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

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

has an entirely new rendering architecture, which is divided into modern and compatibility backends. The modern one does rendering via RenderingDevice (which is implemented in drivers such as Vulkan, Direct3D 12, and more in the future). Rendering is significantly more efficient in Godot 4.0, Low level rendering access.

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Onward to the new 3D renderer

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

release and head on directly towards Godot 3.0 , the long-awaited upgrade that should bring brand new 2D and 3D renderers based on OpenGL ES 3.0 has been promised to our users as the version that will bring a new state-of-the-art 3D renderer (albeit compatible with a wide range of graphics drivers, hence our choice for GLES 3.0

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Unity vs. Unreal Engine: Which is Better for Android Game Development?

Big Games

MARCH 27, 2025

Unreal Engine Created by Epic Games, it is well known for its advanced rendering capabilities and excellent visuals. Although it mostly employs C++, it also provides a visual scripting language called Blueprints that lets programmers construct intricate mechanics without knowing how to code.

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Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

It brings a brand new rendering engine with state-of-the-art PBR workflow for 3D, an improved assets pipeline, GDNative to load native code as plugins, C# 7.0 After meeting the initial goal, we hired karroffel to continue her work on GDNative (more about this below) and work on a new rendering backend. Visual Scripting.

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Using Unreal Engine for AR and VR Development

Logic Simplified

AUGUST 24, 2023

Motion Capture (2D, 3D, LiveLink) Real-time Rendering One of the standout Unreal Engine features is its support for real-time rendering. Additionally, the engine boasts advanced graphics and physics systems, essential for crafting realistic and visually striking AR and VR experiences. Vertical Plane Detection ARKit 3.0

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Top Tools and Software for Creating Visual FX in Games

iXie gaming

JUNE 28, 2024

TexturePacker helps by automatically packing many sprites into one texture atlas, which reduces the number of draw calls and improves overall rendering efficiency. By using these 2D VFX tools, you can add stunning visual effects to your games that improve gameplay and make players feel more involved in your game world.

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GSoC 2019 progress report #3

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Improvements to the Visual Scripting System by Swarnim Arun. Improvements to the Visual Scripting System – Swarnim Arun. Project: Improvements To Visual Scripting System. Visual Script graph unification. Visual Script tool script. GDScript Language Server by Ankit Priyarup.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). Thirdparty library updates: embree 3.13.0,

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Top Emerging Free Game Development Tools and Trends!

Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

Visual Scripting And No-Code Solutions Bolt for Unity: This visual scripting editor within the Unity game engine allows you to build game logic without writing code. Utilize powerful rendering tools, built-in networking features, and cloud-based tools to streamline the development process.

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Why 70% of Developers Prefer Unity for Mobile Game Development

iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This game engine requires minimal coding knowledge to build mobile games – instead, it offers a visual scripting system and supports third-party solutions such as Bolt. Unity is globally recognized for its premium-quality, next-level visual effects. Unity’s interface is simple, making it developer friendly.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). Rendering: Import option to split vertex buffer stream in positions and attributes ( GH-46574 ).

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). Rendering: Import option to split vertex buffer stream in positions and attributes ( GH-46574 ).

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Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). In-depth documentation is available.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Notable changes are in-editor class reference translations (so far Chinese (Simplified), Spanish, and some French), some new rendering features (high quality glow mode, 3D point light attenuation option), and a number of C# marshalling fixes. Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

GLES3 renderer). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). Highlights.

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Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

GLES3 renderer). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). Highlights.

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Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). In-depth documentation is available.

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Beta Dev Mesh Render

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

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

Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Unreal Engine, on the other hand, provides a choice between C++ programming and Blueprint visual scripting. Rendering Rendering can optimize post-processing game development, so it’s worth considerable attention when selecting a gaming engine. Longer rendering time. Superior rendering technique.

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Godot's new high level networking preview is up!

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2016

At 60 fps, a computer renders a frame in 0.016 seconds. The real advantage of this model is when used with the master / slave keywords in GDScript (Don't worry we'll have something similar in C# and Visual Script). The distance between West and East coast of the US is 5,200,000 meters. Distributed simulation.

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Godot reaches 2.1 stable!

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 9, 2016

It will include a new visual scripting language, support for Mono (C#), high level multiplayer networking and a more advanced audio engine. From now on, and for at least a few releases, we will focus on making Godot even more fabulous. Our next release is already in the works and will be 2.2 which we hope to deliver in 2/3 months).

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Unity Bolt Tutorial: How to Add Triggers & Switches

SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Today, Sovereign Moon Studios, the makers of your favorite NoCode game development course , are excited to bring you a new tutorial that will show you how to use triggers and switches within Unity’s free visual scripting add-on called Bolt. Let’s jump in! Introduction to Triggers.

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GSoC 2019 progress report #1 (part 2)

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 18, 2019

Improvements to the Visual Scripting System by Swarnim Arun. This means having lots of lights no longer creates a performance hit on the rendering pipeline, since all we need to do is sample a single texture and we get the amount of light coming from all light sources. Interactive Music by Daniel Matarov.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

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Why 70% of Developers Prefer Unity for Mobile Game Development

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

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Godot reaches 2.1 stable!

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