Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 3, 2021

Godot 4 stereoscopic rendering through Multiview. One of the bigger changes we did to enabled XR support in Godot 4 is implementing multiview support into the rendering engine. Further Mobile renderer improvements in Godot 4. This means that the render buffer is divided into smaller tiles.

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The Liquid Fire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

In this lesson we will look at making custom boards for our encounters that are data-driven and skinned in a Tilemap. A lot of people asked about making 2D maps and how to use different types of tiles like water vs dirt. For this lesson I created a couple of simple images to use for tile maps.

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Cocos

JULY 18, 2023

. – I came to your forum to report a Cocos2d-x v4 confirmed bug, but unfortunately I cannot post on your forum The bug involves using the newest Tiled Map editor to generate a TMX file with CSV Layer Data Format… In short… newest Tiled Map Editor version puts whitespace in the CSV – which breaks Cocos2d-x v4’s reading of the data.

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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). By default, the 3D Shader of Cocos will multiply the tile Tilling and add the Offset, and it also supports the flip repair for RenderTexture.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2023

Editor: Make keyboard shortcuts in tile data editors consistent with tilemap editor ( GH-71517 ). Rendering: Fix polyline not supporting closed polygons and not having a uniform width ( GH-62236 ). Rendering: Fix scaling issue in draw_line and similar methods ( GH-69851 ). This release is built from commit caacade56.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

GDeflate: An Open GPU Compression Standard GDeflate is a high-performance, scalable, GPU-optimized data compression scheme that can help applications make use of the sheer amount of data throughput available on modern NVMe devices. Data throughput of various data compressed formats compared to varying staging buffer sizes Figure 2.

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The Liquid Fire

JANUARY 17, 2024

In that project, we had some unique challenges thanks to a non-square board where tiles were optional. In addition we had to consider tile heights – and whether or not a unit could jump as high as needed. In contrast, the pathfinding in this lesson will be for a 2D square board with no missing tiles.

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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. In the Scene panel right-click on the Tile node and click Add Child Node.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Odds and Ends Gotta check every little thing, like the tiles-ASCII toggling animation, does that work? For the tileset animation I think it was as simple as having needed to set it to match whatever tile size the map is currently using, rather than always using the standard size. How about the map export function?

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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. Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

GLES3 renderer). CSG: CSGPolygon fixes and features: Angle simplification, UV tiling distance, interval type ( GH-52509 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Add high quality glow mode ( GH-51491 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

GLES3 renderer). CSG: CSGPolygon fixes and features: Angle simplification, UV tiling distance, interval type ( GH-52509 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Add high quality glow mode ( GH-51491 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

CSG: CSGPolygon fixes and features: Angle simplification, UV tiling distance, interval type ( GH-52509 ). 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 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Components provide data and the means to interact with the whole world. The main appeal (besides architecture) is the fact that component data can be placed in contiguous memory, improving cache access. The main appeal (besides architecture) is the fact that component data can be placed in contiguous memory, improving cache access.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The concept is simple, though does require that text characters take up about half the width that tiles do, which can be a little restrictive at certain sizes. Notice how the tiles in this Cogmind screenshot each occupy two cells, delineated by the partial grid overlay. Big chonker tile has arrived. No crashes, just big tiles.

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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 ). Note that some of the changes in 3.4

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The Liquid Fire

MARCH 20, 2024

Although I imagine that for the most part the player will only be controlling medium sized units (which occupy a single tile), I also want to make A.I. Even worse is that our current iteration of the pathfinder does not include blocked tiles in its path map, so as it is now, I can’t see a path to an opponent.

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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 ).

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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 ). In-depth documentation is available.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

open for full size) Okay so each tile actually occupies four times the usual amount of space, but what we mean here is that the cell dimensions are doubled. Instead there are many layers of cell data from different subconsoles that feed into a single root console which is then converted to the final image.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 11, 2020

see recent devblogs on GDScript typed instructions , Complex Text Layout , Tiles editor , documentation , and 2D rendering improvements !), glTF: Fix parsing base64-encoded buffer and image data ( GH-42501 , GH-42504 ). Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). tinyexr 1.0.0,

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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 ).

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Back to REX Last time I introduced the engine’s base cell size that fits individual text characters, wide glyphs for square map tiles, and the new “quad,” or four map tiles in order to enable a zoomed effect. The first new class was purely to hold interface data that must be preserved during zoom events.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 8, 2024

5) 24h Rotating Magic Tiles Magic Tiles are special tiles in a board that trigger a unique effect. Since the July 2023 update, the Magic Tiles are present in all boards and game modes, and they rotate every 24 hours. In my opinion, Magic Tiles still seem like a tertiary mechanic with untapped potential.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

which did in fact improve 2D rendering considerably. Changes to sub-nodes would result in data loss. Just add enemies, move them around, change their properties, add colliders, platforms, tiles, etc. This version worked well but we felt it was still far from the usability and features of a modern game engine.

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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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