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Maintenance release: Godot 4.4.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Rendering: Use separate WorkThreadPool for shader compiler ( GH-103506 ). Shaders: Fix 2D instance params crashing using outside of main() ( GH-103348 ). Shaders: 2D: Fix light shader accessing TEXTURE_PIXEL_SIZE ( GH-103617 ). Rendering: Fix 2D quad primitive missing lighting data in GLES3 renderer ( GH-102908 ).

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Breaking changes Animation Audio / Video C# Core Documentation Editor GDScript GUI Import Input Internationalization Navigation Physics Platforms Rendering and shaders XR Breaking changes We try to minimize breaking changes, but sometimes they are necessary in order to fix high priority issues. Rendering and shaders Stencils!

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Strategies for Optimizing Multiplayer Games in Unity

Logic Simplified

The optimization of shaders combines calculation simplification methods which lowers both shader passes and processing redundancy. Through Occlusion Culling the performance improves due to effective rendering of objects which extend past visible camera range.

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2024 Cherry-picks

Mircosoft Game Dev

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

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

PreMortem.Games

Another essential tool, the Shader Graph heatmap, provides a visual estimate of the cost associated with different Shader Graph nodes. Developers can leverage this feedback to make informed decisions when optimizing shader programs. Unity introduced Solid Angle Culling as an optimization to mitigate this overhead.

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Realistic Lighting in Justice with Mesh Shading

Nvidia

Recently, NetEase introduced Mesh Shader support to Justice. Soon we found we can combine Mesh Shaders with auto-generated LODs to achieve almost only-resolution-relevant rendering complexity, instead of polygon number. With so much potential of Mesh Shader, we conceive that it would be the main stream of future games.

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Godot 4.0 optimization progress report

Mircosoft Game Dev

Before getting into the GPU side, several optimizations have been done on the CPU side: Culling is now done in a brute-force way which is extremely cache efficient. Everything in the main frame is culled at the same time, objects, light cascades, SDFGI cascades, etc. These test do culling on 10k objects.

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