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Godot 4.0 will get a new lightmapper
In most game engines, a lightmap is baked for a whole scene and there is only one of it at the same time. In Godot, different scenes can have their own lightmaps and you can mix and match them however you like.
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Why you should use OpenGL and not DirectX
Often, when we meet other game developers and say that we use OpenGL for our game Overgrowth, we're met with stares of disbelief -- why…
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EVE Online moves to Python 3
How do you migrate 2.4 million lines of code?
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Mari0=Mario + Portal ..Open source game
Great improvement from my previous tile selection. I was actually still using the same tile selection code that I wrote way back in January when this started. Now there's a nice editor menu with tabs and stuff. The filters at the top and the sorting things don't work yet. All in good time.
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How we built an auto-scalable Minecraft server for 1000+ players
Raising Minecraft world capacity by spreading players across multiple synchronized server processes
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Announcing Microsoft DirectX Raytracing
If you just want to see what DirectX Raytracing can do for gaming, check out the videos from Epic, Futuremark and EA, SEED. To learn about the magic
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Bevy game engine 0.6
Thanks to 170 contributors, 623 pull requests, and our generous sponsors, I'm happy to announce the Bevy 0.6 release on crates.io! For those who don't…
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Racing for Realism
At Pixar, pushing the limits of rendering is always a race towards realism, but never at the expense of style. Learn how the talented artists, programmers, and scientists at Pixar are pushing the limits of computer graphics to tell the best possible story.
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Behind the Tech with John Carmack: 5k Immersive Video
The following post from John provides more information on this technology and the making of its sample video: a 5k re-release of the award-winning Henry, from Oculus Story Studios for Oculus Go and...
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How do I become a graphics programmer?
It is often difficult to know where to start when taking your first in the world of graphics. This guide is here to help with a discussion of first steps and a list of useful websites.
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Krita 4.4.0
Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.
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Sunsetting the Bethesda.net launcher and migrating to Steam
You may now begin transferring your Bethesda.net Library to Steam. Find the instructions and get all the details in our updated FAQ.
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Pigment Mixing into Digital Painting
Mixbox is a new blending method for natural color mixing. It produces saturated gradients with hue shifts and natural secondary colors during blending. Yellow and blue make green.
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Animate Anyone: Image-to-video synthesis for character animation
Animate Anyone: Consistent and Controllable Image-to-Video Synthesis for Character Animation
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Introducing Oculus Quest, Our First 6DOF All-In-One VR System
We’re excited to usher in the next era of VR gaming with the introduction of Oculus Quest, our first all-in-one VR gaming system. Oculus Quest will launch in Spring 2019 for $399 USD. Offering six degrees of freedom and Touch controllers, Oculus Quest makes it easy to jump right into the action—with no PC, no wires…
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The journey to Nintendo Switch
We have a long history of trying to bring Factorio to other platforms, including consoles and mobile phones (not including April Fools). We even worked with some external companies, but the projects never even got to the point where they would run technically, let alone the complicated part of making the game playable…
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0 A.D. Alpha 24: Xšayāršā
Wildfire Games, an international group of volunteer game developers, proudly announces the release of 0 A.D. Alpha 24: “Xšayāršā” (pronounced: Khsha-ya-ṛsha), …
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Competitive Self-Play
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
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Dolphin on Steam Indefinitely Postponed
It is with much disappointment that we have to announce that the Dolphin on Steam release has been indefinitely postponed. We were notified by Valve that Nintendo has issued a DMCA against Dolphin's Steam page, and have removed Dolphin from Steam until the matter is settled. We are currently investigating…
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First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store
Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.
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Isometric Projection in Game Development
Isometric games are extremely popular. Let's learn the theory behind isometric projection and how it is used by gamedevs to write isometric-looking games.
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Krita 4.3.0
Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.
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Let's Write a Reverb (2021)
No magic numbers, no tricky tuning: a clean and flexible approach to designing a smooth high-quality reverb, using a variation on the classic feedback-delay network (FDN) structure.