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Enhancing Mobile Game Performance: Essential VFX Techniques for Visual Excellence 

iXie gaming

In the fast-paced world of mobile game development , visual effects (VFX) play a pivotal role in creating immersive experiences that captivate players. However, achieving this level of visual excellence without compromising performance on mobile devices is a delicate balancing act.

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Introducing the new "last minute" lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

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). Lightmapping is a very cheap operation, so it should run fine even on low end mobile.

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Godot 4.0 will get a new, modernized lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

Lightmaps offer significant advantages over any other technique when the following requirements are met: Performance above anything else (for mobile, lightmaps are still a must-have). The new lightmapper is GPU based written mostly on Compute shaders (meaning it does most of the heavy lifting using the GPU, via Vulkan). lightmapper.

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Godot's new renderer, progress report #3

Mircosoft Game Dev

Implement Particle Shaders, with support for: Sorting, Collision and Soft Particles. It must be pre-baked for dynamic scenario geometry, but it offers support for full dynamic lights and dynamic objects. It works by implementing voxel cone tracing in a way that is friendlier with low end GPUs and high end mobile.

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Godot 3's renderer design explained

Mircosoft Game Dev

For example: On GLES3+ we can use UBOs to optimize shader parameters. Given GLES2 isn't going to disappear any time soon due to low end mobile devices, we still need to support it for a few more years to come. This ensures great compatibility with all desktop PCs, mobile devices and WebGL 2. Shader abstraction.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

This RC 6 has a few notable changes compared to the previous build: In RC 4, async shader compilation and caching was enabled by default on desktop, but several users reported issues with it on some hardware. You can enable it in the Project Settings ( rendering/gles3/shaders/shader_compilation_mode ). Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

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