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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. They only write what is needed (no redundant information), keep the ordering of sections and are simple enough to understand changes by just looking at the diff.

AAA

AAA Game Development Game Developer Development

Project Structure - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos

APRIL 14, 2023

In my previous post, I mentioned that I would be write a series of articles on Cocos Cyberpunk. 2、LightFX The lightmaps generated by the Lightmap Baking System will be automatically stored in this folder, and there is no need to manually modify the contents inside it. Hey everyone, Kylin here! The basic principle as shown below.

Code

Code Culling Lightmap Render

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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

In this report, I had expected to write about sales numbers and piracy rates but given the series of mind-boggling events this past week, this will have to wait a little. Welcome to the surprising second part of our Android release reports. If you missed part one, you can catch up on it here. from over two thousand players.

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

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

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

The Android plugin documentation has been updated with instructions on how to write plugins for this new system. 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 ). Porting existing 3.2 plugins should be fairly straightforward.

Debug

Debug Point and Click Bug Render

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. In other engines, you have to provide many shader variants, mix HLSL with a metalanguage, error reporting is terrible and writing shaders is difficult in general. writing shaders is very easy! GPU particles.

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

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 ). Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

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 ). Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

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 ). Scene: Write node groups on a single line when saving a.tscn file ( GH-52284 ).

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 ). Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

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

was still far away, so we tasked Joan Fons ( jfons ), as part of the GSoC program, to write a new CPU lightmapper for Godot 3.x. 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. Back in summer 2019 we already knew Godot 4.0

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. Consider writing a safe default value to unused payload fields.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Shaders Culling Render

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