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Strategies for Optimizing Multiplayer Games in Unity

Logic Simplified

APRIL 4, 2025

Choosing the Right Networking Solution Unity offers multiple networking solutions, but selecting the right one depends on the game's complexity, player count, and required features. Optimization Strategies: Static Batching unites several stationary game elements into a single GPU drawing operation (such as terrain together with buildings).

Games

Games Texture Render Balance

Develop a 3D game in 2 hours with AI? Is it possible?

Cocos

MARCH 29, 2023

Many developers say that they can just become a UI Assembler and let GPT-4 write shaders for them. All aspects of the project, including programming, shader development, art, and music, are generated by AIGC. The game will be a 3D Snake, with innovative gameplay and a complex terrain. I am both skeptical and anxious about this.

AI

AI Shaders Terrain Development

New improvements for GPUParticles in Godot 4.0

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 7, 2020

This was the final feature that had to be ported over. Like all the rest of the features ported, it managed to get massive improvements. GPUParticles : Processes particles on GPU, allows very large amount of particles at little cost, and with ability to write custom particle shaders. x, but lacked several features.

Collision

Collision Shaders Terrain Baking

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 13

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2023

Such cadence allows us to better measure the overall stability and quickly catch regressions, especially when a lot of features are worked on at the same time. This week we release a new batch of improvements and fixes, as well as some new features. Unfortunately, we also have to rollback one of the core animations features.

Beta

Beta Dev Debug Render

Accelerate your Game Design, Development and Build with Unity Asset Store

Jaunty Bear Games

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Fortunately the Unity 3D platform has a great selection of packages and assets to accelerate the build of tools, models, shaders, sound effects, animations etc. Terrain Tools. The Terrain Tools package adds additonal terrain sculpting brushes and tools to your project to help create stunning terrain assets and ease the workflows. .

Asset

Asset Game Designer Game Design Build

Vertical Slice Breakdown - Dragon Age Veilguard

Ask a Game Dev

JUNE 14, 2024

I posted a challenge for aspiring developers to identify as many specific features and systems as they could spot. Expertise on visuals like lighting, rendering, shaders, etc. Expertise on visuals like lighting, rendering, shaders, etc. It’s been a few days since the Dragon Age Veilguard gameplay video was released.

Cinematics

Cinematics NPC Terrain Scripting

Cocos Creator 3.7.3 comes with an update to Cocos Effect

Cocos

MAY 9, 2023

ENGINE Features ● Custom Render Pipeline based on Render Graph supports for GLES backend ● Deprecated interfaces, such as addRasterView, addComputeView, etc., Fixed Toon shader data issue on iOS Wechat. Fixed the terrain as too dark, caused by the lighting calculation issue in the builtin-terrain material.

Terrain

Terrain Render Simulation Texture

Cocos Creator v3.8.5 beta released

Cocos

JULY 2, 2024

Download Links Windows Mac Update Notes Engine New Features Pool supports setting a shrink threshold to ensure that the size after shrinking will not be less than the shrink threshold. Fixed the issue where the terrain editing information was lost after entering prefab editing and returning to the scene. Added Vec2.toVec3() Added Vec3.toVec2()

Beta

Beta Terrain Texture Editing

V3.8.5 beta released

Cocos

JULY 2, 2024

Download Links Windows Mac Update Notes Engine New Features Pool supports setting a shrink threshold to ensure that the size after shrinking will not be less than the shrink threshold. Fixed the issue where the terrain editing information was lost after entering prefab editing and returning to the scene. Added Vec2.toVec3() Added Vec3.toVec2()

Beta

Beta Terrain Texture Editing

Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

Comparison of results in high light intensity (off vs. on): • Added Light Probe Bake Preview feature. New and standard-material will default to Surface Shader. See the documentation “Built-in shaders”: [link] • Tooltip that supplements common material parameters. The native platform supports main.js build templates.

Render

Render Baking Lightmap Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

It adds less new features than previous beta snapshots did, but instead has more focus on bugfixing and stabilization, which should make it a much nicer experience than previous betas. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Android: Use proper types for converting Java float/double arrays ( GH-67581 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Alpha

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

support, Bullet as the 3D physics engine, and many other features which are described in depth below. which would have included new multiplayer networking, visual scripting and many other improvements) because we realized that projects using the new features would no longer work in 3.0, New features of Godot 3.0. GPU particles.

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

There were a few very important features that we didn’t manage to review in time for previous betas, and which have now been implemented in beta 3. Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ) reworked the features and user experience of Godot’s ColorPicker during Google Summer of Code 2022. Major changes. This beta 3 is not only bugfixes though!

Beta

Beta Dev Render Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

There were a few very important features that we didn't manage to review in time for previous betas, and which have now been implemented in beta 3. Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ) reworked the features and user experience of Godot's ColorPicker during Google Summer of Code 2022. Major changes. This beta 3 is not only bugfixes though!

Beta

Beta Dev Render Debug

Warzone 2 Stuttering: Why and How to Fix Lag Issues

Game Errors

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

It’s the shader cache from last game but different wording and no longer just a toggle. Disable Core Isolation on Windows 11 (Windows 11 users only) Core Isolation is a new feature that Microsoft has integrated into Windows 11 to secure your computer against unreliable drivers and programs. Assume many just threw it on low.

FPS

FPS Graphics Internet PC

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

It adds less new features than previous beta snapshots did, but instead has more focus on bugfixing and stabilization, which should make it a much nicer experience than previous betas. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Android: Use proper types for converting Java float/double arrays ( GH-67581 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Alpha

GSoC 2020 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 29, 2020

One of the most requested language feature that GDScript lacks is being able to generate documentation for your code, using a system similar to "javadoc" in Java, "XML comments" in C# and "doc string" in Python, etc. Currently the first part of the project is almost done and I'm working on the UI features.

Code

Code Feature Scripting Point and Click

GSoC 2018 progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 25, 2018

We have five students working on some great projects to add new features to the engine, either via C++ modules, GDNative plugins or external plugins. And there are other people voluntarily testing new features, helping me with documentation and so on. Textures, normal maps and some of the BSDF shaders are already well supported.

Communications

Communications Code Engine Engineering

Godot Showcase - Lumencraft developer talks about his experience

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 13, 2022

We knew that we needed custom modifications for destructible terrain, dynamic lightning, and support for thousands of swarm monsters. When you want to create a new feature for your game it might just take a few hours to see it will work. The most enjoyable part of the game development is of course implementing new features.

Development

Development Shaders Terrain Engine

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Strategies for Optimizing Multiplayer Games in Unity

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New improvements for GPUParticles in Godot 4.0

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 13

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Vertical Slice Breakdown - Dragon Age Veilguard

Cocos Creator 3.7.3 comes with an update to Cocos Effect

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V3.8.5 beta released

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 4

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Warzone 2 Stuttering: Why and How to Fix Lag Issues

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Godot Showcase - Lumencraft developer talks about his experience

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