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PreMortem.Games

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Whether you are developing for high-end PCs, consoles, or mobile devices, these methods are critical for delivering visually rich, smooth-running applications. Managing memory bandwidth On mobile devices, GPU performance is often limited by memory bandwidth, which impacts both energy consumption and thermal performance.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Culling Pixel Render

Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

Additionally, the modern backend can implement rendering methods , such as forward clustered, mobile, and more in the future (such as deferred clustered, cinematic, etc.). and is intended to run on very old PC hardware as well as most older (still working) mobile phones. Mesh streaming : Models are loaded as low detail (few vertices).

AAA

AAA Game Development Game Developer Development

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Import: Fix usages of mesh simplification functions in float=64 builds ( GH-67853 ). Rendering: Use proper indices for lights, decals, and reflection probes in mobile scene shader ( GH-70929 ). Rendering: Visual instance layers are regarded during shadow culling ( GH-70638 ). iOS: Fix contentScaleFactor ( GH-70478 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render 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

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2025

April Towards the end of 2023 we announced a collaboration with Google and The Forge to improve the performance of our Vulkan mobile backend. The PvP auto-battler with a medieval fantasy theme has quickly gained popularity with content creators! The work concluded in April, with the matching PR being split into the 4.3

Engineering

Engineering Engine Mechanics Co-op

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Import: Fix usages of mesh simplification functions in float=64 builds ( GH-67853 ). Rendering: Use proper indices for lights, decals, and reflection probes in mobile scene shader ( GH-70929 ). Rendering: Visual instance layers are regarded during shadow culling ( GH-70638 ). iOS: Fix contentScaleFactor ( GH-70478 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2022

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. 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. back in 2020!

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. 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. back in 2020!

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. 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.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. 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.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2022

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. 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. back in 2020!

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. For more advanced use cases, you can use TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add WordArt to your scenes ;). Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view.

Shaders

Shaders Render Feature Mesh

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. 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.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 17, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. 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.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. 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.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. 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.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. 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.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2022

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. 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. back in 2020!

Render

Render Shaders Console Culling

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

For low-end systems or mobile devices, we provide a more classical lightmapping workflow. Still, this workflow is easy and efficient as 3D objects get a second set of UVs generated on import, and baking works with instantiated meshes, scenes and even GridMaps. The 3D asset workflow has also seen great improvements.

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

A new software skinning for MeshInstance to replace the slow GPU skinning on devices that don't support the fast GPU skinning (especially mobile). Physics: Allow CollisionObject to show collision shape meshes ( GH-45783 ). Rendering: Various fixes to light culling ( GH-46694 ). The main changes coming in Godot 3.2.4

Render

Render Collision Build Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 19, 2021

A new software skinning for MeshInstance to replace the slow GPU skinning on devices that don't support the fast GPU skinning (especially mobile). Physics: Allow CollisionObject to show collision shape meshes ( GH-45783 ). Rendering: Various fixes to light culling ( GH-46694 ). The main changes coming in Godot 3.3

Render

Render Collision Build Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2021

A new software skinning for MeshInstance to replace the slow GPU skinning on devices that don't support the fast GPU skinning (especially mobile). Physics: Allow CollisionObject to show collision shape meshes ( GH-45783 ). Rendering: Various fixes to light culling ( GH-46694 ). The main changes coming in Godot 3.3

Render

Render Collision Build Bug

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

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. The new NavigationServer supports fully dynamic environments and on-the-fly navigation mesh baking. has been added by Je06jm.

Beta

Beta Engineering Engine Feature

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