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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

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! This integration ensures developers targeting macOS or iOS can achieve excellent rendering quality and performance on supported Apple hardware. Highlights Many features originally intended for 4.3

Beta

Beta Dev Lightmap Baking

Realistic Lighting in Justice with Mesh Shading

Nvidia

MAY 21, 2021

NetEase Thunder Fire Games Uses Mesh Shading To Create Beautiful Game Environments for Justice In December, we interviewed Haiyong Qian, NetEase Game Engine. Recently, NetEase introduced Mesh Shader support to Justice. billion triangles running over 60 FPS in 4K on an NVIDIA 3060Ti. Q: How do Mesh Shaders solve this?

Mesh

Mesh Culling Shaders Ray Tracing

Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

has an entirely new rendering architecture, which is divided into modern and compatibility backends. The modern one does rendering via RenderingDevice (which is implemented in drivers such as Vulkan, Direct3D 12, and more in the future). Rendering is significantly more efficient in Godot 4.0, Low level rendering access.

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AAA Game Development Game Developer Development

How to Create a Game-Ready AAA asset

Logic Simplified

AUGUST 5, 2024

At Logic Simplified , a leading game development company , we created an FPS game Mr. 45. This is also a stage where you should not rush in order to get a perfect mesh flow. I used a Blinn Shader on the asset to spot any issues with the mesh. A high poly mesh model of the gun came into being. Would you like to know more?

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Asset AAA Mesh Texture

Webinar: Top 11 Questions from “Ray Tracing with Unity’s High Definition Render Pipeline”

Nvidia

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The recent webinar shares how to use Unity’s High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP) wizard to enable ray-tracing in your Unity project with just a few clicks. The recent webinar shares how to use Unity’s High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP) wizard to enable ray-tracing in your Unity project with just a few clicks. Pierre: Certainly.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Render Baking Point and Click

Optimize Vegetation Generation

Mnenad

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Step by step to dense vegetation and acceptable FPS. Mainly I focused on generating grass that bends in the wind and some fern like plants, but what comes next is usable for all kind of meshes. Batching means to combine mesh objects that share the same material or that are marked as static in the Unity inspector.

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Mesh Shaders FPS 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

For low-end devices, all effects can be turned off for a smooth user experience ( at 24 ~ 30 fps ). I have shared some articles about performance optimization of 3d rendering before. Generally, rendering is the main cost of the game’s performance and does not affect the gameplay.

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Code Render Platformer Mesh

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 24, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). HTML5: More fixes, audio fallback, fixed FPS ( GH-40052 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ).

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Collision Bug Mesh Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 31, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). HTML5: More fixes, audio fallback, fixed FPS ( GH-40052 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). Rendering: Properly calculate Polygon2D AABB with skeleton ( GH-40869 ).

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Bug Collision Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 21, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). HTML5: More fixes, audio fallback, fixed FPS ( GH-40052 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). Rendering: Properly calculate Polygon2D AABB with skeleton ( GH-40869 ).

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). HTML5: More fixes, audio fallback, fixed FPS ( GH-40052 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). Rendering: Properly calculate Polygon2D AABB with skeleton ( GH-40869 ).

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.3 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 20, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). HTML5: More fixes, audio fallback, fixed FPS ( GH-40052 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Collision Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). HTML5: More fixes, audio fallback, fixed FPS ( GH-40052 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). Rendering: Properly calculate Polygon2D AABB with skeleton ( GH-40869 ).

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Render

Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2020

It does not require raytracing , and it runs in most current (and some years old) dedicated GPUs, even medium-end budget CPUs from some years ago (SDFGI was developed and tested on a GeForce 1060, running at a stable 60 FPS). Ensure your meshes are marked as "Static Bake", then enable SDFGI in the Environment settings.

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Lightmap Texture Baking Mesh

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). HTML5: More fixes, audio fallback, fixed FPS ( GH-40052 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ).

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Bug Collision Mesh Build

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Portal occlusion culling. More rendering improvements. Up till now a significant missing feature in the renderer has been the ability to cull (prevent rendering) objects that are within the camera view, but occluded by another object (for instance a wall). More rendering improvements.

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.3

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). HTML5: More fixes, audio fallback, fixed FPS ( GH-40052 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). Rendering: Properly calculate Polygon2D AABB with skeleton ( GH-40869 ).

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Bug Build Collision Texture

Moving to Vulkan (and ES 2.0) instead of OpenGL ES 3.0

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

See About Godot 4, Vulkan, GLES3 and GLES2 for up-to-date information about the planned rendering backends transition. The rationale for the OpenGL ES 3 renderer was having a single codebase for targeting all platforms: Desktop Linux, Windows, macOS. 45 FPS where you would expect 60 if you have an Intel HD 5000). Android, iOS.

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Render Mobile Mobile Writing

Mastering Materials In Unreal Engine: The Complete Guide

Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The point of the instance material is to save the rendering power and thus the performance of the game. This is how we can use instance materials to apply them to multiple objects in the game and when the instances share one parent material we save rendering power and thus optimize our game. Texture Materials.

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Engine Engineering Texture Point and Click

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Realistic Lighting in Justice with Mesh Shading

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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

How to Create a Game-Ready AAA asset

Webinar: Top 11 Questions from “Ray Tracing with Unity’s High Definition Render Pipeline”

Optimize Vegetation Generation

[Tutorial]Make the game run smoothly on high-end, mid-range, and low-end devices - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 4

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 5

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.3 beta 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 6

Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 2

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.3

Moving to Vulkan (and ES 2.0) instead of OpenGL ES 3.0

Mastering Materials In Unreal Engine: The Complete Guide

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