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Tiles editor progress report #3

Mircosoft Game Dev

tiles editor series: Tiles editor progress report #1. Tiles editor progress report #2. you are here) Tiles editor progress report #3. Tiles editor progress report #4. Tiles editor progress report #5. This allows you to customize the properties that the tiles themselves expose. TileSet rework.

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My Elephant in the Room, Part 1

Designer Notes

So, why should I go back to make a historical, tile-based 4X game? Civ inherited this mechanic directly from Empire, a game from the 80s which had much of the same tile-based, turn-based combat as Civ but without the scope of all human history. New borders would come from tile specialists and urban improvement.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 13

Mircosoft Game Dev

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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Cocos Shader Tutorial 1.0 - about UV

Cocos

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. Use the water wave effect on the 3D meshes This is only for 3D planes with tiled UV Mapping. the RGB of the color will be multiplied by 0.5 to make the color in bottom darker.

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Maintenance release: Godot 2.1.4

Mircosoft Game Dev

A big thankyou to all the contributors who worked on this release by implementing bug fixes or features, or testing the changes to spot potential regressions and help debug issues. Debugging: Many improvements to the editor's debugger and display of complex types. Physics: Add one-way collision to tile-set/tile-map.

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

PreMortem.Games

Framerate Optimization To address this, Unity offers several profiling and debugging tools. An example highlighted during the talk showed that using On-Tile Deferred Rendering for mobile platforms led to a 30% reduction in memory writes in test environments, demonstrating a meaningful improvement in performance.

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Maintenance release: Godot 2.1.3

Mircosoft Game Dev

A big thankyou to all the contributors who worked on this release by implementing bug fixes or features, or testing the changes to spot potential regressions and help debug issues. Nodes: Add modulate (color) to TileSet tiles. Editor: Several enhancements for the tile map editor. Windows: Fix debugging when offline.

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