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.

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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.

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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 ).

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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.

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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

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

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

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

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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 ).

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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 ).

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

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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 ).

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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 ).

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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].

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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 ).

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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 ).

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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.

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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.

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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 ).

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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

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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 ).

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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.

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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 ).

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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.

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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.

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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 ).

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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

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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

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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].

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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