Cocos

JUNE 16, 2024

Here are some practical tips: Reorganize the Rendering Tree Without Affecting Logic: By decoupling the rendering tree from the game logic, you can achieve more flexible rendering without interfering with game mechanics. This allows for easier optimization and maintenance.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 21, 2025

The illustration picture for this article comes from Haulin Oats , a board game about truck driving, the US highways, and oatmeal (?!), Animation: Fix console errors and crash in cleanup code for PhysicalBoneSimulator3D ( GH-103921 ). which was recently released in version 1.0 This release is built from commit abef5e0d2.

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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. release (there is just too much new code that needs to be tested throughly). Creating games this way is, as a result, more challenging.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 26, 2025

This release includes fixes to security vulnerabilities in the mbedTLS third-party library, so we strongly recommend updating for any game using networking functionality. Animation: Fix console errors and crash in cleanup code for PhysicalBoneSimulator3D ( GH-103921 ). See below for a list of the most relevant changes.

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Cocos

APRIL 13, 2023

The purpose of developing Cocos Cyberpunk is to showcase the Cocos Engine’s ability to create complex 3D games on multiple platforms and to motivate the developers in Cocos community to learn game development. Today, I am thrilled to share with you an amazing 3D shooter game project that I think you’ll love.

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Cocos

APRIL 14, 2023

For someone who didn’t know Cocos Cyberpunk, it is an open source 3D TPS (Third-person Shooter) game, developed by the Cocos Engine team, which can be published to iOS, Android and Web. Open the scene named scene-game-start and click on the preview button to run the game, you will see the following screen.

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Awesome Tuts

APRIL 8, 2022

These are 7 absolutely worst things you can do in your game dev project that will slow down your game, make it crash, not get you hired in a game studio, or get you fired if you work in one. But in Unity, if Awake & Start are left empty, they will still affect the loading time of your game. So what are they? #1

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The game is developed by Vedg Studio / NoirosL and was recently ported to Godot 4.0 Editor: Disable code font ligatures by default in the editor ( GH-68571 ). Rendering: Added Viewport canvas cull mask feature ( GH-52350 ). Rendering: Add texture reading code to OpenGL3 renderer for web and mobile ( GH-68138 ).

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Game Designing

AUGUST 23, 2023

 Summary We’ll show you how to switch scenes by code in this Unity Scene Tutorial. 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. Welcome back to another Unity tutorial.

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Nvidia

JULY 25, 2022

This post gathers best practices based on our experiences so far using NVIDIA RTX ray tracing in games. It can be directly in the AS build calls or in some related task like the culling of the objects. Cull instances for TLAS. Instead, cull instances depending on the situation. Update the BLAS only for visible objects.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2025

What a year it has been, with the number of Godot submissions in game jams rising to new heights, more people working for the Godot Foundation than ever before , and most industry award shows featuring one if not more games made with Godot. And with that, the 2024 season comes to an end. A busy year inside the project as well.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. Editor: Remove compatibility code for MeshInstance3D surface override material ( GH-70466 ). Rendering: Visual instance layers are regarded during shadow culling ( GH-70638 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

If you ever lurked in Godot source code, and tried to follow the flow of the logic, you most likely noticed that most code related to scene, formats, etc. Before going into optimizing for multiple threads, let's first take a look at the typical order of execution of the main blocks of a game engine. Servers and RIDs.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

x branch to develop and publish their games today , so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience. As such, most of the focus was on implementing missing features or bugfixes which are critical for publishing 2D and 3D games with Godot 3, and on making the existing features more optimized and reliable.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Improve Culling: Portals (rewrite as polygon-based) and Rooms. The new GI probe implementation in Godot is a game changer, and gives Godot 3.0 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. TODO for Milestone #4 (January 2017).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Improve Culling: Portals (rewrite as polygon-based) and Rooms. As such, ports for different platforms must be kept separate as they share little code. A nice example of how UBOs make everything simpler and more efficient is in the piece of C++ code that sets up the light parameters into a shader in the OpenGL ES 2.0 OpenGL ES 3.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. Editor: Remove compatibility code for MeshInstance3D surface override material ( GH-70466 ). Rendering: Visual instance layers are regarded during shadow culling ( GH-70638 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 2022

In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. It is really as simple as that to get started, place them wherever you like in your game level.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2022

In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. It is really as simple as that to get started, place them wherever you like in your game level.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. It is really as simple as that to get started, place them wherever you like in your game level.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

x branch to develop and publish their games today, so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience. Most of work was aimed at implementing missing features or fixing bugs which are critical for publishing 2D and 3D games with Godot 3.x, This ensures your game will run the same on all machines.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2022

In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. It is really as simple as that to get started, place them wherever you like in your game level.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ) reworked the features and user experience of Godot’s ColorPicker during Google Summer of Code 2022. So we refactored all this to have a single target option for the main three supported configurations which should be familiar to Godot users: target=editor : Editor build, optimized, with debugging code.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ) reworked the features and user experience of Godot's ColorPicker during Google Summer of Code 2022. So we refactored all this to have a single target option for the main three supported configurations which should be familiar to Godot users: target=editor : Editor build, optimized, with debugging code.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Godot uses a considerably different approach to rendering (and rendering abstraction) than other, popular, game engines. This document was written in hopes to find more developers that would like to help us write rendering code, as it explains the overall design. Without it it's quite difficult to get into the internals.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 3, 2016

Improve Culling: Portals (rewrite as polygon-based) and Rooms. Other popular game engines present hard edges between one probe and the next. 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. TODO for Milestone #3 (December 2016).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2022

In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. It is really as simple as that to get started, place them wherever you like in your game level.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The game is developed by Vedg Studio / NoirosL and was recently ported to Godot 4.0 Editor: Disable code font ligatures by default in the editor ( GH-68571 ). Rendering: Added Viewport canvas cull mask feature ( GH-52350 ). Rendering: Add texture reading code to OpenGL3 renderer for web and mobile ( GH-68138 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. It is really as simple as that to get started, place them wherever you like in your game level.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. It is really as simple as that to get started, place them wherever you like in your game level.

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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 The new 3D renderer is state-of-the-art, with features rarely see in game engines today, such as: Full principled BSDF. In Godot 3.0, writing shaders is very easy!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

The fix seems relatively safe but this will require heavy testing to make sure it doesn't regress - if you have 3D games using Bullet physics, please try this RC 2 and report any issue. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This should show up initially as a quad.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2020

GLES2 batching is enabled by default both in-game and in the editor. Note: Breaks compatibility for users of this plugin, but it's easy to adapt your code. C#: Allow debugging exported games ( GH-38115 ). Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). Core: Fix dangling Variants ( GH-38119 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 17, 2022

In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. It is really as simple as that to get started, place them wherever you like in your game level.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. It is really as simple as that to get started, place them wherever you like in your game level.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. It is really as simple as that to get started, place them wherever you like in your game level.

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Mnenad

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

  I have to admit it was frustrating to work with a machine that cannot handle much heavy calculations at once (my Macbook from 2011) from time to time, but on the other hand this forced me to get into optimizing the game very soon, what might become a good base for expanding the complexity in near future. Draw call batching.

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