Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

release (there is just too much new code that needs to be tested throughly). Mesh streaming : Models are loaded as low detail (few vertices). The most complex is mesh streaming , which generally needs to be implemented together with a GPU culling strategy to ensure that very large amounts of models can be drawn at no CPU cost.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 3D: Switch Mesh surface indexing to start at 0 so string name matches integer index ( GH-70176 ). Note: This breaks compatibility intentionally, but we missed merging relevant transition code in this beta ( GH-70244 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

Those typically shouldn’t add instability to the engine, but may require doing some changes in your scripts, scenes, and shaders if you were using the affected APIs. As a side-effect, projects that used StyleBoxTexture for controls that relied on the old center rect code, such as ScrollBars, will need readjustment.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 3D: Switch Mesh surface indexing to start at 0 so string name matches integer index ( GH-70176 ). Note: This breaks compatibility intentionally, but we missed merging relevant transition code in this beta ( GH-70244 ).

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 4, 2025

The optimization of shaders combines calculation simplification methods which lowers both shader passes and processing redundancy. The use of simple colliders should include box and sphere types instead of complex mesh colliders to minimize processing requirements.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 23, 2018

Since I want to be able to help out with more rendering related tasks in the future, in places where existing code could be re-used, I am rewriting those parts myself to get a better understanding of the code. generate C++ classes for GLSL shaders at compile time. adapt shader compiler to work with GLSL ES 2.0.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 21, 2018

mesh loading. basic mesh drawing. implement spatial shaders. The main bug that was keeping me busy for weeks was related to a shader bind that was not descriptive enough when blitting a viewport to the screen. This makes for nicer code for the programmer. Done February 2018. 2D rendering stabilized. NativeScript 1.1

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 8, 2017

Optimize any part of your game by rewriting it transparently in C++, or any language that can compiled to native code for the target platform, wihout recompiling the engine or templates. While we offer a default particles material (which is very powerful and customizable), it is possible to write your own particle logic entirely in a shader.

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Mnenad

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Mainly I focused on generating grass that bends in the wind and some fern like plants, but what comes next is usable for all kind of meshes. Batching means to combine mesh objects that share the same material or that are marked as static in the Unity inspector. In my case I had terrible FPS with just some thousand mesh instances.

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The Liquid Fire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

link] [link] [link] [link] [link] Prerequisites Some knowledge of code is definitely going to help here. I’ll be writing most code in Godot’s Gdscript, so familiarity with that or Python will help. Type in mesh in the search and select MeshInstance3D. Search for mesh and again choose MeshInstance3D.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 16, 2018

A lot of text and no code so far, so here you go! Here is a link to a file to show what "low level class registering" might look like in future (this is already working code). Last time I promised more fancy screenshots, here some perspective-correct renderings of some meshes. The TIME variable in shaders?

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Nvidia

MARCH 20, 2023

Portal’s next-generation lighting rebuilt with path-traced direct and indirect illumination and shader execution re-ordering The RTX Path Tracing SDK accurately re-creates the physics of all light sources in a scene to reproduce what the eye sees in real life. OMM SDK 1.0 is available to all developers.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Our goal is to have a modern, clustered renderer that supports everything mainstream engines support, including PBR, global illumination and flexible shader editing. Write a more flexible, GLES 3 GLSL compatible shader language. Write a more efficient Mesh format, which allows faster loading/saving. For Godot 3.0 (our

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Apart from that, the month was mostly spent on implementing more 2D items in the renderer as well as working on getting custom shaders running. start work on shader compiler. implement more shader features. implement more shader features. load meshes. render meshes. Done January 2018. improve C++ bindings.

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Nvidia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

One of the key components of the SDK is Shader Execution Reordering (SER), a new scheduling system that reorders shading work on-the-fly for better execution efficiency. An NVIDIA API extension, it is useful for ray-traced workloads, as it achieves maximum parallelism and performance from path tracing shaders.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 6, 2018

In order to deform the mesh according to the bone transforms, each vertex (generally "point of a triangle") can be influenced by up to 4 bones. The actual deformation usually happens in the vertex shader , where the bone transforms get looked up from a texture. (In added TIME uniform to all "scriptable" shaders.

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Nvidia

JULY 25, 2022

Flagging instances or geometries as opaque allows uninterrupted hardware intersection search and prevents invocation of the any-hit shader. Enable the use of any-hit shaders only for those geometries that need it; for example, to do alpha testing. Consider representing mesh particles as instances in TLAS.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). iOS: Check Xcode output and display errors if code signing, project build or.ipa export failed ( GH-71212 ). Visual Shader: Add few improvements for VisualShaderNodeParticleRandomness ( GH-71123 ). Fix Tab key usage in the inspector ( GH-71271 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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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. First of all, you need to make sure your meshes have an UV2 layer. Godot lightmapper works with one texture per mesh, so sharing UVs between meshes will not give you more optimization.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2022

Like in previous years, Godot is participating again in the Google Summer of Code program for its 2022 edition. Multi window code editors by trollodel. Multi window code editors. Project: Allow undocking the Script editor and the Shader editor. Detaching the Script editor and the Shader editor is done for the most part.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. We recommend using the Time singleton as much as possible so that your code will be forward compatible with 4.0. Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader). Label3D and TextMesh.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2025

Look at these shiny highlights: 2D physics interpolation 2D hierarchical culling Mesh merging Discrete level of detail (LOD) ORM materials Text to speech Arctic Eggs This game about cooking eggs in a cold climate found great reception on the internet. The feature freeze for 3.6

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

For users of previous alphas, we don't always have compatibility code to ease transition. If you run into upgrade issues that you can't solve easily, please let us know so we can consider how much inter-alpha compatibility code we need to add. Editor: Improvements to shader editor ( GH-63582 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2022

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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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

Visual shader editor. all rendering code was rewritten to use the more modern OpenGL ES 3.0 / OpenGL 3.3 Some shader features will not work and throw an error when used (which is to be expected when using an older OpenGL version). GDScript allows to write code in a quick way within a controlled environment. 2D skeletons.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). iOS: Check Xcode output and display errors if code signing, project build or.ipa export failed ( GH-71212 ). Visual Shader: Add few improvements for VisualShaderNodeParticleRandomness ( GH-71123 ). Fix Tab key usage in the inspector ( GH-71271 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Editor: Remove compatibility code for MeshInstance3D surface override material ( GH-70466 ). Import: Fix usages of mesh simplification functions in float=64 builds ( GH-67853 ). Rendering: Use proper indices for lights, decals, and reflection probes in mobile scene shader ( GH-70929 ). iOS: Fix contentScaleFactor ( GH-70478 ).

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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. You can enable it in the Project Settings ( rendering/gles3/shaders/shader_compilation_mode ). Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

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

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

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

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2022

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 )!

Beta 52

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

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 )!

Beta 52

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