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. Cocos Creator 3.7.2 was released last week.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2023

You can now deploy your projects to all desktop platforms over SSH, as well as run a remote debug session similar to what we already offered for Android and Web. As the number of remote debug options is quite big by now, we’ve packed them neatly in a single drop-down menu ( GH-63312 , GH-70701 ). Jump to the Downloads section.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: A ton of fixes for all rendering backends, and missing features implemented for the OpenGL3 one. GUI: Add a Font import option to pre-render all glyphs required for the translation ( GH-68448 ). Physics: Implement adjusting the maximum number of physics steps per rendered frame ( GH-65836 ).

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Fast, Modular and Differentiable Shader Programming. Fast, Modular and Differentiable Shader Programming. The paper shows how a single language can serve as a unified platform for real-time, inverse, and differentiable rendering. Build differentiable renderers from existing graphics code.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

Breaking changes Animation Audio C# Core Editor GDScript Import Input Physics Platforms Rendering and shaders XR New in Beta 1! Add 2D shader instance uniforms Previously, Godot only supported shader instance uniforms in Spatial shaders. Highlights Many features originally intended for 4.3 meaning that Godot 4.4

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! Export: Fix missing "debug"/"release" export presets feature tags ( GH-71274 ). Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ).

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Nvidia

MARCH 20, 2023

NVIDIA at GDC 2023: Frame Generation and Path Tracing Tools Now Available Generate frames with the latest breakthrough in AI rendering Announced with the NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture, DLSS 3 raised the bar not just for visuals but also performance and responsiveness. Frame generation is the latest evolution.

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Nvidia

MAY 21, 2021

Recently, NetEase introduced Mesh Shader support to Justice. His work focuses on the rendering engine in Justice, specifically GPU features enabled by DirectX 12. Our first thought is to render some highly detailed models which may need insane number of triangles. Mesh shader solves this problem from the hardware level.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2018

depth rendering for shadow mapping. billboard support in shaders and editor fixes. The shader code for the lights can be found here. They reach around in a spherical way, so what the GLES2 backend does is render into a cubemap (6 images, arranged like the faces of a cube). depth rendering for shadow mapping.

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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. start work on shader compiler. add circle rendering. render meshes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! Export: Fix missing “debug”/”release” export presets feature tags ( GH-71274 ). Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ). See the list below.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

As most of the rendering features for the upcoming Godot 4.0 are done, I have spent the past two months optimizing the rendering engine, both on the CPU and GPU side. All this work has resulted in significantly faster rendering times. A lot of the render state is now better cached, so less is done at render time.

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The rendering pipeline of Justice is built on physically based rendering (PBR). New technologies generally bring new problems, and the debugging process is particularly more difficult. Fortunately, NVIDIA has upgraded the NVIDIA Nsight debugging tool in time, making it an easier process for development work.

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 22, 2023

In this post, we introduce several code examples using differentiable Slang to demonstrate the potential use across different rendering applications and the ease of integration. Rendering is highly nonlinear, so linear operations on texture maps do not produce the correct linearly changing appearance. GTexel/s.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Our script editor maintainer, Paul Batty ( Paulb23 ), implemented initial support for multi-caret editing in TextEdit, which is therefore usable in the GDScript and shader editors, as well as any other multi-line text field in the editor. Lots of rendering changes. OpenGL3: Add 2D lights to canvas renderer ( GH-67335 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Our script editor maintainer, Paul Batty ( Paulb23 ), implemented initial support for multi-caret editing in TextEdit, which is therefore usable in the GDScript and shader editors, as well as any other multi-line text field in the editor. Lots of rendering changes. OpenGL3: Add 2D lights to canvas renderer ( GH-67335 ).

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Cocos

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Post-processing effects, are used for further processing of rendered results to achieve various advanced and special effects. Analysis of 2D Post-Processing Solutions Cocos Creator currently lacks built-in support for post-processing in the 2D render phase, requiring developers to explore various approaches to achieve the rendering goals.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2022

Project: Allow undocking the Script editor and the Shader editor. In this project, I'll focus to make the Script editor and the Shader editor undockable, and keep the undocked windows after editor restarts. Detaching the Script editor and the Shader editor is done for the most part. UV2 Texel Density Debug Draw Mode.

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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: GLES2: Fix compression on blend shapes ( GH-58838 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ).

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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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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 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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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

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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Nvidia

JULY 25, 2022

Especially in hybrid rendering, where G-buffer or shadow maps are rasterized, it’s potentially beneficial to execute AS building on async compute. In hybrid rendering, using the same LOD for rasterization and ray tracing can be considered. Consider worker threads for generating AS building command lists. Do this whenever possible.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

GLES3 renderer). 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 ). Highlights.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

GLES3 renderer). 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 ). Highlights.

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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

JANUARY 30, 2025

Physics: Add debug colours and fills to CollisionPolygon3D ( GH-101810 ). Rendering: Bake UV2 emission using half float in the compatibility backend ( GH-101730 ). Rendering: Ensure Voxelizer SDF generation uses the correct cell level ( GH-101631 ). Windows: Fix left/right Shift key regression ( GH-101763 ). beta1 snapshot.

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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 ). Crypto: Add HMACContext ( GH-48869 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 18, 2020

2D batching for the GLES2 renderer , thanks to lawnjelly and Clay ( clayjohn ). 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. 2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ).

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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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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

This RC 6 has a few notable changes compared to the previous build: In RC 4, async shader compilation and caching was enabled by default on desktop, but several users reported issues with it on some hardware. You can enable it in the Project Settings ( rendering/gles3/shaders/shader_compilation_mode ). and backported to 3.5.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2020

2D batching for the GLES2 renderer , thanks to lawnjelly and Clay ( clayjohn ). 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. 2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

2D batching for the GLES2 renderer. While most rendering work was postponed for the 4.0 release with its new Vulkan-based renderer, our contributors lawnjelly and Clay ( clayjohn ) decided to give some more attention to the 3.2 Thanks to the work of Pedro ( RandomShaper ), debug versions of Godot (e.g. feature set.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2021

Batching: Fix light pass modulate , a potential crash, polygon rotation from vertex shader, and 2D skinning with unrigged polygons ( GH-48151 , GH-48125 , GH-48457 , GH-48647 )). Physics: Create CollisionObject debug shapes using VisualServer ( GH-48588 ). Rendering: Fix 2D software skinning relative transforms ( GH-48402 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2022

and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. Debugger: Add --debug-server command line option to listen for incoming connections ( GH-60819 ). Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

Notably, it fixes some rendering regressions with transparent materials, and crashing iOS templates and Web editor build in RC 2. and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J.

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