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[Tutorial]Static-Occlusion-Culling, A great solution for improving culling performance during rendering - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos

MAY 14, 2023

This article will delve into the principles and code of the static occlusion culling solution in Cocos Cyberpunk. That brings us to a highly cost-effective rendering performance optimization solution called （Static Occlusion Culling, SOC） implemented in Cocos Cyberpunk. Occlusion Culling Let’s start with the following figure.

Culling

Culling Render Baking Code

Building a City Driving Game with the Untold Engine - Part I

Harold Serrano

DECEMBER 4, 2024

For example, the engine does not have any culling mechanism. However, for this to happen, I need to make the game educational so that my wife approves of it. So, what issues did find? Even though the setup took a few minutes, I saw problems right away. Loading times were too long and Z-fighting was apparent. Stay tuned for part-II

Engineering

Engineering Engine Culling Build

Advanced GPU optimization techniques in Unity 6 • Insights from Unite 2024

PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Unity’s Frustum Culling and Depth Rejection techniques help reduce the amount of geometry processed by discarding objects outside the camera’s view or hidden by others. GPU Occlusion Culling adds another layer of optimization by skipping objects that are occluded by other elements in the scene, thus reducing unnecessary vertex processing.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Culling Pixel Render

In regard to the vertical slice. Do studios work on/produce it to pitch a game or is it used as a milestone to reassure the money people that the game is progressing? (or both)?

Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 27, 2024

It typically signals the end of preproduction and the transition to production - we're no longer going to spend time coming up with any more major new ideas for game systems because we're committing to what we have and building those systems out.

Culling

Culling Demo Prototyping Dev

Realistic Lighting in Justice with Mesh Shading

Nvidia

MAY 21, 2021

It lacks the ability to process mesh in a coarser grain than triangle, like meshlet culling. The underlying idea of the algorithm is, in the first place, to do culling, then draw the effective parts of mesh. With MeshShaders, the culling algorithms we use can be of great flexibility.

Mesh

Mesh Culling Shaders Ray Tracing

Anylysis • The games industry is thriving, so why lay off 8,000 people?

PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The Swedish games conglomerate is in the midst of a bloody restructuring and has been culling its personnel expenses. Postpone pricey acquisitions However, because building up human capital is costly and slow, making cuts following a rushed acquisition is destructive. Similarly, Amazon Game Studio announced the termination of 180 jobs.

Platformer

Platformer Games Culling Entertainment

Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

using data oriented algorithms to process the culling of objects and both secondary command buffers and automatic batching to efficiently submit the draw primitives. The goal for Godot is to provide a great set of building blocks that can be used and combined to create more specialized game functions and tools.

AAA

AAA Game Development Game Developer Development

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

They've been building upon Godot 4.0 Buildsystem: Allow building X11 without Vulkan ( GH-70677 ). GDScript: Register enum type names in release build ( GH-64253 ). Import: Fix usages of mesh simplification functions in float=64 builds ( GH-67853 ). NET 6 build (C#, GDScript, GDExtension). What's new.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Animation

Best Practices for Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing (Updated)

Nvidia

JULY 25, 2022

Topics include: General tips Maximizing GPU utilization when building Memory allocations Organizing geometries into BLASes Build preference flags Dynamic BLASes Non-opaque geometries Particles General tips Consider async compute for AS building. Consider worker threads for generating AS building command lists.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Shaders Culling Render

Project Structure - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos

APRIL 14, 2023

1、 Comprehensive TPS gameplay framework 2、 A reusable implementation of Custom Render Pipeline 3、 Forward & Deferred Rendering, PostProcessing 4、 Usage of Reflection Probes 5、 Static Occlusion Culling 6、 Compatible with High-end, Mid-end and Low-end devices In this article, we will locate the files that correspond to the features above.

Code

Code Culling Lightmap Render

Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code - A Valuable Learning Resource for 3D Game Development

Cocos

APRIL 13, 2023

It can be used as a useful learning resource for game development as well as a solid foundation for building new games. Static Occlusion Culling The fastest way to render an object is to simply not render it. This approach is highly efficient and particularly useful for scenes that contains numerous static buildings.

Game Developer

Game Developer Game Development Code Culling

Release candidate: Godot 3.2 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 24, 2020

The second RC build on Monday fared fairly well and had no new regression. Rendering: Fix shadow culling with orthogonal camera and wrong VIEWPORT_SIZE shader builtin ( GH-35406 ). IMPORTANT: This is a release candidate build, which means that it is not suitable yet for use in production, nor for press reviews of what Godot 3.2

Bug

Bug Culling Build Pixel

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

They’ve been building upon Godot 4.0 Buildsystem: Allow building X11 without Vulkan ( GH-70677 ). GDScript: Register enum type names in release build ( GH-64253 ). Import: Fix usages of mesh simplification functions in float=64 builds ( GH-67853 ). NET 6 build (C#, GDScript, GDExtension). What’s new.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: Added Viewport canvas cull mask feature ( GH-52350 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET NET 6 build (C#, GDScript, GDExtension). Multiplayer: Add peer authentication support to the default MultiplayerAPI( GH-67917 ). Known issues.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Bug

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 Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view.

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Core: Promote object validity checks to release builds. Rendering: Portal occlusion culling. macOS: Mono universal build, GDNative Framework, notarization. Promote object validity checks to release builds. This has a theoretical performance cost for release builds, but it was found not to be significant.

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

alpha builds , we're trying to release 3.5 beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. In this build, we also built it for 32-bit platforms (armv7 and x86) as there was some demand for it, so you'll find the APK is a bit heavier. Like with 4.0

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 beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. From now on you'll find builds of the Android editor as _android_editor.apk in the download repository.

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 beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. From now on you'll find builds of the Android editor as _android_editor.apk in the download repository.

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Delores Source Code Released!

Grumpy Gamer

MAY 25, 2020

I also uploaded the dev build of the Delores engine (including the complete debugger) so you can run all your edits and changes. Delores had/has two full-time paid testers and before any build was uploaded to a store, it got a good deal of testing around the fix, plus a complete play through of 30 photos was required on each platform.

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Code Release Code Engine Engineering

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 7, 2020

stable, which is why we publish this beta build now. If you find any new issue with this build, especially related to one of the listed big changes, please report it on GitHub , ideally including a minimal project that can be used to reproduce the issue. Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

There's still more I want to add over coming days, but there's no reason to delay the publication of the beta 2 builds. macOS: Mono builds are now universal builds with support for both x86_64 and arm64 architectures. Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). And you read correctly, this is 3.4

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 22, 2020

stable, which is why we publish this beta build now. If you find any new issue with this build, especially related to one of the listed big changes, please report it on GitHub , ideally including a minimal project that can be used to reproduce the issue. Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Debug

The 7 deadliest game dev sins. Are you guilty of any of them?

Awesome Tuts

APRIL 8, 2022

3 – Build now, optimize later – this is the most absurd thing you can do when creating your game. Why should you build your game, spend 1 year on it, and then go back through everything you did to tweak the code and the settings to optimize it? Learning how to use occlusion culling will also help you in this case.

Dev

Dev Culling Games Code

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

We had a beta 2 build ten days ago , and a number of issues have since been found and fixed, so it's time for Godot 3.4 This build also fixes a nasty crash on Windows for some projects using dynamic fonts with outlines, triggered by a buildsystem update ( GH-50790 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 18, 2020

This new RC 2 build should be quite stable and we hope that many Godot 3.2.x stable build. If all goes well, the next build should be 3.2.2-stable. It should be safe to test this build directly with pre-existing projects made with Godot 3.2.x. Notably, Godot 3.2.2 How to test. GLES2 2D batching. The fix made in the 3.2

Beta

Beta Debug Bug Build

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2020

stable, which is why we publish this beta build now. If you find any new issue with this build, especially related to one of the listed big changes, please report it on GitHub , ideally including a minimal project that can be used to reproduce the issue. Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Debug

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2022

Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Note that builds are currently not signed, so you will get a warning on install.

Render

Render Shaders Console Culling

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 12, 2020

This new RC 1 build should be quite stable and we hope that many Godot 3.2.x stable build. If you find any new issue with this build, especially related to one of the listed big changes, please report it on GitHub , ideally including a minimal project that can be used to reproduce the issue. The upcoming Godot 3.2.2 How to test.

Beta

Beta Bug Debug Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2020

This new RC 3 build fixes a couple recent regressions. If you find any new issue with this build, especially related to one of the listed big changes, please report it on GitHub , ideally including a minimal project that can be used to reproduce the issue. The upcoming Godot 3.2.2 stable in a day or two. How to test. GLES2 2D batching.

Beta

Beta Debug Bug Point and Click

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

This beta 4 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. C#: macOS: Mono builds are now universal builds with support for both x86_64 and arm64 architectures ( GH-49248 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

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. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. GDScript: Enable method type information on release builds ( GH-59793 ).

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

At this stage it's really close to stable, we just had a few more regression fixes merged since the previous build that warrant another build for testing: Android: Address remaining scoped storage regressions ( GH-63480 ). Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Toolchains update for official builds.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 19, 2021

Our last testing build was 3.2.4 We still need a good round of testing on this new build to ensure that everything works as we want it before we make this the new stable branch (which will supersede the current 3.2.3 Improved Web editor and AudioWorklet support for multithreaded HTML5 builds. is very close to its stable release.

Render

Render Collision Build Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2021

RC builds yet, now would be a great time to do it to help us ensure everything upgrades smoothly from 3.2.3 Improved Web editor and AudioWorklet support for multithreaded HTML5 builds. macOS ARM64 support in official binaries for Apple M1 chip (only standard build for now). C#: Official builds now use Mono 6.12.0.114.

Render

Render Collision Build Bug

Puzzle Dependency Charts

Grumpy Gamer

AUGUST 10, 2014

Let's build one! Let's build it back a little more. I like doing this because it gives players a sense of completion, and they can also file a bunch of knowledge away and (if need) the inventory can be culled). They do not generally include story beats unless they are critical to solving a puzzle. There is nothing (NOTHING!)

Puzzle

Puzzle Culling Game Designer Game Design

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

Notably, it fixes some rendering regressions with transparent materials, and crashing iOS templates and Web editor build in RC 2. Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon. Highlights.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

For macOS, both the standard and Mono editor builds are now signed and notarized ! Improved Web editor and AudioWorklet support for multithreaded HTML5 builds. macOS ARM64 support in official binaries for Apple M1 chip (only standard build for now). C#: Official builds now use Mono 6.12.0.114. stable soon™.

Render

Render Collision Build Bug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Buildsystem: Unify tools / target build type configuration ( GH-66242 ). This doesn’t affect most users directly, but for anyone compiling Godot from source, we’ve refactored the way we define what to build. Buildsystem: Add serve and run SCons targets to test Web editor builds ( GH-64886 , GH-67325 ). Requires.NET SDK 6.0

Beta

Beta Dev Render Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Buildsystem: Unify tools / target build type configuration ( GH-66242 ). This doesn't affect most users directly, but for anyone compiling Godot from source, we've refactored the way we define what to build. Buildsystem: Add serve and run SCons targets to test Web editor builds ( GH-64886 , GH-67325 ). Requires.NET SDK 6.0

Beta

Beta Dev Render Debug

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

so we'll need your help to test Android export templates in this build and confirm that they work as expected. Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon. Jump to the Downloads section.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

This beta 5 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. C#: macOS: Mono builds are now universal builds with support for both x86_64 and arm64 architectures ( GH-49248 ). Core: Promote object validity checks to release builds ( GH-51796 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Lesson 6: Game Mode, Play Mode, and Scenes

Game Designing

AUGUST 23, 2023

And we’ll do lots of baking: Lightmaps with multiple Scenes Navmesh data with multiple Scenes Occlusion Culling data with multiple Scenes Lesson 6 Video Transcript Hey there everyone. If we press control shift B, we get this new menu called the build settings. And when we do build it, it will only include scenes that are here.

Code

Code Scripting Games Lightmap

NVIDIA DLSS Plugin and Reflex Now Available for Unreal Engine

Nvidia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Updates to NVIDIA RTX UE 4.25 The new NVIDIA UE 4.25 Branches offer all of the benefits of mainline UE4.25 and UE4.26.1,

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Engineering Engine Technology

[Tutorial]Static-Occlusion-Culling, A great solution for improving culling performance during rendering - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Building a City Driving Game with the Untold Engine - Part I

Trending Sources

Advanced GPU optimization techniques in Unity 6 • Insights from Unite 2024

In regard to the vertical slice. Do studios work on/produce it to pitch a game or is it used as a milestone to reassure the money people that the game is progressing? (or both)?

Realistic Lighting in Justice with Mesh Shading

Anylysis • The games industry is thriving, so why lay off 8,000 people?

Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Best Practices for Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing (Updated)

Project Structure - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code - A Valuable Learning Resource for 3D Game Development

Release candidate: Godot 3.2 RC 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 2

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 4

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 5

Delores Source Code Released!

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 3

The 7 deadliest game dev sins. Are you guilty of any of them?

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 4

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 7

Puzzle Dependency Charts

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 4

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 5

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Lesson 6: Game Mode, Play Mode, and Scenes

NVIDIA DLSS Plugin and Reflex Now Available for Unreal Engine

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