PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 14, 2024

At Unite 2024, Unity’s development team introduced a series of advanced GPU optimization techniques aimed at improving rendering performance across various platforms. One of the fundamental challenges in real-time rendering is reducing GPU latency to improve frame rate. Another important consideration is transparency.

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Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

This version optimizes some rendering and lighting capabilities, fixes a series of key issues recently reported by users, and recommends that all v3.x Engine • Added DebugView at runtime UI control rendering debugging function. Skip rendering when the UI element Opacity is 0. Skip rendering when the UI element Opacity is 0.

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Cocos

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

This is consistent with how most image file formats store pixel data, and with how most graphics APIs work (including DirectX, Vulkan, Metal, WebGPU, but not OpenGL). Use the water wave effect on the 3D meshes This is only for 3D planes with tiled UV Mapping. meshes) { let dis = geometry.intersect.rayModel(this. x,waveFactor.y-uv0.y);

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CG Spectrum

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Not only does LOD support faster rendering, it does so in a way that doesn't negatively impact the visual quality of an asset. Level of detail (LOD) refers to the level of complexity in a 3D-generated model and is primarily used in real-time rendering for video games and interactive tools.

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Harold Serrano

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Components: The data attached to entities, like meshes, physics, or animations. Systems: These handle the logic, such as rendering, animations, or physics calculations. This modular approach keeps everything clean and efficient, allowing developers to focus on their game logic instead of wrestling with tangled code.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Import: Fix swapped color channels in ETC1/ETC2 textures, etcpak expects BGRA data ( GH-69448 ). Rendering: Use circular fade instead of linear fade for distance fade ( GH-50294 ). Rendering: Tweak shadow bias defaults for DirectionalLight3D and OmniLight3D ( GH-55757 ). GUI: Use system fonts as fallback ( GH-68995 ).

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

UE5’s features and functionality have further expanded to include experimental new features for rendering, animation and simulation. Data Protection An important factor to consider when looking for a game development company is data protection. Look for one that cares about your data security and intellectual property.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 21, 2018

This time with the early beginnings of 3D rendering in GLES2 and some GDNative ecosystem updates. 2D rendering stabilized. mesh loading. basic mesh drawing. 2D rendering stabilized. Many people helped since to make the renderer work better and on more platforms! Done February 2018. NativeScript 1.1

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Cocos

JANUARY 31, 2024

Hello @zhangxm , I was able to modify the vertex data in CC3.6 but facing one issue depending on the sprite type mesh which is in CC2.4 where there is a function to create render data renderData.createFlexData but I could not find any way to do it in CC3.6. by converting code from graphics-assembler from CC2.4

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Febucci

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In order to understand them and become a wizard/witch, we have to learn a bit about meshes first. A mesh is made (usually!) You can see the mesh as the structure of your object, built by combining its triangles together. Now that we’ve scratched the topic of meshes, we can finally talk about shader. Shaders Theory.

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Nvidia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Since the introduction of the GeForce RTX 20 Series, NVIDIA has paved the way for groundbreaking graphics with novel research on how AI can enhance rendering and improve computer games. It delivers up to 4x improvements in frame rate and up to 2x improvements in latency compared to native resolution rendering.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The newly added VR support also suffers with GIProbe, as it has to render in very high resolutions. Light is precomputed offline and rendered to a texture, which is then used by the geometry. First of all, you need to make sure your meshes have an UV2 layer. Just don't reuse a mesh and instance it in different scales.

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The Liquid Fire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

For Renderer, I chose Forward+ because I think it is somewhere between URP and HDRP. We’re also not bound to using the Resources folder like we are in Unity, so I’m going to use the folder “Data” instead since that makes more sense to me. Type in mesh in the search and select MeshInstance3D.

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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. GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ).

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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 ).

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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 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

GLES3 renderer). 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: Add high quality glow mode ( GH-51491 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

GLES3 renderer). 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: Add high quality glow mode ( GH-51491 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 23, 2018

compatible rendering backend for Godot 3.1, The first month I spent on getting started and familiar with the rendering in Godot. Because I am still new to the rendering system in Godot, I might not be experienced enough to make good estimates of what can be achieved, but the rough roadmap looks like this. load meshes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

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 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Apart from that, the month was mostly spent on implementing more 2D items in the renderer as well as working on getting custom shaders running. add line rendering. add ninepatch rendering. add polygon and GUI primitive rendering. add circle rendering. load meshes. render meshes. NativeScript 1.1

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). 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 ).

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Cocos

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Questions - What can I do for moving my gamestate(data required for calculations) from JS code to C++ and have the result back? How much does it affect the performance with data passing from JS to C++ and back. Is it feasible to update the render data directly in the C++ code if I move the calculations to C++ by any way.

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AWS Games

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This technology included Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2) to power compute for game servers and account servers, Amazon ElastiCache which supported a reservation service to hold participants’ seats in the stadium, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL as a backend for player account data, and more.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

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 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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Nvidia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Hybrid Translucency Another way to do ray traced translucency, with greater compatibility, speed and rendering options. World position offset simulation for ray traced instanced static meshes (beta) Allows ambient motion of foliage like trees and grass. Selectable per instance type. Dithers shadow testing to hide potential artifacts.

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Cocos

OCTOBER 14, 2024

This version has not only significantly enhanced performance and rendering but also improved editor experience and stability, which is recommended for everyone to upgrade. Rendering Enhancements 1. The new customizable rendering pipeline mainly has the following benefits: In Cocos Creator 3.8.4 more stable and mature.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 16, 2018

In this case I'm talking about a rather big refactoring of how materials are handled in the GLES2 renderer. perspective rendering. perspective rendering. stabilize 3D rendering (unshaded workflow). This is being implemented by facilitating object instance binding data. perspective rendering. cubemap filter.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 11, 2019

and their data will be automatically remapped to StandardMaterials. Likewise, Meshes created in Godot 3.x x will work using the mesh format in 4.x. This profiler shows all the steps that take place during rendering a frame and their cost in both CPU and GPU. It retains a flag to flip the color for compatibility.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 3, 2021

Finger tracking itself is fully supported both through updating orientation of meshes, for which a sample scene is included in the plugin, and through animating a skeleton and bone deformation. Godot 4 stereoscopic rendering through Multiview. Further Mobile renderer improvements in Godot 4.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2021

Games exported with a ZIP data package could also trigger a crash on exit. Editor: Fix editor crash when exporting profiler data ( GH-48917 ). when exiting a project running from a ZIP data pack. Import: glTF: Improved error handling around invalid images and invalid meshes ( GH-48904 , GH-48912 ). like all future 3.3.x

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Ask a Game Dev

JULY 11, 2023

There are two main issues with visualization when it comes to adjustible meshes (the “body sliders”). The way that all of the customizable character data is stored isn’t actually a body at all, but a common default mesh with offsets for each adjustible value. It gets worse with animations, too.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 31, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). Rendering: Properly calculate Polygon2D AABB with skeleton ( GH-40869 ). Thirdparty library updates (mbedtls 2.16.7,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 24, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ).

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Collision Bug Mesh Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

GUI: Fix RichTextLabel underline prevents strikethrough from rendering ( GH-56686 ). iOS: Fix export with manually specified signing/provisioning data ( GH-57203 ). Rendering: Fix blend shapes when octahedral compression is used ( GH-56161 ). Rendering: Fix invalid read when using LightOccluder2D ( GH-56859 ).

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Nvidia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

NVIDIA DLSS Plugin for UE4 DLSS is a deep learning super resolution network that boosts frame rates by rendering fewer pixels and then using AI to construct sharp, higher resolution images. DLSS pairs perfectly with computationally intensive rendering algorithms such as real-time ray tracing. Updates to NVIDIA RTX UE 4.25 and UE4.26.1,

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Cocos

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

(engine#14218) [XR] AR engine module update Fix shadowmap lowp with huawei and reflection probe brightness (engine#14058) Fix shader compilation error with the new version of lightmap (engine#14071) Fix unsynchronized model data issue when adding lod levels dynamically (engine#14054) Fix the issue that lod is not working properly when forced to use (..)

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