Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 12, 2022

Another fortnight, another alpha snapshot of the development branch, this time with 4.0 See past alpha releases for details ( alpha 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 ). See past alpha releases for details ( alpha 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 ). alpha builds. You'll get a chance to test it with later alpha releases!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: A ton of fixes for all rendering backends, and missing features implemented for the OpenGL3 one. Editor: Disable code font ligatures by default in the editor ( GH-68571 ). GUI: Add a Font import option to pre-render all glyphs required for the translation ( GH-68448 ).

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Beta Dev Render Bug 99

Cocos

MAY 14, 2023

This article will delve into the principles, implementation details, common issues and solutions, memory overhead, and compatibility of the Deferred Rendering technique. This series of articles will analyze the source code from various perspectives to improve your learning efficiency. Solution for transparent object rendering.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Godot uses a considerably different approach to rendering (and rendering abstraction) than other, popular, game engines. This document was written in hopes to find more developers that would like to help us write rendering code, as it explains the overall design. Running the whole graphics rendering in a separate thread.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 5, 2023

Some ray-traced effects, like reflections or shadows, require support for out-of-frustum objects for rendering accuracy. This can be partially achieved using a bindless resource model where all required resources are available directly from the shader code on GPU without explicit CPU-side bindings. Alpha tested geometry.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. since early alpha releases; follow them on Twitter for updates. Editor: Bring back the renderer options button on the main editor ( GH-70500 ). They've been building upon Godot 4.0

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Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 24, 2022

If you’re a complete beginner who never coded a single game in Unity, start with the tutorial in the link below: Getting Started With Unity And C# If however, you know how to create basic games in Unity on your own, then you can follow this tutorial to implement this effect in your game. On line 1 have the Shader declaration.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 31, 2022

was released with the hopes of rewriting the rendering architecture using Vulkan as a target API. After it, 17 alphas followed in total. Nowadays, pretty much all the major areas have dedicated maintainers who understand the code better than I do. This blog post will offer a small retrospective of the year. The work of Godot 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 3, 2016

It's been a month since the first progress report , and progress continues towards the new Godot renderer. Little by little every system falls into place, and rendering starts feeling a lot more mature. Add Layered/Stencil rendering. One of the main features of PBR rendering is having all sort of sources for reflections.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! iOS: Check Xcode output and display errors if code signing, project build or.ipa export failed ( GH-71212 ). Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 31, 2022

was released with the hopes of rewriting the rendering architecture using Vulkan as a target API. After it, 17 alphas followed in total. Nowadays, pretty much all the major areas have dedicated maintainers who understand the code better than I do. This blog post will offer a small retrospective of the year. The work of Godot 4.0

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Alpha Media Bug Feature 110

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. since early alpha releases; follow them on Twitter for updates. Editor: Bring back the renderer options button on the main editor ( GH-70500 ). They’ve been building upon Godot 4.0

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Beta Dev Render Animation 81

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! iOS: Check Xcode output and display errors if code signing, project build or.ipa export failed ( GH-71212 ). Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ).

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Cocos

APRIL 18, 2024

Remember the previous article, where we used the image’s Alpha to find edges, determining whether there were pixels with Alpha of 0 around the image. Consider the characteristics of this rt; apart from the tree where Alpha is greater than 0, the rest of the Alpha is 0. aExtend is the expanded Alpha.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 1, 2017

We will take the chance to do deep changes in Godot internals, which (while for the better) will render it incompatible with previous versions. release is discouraged - unless you want to help find and fix bugs in the development code of course. Please wait at least until we can release an Alpha! Some time before the 3.0

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Alpha Render Bug Feature 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The following OpenGL code sends the sprite to the shader for drawing: OpenGL Commands. This code no longer runs in the CPU, in fact it runs on the GPU! Properly drawing the shader in base and additive passes of forward rendering, deferred, shadow, etc. is: It's about 1300 lines of code, you can read all of it here.

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Nvidia

MARCH 20, 2023

NVIDIA at GDC 2023: Frame Generation and Path Tracing Tools Now Available Generate frames with the latest breakthrough in AI rendering Announced with the NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture, DLSS 3 raised the bar not just for visuals but also performance and responsiveness. Frame generation is the latest evolution.

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

UE5’s features and functionality have further expanded to include experimental new features for rendering, animation and simulation. From strategy development, content creation, coding to testing, the development process reflects on the successful delivery of the game. Every release brings with it wide-ranging improvements.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 14, 2017

Usually we let our lead developer Juan (reduz) do progress reports on his impressive work on rendering features, but since he was in holidays for more than a month, we'll showcase the work of some key contributors this time. compatible renderer can be used optimally. stable release, but it's already looking pretty slick.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

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. Multiplayer: Move packet relay and peer signaling code to SceneMultiplayer ( GH-67094 ). We released Godot 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

The main one was performance due to every light being rendered in a separate draw pass. The regular CanvasOccluders have a new option to enable them for SDF rendering. 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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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 22, 2020

If you are interested in the implementation, you can find the code on GitHub. For all three *SkyMaterial types, users can select "Convert to ShaderMaterial" and edit the code directly. Currently, to use the subpasses you must set the appropriate render mode use_half_res_pass or use_quarter_res_pass. Sky resources.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

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. Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ) reworked the features and user experience of Godot’s ColorPicker during Google Summer of Code 2022. Lots of rendering changes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

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. Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ) reworked the features and user experience of Godot's ColorPicker during Google Summer of Code 2022. Lots of rendering changes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

With Alpha 2 now out and C# rightfully stealing the spotlight for this release, there is another long awaited new feature that has been added to Godot: VR support. Part of the Alpha 2 release is the ARVR Server architecture that makes VR and AR possible in Godot. release at this time. The ARVR Server. arvr = true. New ARVR nodes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 6, 2018

The progress of last month was largely defined by stabilizing the 3D renderer with many smaller fixes, but work on the PRB side of things has begun and the GDNative system also saw some quality-of-life changes again, with improvements to the GDNativeLibrary resource as well as an API to provide safe type-casting in NativeScript. Introduction.

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DameDev.tv

MARCH 7, 2023

In today's post, I'd like to show you how to retrieve an image provided by The Art Institute of Chicago via its public API , how to create a texture from this image, and how to feed this texture to a material and render it on a plane accompanied by a floating text with title, name of the artist and some other details.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: A ton of fixes for all rendering backends, and missing features implemented for the OpenGL3 one. Editor: Disable code font ligatures by default in the editor ( GH-68571 ). GUI: Add a Font import option to pre-render all glyphs required for the translation ( GH-68448 ).

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Beta Dev Render Bug 40

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 30, 2020

While not entirely rendering specific, a lot of nodes are being renamed. Accurate frame render time. you can only see the frames per second that takes rendering the whole editor. This is very misleading and not representative of rendering performance. Alpha is still some months away, but it's getting closer every day!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 12, 2017

In fact, our development process and code quality are, already, arguably in many senses better than commercial game engine counterparts. Proof of this is the large amount of features added on each release, and the ever high stability of the codebase, even on alpha state. A renderer + OS obstraction functions.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

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. David Snopek ( dsnopek ) got WebXR minimally working again ( GH-64514 ) using the WebGL 2 renderer implemented by Clay John ( clayjohn ). So here's beta 2!

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Beta Dev Render Bug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 11, 2017

This was a necessary change for many reasons: It's much, much simpler to write import/export code this way. Godot import/export code was most likely simplified tenfold. DAE (and hopefully FBX in the future) files are treated as if they were actual scenes (you load them directly from code). Seeing the code.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

with 17 alpha builds distributed in 2022, and continuous development effort since 2019. As users, please report all bugs that you encounter and provide as much detail as you can (including screenshots, code, and where possible, a minimal reproduction project). Over the last few years we have completely overhauled the Godot renders.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

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. Multiplayer: Move packet relay and peer signaling code to SceneMultiplayer ( GH-67094 ). Rendering: Add OpenGL timer queries to OpenGL3 backend ( GH-67032 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Moreover, our long-awaited port to C++14 will also happen now that the vulkan branch is merged into master , and many other codebase-wide changes were waiting for this: code style changes, Display/OS split, renaming of 3D nodes to unify our conventions, etc. alpha release. Implications for code contributors.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 6, 2022

alpha 1 and later. This post starts off with a high-level description of what FogVolumes are and how to use them, and then includes some technical details about what is going on under the hood and how we get them to render so fast. Note: FogVolumes are available in 4.0 On top of the existing non-volumetric fog, Godot 4.0 density = 0.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 31, 2020

Please help us test it to ensure that no new regressions have slipped through code review and testing. GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). Note: The previous 3.2.3

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