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Integrating 2D and 3D Art: Creating Cohesive Game Worlds

iXie gaming

JULY 11, 2025

Games like Octopath Traveler II achieve cohesion by locking camera angles and aligning visual depth, ensuring pixel art characters don’t feel out of place in dynamic 3D backdrops. Pro Tip : Choose a consistent artistic anchor, such as cel-shading, pixelation, or flat vector art, and apply it across all asset types.

Art

Art Sprite Texture Asset

Creating a See-Through | X-Ray Effect In Unity – Shader Tutorial

Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 24, 2022

The vert function on line 37 uses UnityObjectToClipPos which will transform the mesh vertex position from local object space to clip space. Here’s another example how to make game objects visible behind wall but with an addition – we’re going to make the visible objects pixelated. 0.59, and 0.11 0.25 && col.r

Shaders

Shaders Pixel Point and Click Scripting

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

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 ). Physics: Improved logic for KinematicBody collision recovery depth ( GH-53451 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 15

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

GUI: Add font LCD sub-pixel anti-aliasing support ( GH-64422 ). Particles: Add "Hide on Contact" collision mode to ParticlesMaterial ( GH-61238 ). Physics: Add collision weight to PhysicsBody2D/3D for penetrations which must be avoided ( GH-64343 ). Rendering: Add font LCD sub-pixel anti-aliasing support ( GH-64422 ).

Alpha

Alpha Dev Shaders Beta

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

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 ). Physics: Improved logic for KinematicBody collision recovery depth ( GH-53451 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

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 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

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 ). Physics: Improved logic for KinematicBody collision recovery depth ( GH-53451 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

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 ). Physics: Improved logic for KinematicBody collision recovery depth ( GH-53451 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. Multiple fixes to one-way collisions. Physics: Fix multiple issues with one-way collisions ( GH-42574 ). Physics: Allow CollisionObject to show collision shape meshes ( GH-45783 ).

Render

Render Collision Build Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.1 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Import: Fix crash when exporting meshes to glTF that have no skin ( GH-55246 ). macOS: Fix driver crash when enabling per-pixel transparency on M1 macs ( GH-55464 ). macOS: Fix driver crash when enabling per-pixel transparency on M1 macs ( GH-55464 ). Import: Fix support for CSG and GridMap in glTF scene export ( GH-54911 ).

Tile

Tile Render Bug Build

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Revamped collision layer grid in the inspector. Although raster (pixel based) occlusion culling will not be available until Godot 4, some geometrical occlusion methods are being added to Godot 3. Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). HTML5: PWA, Godot/JavaScript interface, AudioWorklet.

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.1 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Import: Fix crash when exporting meshes to glTF that have no skin ( GH-55246 ). macOS: Fix driver crash when enabling per-pixel transparency on M1 macs ( GH-55464 ). Physics: Fix test_move reporting collision when touching another body ( GH-54845 ). Import: Fix support for CSG and GridMap in glTF scene export ( GH-54911 ).

Tile

Tile Render Bug Build

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Import: Fix crash when exporting meshes to glTF that have no skin ( GH-55246 ). macOS: Fix driver crash when enabling per-pixel transparency on M1 macs ( GH-55464 ). Physics: Fix test_move reporting collision when touching another body ( GH-54845 ). Import: Fix support for CSG and GridMap in glTF scene export ( GH-54911 ).

Tile

Tile Render Shaders Editing

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

Import: Respect 'mesh compression' editor import option in Assimp and glTF importers ( GH-39134 ). Physics: Test collision mask before creating constraint pair in Godot physics broadphase 2D and 3D ( GH-39399 ). Windows: Per-pixel transparency no longer lets mouse events pass-through ( GH-39914. please file an issue on GitHub.

Debug

Debug Point and Click Bug Render

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #6

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2018

This is a screenshot that displays the object-space position of each pixel as the color. Heyyy, this pretty much looks like the sky projected onto the meshes, that's better! At that point of development, the sky reflection didn't respond to the camera position, so it basically looked like the sky was painted ontop of the mesh.

Pixel

Pixel Texture Render Shaders

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Integrating 2D and 3D Art: Creating Cohesive Game Worlds

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