Jolt Physics has been merged into the Godot Engine core as the alternative to their broken native physics! It will be released in 4.4 stable early next year.

For the last couple of years (in both Godot 3.x and 4.x) the native 3D physics was broken. It was created in three months, replaced their previous 3rd party solution, but was instantly abandoned (the creator left the team). And for over a year Jolt was a plugin to solve this.

Jolt is fast and stable, it's being used in many AAA games, like Horizon Zero Dawn. It's supported by several popular Godot plugins, including Terrain3D.

https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/99895

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The NVIDIA 5000 series is concerning: if they are really that bad, we are doomed!

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Dragon Age The Veilguard is 35% off just a month after the release. It seems that the game isn't doing well.

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State of Mind is 90% off and I highly recommend it: a cyberpunk adventure with several protagonists and slowly unwrapping story about conspiracy.

Four endings and each of them is painful. It left me wondering what is the reality after all.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/437630/State_of_Mind/

Are you ready for The Game Awards 2024? The craziest rumor: Half-Life 3 can be announced today!

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V-RAY is now available for Blender as a free beta! Imagine how crazy the time we live in, if Chaos Software is not just 3Ds Max sidekick anymore 😉

UPD: Did you know that the company was founded in Bulgaria?

https://www.chaos.com/vray/blender
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#Free@GameDEV
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Godot 4 Bistro with film grain, lens distortion, vignette, chromatic aberrations, and more.

The shader is Free on GitHub

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Shader Graph she told you not to worry about! (FULL)

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Yeah, ray marching from Tiny Glade explained:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jusWW2pPnA0

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🔥 It's time, folks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfnUQ-qKsdQ

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The Witcher 4 is about Cirilla and her journey of killing monsters:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54dabgZJ5YA

Apparently, there are games on TGA! 🔥

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

Programming, but in full sentences! 😅

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The most important award was given to Amir: he fought with layoffs by composing new job openings and CVs of ones who lost jobs, so it will be easier for them to look for new roles and for HRs to find new staff members

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QMXa97WzWM
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A better posterization shader with color ramp (+ pixelization to achieve retro look)

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The Baldur's Gate 3 has been review bombed on Steam by Chinese players! Why, you may ask? Sven announced Astrobot as the game of the year on TGA, when he had to announce Wukong as the honest person supposed to.

😅 10000 IQ move!

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Godot 4.4 will feature the new fast baked shadows for distant objects. It still leaves enough room for proper dynamic shadows nearby the camera, but distant ones can now use predefined shadows from the main directional light.

The new shadow can be drawn at nearly infinite distance, compared to only a few hundred meters where the shadow map is drawn. It will make outdoor scenes way more believable.

https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/85653

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🤩 Meanwhile, my son is making Mouthwashing fan art!

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Akira reference 🤔

The metal band Nanowar decided to sing in Java!

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#music@GameDEV