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

PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 14, 2024

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. This can lead to performance drops, especially on devices without active cooling systems.

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. They only write what is needed (no redundant information), keep the ordering of sections and are simple enough to understand changes by just looking at the diff.

AAA

AAA Game Developer Game Development Development

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. Moving the CPU work to one or more worker threads is potentially beneficial.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Shaders Culling Render

Godot's new renderer, progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Our goal is to have a modern, clustered renderer that supports everything mainstream engines support, including PBR, global illumination and flexible shader editing. Write a more flexible, GLES 3 GLSL compatible shader language. Write a more efficient Mesh format, which allows faster loading/saving. For Godot 3.0 (our

Render

Render Shaders Texture Mesh

New improvements for GPUParticles in Godot 4.0

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 7, 2020

GPUParticles : Processes particles on GPU, allows very large amount of particles at little cost, and with ability to write custom particle shaders. x and the shader used is almost identical (should be easy to port). It can also be done from within a particle shader itself by chaining another particle system as a sub-emitter.

Collision

Collision Shaders Terrain Baking

Godot 3's renderer design explained

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

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. For example: On GLES3+ we can use UBOs to optimize shader parameters. Shader abstraction. Users need to learn not only the language, but how the engine internals work regarding shaders.

Render

Render Shaders Texture Engineering

Project Structure - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos

APRIL 14, 2023

In my previous post, I mentioned that I would be write a series of articles on Cocos Cyberpunk. including animations,effects,models,shaders,ui,sounds and so on. Static Occlusion Culling In Cocos Cyberpunk, a simple and useful PVS system has been implemented to improve culling performance. Hey everyone, Kylin here!

Code

Code Culling Lightmap Render

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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

Engineering

Engineering Engine Mechanics Co-op

Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader). A long awaited improvement to reduce shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL is coming to Godot 3.5, Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. As always, many improvements and fixes to shader editing have been backported from 4.0 courtesy of Pedro J.

Shaders

Shaders Render Feature Mesh

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Portal occlusion culling. Shader language features. 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). Shader language features.

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). In-depth documentation is available.

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

Materials and shaders. Materials and shaders. makes up for it by providing an extremely powerful default material (which supports detail textures, triplanar mapping and other nice features) and an extremely easy-to-use shader language. writing shaders is very easy! Full principled BSDF. Global illumination (GI).

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

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. is introducing sky shaders which allow users to create dynamic skies that update in real time (including reflections). For more information see the article introducing sky shaders. has been added by Je06jm.

Beta

Beta Engineering Engine 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. 2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ). Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). Shaders: Add shader time scaling ( GH-38995 ). Porting existing 3.2

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

New vertex formats allow many more custom shaders and cases to take advantage of batching than before, and optional 2D software skinning has been added which should allow using 2D skeletal animation on a far wider range of hardware than was previously available. Various light culling fixes. Back in summer 2019 we already knew Godot 4.0

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

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Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

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

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