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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

Breaking changes Animation Audio C# Core Editor GDScript Import Input Physics Platforms Rendering and shaders XR New in Beta 1! Most importantly, if the game crashes for any reason, the editor does not crash at the same time (which could cause data loss). Highlights Many features originally intended for 4.3 ended up making it into 4.4

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Beta Dev Lightmap Baking

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Lightmap baking improvements Clay John changed the logic for baking direct lighting in LightmapGI to spread it over multiple frames, avoiding a spike of computation that can lead the OS to trigger TDR , resulting in a crash of the GPU context ( GH-102257 ). Shaders: Fix source_color default value ( GH-101642 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Baking Render

Strategies for Optimizing Multiplayer Games in Unity

Logic Simplified

APRIL 4, 2025

Key Components of Multiplayer Games in Unity Networking: Manages data transmission between clients and servers. Optimizing bandwidth usage through data compression and server load balancing is crucial for large-scale multiplayer experiences. Synchronization: Ensures that game states remain consistent across all clients. What worked?

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Games Texture Render Balance

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 30, 2025

Rendering: Bake UV2 emission using half float in the compatibility backend ( GH-101730 ). Shaders: Fix space transformations in WorldPositionFromDepth visual shader node generation ( GH-100350 ). Baking a Lightmap3D is more prone to crash after we added support for transparency. The issue is tracked in GH-101391.

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Beta Dev Bug Baking

Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

. • Fixed an issue where Mesh objects created through MeshUtils.createMesh caused data anomalies. Editor • Support baking high-precision lighting maps to get a better baking effect. When the user turns on high-precision lightmap baking, 16-bit colors are used instead of 8-bit colors, and AO channels are baked separately.

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Render Baking Lightmap Debug

Introducing the new "last minute" lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This generally works and looks pretty, but it's quite shader intensive, which makes it not work on mobile or low end GPUs. The solution to these problems is to add support for a more traditional lightmapper (pre-baked light texture). Just cover the scene with the volume, as you do with GIProbe: Finally, just press the big BAKE button.

Lightmap

Lightmap Baking Mesh Texture

Godot 3's renderer design explained

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Retrieving data from VisualServer is slow, as it may need synchronization. For example: On GLES3+ we can use UBOs to optimize shader parameters. Shader abstraction. This may sound like the obvious way of doing things but, in truth, it creates a big bottleneck on allowing users to write shaders. in only 4k lines of code!)

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Render Shaders Texture Engineering

Maintenance release: Godot 3.5.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

GUI: Fix color modulation of the grayscale glyphs in font with mixed color / grayscale data ( GH-64745 ) [regression fix]. iOS: Workaround WebKit/ANGLE shader compilation bug for WebGL 2.0 ( GH-64811 ). Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ).

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Render Baking Bug Collision

Cocos Creator 3.7.3 comes with an update to Cocos Effect

Cocos

MAY 9, 2023

Fixed Toon shader data issue on iOS Wechat. Fixed the issue of snapping a rotated, scaled node would cause problems in the scene editor ● Fixed the possible incorrect cache data when editing materials. Fixed crash issue when baking high-precision Lightmap for the terrain. Fixed pre-backed AO calculation issue.

Terrain

Terrain Render Simulation Texture

Accelerating Load Times for DirectX Games and Apps with GDeflate for DirectStorage

Nvidia

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

GDeflate: An Open GPU Compression Standard GDeflate is a high-performance, scalable, GPU-optimized data compression scheme that can help applications make use of the sheer amount of data throughput available on modern NVMe devices. Data throughput of various data compressed formats compared to varying staging buffer sizes Figure 2.

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Tile Data Content Games

Release candidate: Godot 3.5.1 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

GUI: Fix color modulation of the grayscale glyphs in font with mixed color / grayscale data ( GH-64745 ). iOS: Workaround WebKit/ANGLE shader compilation bug for WebGL 2.0 ( GH-64811 ). iOS: Workaround WebKit/ANGLE shader compilation bug for WebGL 2.0 ( GH-64811 ). Rendering: Fix skeleton 2D stale bounding rect ( GH-63071 ).

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Bug Render Collision Animation

Maintenance release: Godot 3.5.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

GUI: Fix color modulation of the grayscale glyphs in font with mixed color / grayscale data ( GH-64745 ) [regression fix]. iOS: Workaround WebKit/ANGLE shader compilation bug for WebGL 2.0 ( GH-64811 ). Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ).

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Render Baking Bug Collision

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ). Core: Provide a getter for the project data directory ( GH-52714 ).

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Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ). Core: Provide a getter for the project data directory ( GH-52714 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ). Core: Provide a getter for the project data directory ( GH-52714 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ). Core: Provide a getter for the project data directory ( GH-52714 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 7, 2021

It also adds a much-requested minimap to GraphEdit , and thus to the VisualScript and Visual Shader editors. glTF: Fix parsing base64-encoded buffer and image data ( GH-42501 , GH-42504 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). In particular, this build adds WebXR support for VR games!

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Beta Dev Bug Build

Cocos Creator 3.8 Post-Process Shader Writing (2/2) Advanced

Cocos

AUGUST 16, 2023

Preface In the last article , Kylin shared how to add your own post-effect Shader in the custom render pipeline in Cocos Creator 3.8. However, based on the BlitScreen solution, we can only write the simplest post-effect Shader. Today Kylin will use Gaussian blur to demonstrate how to write a multi-pass post-effect shader.

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Shaders Writing Pixel Render

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