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Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). now defaults to using it for lossless texture compression instead of PNGs, thanks to work from Morris Arroad ( mortarroad ). import folder to force a reimport of all lossless compressed textures using WebP. Search "rendering" in the changelog.

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Game art vs game design: What is the difference?

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Video game artists specialize in a wide range of digital art forms, such as 2D modeling, animation, concept art and texturing. UI/UX artist A UI/UX artist creates the visual aspects of a game’s user interface, menus, icons and other interactive components.

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GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Here are the 3 projects/students with links to the relevant sections in this post: Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker by Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ). Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker. Project: Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker. Project: Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker. UX updates. apply_theme().

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The Best 3D Art Outsourcing Studios in the Industry

iXie gaming

Another specialty of Nuare Studio is 2D art, 3D high and low poly modeling, texturing, and VFX. In addition, Keywords Studio offers UI/UX design, visual effects, animation, and more. Apart from providing top-notch gaming assets for different genres, the studio also specializes in UI/UX, 2D, and 3D graphics, as well as animation.

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“Put that planet to the left!”

Played with Fire

So today we’re going to talk about UX (user experience) in virtual reality games and tell you about the most interesting solutions we used in our game Stargaze! Good UX practices for VR. That’s why we gathered all the best UX practices we know, all based on the example of Stargaze. Stargaze – cosmic VR game.

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Tiles editor progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

My goal here is to improve the UX of working with tiles, making it both easier to use and more powerful. To simplify things with the TileSet setup (removing the need to specify manually the atlases, autotiles or single tiles in a texture), you now have to organize your textures into fixed-size grids.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

See this demonstration made by MewPurPur : Improved ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ). The second part of her work has just been merged, and should significantly improve the ColorPicker’s UX. GUI: Improve ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ). Import: Respect texture filtering when importing glTF ( GH-59481 ).

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