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[Tutorial]Static-Occlusion-Culling, A great solution for improving culling performance during rendering - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos

MAY 14, 2023

This article will delve into the principles and code of the static occlusion culling solution in Cocos Cyberpunk. That brings us to a highly cost-effective rendering performance optimization solution called （Static Occlusion Culling, SOC） implemented in Cocos Cyberpunk. Occlusion Culling Let’s start with the following figure.

Culling

Culling Render Baking Code

Realistic Lighting in Justice with Mesh Shading

Nvidia

MAY 21, 2021

It lacks the ability to process mesh in a coarser grain than triangle, like meshlet culling. The underlying idea of the algorithm is, in the first place, to do culling, then draw the effective parts of mesh. With MeshShaders, the culling algorithms we use can be of great flexibility. Actually, it works.

Mesh

Mesh Culling Shaders Ray Tracing

Anylysis • The games industry is thriving, so why lay off 8,000 people?

PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The Swedish games conglomerate is in the midst of a bloody restructuring and has been culling its personnel expenses. The increased risk profile of interactive entertainment, especially against a background of rising platform fees and marketing expenses, pushes innovative new content to the back burner.

Platformer

Platformer Games Culling Entertainment

Project Structure - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos

APRIL 14, 2023

1、 Comprehensive TPS gameplay framework 2、 A reusable implementation of Custom Render Pipeline 3、 Forward & Deferred Rendering, PostProcessing 4、 Usage of Reflection Probes 5、 Static Occlusion Culling 6、 Compatible with High-end, Mid-end and Low-end devices In this article, we will locate the files that correspond to the features above.

Code

Code Culling Lightmap Render

Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

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. The compatibility backend is based on OpenGL ES 3.0 / OpenGL 3.3 / WebGL 2.0 and is intended to run on very old PC hardware as well as most older (still working) mobile phones.

AAA

AAA Game Developer Game Development Development

2024 Cherry-picks

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2025

Using it to check on Godot game development streamers resulted in this funny compilation both the content creators and their viewers expressed happiness that the communities they had built were being recognized by us. The PvP auto-battler with a medieval fantasy theme has quickly gained popularity with content creators!

Engine

Engine Engineering Mechanics Co-op

The curious case of Google removing over 77% of all our positive reviews

Greenheart Games

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

We are lucky that despite the culling of thousands of 5-star reviews, only a handful of people rated the game 3-stars or lower and so our average is still a respectable 4.92 Instead, 13 days after our release, we have 25 fewer reviews (622) than what we had on the first day. but even so, the question of Why? burns in our minds.

Puzzle

Puzzle Culling Content Writing

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Portal occlusion culling. Portal occlusion culling. Up till now a significant missing feature in the renderer has been the ability to cull (prevent rendering) objects that are within the camera view, but occluded by another object (for instance a wall). Core: Promote object validity checks to release builds.

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

Why does Godot use Servers and RIDs?

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

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. generating terrain), because each thread can create content, then register it via a single channel. How is this achieved?

Render

Render Collision Engineering Engine

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). Extensive documentation will be available soon.

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Optimize Vegetation Generation

Mnenad

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Doing it before starting the actual game would mean to already generate all the content that needs to be batched at the beginning, which is no solution for a theoretically “endless procedurally generated” terrain. The topics will be the creation of creative content and how coincidence can help to get fresh ideas.

Mesh

Mesh Shaders FPS Polygon

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). In-depth documentation is available.

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

The new container types are especially useful for dynamic content on different window sizes. Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view.

Shaders

Shaders Render Feature Mesh

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). In-depth documentation is available.

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

release, with a lot of new content and many updates to existing tutorials to match the 3.2 Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). RichTextLabel: Add option to fit height to contents ( GH-33235 ). It's also worth noting that, while it's not included in the 3.2.2 feature set.

Debug

Debug Point and Click Bug Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2020

Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). RichTextLabel: Add option to fit height to contents ( GH-33235 ). C#: Fix exported values not updated in the remote inspector ( GH-38940. Core: Ensure COWData does not always reallocate on resize ( GH-37373 ). Core: Fix dangling Variants ( GH-38119 ).

Beta

Beta Debug Bug Point and Click

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). In-depth documentation is available.

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Unlocking GPU Intrinsics in HLSL

Nvidia

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

For example, warp shuffle can be used to optimize memory access in algorithms like light culling. Realistic use cases of the intrinsics in graphics applications are usually complicated. Floating-point atomics are used in VXGI to accumulate emittance during voxelization.

Shaders

Shaders Ray Tracing Pixel Mechanics

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). RichTextLabel: Honor content marging when drawing font shadow ( GH-54054 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). RichTextLabel: Honor content marging when drawing font shadow ( GH-54054 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Physics: Various fixes to 2D and 3D KinematicBody move_and_slide and move_and_collide ( GH-50495 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Physics: Various fixes to 2D and 3D KinematicBody move_and_slide and move_and_collide ( GH-50495 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

It's a long read, so here's a table of contents to easily get to a specific section: New physically based 3D renderer. will bring a new and more powerful animation tree, modern occlusion culling, improved rendering and a GLES 2.0 As mentioned above, 3.0 has been 18 months in the making and is a huge release. Full principled BSDF.

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

You may have already seen some of this content on social media, in blog posts, or in alpha release notes. We also reached out to content creators from the Godot community and got two very nice videos from FinePointCGI and Bramwell covering what Godot 4.0 In this article we highlight some of the new features we are most excited about.

Beta

Beta Engine Engineering Feature

Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

Various light culling fixes. This is particularly useful for files which you intend to process yourself from scripts based on their raw contents (e.g. One aspect of this was transform calculations and housekeeping, which has now been greatly reduced in hidden nodes. Improved PCF13 shadow rendering in GLES2 by using a soft PCF filter.

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

Best Practices for Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing (Updated)

Nvidia

JULY 25, 2022

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. For example, consider culling based on an expanded camera frustum. Use face culling only when required for correctness.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Shaders Culling Render