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Godot's 2D engine gets several improvements for upcoming 4.0

Mircosoft Game Dev

2D Masking / Clipping. branch, this will be doable in a much easier way, thanks to the "clip children" property in the visibility section. while(accum < max_dist) { float d = texture_sdf(at); accum+=d; if (d < 0.01) { break; } at += d * dir; } float alpha = 1.0-min(1.0,accum/max_dist);

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Making shaders more accessible

Mircosoft Game Dev

The vertices become primitives (in this case, a triangle fan, two triangles that are drawn as a quad) and any primitive that goes beyond the -1 to +1 range is clipped. Result is the sprite vertices in the -1 to +1 clip space coordinates. render queue position, render type such as alpha or opaque, etc.). Multiply by 2.

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Creating a See-Through | X-Ray Effect In Unity – Shader Tutorial

Awesome Tuts

The vert function on line 37 uses UnityObjectToClipPos which will transform the mesh vertex position from local object space to clip space. The idea here is that we’re going to use the alpha channel of the material color to make the material transparent. Then we indicate the end of the shader code on line 47 with ENDCG.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

But the "1" in beta 1 means that it's only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we're going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. Rendering: Improve behaviour of clip_children by clipping to parent alpha value but still retaining parent color ( GH-67043 ). We released Godot 4.0

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

But the “1” in beta 1 means that it’s only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we’re going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. Rendering: Improve behaviour of clip_children by clipping to parent alpha value but still retaining parent color ( GH-67043 ). We released Godot 4.0

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Optimize Vegetation Generation

Mnenad

  Side note: Watch the clip in this link if you’re not familiar or just interested in understanding the difference between CPU and GPU. The foliage shader has an alpha cutout value and uses a texture + culling set to off (it is visible from both sides of the planes). And it has just twelve vertices.

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The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #20

Astral Clock Tower Studios

If you're just tuning in, you may not have known that we unveiled a pre-alpha alpha alpha combat build of Kristala at last year's 2019 PlayNYC convention in - you guessed it - New York City! In the clips below, you can see the Dodge issues in action. Or, as the great Jeff Goldblum once said, "Life, uh.finds a way.".

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