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

Mircosoft Game Dev

using data oriented algorithms to process the culling of objects and both secondary command buffers and automatic batching to efficiently submit the draw primitives. This is handled nowadays by a type of technology called “streaming”. As textures get closer to the camera, higher resolution versions (or mip-maps) are streamed from disk.

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Realistic Lighting in Justice with Mesh Shading

Nvidia

It lacks the ability to process mesh in a coarser grain than triangle, like meshlet culling. The underlying idea of the algorithm is, in the first place, to do culling, then draw the effective parts of mesh. With MeshShaders, the culling algorithms we use can be of great flexibility. Actually, it works.

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Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

Godot is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing the world with the best possible free and open source game technology. Rendering: Portal occlusion culling. Portal occlusion culling. As well as performing occlusion culling it also provides a solution for throttling AI and processing based on proximity to the viewer.

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Godot 3's renderer design explained

Mircosoft Game Dev

In the future, this might be the same case with newer rendering technologies. Godot's high level abstraction of rastering allows us to focus on using the rendering techniques that best fit each technology. Detect when shaders read from screen texture and automatically copy screen to back-buffer on demand. Rasterizer design.

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Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

Mircosoft Game Dev

Godot is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing the world with the best possible free and open source game technology. 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.

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Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

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. Godot will pick the right compression for textures when importing for mobile, and supply them over the network. Still, Godot 3.0

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

Godot is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing the world with the best possible free and open source game technology. Various light culling fixes. "2D Pixel" preset for textures), but until there was no easy way to configure all presets easily in a unified interface. So you can expect Godot 3.3.1