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. Is solving these problems enough for Godot to become a top AA / AAA game engine? This mean that the tools provided, while certainly capable, are still game neutral.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 2022

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. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2022

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. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

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. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2022

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. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

And for people doing engine development, there’s a new dev_build option which can be used together with target to enable dev-specific code and also affects a few presets. Rendering: Vulkan: Fix culling of negatively-scaled objects ( GH-67176 ). target=template_debug : Debug template, optimized, with debugging code.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

And for people doing engine development, there's a new dev_build option which can be used together with target to enable dev-specific code and also affects a few presets. Rendering: Vulkan: Fix culling of negatively-scaled objects ( GH-67176 ). target=template_debug : Debug template, optimized, with debugging code.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). See the full changelog since 3.3-stable

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). See the full changelog since 3.3-stable

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). In-depth documentation is available. See the full changelog since 3.3-stable

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: Added Viewport canvas cull mask feature ( GH-52350 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET Multiplayer: Add peer authentication support to the default MultiplayerAPI( GH-67917 ). XR: Add support for OpenGL to OpenXR ( GH-67775 ).

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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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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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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2022

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. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 3, 2016

Improve Culling: Portals (rewrite as polygon-based) and Rooms. Other popular game engines present hard edges between one probe and the next. TODO for Milestone #3 (December 2016). Implement the new version of the Godot SVO-based Light Baker. Implement Particle Shaders, with support for: Sorting, Collision and Soft Particles.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

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. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

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. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 17, 2022

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. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

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. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

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. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

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. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

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. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

Rendering: Various fixes to light culling ( GH-46694 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. Rendering: Add option for snapping 2D transforms to whole coordinates, for pixel art motion ( GH-43554 ). Rendering: New dynamic BVH ( GH-44901 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 19, 2021

Rendering: Various fixes to light culling ( GH-46694 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). Rendering: New dynamic BVH ( GH-44901 ). Rendering: Add METALLIC to light() builtins ( GH-42548 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2021

Rendering: Various fixes to light culling ( GH-46694 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). Rendering: New dynamic BVH ( GH-44901 ). Rendering: Add METALLIC to light() builtins ( GH-42548 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

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. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Thanks to all of you patrons from the bottom of our hearts!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Godot uses a considerably different approach to rendering (and rendering abstraction) than other, popular, game engines. They allow very high-budget games to run better and, in the long run, make the job of writing drivers MUCH simpler to hardware manufacturers. They are simply not good enough for our use case. Rendering design.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

stable branch in January 2020 as a major update to our free and open source game engine. Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Godot contributors released the Godot 3.2 But Godot 4.0 CSG: Various bug fixes ( GH-38011 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). In-depth documentation is available. See the full changelog since 3.3-stable

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). In-depth documentation is available. See the full changelog since 3.3-stable

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). In-depth documentation is available. See the full changelog since 3.3-stable

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

The new 3D engine is outstanding, with many features out-of-the-box that are still not common in other mainstream engines. The new 3D renderer is state-of-the-art, with features rarely see in game engines today, such as: Full principled BSDF. Bullet Physics backend. Help make Godot better!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 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. Various light culling fixes. Thanks to all of you patrons from the bottom of our hearts! Search "rendering" in the changelog.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Don't worry, though, you will be able to reap the benefits of these new features without sacrificing your game's performance. Several new optimization techniques are also at your disposal, such as occlusion culling , automatic mesh LOD , and manual HLOD using visibility ranges , made possible by Joan Fons ( JFonS ), and Juan.

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