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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

GH-98163 ) CSGMesh3D now explicitly requires the mesh to be manifold. A manifold mesh must be closed, have each edge connected to only two faces, and have volume. Commonly, this means that it needs to be a watertight mesh without any holes and where you can never see the backside of the triangles. (

Beta

Beta Dev Lightmap Baking

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 Development Simulation

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. Overdraw can lead to excessive GPU workload, particularly in scenes with transparent materials, which don’t typically write to the depth buffer. This bottleneck can drastically affect performance, especially in visually demanding applications.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Culling Pixel Render

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 ). Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). 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

Godot 3.0, new progress report and GDC

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 11, 2017

This was a necessary change for many reasons: It's much, much simpler to write import/export code this way. 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. Will be writing a post with more details about this shortly.

Mesh

Mesh Code Texture Demo

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 ). Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Fix Tab key usage in the inspector ( GH-71271 ). Add expand modes to TextureRect ( GH-58517 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Collision 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 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

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 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 2022 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2022

We asked them to write a progress report to present what they're working on and the current status. 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. Soft Shadows (merged). Introduction. No soft shadows.

Lightmap

Lightmap UX Shaders Debug

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

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

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

The Android plugin documentation has been updated with instructions on how to write plugins for this new system. 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. Porting existing 3.2 feature set.

Debug

Debug Point and Click Bug Render

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #2

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

load meshes. render meshes. adding read and write lock objects for PoolVector types. 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.

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

I have actually wanted to write about this topic for a long time, but to clarify this topic, it’s not enough to just talk about it. 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. Let’s take a look at several sets of values.

Code

Code Render Platformer Mesh

Cocos Creator 3.8.4 has been released, faster, more stable, and easier to use!

Cocos

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Based on the CRP pipeline, developers can write rendering processes that are compatible with all platforms without modifying the engine’s source code. Support for Mesh Compression to Reduce Package Size When importing FBX, multiple compression methods are supported to reduce the package size. Engine Functionality Enhancements 1.

Render

Render Texture Platformer Build

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

Beyond improving usability and fixing bugs, he implemented many additional useful nodes to write more advanced shaders with greater flexibility. Skin support allows multiple meshes to share a single skeleton. formats permit more than 4 bone weights per vertex, such meshes are currently unsupported in Godot 3.2. For Godot 3.2,

Feature

Feature Render Shaders Bug

Best Practices for Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing (Updated)

Nvidia

JULY 25, 2022

Consider representing mesh particles as instances in TLAS. For particles rendered as triangle meshes, having a unique instance for each particle can be a reasonable solution. Instances should share the base mesh BLAS. Consider writing a safe default value to unused payload fields. Also, consider compacting the BLAS.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Shaders Culling Render

GSoC 2019 progress report #1 (part 2)

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 18, 2019

We're now in the middle of the GSoC 3-months coding period, and we asked students to write a progress report to present their project and the work done so far. By adding a simple cache to it, we made it so that light map texture coordinates are only computed when there's an actual change to the geometry of the mesh. Introduction.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Scripting Data Texture

GSoC 2018 progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 25, 2018

I've asked all students to write a short progress report about their projects, which are all in the last stages of development for the GSoC internship. The change here is that with the new interface, the selection is taken care of automatically without us having to write a new system. Writing boilerplate for Google VR.

Communications

Communications Code Engine Engineering

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Developer Shares Building Fabrics, Ropes, And Soft Bodies

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

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Godot 3.0, new progress report and GDC

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination

GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

GSoC 2021 - Progress report #1

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

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

Cocos Creator 3.8.4 has been released, faster, more stable, and easier to use!

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Best Practices for Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing (Updated)

GSoC 2019 progress report #1 (part 2)

GSoC 2018 progress report #1

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