#Hardware #Bethesda #Starfield

Let me make it clear: the game has no proper Screen-Space Reflections, it's like tech that is being used for 20 years, but Bethesda is using GEOMETRY-ADJUSTED CUBEMAPS, this is a damn relic that can be found only on mobile graphics. It's not NEXT-GEN, it's not even past-past-gen.

This makes water and any reflective surface look horrible outside of baked interiors. Not raytracing, not even pre-raytracing, it's a tech that runs on your gramma's mobile phone.

But in Creation Engine 2 in makes 4090 and 7900 XTX look like a joke.

The future has never looked better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6117bR0-MJg

There are several free splash screens for #GodotEngine by Kenney

https://github.com/KenneyNL/Godot-SplashScreens

#Godot #Godot4 #FOSS

#meme time

There are four absolutely free books available (-100% currently), including guide on making games with #GodotEngine (3.4) and #Blender (2.93) – not the newest one, but there are notes on Godot 4 as well.

https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/international-day-of-the-programmer-2023-free-giveaway

The creator of VKD3D (the DX12 -> Vulkan translation layer) discovered some heavy issues in Starfield code. The first one explains what happens on Intel ARC graphics (cause the Intel driver team never knew someone would be that dumb)

Fixing them can be relatively fast and they drastically affect performance. But since Bethesda belives they don't have issues, it's hard to say if or when they gonna do something about it.

There are new prices for #Unity that are based on installs besides the income.

The good side is that both criteria have to be met to be charged for installs, which means that free games and casual indie games are not affected.

Medium-size studios are gonna be the most suffering audience and they are also the biggest part of the current Unity paying customers. Will see if this will work out and they will pay. I bet it will make them look at alternatives instead.

https://blog.unity.com/news/plan-pricing-and-packaging-updates

#Unity3D #GameEngines #Business

Free stuff for #Steam's 20's anniversary

https://store.steampowered.com/points/shop/event/sale_steam20

This is reasonable warning for any modern game, and kinda sounds like "do not run it on a laptop, please"

#Cyberpunk #Hardware #CDPR

And yeah, also it will affect Game Pass installs, that are "free" and do not cause instant profits for publishers, only valid played time is counted.

Lightweight and free #GodotEngine has become trendy after changes in Unity's financial model. Godot got 300% growth in Google overnight, videos related to porting games to it are also getting a lot of new views.

Yep, it's absolutely free and open source, you can do whatever you want with it and don't have to pay any royalties or fees. You can donate to them optionally.

Godotengine.org

#Godot #GameEngines #Business

And there's not just Godot out there:

➡️ Keep in mind that #UNIGINE Community SDK comes with zero runtime fees or royalties, and it's absolutely free for small indie developers, and it also supports C#: https://developer.unigine.com/en/docs/latest/migration/from_unity/

➡️ O3DE (Amazon Lumberyard) is free and open source tool for high-end games: https://o3de.org/

➡️ STRIDE has amazing C# support and is also #FOSS: https://www.stride3d.net/

➡️ Defold is not just FOSS, it goes beyond – you can't sell the engine in any form (other FOSS allow you to resell what's free), but all your games are absolutely yours and you can do whatever you want with them https://defold.com/

➡️ https://www.cocos.com/en – the demo above runs in Cocos, that was 2D for ages and recently gained 3D support. Not the most obvious choice, but still worthy.

#GameEngines

Finally!

The upcoming Fallout live action series from Amazon has been shown behind closed doors. Here's the glimpse of what they've seen.

#TV #Amazon #Fallout

My hopes are high for another movie only geeks will appreciate (in a row with Blade Runner and Ad Astra). Meet the final trailer and see you in cinemas in three weeks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAZuGdi32bk

The same rules and tricks of editing can be applied to games: cinematics and trailers, cutscenes, and general camera work. This is one of the reasons why the story-driven missions of Ghostwire Tokyo are so good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz49vQwSoTE
#Cinematography #Editing #Animations