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3D Content Interoperability with Topology-Free Modeling

Nvidia

MARCH 1, 2023

The more polygons that an object has, the more detailed it appears, but high numbers of polygons demand more computing power. The polygon layout, or topology, of these items must be planned efficiently and created in advance to minimize the number of polygons and generate objects of the highest grade.

Content

Content Polygon Mesh Asset

Optimize Vegetation Generation

Mnenad

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Mainly I focused on generating grass that bends in the wind and some fern like plants, but what comes next is usable for all kind of meshes. Batching means to combine mesh objects that share the same material or that are marked as static in the Unity inspector. In my case I had terrible FPS with just some thousand mesh instances.

Mesh

Mesh Shaders FPS Polygon

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 24, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). TileSet: Fix potential crash when editing polygons ( GH-40560 ). Thirdparty library updates (mbedtls 2.16.7,

Collision

Collision Bug Mesh Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 31, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). TileSet: Fix potential crash when editing polygons ( GH-40560 ). Thirdparty library updates (mbedtls 2.16.7,

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). TileSet: Fix potential crash when editing polygons ( GH-40560 ). Thirdparty library updates (mbedtls 2.16.7,

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 21, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). TileSet: Fix potential crash when editing polygons ( GH-40560 ). Windows: DirectInput: Use correct joypad ID ( GH-40927 ).

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). TileSet: Fix potential crash when editing polygons ( GH-40560 ). Windows: DirectInput: Use correct joypad ID ( GH-40927 ).

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). TileSet: Fix potential crash when editing polygons ( GH-40560 ).

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 2022

alpha builds and maintenance releases for the stable branch ( 3.4.3 , 3.4.4 This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. You can move the polygon with the node transform, drag the corners to reshape it, add delete points. It's already been 2 months since 3.5

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2022

alpha builds , we're trying to release 3.5 This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. You can move the polygon with the node transform, drag the corners to reshape it, add delete points. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view.

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

alpha builds , we're trying to release 3.5 This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. You can move the polygon with the node transform, drag the corners to reshape it, add delete points. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view.

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2022

alpha builds , we're trying to release 3.5 This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. You can move the polygon with the node transform, drag the corners to reshape it, add delete points. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view.

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.3

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). TileSet: Fix potential crash when editing polygons ( GH-40560 ). RichTextLabel: Fix center alignment bug ( GH-40892 ).

Bug

Bug Build Collision Texture

Maintenance release: Godot 3.0.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

It is now possible to scale an.obj mesh when importing. TextureProgress causes a bad polygon error when the progress percentage is between 62 and 99. C# support is still in alpha so backward-incompatible improvements are still allowed in this branch (and will happen). This is helpful for CI pipelines. Type icons are back!

Beta

Beta Bug Lightmap Build

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

Still, this workflow is easy and efficient as 3D objects get a second set of UVs generated on import, and baking works with instantiated meshes, scenes and even GridMaps. It parses your code and automatically understands what you are trying to do (such as writing to alpha for transparency, reading from screen, etc.) In Godot 3.0,

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

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3D Content Interoperability with Topology-Free Modeling

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