Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ). Rendering: Take alpha antialising options into account when setting up materials ( GH-71261 ). Fix Tab key usage in the inspector ( GH-71271 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Instancing is used to render similar objects (mesh, material and misc settings), reducing the pressure over the rendering API. There are special versions of meshes to render when doing shadow maps or depth pre-pass. Optimized texture formats. For many algorithms, used smaller texture formats to reduce bandwidth.

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Cocos

JANUARY 10, 2024

Maybe spine outputs skinned meshes that don’t support instancing? v_instancedCol1; col2 = v_instancedCol1; col3 = v_instancedCol1; #else col1 = u_col1; col2 = u_col2; col3 = u_col3; #endif o *= texture(cc_spriteTexture, uv0); vec4 mask = vec4(texture(maskTex, uv0).rgb, Nothing special, but I’ve attached it below.

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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.

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Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Materials are used to determine the appearance of objects, such as their color, texture, transparency, and other visual characteristics. Texture Materials. But if you’re creating a FPS game for example, or any other game from any genre, you’re going to use texture materials as well.

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

Texturing: Textures are the flat images that are added to the model to give it colour and detail. It is applied to all the static meshes on the objects. Only after endless hours of testing and iterating, the game is considered ready for a late-Alpha or even a Beta release, on the basis of how polished the in-game features are.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 11, 2017

Export options (convert textures, etc.) Automatic detection and reimport of many use cases for textures. If you care about using meshes separately, it is also possible to tell Godot to save them as files. Reimports will overwrite those meshes, though. Godot import/export code was most likely simplified tenfold.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 6, 2018

In order to deform the mesh according to the bone transforms, each vertex (generally "point of a triangle") can be influenced by up to 4 bones. The actual deformation usually happens in the vertex shader , where the bone transforms get looked up from a texture. (In In rendering, textures are used for sooo many things.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ). Rendering: Take alpha antialising options into account when setting up materials ( GH-71261 ). Fix Tab key usage in the inspector ( GH-71271 ).

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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. Editor: Make texture preview filter setting content aware ( GH-67426 ). Physics: Optimized support function for large meshes ( GH-64382 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In parallel to our work on the upcoming feature releases Godot 3.5 ( with a first beta ) and 4.0 ( now at alpha 3! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 GUI: Fix TextureButton focus texture logic ( GH-56472 ). Import: Fix glTF scene export crash on null normal texture ( GH-56380 ). branch for use in production.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 26, 2019

features this month ( 2D meshes , 2D skeletons and AnimationTree docs). beta 3: GH-25378 : Texture previews are extremely low res. The illustration picture is a screenshot from John Watson's upcoming game, Gravity Ace , a gorgeous arcade twin-stick shooter currently in public alpha on itch.io. has been released.

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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 ). Sprite3D: The material_override now overrides the texture when drawing. If you upgrade from 3.2

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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. Editor: Make texture preview filter setting content aware ( GH-67426 ). Physics: Optimized support function for large meshes ( GH-64382 ).

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Nvidia

JULY 25, 2022

Enable the use of any-hit shaders only for those geometries that need it; for example, to do alpha testing. Invoking any-hit shader, typically for performing alpha testing, for non-opaque triangles interrupts hardware intersection search. Consider alpha testing instead of blending. Instances should share the base mesh BLAS.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

with 17 alpha builds distributed in 2022, and continuous development effort since 2019. You may have already seen some of this content on social media, in blog posts, or in alpha release notes. The new NavigationServer supports fully dynamic environments and on-the-fly navigation mesh baking. It has been a long road to Godot 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 9, 2016

Thanks to the development work done by Alket Rexhepi and Bojidar Marinov , this frontend will soon reach the alpha status and be announced officially, so that all community members can start submitting assets to the library. As of the 2.1 New plugin API. Together with the Asset Library, we have introduced an EditorPlugin API for Godot.

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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.) Still, Godot 3.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 6, 2022

alpha 1 and later. What makes the approach so fast is that you only calculate lighting for the cells in the froxel buffer and then, when drawing meshes, you only need to look up the fog value from the froxel buffer. Note: FogVolumes are available in 4.0 On top of the existing non-volumetric fog, Godot 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2018

Heyyy, this pretty much looks like the sky projected onto the meshes, that's better! At that point of development, the sky reflection didn't respond to the camera position, so it basically looked like the sky was painted ontop of the mesh. alpha is planned to be soon, so those features will hopefully be ready to test by then.

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