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Advanced GPU optimization techniques in Unity 6 • Insights from Unite 2024

PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Overdraw can lead to excessive GPU workload, particularly in scenes with transparent materials, which don’t typically write to the depth buffer. External bandwidth usage—such as reading and writing to the frame buffer—drains battery life and generates heat, causing mobile devices to throttle the GPU.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Culling Pixel Render

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. Mesh streaming : Models are loaded as low detail (few vertices). Mesh resource for each pass of the particle. Rendering is significantly more efficient in Godot 4.0,

AAA

AAA Game Developer Game Development Development

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's new renderer, progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Write a more flexible, GLES 3 GLSL compatible shader language. Write a more efficient Mesh format, which allows faster loading/saving. Improve Culling: Portals (rewrite as polygon-based) and Rooms. Why don't you use a backend library such as BGFX and forget about writing for different OpenGL versions? OpenGL 2.1.

Render

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. Consider representing mesh particles as instances in TLAS.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Shaders Culling Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2025

Look at these shiny highlights: 2D physics interpolation 2D hierarchical culling Mesh merging Discrete level of detail (LOD) ORM materials Text to speech Arctic Eggs This game about cooking eggs in a cold climate found great reception on the internet. The feature freeze for 3.6

Engine

Engine Engineering Mechanics Co-op

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

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

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

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. In other engines, you have to provide many shader variants, mix HLSL with a metalanguage, error reporting is terrible and writing shaders is difficult in general.

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

You can even create complex dynamic effects by writing custom shaders that operate on FogVolume nodes. 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. has been added by Je06jm.

Beta

Beta Engine Engineering Feature

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

The Android plugin documentation has been updated with instructions on how to write plugins for this new system. Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). Import: Respect 'mesh compression' editor import option in Assimp and glTF importers ( GH-39134 ). Porting existing 3.2

Debug

Debug Point and Click Bug Render

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Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

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Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

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