: Revert “SoftBody3D: Support physics Interpolation” ( GH-109265 ).

Beta

Cocos

JUNE 9, 2025

As a solution, I thought about implementing two cameras, one would be responsible for following the player and rendering the world behind them, and the other would be responsible for rendering the HUD. I’ve tried different ways, but one camera always renders on top of the other. Both are handled in the same way.

Render

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 14, 2025

Were there any quirks with the way the material rendering and animations were converted from Blender to Godot? Since Godot was always our target for rendering, there were some shader features that we didn’t replicate for the preview that we had in Blender. But now those are all resolved.

Animation

Game Developer

JULY 9, 2025

Business Could region-specific game versions boost industry fortunes? Virtuos thinks so Could region-specific game versions boost industry fortunes? billion Tencent investment Ubisoft is still making layoffs after securing $1.25 billion Tencent investment Ubisoft is still making layoffs after securing $1.25

Dev

Cocos

AUGUST 6, 2025

English, Cyrillic) while using the same texture/atlas for rendering styled text. My goal is to render all supported characters as part of a single texture atlas - not switching fonts per language, to maintain consistent visuals (style, color, effects).

Texture

Cocos

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Main Features Full platform compatibility Multi-texture rendering support High-definition text rendering Enhanced dynamic atlasing Enhanced Label component performance Enhanced Spine component performance Support for Spine costume changes using SpriteFrame Multi-threading support For detailed descriptions, please visit our documentation.

Render

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 21, 2025

Rendering: Vulkan: Disable layers in editor deemed buggy by RenderDoc ( GH-104154 ). Rendering: Fix Metal handling of cube textures; assert equal dimensions ( GH-104341 ). Porting: macOS: Fix editor loading crash on native menu click ( GH-103892 ). Porting: macOS: Update mouse-entered state when subwindow closes ( GH-104328 ).

Bug