Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2016

As many of you have probably heard, a new rendering backend is being worked on for Godot. Our goal is to have a modern, clustered renderer that supports everything mainstream engines support, including PBR, global illumination and flexible shader editing. Refactor the rendering API to make it easier to understand (and contribute to!).

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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. Running the whole graphics rendering in a separate thread.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: A ton of fixes for all rendering backends, and missing features implemented for the OpenGL3 one. Editor: Disable code font ligatures by default in the editor ( GH-68571 ). GUI: Add a Font import option to pre-render all glyphs required for the translation ( GH-68448 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

has an entirely new rendering architecture, which is divided into modern and compatibility backends. The modern one does rendering via RenderingDevice (which is implemented in drivers such as Vulkan, Direct3D 12, and more in the future). Rendering is significantly more efficient in Godot 4.0, Low level rendering access.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 30, 2016

It's been a month since the second progress report , and progress continues towards the new Godot renderer. Improve Culling: Portals (rewrite as polygon-based) and Rooms. Add Layered/Stencil rendering. renderer works entirely in linear space (Gamma is no longer supported). Seeing the code. Introduction.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 3, 2016

It's been a month since the first progress report , and progress continues towards the new Godot renderer. Little by little every system falls into place, and rendering starts feeling a lot more mature. Improve Culling: Portals (rewrite as polygon-based) and Rooms. Add Layered/Stencil rendering. Introduction.

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Nvidia

JULY 25, 2022

Especially in hybrid rendering, where G-buffer or shadow maps are rasterized, it’s potentially beneficial to execute AS building on async compute. 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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Editor: Bring back the renderer options button on the main editor ( GH-70500 ). Editor: Remove compatibility code for MeshInstance3D surface override material ( GH-70466 ). Rendering: Add options for sorting transparent objects ( GH-69998 ). Rendering: Cleanup and improve sky render ( GH-70253 ).

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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. Lots of rendering changes. Our rendering contributors keep working on finalizing the implementation of all expected features for Godot 4.0, OpenGL3: Add 2D lights to canvas renderer ( GH-67335 ).

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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. Lots of rendering changes. Our rendering contributors keep working on finalizing the implementation of all expected features for Godot 4.0, OpenGL3: Add 2D lights to canvas renderer ( GH-67335 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: A ton of fixes for all rendering backends, and missing features implemented for the OpenGL3 one. Editor: Disable code font ligatures by default in the editor ( GH-68571 ). GUI: Add a Font import option to pre-render all glyphs required for the translation ( GH-68448 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Editor: Bring back the renderer options button on the main editor ( GH-70500 ). Editor: Remove compatibility code for MeshInstance3D surface override material ( GH-70466 ). Rendering: Add options for sorting transparent objects ( GH-69998 ). Rendering: Cleanup and improve sky render ( GH-70253 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 2022

This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter. Switch on physics/common/physics_interpolation , and Godot will now automatically interpolate objects on rendered frames so they look super smooth. What is it?

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Awesome Tuts

APRIL 8, 2022

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? 4 Do not, and I repeat, DO NOT use hard-coded strings. Cameras render things on screen, and that’s a heavy process that is updated every second. Why not do it from the very start?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Portal occlusion culling. More rendering improvements. To simplify some of the most common constructs in input handling code for character movement, Aaron Franke ( aaronfranke ) added two new helper methods : Input.get_axis() and Input.get_vector(). Portal occlusion culling. More rendering improvements.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

rendering may be slower for a second or two, but the slowdown will not be nearly as bad as the typical hiccup caused by classic synchronous compilation. This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter. What is it?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2022

This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter. Switch on physics/common/physics_interpolation , and Godot will now automatically interpolate objects on rendered frames so they look super smooth. What is it?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

Godot can render at frame rates independent from the fixed physics tick rate. This can lead to problems where the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, causing unsightly jitter. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Physics interpolation in 3D.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter. Switch on physics/common/physics_interpolation , and Godot will now automatically interpolate objects on rendered frames so they look super smooth. What is it?

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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. This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter. Jump to the Downloads section.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2022

This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter. Switch on physics/common/physics_interpolation , and Godot will now automatically interpolate objects on rendered frames so they look super smooth. What is it?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

You can enable it in the Project Settings ( rendering/gles3/shaders/shader_compilation_mode ). rendering may be slower for a second or two, but the slowdown will not be nearly as bad as the typical hiccup caused by classic synchronous compilation. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. and backported to 3.5.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

rendering may be slower for a second or two, but the slowdown will not be nearly as bad as the typical hiccup caused by classic synchronous compilation. This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter. What is it?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2022

This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter. Switch on physics/common/physics_interpolation , and Godot will now automatically interpolate objects on rendered frames so they look super smooth. What is it?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 17, 2022

This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter. Switch on physics/common/physics_interpolation , and Godot will now automatically interpolate objects on rendered frames so they look super smooth. and backported to 3.5.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

rendering may be slower for a second or two, but the slowdown will not be nearly as bad as the typical hiccup caused by classic synchronous compilation. This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter. What is it?

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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. This order of events can't be escaped, as logic affects physics and rendering needs both information from logic and physics to display. Servers and RIDs. Architecture.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter. Switch on physics/common/physics_interpolation , and Godot will now automatically interpolate objects on rendered frames so they look super smooth. and backported to 3.5.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

For example, the NvShfl function that implements warp shuffle looks like the following code example, as defined in nvHLSLExtns.h : int NvShfl(int val, uint srcLane, int width = NV_WARP_SIZE) { uint index = g_NvidiaExt.IncrementCounter(); g_NvidiaExt[index].src0u.x Operation codes are defined in the nvShaderExtnEnums.h

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). API documentation updates.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

GLES3 renderer). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

GLES3 renderer). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Notable changes are in-editor class reference translations (so far Chinese (Simplified), Spanish, and some French), some new rendering features (high quality glow mode, 3D point light attenuation option), and a number of C# marshalling fixes. Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

Note that the project settings from the rendering/quality/2d section have now been moved to rendering/2d , so if you used any of those, you will need to re-enable them under the new section in 3.2.4. New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. HTML5: Merged code for web editor prototype ( GH-42790 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

As users, please report all bugs that you encounter and provide as much detail as you can (including screenshots, code, and where possible, a minimal reproduction project). While our existing integration testing can highlight critical issues preventing the code from compiling or running, it does little to ensure the stability of the engine.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2021

New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. If you experience a regression in either physics or rendering, you can try these Project Settings to revert back to the previous Octree-based approach and possibly fix the issue. GLES2: Improve PCF13 shadow rendering by using a soft PCF filter ( GH-46301 ).

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