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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. It also has more useful built-in data types such as integer vectors. Textures which haven’t been used for some frames are freed instead. Core engine.

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AAA Game Developer Game Development Development

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.

Mesh

Mesh Culling Shaders Ray Tracing

Godot's new renderer, progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Refactor the Image class to include modern data types. Refactor the texture API to include more modern texture compression formats. Improve Culling: Portals (rewrite as polygon-based) and Rooms. drawn via texture), except that it always works using hardware (ES 2.0 does not mandate vertex texture fetch).

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Render Shaders Texture Mesh

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. Avoid deep recursion.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Shaders Culling Render

Latest NVIDIA OptiX Renders Ray Tracing Faster Than Ever Before

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

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Render Feature Animation

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's renderer design explained

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Retrieving data from VisualServer is slow, as it may need synchronization. At the end of the day, the use case where Vulkan and DirectX12 make the most sense is when you have hundreds of thousands of objects, which are all different (different geometry, textures, etc.), A very harcoded way of passing user data to shaders is often used.

Render

Render Shaders Texture Engine

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ). OS: Expose OS data directory getter methods ( GH-49732 ).

Beta

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 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ). OS: Expose OS data directory getter methods ( GH-49732 ).

Beta

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 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ).

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 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ).

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 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ).

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 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Unlocking GPU Intrinsics in HLSL

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"

Shaders

Shaders Ray Tracing Pixel Mechanics

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). glTF: Fix parsing base64-encoded buffer and image data ( GH-42501 , GH-42504 ). Rendering: Various fixes to light culling ( GH-46694 ). glTF: Use vertex colors by default ( GH-41007 ).

Render

Render Collision Build Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 19, 2021

GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). glTF: Fix parsing base64-encoded buffer and image data ( GH-42501 , GH-42504 ). Rendering: Various fixes to light culling ( GH-46694 ). glTF: Use vertex colors by default ( GH-41007 ).

Render

Render Collision Build Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2021

GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). glTF: Fix parsing base64-encoded buffer and image data ( GH-42501 , GH-42504 ). Rendering: Various fixes to light culling ( GH-46694 ). glTF: Use vertex colors by default ( GH-41007 ).

Render

Render Collision Build Bug

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