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Practical Use of Render Textures

The Knights of Unity

JUNE 5, 2020

And even before an era of SRPs (Scriptable Render Pipelines), there was a good amount of solid features like today’s topic: Render textures. In this post I’m going to explain to you how to use render textures in your game. using legacy rendering, but the features I used work in SRPs too.

Texture

Texture Render Shaders Alpha

Godot 4.0 optimization progress report

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

As most of the rendering features for the upcoming Godot 4.0 are done, I have spent the past two months optimizing the rendering engine, both on the CPU and GPU side. All this work has resulted in significantly faster rendering times. A lot of the render state is now better cached, so less is done at render time.

Culling

Culling Render Shaders Mesh

Realistic Lighting in Justice with Mesh Shading

Nvidia

MAY 21, 2021

His work focuses on the rendering engine in Justice, specifically GPU features enabled by DirectX 12. Our first thought is to render some highly detailed models which may need insane number of triangles. It lacks the ability to process mesh in a coarser grain than triangle, like meshlet culling. And we decided to try it out.

Mesh

Mesh Culling Shaders Ray Tracing

Project Structure - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos

APRIL 14, 2023

1、 Comprehensive TPS gameplay framework 2、 A reusable implementation of Custom Render Pipeline 3、 Forward & Deferred Rendering, PostProcessing 4、 Usage of Reflection Probes 5、 Static Occlusion Culling 6、 Compatible with High-end, Mid-end and Low-end devices In this article, we will locate the files that correspond to the features above.

Code

Code Culling Lightmap Render

Latest NVIDIA OptiX Renders Ray Tracing Faster Than Ever Before

Nvidia

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Deserted house in the night, rendered In RedShift. Blue car on the street with sunlight , rendered In RedShift. NVIDIA OptiX curves are currently back-face culled, so rays that enter through the open end of a curve will miss the curve completely. Red fabric with golden texture rendered with Houdini XPU.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Render Feature Animation

Godot's new renderer, progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2016

As many of you have probably heard, a new rendering backend is being worked on for Godot. Our goal is to have a modern, clustered renderer that supports everything mainstream engines support, including PBR, global illumination and flexible shader editing. Refactor the texture API to include more modern texture compression formats.

Render

Render Shaders Texture Mesh

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

has an entirely new rendering architecture, which is divided into modern and compatibility backends. The modern one does rendering via RenderingDevice (which is implemented in drivers such as Vulkan, Direct3D 12, and more in the future). Rendering is significantly more efficient in Godot 4.0, Low level rendering access.

AAA

AAA Game Development Game Developer Development

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. This document was written in hopes to find more developers that would like to help us write rendering code, as it explains the overall design. Running the whole graphics rendering in a separate thread.

Render

Render Shaders Texture Engine

Godot's new renderer, progress report #2

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 3, 2016

It's been a month since the first progress report , and progress continues towards the new Godot renderer. Little by little every system falls into place, and rendering starts feeling a lot more mature. Improve Culling: Portals (rewrite as polygon-based) and Rooms. Add Layered/Stencil rendering. Introduction.

Render

Render Simulation Engine Engineering

Godot's new renderer, progress report #3

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 30, 2016

It's been a month since the second progress report , and progress continues towards the new Godot renderer. Improve Culling: Portals (rewrite as polygon-based) and Rooms. Add Layered/Stencil rendering. renderer works entirely in linear space (Gamma is no longer supported). Introduction. Implement Decals. Glow Processor.

Render

Render Baking Lightmap Shaders

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: A ton of fixes for all rendering backends, and missing features implemented for the OpenGL3 one. GUI: Add a Font import option to pre-render all glyphs required for the translation ( GH-68448 ). Physics: Implement adjusting the maximum number of physics steps per rendered frame ( GH-65836 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Bug

Full Unity 2D Game Tutorial 2019 – Making Mini Map Mask

Game Development

JANUARY 23, 2019

Finally we update the culling mask and remove the default layer by clicking on it. Full Unity 2D Game Tutorial 2019 – Mini Map Render Texture. Our Camera is still working like a normal camera, we want it to render its view to an image instead of to us the player. This will display our render texture.

Texture

Texture Render Alpha Editing

Setting the Mood: Exploring Lighting and Mood in Game Art

iXie gaming

JULY 19, 2024

These are pre-made textures that store lighting info for objects that don’t move. Texture Compression. Makes texture files smaller, speeding up loading times and using less memory. Realistic Lighting In realistic games, lighting mimics real-world behavior using accurate physics and rendering. Light Functions.

Art

Art Games Texture Culling

Best Practices for Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing (Updated)

Nvidia

JULY 25, 2022

Especially in hybrid rendering, where G-buffer or shadow maps are rasterized, it’s potentially beneficial to execute AS building on async compute. 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.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Shaders Culling Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: A ton of fixes for all rendering backends, and missing features implemented for the OpenGL3 one. GUI: Add a Font import option to pre-render all glyphs required for the translation ( GH-68448 ). Physics: Implement adjusting the maximum number of physics steps per rendered frame ( GH-65836 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Bug

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 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). mbedtls 2.16.11.

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Lots of rendering changes. Our rendering contributors keep working on finalizing the implementation of all expected features for Godot 4.0, notably with the following major changes by Clay John ( clayjohn ) and Bastiaan Olij ( BastiaanOlij ): Emulate double precision for regular rendering operation when REAL_T_IS_DOUBLE ( GH-66178 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Lots of rendering changes. Our rendering contributors keep working on finalizing the implementation of all expected features for Godot 4.0, notably with the following major changes by Clay John ( clayjohn ) and Bastiaan Olij ( BastiaanOlij ): Emulate double precision for regular rendering operation when REAL_T_IS_DOUBLE ( GH-66178 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Debug

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Portal occlusion culling. More rendering improvements. 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).

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

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 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). Rendering: Import option to split vertex buffer stream in positions and attributes ( GH-46574 ).

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 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). Rendering: Import option to split vertex buffer stream in positions and attributes ( GH-46574 ).

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: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

Ignore support for S3TC texture compression on Android and iOS devices in GLES3 (already done since 3.4 rendering may be slower for a second or two, but the slowdown will not be nearly as bad as the typical hiccup caused by classic synchronous compilation. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. for GLES2).

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Notable changes are in-editor class reference translations (so far Chinese (Simplified), Spanish, and some French), some new rendering features (high quality glow mode, 3D point light attenuation option), and a number of C# marshalling fixes. Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

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 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

rendering may be slower for a second or two, but the slowdown will not be nearly as bad as the typical hiccup caused by classic synchronous compilation. This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

GLES3 renderer). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

GLES3 renderer). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

Godot can render at frame rates independent from the fixed physics tick rate. This can lead to problems where the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, causing unsightly jitter. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Physics interpolation in 3D.

Shaders

Shaders Render Feature Mesh

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

Note that the project settings from the rendering/quality/2d section have now been moved to rendering/2d , so if you used any of those, you will need to re-enable them under the new section in 3.2.4. New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ).

Render

Render Collision Build Bug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 7, 2020

2D batching for the GLES2 renderer , thanks to lawnjelly and Clay ( clayjohn ). The new 2D batching is only implemented for the GLES2 renderer, so if you use GLES3 you will not be able to benefit from it. As the GLES3 renderer is being deprecated by Vulkan in Godot 4.0, GLES2: Add 2D batch rendering across items ( GH-37349 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Debug

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2021

New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. If you experience a regression in either physics or rendering, you can try these Project Settings to revert back to the previous Octree-based approach and possibly fix the issue. GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). New CPU lightmapper.

Render

Render Collision Build Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 19, 2021

New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. If you experience a regression in either physics or rendering, you can try these Project Settings to revert back to the previous Octree-based approach and possibly fix the issue. GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). New CPU lightmapper.

Render

Render Collision Build Bug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 22, 2020

2D batching for the GLES2 renderer , thanks to lawnjelly and Clay ( clayjohn ). The new 2D batching is only implemented for the GLES2 renderer, so if you use GLES3 you will not be able to benefit from it. As the GLES3 renderer is being deprecated by Vulkan in Godot 4.0, GLES2: Add 2D batch rendering across items ( GH-37349 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2020

2D batching for the GLES2 renderer , thanks to lawnjelly and Clay ( clayjohn ). The new 2D batching is only implemented for the GLES2 renderer, so if you use GLES3 you will not be able to benefit from it. As the GLES3 renderer is being deprecated by Vulkan in Godot 4.0, GLES2: Add 2D batch rendering across items ( GH-37349 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Debug

Unlocking GPU Intrinsics in HLSL

Nvidia

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

For example, warp shuffle can be used to optimize memory access in algorithms like light culling. src0u.x = val; // variable to be shuffled g_NvidiaExt[index].src0u.y src0u.y = srcLane; // source lane g_NvidiaExt[index].src0u.z src0u.z = __NvGetShflMaskFromWidth(width); g_NvidiaExt[index].opcode

Shaders

Shaders Ray Tracing Pixel Mechanics

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2020

2D batching for the GLES2 renderer , thanks to lawnjelly and Clay ( clayjohn ). The new 2D batching is only implemented for the GLES2 renderer, so if you use GLES3 you will not be able to benefit from it in this build. Note that currently, only rects are batched (TileMaps, draw_rect , text rendering, etc.), Notably, Godot 3.2.2

Beta

Beta Debug Bug Point and Click

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 18, 2020

2D batching for the GLES2 renderer , thanks to lawnjelly and Clay ( clayjohn ). The new 2D batching is only implemented for the GLES2 renderer, so if you use GLES3 you will not be able to benefit from it in this build. Note that currently, only rects are batched (TileMaps, draw_rect , text rendering, etc.), Notably, Godot 3.2.2

Beta

Beta Debug Bug Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 12, 2020

2D batching for the GLES2 renderer , thanks to lawnjelly and Clay ( clayjohn ). The new 2D batching is only implemented for the GLES2 renderer, so if you use GLES3 you will not be able to benefit from it in this build. Note that currently, only rects are batched (TileMaps, draw_rect , text rendering, etc.), stable build.

Beta

Beta Bug Debug Build

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

2D batching for the GLES2 renderer. While most rendering work was postponed for the 4.0 release with its new Vulkan-based renderer, our contributors lawnjelly and Clay ( clayjohn ) decided to give some more attention to the 3.2 Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ).

Debug

Debug Point and Click Bug Render

Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

in January 2020, we switched the development focus towards the upcoming Godot 4.0 , which is a major, compatibility-breaking rewrite of the engine's core and rendering. Dynamic BVH for rendering and GodotPhysics. Rendering: Unified 2D batching. More rendering improvements. Dynamic BVH for rendering and GodotPhysics.

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

It brings a brand new rendering engine with state-of-the-art PBR workflow for 3D, an improved assets pipeline, GDNative to load native code as plugins, C# 7.0 After meeting the initial goal, we hired karroffel to continue her work on GDNative (more about this below) and work on a new rendering backend. New physically based 3D renderer.

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

We know many users are excited about the coming improvements to 2D and 3D rendering in 4.0. Over the last few years we have completely overhauled the Godot renders. They now target Vulkan by default and we have created them with future support for Direct3D 12 and other rendering APIs in mind. has been added by Je06jm.

Beta

Beta Engine Engineering Feature

Optimize Vegetation Generation

Mnenad

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Static batching : combines static (not moving) GameObjects into big Meshes, and renders them in a faster way. The foliage shader has an alpha cutout value and uses a texture + culling set to off (it is visible from both sides of the planes). And it has just twelve vertices.

Mesh

Mesh Shaders FPS Polygon

Practical Use of Render Textures

Godot 4.0 optimization progress report

Trending Sources

Realistic Lighting in Justice with Mesh Shading

Project Structure - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Latest NVIDIA OptiX Renders Ray Tracing Faster Than Ever Before

Godot's new renderer, progress report #1

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

Godot 3's renderer design explained

Godot's new renderer, progress report #2

Godot's new renderer, progress report #3

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Full Unity 2D Game Tutorial 2019 – Making Mini Map Mask

Setting the Mood: Exploring Lighting and Mood in Game Art

Best Practices for Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing (Updated)

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 7

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 4

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 7

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 6

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 4

Unlocking GPU Intrinsics in HLSL

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 1

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Optimize Vegetation Generation

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