And finally #GodotEngine 4.2 stable is out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHXJPaj6988
#Godot4 #FOSS #News

Exactly 10 years ago #GodotEngine became #FOSS. I joined the community in late 2015 and made the first prototypes in early 2016.

And during the hardest time between G3 and G4 I donated ~$300 over the years and glad to see how the project grew 😊

And #Valve is doing its thing again: Steam 3D Audio is now Open Source under Apache 2.0 license!

There is a GitHub repo and Blogpost on Valve website where you can learn more on terms, goals, etc.

#FOSS #SoundDesign #Audio

The source code of #GodotEngine explained by Juan himself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTlEM2tJavo #Godot4 #GameEngines #FOSS

The Mirror, started as #GodotEngine fork turned into the #Roblox kind of app, is now becoming #FOSS.

So the app developers will cut their fee on additional content and features but overall the app and the server are now open source. Which means instead of making yet another Roblox, like The Core and Everywhere (by BaRB), they are making "the app to make yet another Roblox of your own". Which may be a wise move.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY30mlHTTxs #NoCode #Sandbox #Godot4

The new #Free testing tool for #UnrealEngine have been open sourced by its developers (ex-Riot).

Friendshipper is a desktop application for viewing and downloading builds of an Unreal project. It can be used in one of two modes — tester and contributor.

https://github.com/believer-oss/ethos #FOSS #Gamedev #Programming #Testing

Did you know that there is a #FOSS image upscale tool that isn't 10GB in size and not in the cloud?

https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl #FREE #OpenSource #AI #NeuralNetworks

FSR 3.1 by AMD is finally fully Open Source, including Frame Generation. Which means: more engines with frame gen will be availalbe for a wide audience in the next few years!

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Godot Engine Proposal

#AMD #FSR #FOSS #Hardware

Yep, #Microsoft is chaotic, but did you know they have Free and Open Source Emojis pack? (MIT License)

Oddly enough: you can't just use an emoji in your game or media without checking who owns the specific one.

https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui-emoji #FOSS #Free

Free and Open Source plugin for #Godot4 to make post processing effects!

https://github.com/ItsKorin/Godot-Post-Process-Plugin #Free #Shaders #GodotEngine #VFX #FOSS

There is a free (GPLv2) Background removal tool that do not rely on a specific GPU and works as an OBS plugin on Windows, Linux, and macOS.

Unlike NVIDIA Broadcast, it can remove backgrounds from anything, including still images of objects! And it is way more flexible even when separating people.

https://github.com/locaal-ai/obs-backgroundremoval #OBS #Streaming #AI #NVIDIA #Free #FOSS

⭐ Our daily awesome post about #GodotEngine:

➡️ https://github.com/OverfortGames/SteamNetGodot

SteamNetGodot

In it's core SteamNetGodot is the combination of Facepunch.Steamworks and LiteNetLib. A performant, easy to use C# Steam Networking library for the wonderful Godot engine.

It will be regularly updated since it's currently in use on our game Taverna.

Goodies

➡️ Compressed Steam VOIP
➡️ Smart matchmaking through Steam Lobbies / internal logic
➡️ RPC system
➡️ Very simple C# code
➡️ Bunch of cool networking code as example (replication, resource management, audio, kick, mute, ban...)

➡️ Open Source
➡️ Godot 4.3
➡️ MIT license

#FOSS #Godot4 #Steam #GameDev

How about some Ocean Shader for Godot Engine?

https://github.com/2Retr0/GodotOceanWaves/ #GodotEngine #Godot4 #Shaders #FOSS

It's not OPEN SOURCE anymore if you ban people on GitHub for different political views… there are unfortunately more and more examples like this.

Yes, they kinda able to make another account, but it's not the point: open source policies suggest that such limits can't be applied at all for social reasons.

#GodotEngine #WTF #FOSS

A simple Ocean Shader for Godot 4 (much easier than the one with big waves), also MIT Licensed

https://github.com/Flarkk/Godot-Water-Shader-Prototype #FOSS #Shaders #GodotEngine #Godot4

A tiny sound effects generator by ex-Godot contributor:

https://github.com/YuriSizov/glasan-fx (MIT License) #Sounds #Music #SoundDesign #FOSS

Oh, there's yet another open source game engine! It's cross-platform and licensed under Apache 2.0 😎

(GitHub)

#GameEngines@GameDEV
#FOSS@GameDEV

It took them only 20 years since GIMP 2 and 7 years since the announcement of v3 development to finally release GIMP 3!

Now the app has non-destructive editing with text layers that keep text information, with filters that can be applied and combined on the go, etc.

#FOSS@GameDEV

Oddly enough, NVIDIA decided they need some good news too and finally open sourced the GPU kernel for Physx.

For a few years their physics library was open source in general, but was able to run on a CPU if NVIDIA GPU wasn't found. Now it's in the past and 3rd party GPUs may become compatible.

They also messed up with RTX 50, which is on a hardware level unable to run 32-bit Physx in old games. It may be fixed by some software tricks now.

#NVIDIA@GameDEV
#Physics@GameDEV
#FOSS@GameDEV