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Strategies for Optimizing Multiplayer Games in Unity

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APRIL 4, 2025

Level of Detail (LOD) Management: Optimize Rendering Efficiency Through LOD the display presents simple models for objects in the distance yet shows detailed versions when objects approach which minimizes polygons with no sacrifice to graphical precision. Proper memory management ensures smooth, stutter-free multiplayer gameplay.

Games

Games Texture Render Balance

Godot 4.0 will get a new, modernized lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 8, 2020

was a very simple voxel-based lightmapper that used the same code as GIProbe. While there are some simple libraries around, there is nothing close to a complete implementation of a lightmapper published with source code and a friendly license. Most scenes bake in seconds instead of minutes or hours. The lightmapper in Godot 3.2

Lightmap

Lightmap Baking Render Shaders

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Core: Handle corner cases for curve baking ( GH-69726 ). Note: This breaks compatibility intentionally, but we missed merging relevant transition code in this beta ( GH-70244 ). Shaders: Optimize code generation of visual shader particles ( GH-69900 ). Buildsystem: Rename float=64 SCons option to precision=double ( GH-67399 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Shaders

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Core: Handle corner cases for curve baking ( GH-69726 ). Note: This breaks compatibility intentionally, but we missed merging relevant transition code in this beta ( GH-70244 ). Shaders: Optimize code generation of visual shader particles ( GH-69900 ). Buildsystem: Rename float=64 SCons option to precision=double ( GH-67399 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Shaders

Godot's new renderer, progress report #3

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Improve Culling: Portals (rewrite as polygon-based) and Rooms. It must be pre-baked for dynamic scenario geometry, but it offers support for full dynamic lights and dynamic objects. Seeing the code. If you are interested in seeing what each feature looks like in the code, you can check the gles3 branch on GitHub.

Render

Render Baking Lightmap Shaders

Optimize Vegetation Generation

Mnenad

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

If you just need to batch once or twice during runtime even a high number of objects (in a demo scene he uses 10k mesh objects) the FPS will increase immensely with the code provided by Mr. Dimitrov, but if you do it over and over again I recommend MeshCombineStudio. That’s it. When

Mesh

Mesh Shaders FPS Polygon

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 2022

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. back in 2020! This should show up initially as a quad.

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2022

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. back in 2020! This should show up initially as a quad.

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

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. back in 2020! This should show up initially as a quad.

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

The new NavigationServer 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. What is it? GDNative: Add Core API 1.3

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2022

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. back in 2020! This should show up initially as a quad.

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

The new NavigationServer 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. What is it?

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

The new NavigationServer 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. What is it?

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. We recommend using the Time singleton as much as possible so that your code will be forward compatible with 4.0. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Label3D and TextMesh.

Shaders

Shaders Render Feature Mesh

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2022

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. back in 2020! This should show up initially as a quad.

Render

Render Shaders Console Culling

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

The new NavigationServer 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. What is it?

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

It brings a brand new rendering engine with state-of-the-art PBR workflow for 3D, an improved assets pipeline, GDNative to load native code as plugins, C# 7.0 Just set up the probe bounds and do a fast pre-bake of static objects. is the ability to export games coded in C#, as such it's not fully usable in production yet.

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Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

The new NavigationServer 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. What is it?

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

The new NavigationServer 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. What is it?

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 17, 2022

The new NavigationServer 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. What is it?

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

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Strategies for Optimizing Multiplayer Games in Unity

Godot 4.0 will get a new, modernized lightmapper

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

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Optimize Vegetation Generation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 2

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Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

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Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 3

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