Concepts, Culling and Render - Game Developers Network

Strategies for Optimizing Multiplayer Games in Unity

Logic Simplified

APRIL 4, 2025

The Unity Profiler provides tools for detecting issues that affect CPU, GPU, rendering, and memory performance. Rendering Analysis: Monitors draw calls, overdraw, and other performance metrics. Rendering Analysis: Monitors draw calls, overdraw, and other performance metrics.

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Games Texture Render Balance

Godot's new renderer, progress report #1

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!).

Render

Render Shaders Texture Mesh

Why does Godot use Servers and RIDs?

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

This order of events can't be escaped, as logic affects physics and rendering needs both information from logic and physics to display. Rendering, while mostly a sequential process (GPUs are sequential), can be parallelized in a few places, like frustum culling and (in modern APIs such as Vulkan, Metal or DirectX12) creation of command lists.

Render

Render Collision Engine Engineering

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 1

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.

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Render Shaders Console Culling

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. 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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Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 6

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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Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

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.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 5

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.

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 5

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.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 4

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.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 7

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.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 2

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.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

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.

Shaders

Shaders Render Feature Mesh

Setting the Mood: Exploring Lighting and Mood in Game Art

iXie gaming

JULY 19, 2024

Realistic Lighting In realistic games, lighting mimics real-world behavior using accurate physics and rendering. Plan for lighting early, from concept art to level design. Optimize your lighting by using techniques like Levels of Detail (LODs) and culling. Optimization Techniques Level of Detail (LOD). Texture Compression.

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Art Games Texture Culling

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Strategies for Optimizing Multiplayer Games in Unity

Godot's new renderer, progress report #1

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Why does Godot use Servers and RIDs?

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 5

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 5

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 4

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 7

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 2

Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

Setting the Mood: Exploring Lighting and Mood in Game Art

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