General Arcade
General Weekly #6 08.11.22
The game development industry brings something new all the time. General Arcade shows the most interesting releases, updates and news of the past week, which are recommended reading for both industry veterans and novice developers.
In the news: The Machinery game engine is no longer supported, and the developers ask customers to remove the sources and binaries, 9 months of development and now Godot 3.5 has been released, DreamWorks plans to release the MoonRay renderer under the Apache 2.0 license by the end of the year.
Of interest: from game developers to developers of the Balancy service for game developers, 5 hours of highly focused John Carmack having fun, GPU memory pools in D3D12, shader water in Unreal Engine.
Updates/releases/news
The Machinery game engine is no longer supported, and the developers are asking customers to remove the sources and binaries
The engine is no longer supported. But the most interesting thing here is:
The developers say that clients must remove all source codes and binaries of the engine.
The information that they can request this has been added to the EULA very recently. Even in the May version of the user agreement, this clause was not there.
9 months of development and now Godot 3.5 is out
New navigation system
Physics interpolation
Improved animation
Singleton Time
Label3D and TextMesh
Asynchronous shader compilation
Native editor for Android
And much more.
DreamWorks plans to release the MoonRay renderer under the Apache 2.0 license by the end of the year
Together with the Arras distributed rendering framework.
The renderer was used in production of, for example, The Bad Guys and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.
Khronos glTF 2.0 Released as International ISO/IEC Standard
This will reinforce the global acceptance and acceptance of glTF as a 3D asset format.
The popular open-source Rust game engine has received an update that adds several new features, including a new material system, improvements to the ECS system, and a new much more flexible, and powerful camera system.
Unity claims that working with Microsoft will allow them to improve their entire infrastructure, as well as develop the ecosystem of tools and services that the company provides to developers.
Sculptron 2022.1 is out in Early Access
The update includes support for exporting hair grooming from other software, new brushes and modifiers, and dynamic sculpting capabilities for some brushes.
The update adds a new Roots tool for creating outer roots, a Surround panel for simulating the shapes of trees growing in dense stands, and updates the software to use Blender’s geometry node system.
BagaPie V7 released
The update adds new procedural generators for fences, cables, tiles, and metal siding.
Interesting articles/videos
Porting AnKi to Android…again after ~8 years
The developer of the AnKi 3D engine decided to rewrite the port of it for Android and talked about the adventures he encountered along the way.
5 hours of enjoying concentrated John Carmack