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Realistic Lighting in Justice with Mesh Shading

Nvidia

MAY 21, 2021

NetEase Thunder Fire Games Uses Mesh Shading To Create Beautiful Game Environments for Justice In December, we interviewed Haiyong Qian, NetEase Game Engine. Recently, NetEase introduced Mesh Shader support to Justice. Q: What are you trying to achieve by adding mesh shading to Justice? Q: How do Mesh Shaders solve this?

Mesh

Mesh Culling Shaders Ray Tracing

Cocos Shader Tutorial 1.0 - about UV

Cocos

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Here are the implementation of water wave effects on 2D sprites and 3D meshes: Preview Link The math behind it is simple, the water wave is simulated by the Sin function, and then the fluctuation range is increased in the Update function. Use the water wave effect on the 3D meshes This is only for 3D planes with tiled UV Mapping.

Shaders

Shaders Mesh Point and Click Sprite

Developer Shares Building Fabrics, Ropes, And Soft Bodies

Cocos

JUNE 14, 2023

Analysis The whole effect can be split into two parts, one for the simulation of the mesh and one for the rendering of the mesh. No need to define the vertex format, and even Cocos has support for sprite meshes. Well, it’s very comfortable, much more comfortable than just a mesh, and it has some practicality too.

Build

Build Mesh Simulation Development

Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

Engine • Added DebugView at runtime UI control rendering debugging function. See the documentation “Render Debugging - Run Time Using Render debugging”: [link] • When the node animates, add the tween ‘destroySelf’ method to destroy the front nodal point. x users upgrade. Skip rendering when the UI element Opacity is 0.

Render

Render Baking Lightmap Debug

Ultra-Realism Made Accessible with NVIDIA AI and Path Tracing Technologies

Nvidia

MARCH 20, 2023

OMM allows you to efficiently map complex geometries, such as dense vegetation and foliage, onto triangles and micro-meshes, providing high-level performance in detailed scenes. An upcoming Nsight Graphics update will give you the ability to inspect and debug OMM’s performance gain. OMM SDK 1.0 is available to all developers.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Technology AI Shaders

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

PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Framerate Optimization To address this, Unity offers several profiling and debugging tools. These techniques reduce the memory footprint of static meshes and improve memory efficiency for dynamic scenes. This bottleneck can drastically affect performance, especially in visually demanding applications.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Culling Pixel Render

WebRTC support, progress report #3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 19, 2019

The implementation is a full p2p mesh , meaning every player is connected with each other via a "direct" connection, and there is no need for a player to act as a server. In the last two reports we laid out the basis for building a Godot application that uses WebRTC to communicate with other peers. WebRTCMultiplayer.

Mesh

Mesh Demo Debug Build

Accelerating Ultra-Realistic Game Development with NVIDIA DLSS 3 and NVIDIA RTX Path Tracing

Nvidia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

New graphics primitives built for the future of games NVIDIA Micro-Mesh is a graphics primitive built from the ground up for real-time path tracing. Displaced Micro-Mesh and Opacity Micro-Map SDKs give developers the tools and sample code for the creation, compression, manipulation, and rendering of micro-meshes.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Mesh Game Developer Game Development

Updates to NVIDIA’s Unreal Engine 4 Branch, DLSS, and RTXGI Available Now

Nvidia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

New tools New debugging tools like the BVH viewer and Ray Timing Visualization allows developers to get a handle on ray tracing cost in their scene and get it tuned for speed. Inexact Shadows (beta) Deals with potential mesh mismatches of ray traced and raster geometry. NVIDIA RTX UE4.26 The new NVIDIA UE4.26

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Engine Engineering Beta

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). Export: Fix missing "debug"/"release" export presets feature tags ( GH-71274 ). A couple fixes to the text resource loader which could impact notably reloading scripts ( GH-71170 ). Fix Tab key usage in the inspector ( GH-71271 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Collision Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

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

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

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

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

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: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 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: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Editor: Add custom debug shape thickness and color options to RayCast ( GH-49726 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

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: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 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: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 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: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Godot 4.0 optimization progress report

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Instancing is used to render similar objects (mesh, material and misc settings), reducing the pressure over the rendering API. Numbers are using debug (numbers on release are lower, but when I started optimizing, Godot had problems running on release, so it's difficult to compare). A set of benchmarks was created at : [link].

Culling

Culling Render Shaders Mesh

Does Spine work with USE_INSTANCING?

Cocos

JANUARY 10, 2024

Maybe spine outputs skinned meshes that don’t support instancing? The effect is a duplicate of builtin-spine , with the instancing branches added and the two_color branch removed. Nothing special, but I’ve attached it below. I’m wondering if it’s user error, or working as intended. Either way, thanks for your time! Cocos version: 3.8.1

Texture

Texture Mesh Alpha Sprite

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.3 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 4, 2021

Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision ( GH-49075 ). Import: glTF: Fix mesh nodes which are also bones ( GH-49119 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). C#: Ignore paths with invalid chars in PathWhich ( GH-50918 ). iOS: Fix plugin configuration loading ( GH-50433 ).

Bug

Bug Mesh Render Build

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Logic Simplified

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Visual Studio Code - IDE Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is a lightweight, free, open-source code editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications. It is highly extensible, and is available for Windows, MacOS, and Linux, providing a common ground for developers working on multiple platforms.

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Game Developer Game Development Development Texture

GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2022

UV2 Texel Density Debug Draw Mode. x CPU lightmapper and adding a new debug draw mode for visualizing the texel density of lightmaps. Debug draw mode for texel density. The idea is to overlay a checkerboard pattern with the same square size (in texels) on the textures of all the meshes. Soft Shadows (merged). Next steps.

Lightmap

Lightmap UX Shaders Debug

Godot 3.0, new progress report and GDC

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 11, 2017

If you care about using meshes separately, it is also possible to tell Godot to save them as files. Reimports will overwrite those meshes, though. debug settings, different bit depth, demo version of a game with less files, etc.). If you only care about materials, it is possible to tell Godot to save them as separate files.

Mesh

Mesh Code Texture Demo

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.3

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision ( GH-49075 ). Import: glTF: Fix mesh nodes which are also bones ( GH-49119 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). C#: Ignore paths with invalid chars in PathWhich ( GH-50918 ). iOS: Fix plugin configuration loading ( GH-50433 ).

Render

Render Mesh Bug Collision

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). Export: Fix missing “debug”/”release” export presets feature tags ( GH-71274 ). A couple fixes to the text resource loader which could impact notably reloading scripts ( GH-71170 ). Fix Tab key usage in the inspector ( GH-71271 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Collision Render

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2021

Import: glTF: Improved error handling around invalid images and invalid meshes ( GH-48904 , GH-48912 ). Physics: Fix crash on debug shapes update if CollisionObject is not in tree ( GH-48974 ). Import: glTF: Fix incorrect skin deduplication when using named binds ( GH-48913 ).

Lightmap

Lightmap Baking Bug Data

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 18, 2020

While this is not a feature per se, it fixes a major annoyance that users have had with pointers to freed objects unexpectedly being re-assigned to new objects, causing hard-to-debug issues. this bug was fixed with a more comprehensive approach which prevents dangling Variant pointers in both release and debug builds. Other changes.

Beta

Beta Debug Bug Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.3 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 16, 2021

Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision ( GH-49075 ). Import: glTF: Fix mesh nodes which are also bones ( GH-49119 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). C#: Ignore paths with invalid chars in PathWhich ( GH-50918 ). iOS: Fix plugin configuration loading ( GH-50433 ).

Bug

Bug Render Mesh Build

Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2020

Ensure your meshes are marked as "Static Bake", then enable SDFGI in the Environment settings. There are also some new debug modes to visualize how SDFGI is working: SDFGI Cascades: Show the world as SDF, helps you understand what voxel sizes are, so you adjust your geometry to work better with those voxel sizes.

Lightmap

Lightmap Texture Baking Mesh

GSoC 2021 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 30, 2021

Here are the 5 projects/students with links to the relevant sections in this post: Implementing a DAP backend for debugging Godot projects by Ricardo Subtil ( Ev1lbl0w ). Implementing a DAP backend for debugging Godot projects. Project: Implementing a DAP backend for debugging Godot projects. Branch: Ev1lbl0w/gsoc21-dap.

Debug

Debug Simulation Communications Feature

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2020

While this is not a feature per se, it fixes a major annoyance that users have had with pointers to freed objects unexpectedly being re-assigned to new objects, causing hard-to-debug issues. C#: Allow debugging exported games ( GH-38115 ). Debug: Add a suffix to the window title when running from a debug build ( GH-33148 ).

Beta

Beta Debug Bug Point and Click

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.1 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2019

There will still be many fixes made before the final release, and we will need your detailed bug reports to debug issues and fix them. features last week ( 2D meshes , 2D skeletons and AnimationTree docs). IMPORTANT: This is a beta build, which means that it is not suitable for use in production, nor for press reviews of what Godot 3.1

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Feature

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.1 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 26, 2019

There will still be many fixes made before the final release, and we will need your detailed bug reports to debug issues and fix them. features this month ( 2D meshes , 2D skeletons and AnimationTree docs). IMPORTANT: This is a beta build, which means that it is not suitable for use in production, nor for press reviews of what Godot 3.1

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Feature

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.4

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 23, 2022

Edit 2022-03-24 @ 12:15 UTC: There was a slight packaging mistake affecting the macOS editor, and the iOS and macOS export templates, as well as a build issue affecting the iOS debug template. Rendering: GLES3: Fix broken normals in meshes with blend shapes ( GH-59159 ) [regression fix].

Render

Render Alpha Shaders Editing

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 12, 2020

While this is not a feature per se, it fixes a major annoyance that users have had with pointers to freed objects unexpectedly being re-assigned to new objects, causing hard-to-debug issues. this bug was fixed with a more comprehensive approach which prevents dangling Variant pointers in both release and debug builds. Other changes.

Beta

Beta Bug Debug Build

Webinar: Top 11 Questions from “Ray Tracing with Unity’s High Definition Render Pipeline”

Nvidia

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Anis: Ray tracing and path tracing in Unity have the same visibility requirements as the rasterized techniques: proper shadow casting is expected, either in the form of a watertight mesh, a shadow proxy like in our new HDRP Scene Template , or in the form of double-sided materials or two-sided shadows. Pierre: Certainly.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Render Baking Point and Click

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

Such pointer could be reported as valid even though the memory it points to was not, or worse, that memory could now hold a different object, leading to hard to debug situations. Thanks to the work of Pedro ( RandomShaper ), debug versions of Godot (e.g. Thanks to the work of Pedro ( RandomShaper ), debug versions of Godot (e.g.

Debug

Debug Point and Click Bug Render

FBX importer rewritten for Godot 3.2.4 and later

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

It took us about 14 months to get a proper FBX importer working fully, since we had to engineer everything again: We rewrote all the mesh code to support all formats of FBX meshes correctly. Much like the work we have done with FBX we'd just be repeating work for example with mesh conversion. stable release. Known issues.

Mesh

Mesh Animation Animation Beta

NVIDIA DLSS Plugin and Reflex Now Available for Unreal Engine

Nvidia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

NVIDIA Reflex NVIDIA Reflex is a toolkit to measure, debug and improve CPU+GPU latency in competitive multiplayer games. Enjoy great scaling across all GeForce RTX GPUs and resolutions, including the new ultra performance mode for 8K gaming. Access the NVIDIA DLSS plugin for UE4 here. Updates to NVIDIA RTX UE 4.25 The new NVIDIA UE 4.25

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Engine Engineering Technology

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Such use-after-free access needs to be guarded with is_instance_valid(obj) , but this has been surprisingly difficult to get right due to a number of bugs and inconsistencies between debug and release builds. Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). and Godot 3.3. Dynamic BVH for Godot Physics 2D.

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #2

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

load meshes. render meshes. Because of some stupid typos I had a hard time getting this right, but at least I got a nice UV-debug screenshot out of it. Done January 2018. bring GDNative API into stable state. improve C++ bindings. add simple C++ GDNative demo. add line rendering. add ninepatch rendering. add circle rendering.

Shaders

Shaders Render Demo Polygon

[Tutorial]Make the game run smoothly on high-end, mid-range, and low-end devices - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos

MAY 14, 2023

Mesh LOD In 3D games, when all the above work is done and the performance still not up to requirements, you can consider reducing mesh details. Mesh LOD can be switched not only based on distance but also based on the performance level of devices. Debugging Parameters Next, let’s take a look at the following code.

Code

Code Render Platformer Mesh

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. And for more advanced use cases, there is now also TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add Word Art to your scenes ;). and backported to 3.5. This was merged fairly late (3.5

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Realistic Lighting in Justice with Mesh Shading

Cocos Shader Tutorial 1.0 - about UV

Trending Sources

Developer Shares Building Fabrics, Ropes, And Soft Bodies

Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Ultra-Realism Made Accessible with NVIDIA AI and Path Tracing Technologies

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

WebRTC support, progress report #3

Accelerating Ultra-Realistic Game Development with NVIDIA DLSS 3 and NVIDIA RTX Path Tracing

Updates to NVIDIA’s Unreal Engine 4 Branch, DLSS, and RTXGI Available Now

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Godot 4.0 optimization progress report

Does Spine work with USE_INSTANCING?

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.3 RC 1

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GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Godot 3.0, new progress report and GDC

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.3

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.2

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.3 RC 2

Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination

GSoC 2021 - Progress report #1

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.1 beta 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.1 beta 3

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.4

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 1

Webinar: Top 11 Questions from “Ray Tracing with Unity’s High Definition Render Pipeline”

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

FBX importer rewritten for Godot 3.2.4 and later

NVIDIA DLSS Plugin and Reflex Now Available for Unreal Engine

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #2

[Tutorial]Make the game run smoothly on high-end, mid-range, and low-end devices - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 3

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