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Practical Use of Render Textures

The Knights of Unity

And even before an era of SRPs (Scriptable Render Pipelines), there was a good amount of solid features like today’s topic: Render textures. In this post I’m going to explain to you how to use render textures in your game. using legacy rendering, but the features I used work in SRPs too. What is a Render Texture.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

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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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

Rendering: A ton of fixes for all rendering backends, and missing features implemented for the OpenGL3 one. GUI: Add a Font import option to pre-render all glyphs required for the translation ( GH-68448 ). Physics: Implement adjusting the maximum number of physics steps per rendered frame ( GH-65836 ).

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Godot 3's renderer design explained

Mircosoft Game Dev

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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Godot's new renderer, progress report #2

Mircosoft Game Dev

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. Improve Culling: Portals (rewrite as polygon-based) and Rooms. Add Layered/Stencil rendering. Introduction.

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Godot 4.0 optimization progress report

Mircosoft Game Dev

As most of the rendering features for the upcoming Godot 4.0 are done, I have spent the past two months optimizing the rendering engine, both on the CPU and GPU side. All this work has resulted in significantly faster rendering times. A lot of the render state is now better cached, so less is done at render time.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

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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