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Full Unity 2D Game Tutorial 2019 – Making Mini Map Mask

Game Development

Finally we update the culling mask and remove the default layer by clicking on it. This will be the mask which shows or hides part of our map based on the alpha value of the mask texture we will add. Masking allows us to show only a portion of a texture based on the alpha value of another texture.

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Optimize Vegetation Generation

Mnenad

More details can be found under Unity’s official documentation page for Draw Call Batching :       Draw calls are often resource-intensive, with the graphics API doing significant work for every draw call, causing performance overhead on the CPU side. And it has just twelve vertices.

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Godot 3's renderer design explained

Mircosoft Game Dev

Running the whole graphics rendering in a separate thread. Given the high control we have over the shader compiler, we can: Detect when shaders write to the alpha channel and automatically make the surface go via the transparent pipeline. Great alpha blending support. This approach also has several more advantages. Light setup.

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Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

It parses your code and automatically understands what you are trying to do (such as writing to alpha for transparency, reading from screen, etc.) will bring a new and more powerful animation tree, modern occlusion culling, improved rendering and a GLES 2.0 In Godot 3.0, writing shaders is very easy! WebAssembly and WebGL 2.0

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Best Practices for Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing (Updated)

Nvidia

It can be directly in the AS build calls or in some related task like the culling of the objects. Cull instances for TLAS. Instead, cull instances depending on the situation. For example, consider culling based on an expanded camera frustum. Moving the CPU work to one or more worker threads is potentially beneficial.