Culling, Data and Game Engine - Game Developers Network

Release candidate: Godot 4.4.1 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 21, 2025

Maintenance releases are expected to be safe for an upgrade, but we recommend to always make backups, or use a version control system such as Git, to preserve your projects in case of corruption or data loss. XR: Correct occlusion culling viewport location calculation when projection uses asymmetric FOV ( GH-104249 ).

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Bug Culling Render Animation

Maintenance release: Godot 4.4.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 26, 2025

Maintenance releases are expected to be safe for an upgrade, but we recommend to always make backups, or use a version control system such as Git, to preserve your projects in case of corruption or data loss. Rendering: Fix 2D quad primitive missing lighting data in GLES3 renderer ( GH-102908 ). security fix) ( GH-104562 ).

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Render Shaders Bug Animation

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. It also has more useful built-in data types such as integer vectors. Core engine. The compatibility backend is based on OpenGL ES 3.0 / OpenGL 3.3 / WebGL 2.0

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AAA Game Development Game Developer 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. Not only are the updated environments breathtaking, the game supports 1.8 With MeshShaders, the culling algorithms we use can be of great flexibility.

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Mesh Culling Shaders Ray Tracing

Why does Godot use Servers and RIDs?

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Before going into optimizing for multiple threads, let's first take a look at the typical order of execution of the main blocks of a game engine. Research on game engine optimization for multiple threads at the time resulted in documentation and papers for a new technique named job scheduling. How is this achieved?

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Render Collision Engineering Engine

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

If you use and enjoy Godot, plan to use it, or want support the cause of having a mature, high quality free and open source game engine, then please consider becoming our patron. Rendering: Portal occlusion culling. Portal occlusion culling. Thanks to all of you patrons from the bottom of our hearts!

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UX Feature Culling Mesh

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

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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Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

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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Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

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 ).

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 ). 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.

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Godot 3's renderer design explained

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Godot uses a considerably different approach to rendering (and rendering abstraction) than other, popular, game engines. Retrieving data from VisualServer is slow, as it may need synchronization. Most game engines nowadays start with HLSL or CG as a base and offer it to the user directly. Shader abstraction.

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Render Shaders Texture Engineering

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

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.

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 ). 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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Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

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.

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 ). 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.

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 4

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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Render Collision Build Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 6

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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Render Collision Build Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 7

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 ).

Render

Render Collision Build Bug