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. It also has more useful built-in data types such as integer vectors. Animation streaming : Modern games have long cinematics, which require a lot of animation data.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The Swedish games conglomerate is in the midst of a bloody restructuring and has been culling its personnel expenses. Its share price jumped +11 percent after it reported better-than-expected operating profits in its second-quarter earnings. Similarly, Amazon Game Studio announced the termination of 180 jobs.

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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. Avoid deep recursion.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Refactor the Image class to include modern data types. Improve Culling: Portals (rewrite as polygon-based) and Rooms. Refactor Image class to include modern data types. The Image class had to be refactored for more modern data types. Refactor the texture API to include more modern texture compression formats. The Godot 2.x

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Nvidia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Updates to NVIDIA RTX UE 4.25 The new NVIDIA UE 4.25 Branches offer all of the benefits of mainline UE4.25 and UE4.26.1,

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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. Neither need to retrieve data. Physics pushes data to Rendering. How is this achieved?

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The payload registers are the mechanism NVIDIA OptiX offers for passing arbitrary data along with a ray, from the caller that traces a ray, and back. The limited size of the payload forced many to use local or even global memory buffers for passing ray data around, which can have a negative impact on performance. NVIDIA OptiX 7.4

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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.

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Game Designing

AUGUST 23, 2023

And we’ll do lots of baking: Lightmaps with multiple Scenes Navmesh data with multiple Scenes Occlusion Culling data with multiple Scenes Lesson 6 Video Transcript Hey there everyone. Welcome back to another Unity tutorial.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). OS: Expose OS data directory getter methods ( GH-49732 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ). OS: Expose OS data directory getter methods ( GH-49732 ). In-depth documentation is available.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). OS: Expose OS data directory getter methods ( GH-49732 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ). OS: Expose OS data directory getter methods ( GH-49732 ). In-depth documentation is available.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ). Core: Provide a getter for the project data directory ( GH-52714 ). In-depth documentation is available.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ). Core: Provide a getter for the project data directory ( GH-52714 ). In-depth documentation is available.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ). Core: Provide a getter for the project data directory ( GH-52714 ). In-depth documentation is available.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ). Core: Provide a getter for the project data directory ( GH-52714 ). In-depth documentation is available.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

For example, a shader can use warp shuffle instructions to exchange data between threads in a warp without going through shared memory, which is especially valuable in pixel shaders where there is no shared memory. For example, warp shuffle can be used to optimize memory access in algorithms like light culling. include "nvHLSLExtns.h"

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

glTF: Fix parsing base64-encoded buffer and image data ( GH-42501 , GH-42504 ). Rendering: Various fixes to light culling ( GH-46694 ). GLES3: Ensure that color values in Reinhard tonemapping are positive ( GH-42056 ). glTF: Use vertex colors by default ( GH-41007 ). glTF: Fix handling of normalized accessor property ( GH-44746 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 19, 2021

glTF: Fix parsing base64-encoded buffer and image data ( GH-42501 , GH-42504 ). Rendering: Various fixes to light culling ( GH-46694 ). GLES3: Ensure that color values in Reinhard tonemapping are positive ( GH-42056 ). glTF: Use vertex colors by default ( GH-41007 ). glTF: Fix handling of normalized accessor property ( GH-44746 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2021

glTF: Fix parsing base64-encoded buffer and image data ( GH-42501 , GH-42504 ). Rendering: Various fixes to light culling ( GH-46694 ). GLES3: Ensure that color values in Reinhard tonemapping are positive ( GH-42056 ). glTF: Use vertex colors by default ( GH-41007 ). glTF: Fix handling of normalized accessor property ( GH-44746 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Retrieving data from VisualServer is slow, as it may need synchronization. A very harcoded way of passing user data to shaders is often used. All lights also support transmittance (to use with subsurface scattering) if shadows are enabled, but this will force the object to perform reverse culling when rendering to a shadow.

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Game Industry News

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Book observes that his father would want him to do something else, and Saru comments that he still feels rage against the Ba’ul for the culling of his people. The Discovery spends some quality time in a space dock being repaired, while Saru and Book watch. He goes on to comment that the battle to overcome our emotions is a worthy endeavor.

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