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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. Cocos Cyberpunk is a complete open-source TPS 3D game developed by the Cocos Engine official team to showcase the engine’s capabilities in creating heavy 3D games and to boost the community’s learning motivation.

Culling

Culling Render Baking Code

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. returns to its own physics engine which, despite not being a high end physics engine like PhysX, aims to offer a lot more flexibility and “just works” capabilities to users.

AAA

AAA Game Developer Game Development Development

Realistic Lighting in Justice with Mesh Shading

Nvidia

MAY 21, 2021

NetEase Thunder Fire Games Uses Mesh Shading To Create Beautiful Game Environments for Justice In December, we interviewed Haiyong Qian, NetEase Game Engine. To learn more about the implementation and results, we sat down with Yuheng Zou, game engine developer at NetEase. Actually, it works.

Mesh

Mesh Culling Shaders Ray Tracing

2024 Cherry-picks

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2025

Subscribe to The Nodeletter to get a regular digest of Godot Engine news directly in your email inbox! For the purpose of this retrospective, we approached the engine maintainers directly, asking them to point us at one particularly compelling change they witnessed in their area of expertise. beta 1 release notes.

Engine

Engine Engineering Mechanics Co-op

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. engine software providers, payment facilitators, platform holders) and renegotiate the terms of your most expensive contracts. Similarly, Amazon Game Studio announced the termination of 180 jobs.

Platformer

Platformer Games Culling Entertainment

Project Structure - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos

APRIL 14, 2023

For someone who didn’t know Cocos Cyberpunk, it is an open source 3D TPS (Third-person Shooter) game, developed by the Cocos Engine team, which can be published to iOS, Android and Web. Static Occlusion Culling In Cocos Cyberpunk, a simple and useful PVS system has been implemented to improve culling performance.

Code

Code Culling Lightmap Render

Why does Godot use Servers and RIDs?

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Previous engines we have developed (we as in Juan Linietsky and Ariel Manzur) did not really use this architecture and everything was provided via simple classes with inheritance and polymorphism. This was fine, as our engine ran in a single thread (which was common, as most CPU architectures were single-core back then).

Render

Render Collision Engine Engineering

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Donations and corporate grants play a vital role in enabling us to develop Godot at this sustained pace, since they are our only source of income, and are used 100% to pay developers to work on the engine. Rendering: Portal occlusion culling. Portal occlusion culling. Thanks to all of you patrons from the bottom of our hearts!

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

Donations and corporate grants play a vital role in enabling us to develop Godot at this sustained pace, since they are our only source of income, and are used 100% to pay developers to work on the engine. The new container types are especially useful for dynamic content on different window sizes. both small and large.

Shaders

Shaders Render Feature Mesh

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 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! mbedtls 2.16.11.

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

After more than 18 months of development, all Godot Engine contributors are proud to present our biggest release so far, Godot 3.0! It brings a brand new rendering engine with state-of-the-art PBR workflow for 3D, an improved assets pipeline, GDNative to load native code as plugins, C# 7.0 New audio engine. Full principled BSDF.

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

beta just yet as we expect the engine to be unstable until we have more testing done. You may have already seen some of this content on social media, in blog posts, or in alpha release notes. And there's been a lot more since then in all areas of the engine — we can't state enough how much of Godot 4.0's Check them out!

Beta

Beta Engine Engineering Feature

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 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! mbedtls 2.16.11.

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

stable branch in January 2020 as a major update to our free and open source game engine. 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 ). feature set.

Debug

Debug Point and Click Bug Render

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 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! API documentation updates.

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

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 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! API documentation updates.

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh 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 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! C#: Fix exported values not updated in the remote inspector ( GH-38940. Core: Fix dangling Variants ( GH-38119 ). Godot 3.2.2

Beta

Beta Debug Bug Point and Click

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 ). RC 1 and RC 2.

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 ). RC 2 and RC 3.

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 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! API documentation updates.

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 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! API documentation updates.

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

in January 2020, we switched the development focus towards the upcoming Godot 4.0 , which is a major, compatibility-breaking rewrite of the engine's core and rendering. Additional funding will enable us to hire more core developers to work full-time on the engine, and thus further improve its development pace and stability.

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

NVIDIA DLSS Plugin and Reflex Now Available for Unreal Engine

Nvidia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

As of today, Unreal Engine 4 (UE4). As of today, Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) developers can now access DLSS as a plugin for Unreal Engine 4.26. Additionally, NVIDIA Reflex is now available as a feature in Unreal Engine. The NVIDIA RTX UE4 4.25 branches have also received updates. Updates to NVIDIA RTX UE 4.25 and UE4.26.1,

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Engine Engineering Technology

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

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

Trending Sources

Realistic Lighting in Justice with Mesh Shading

2024 Cherry-picks

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

Project Structure - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Why does Godot use Servers and RIDs?

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

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

NVIDIA DLSS Plugin and Reflex Now Available for Unreal Engine

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