Radiator Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The two big changes I made were the texturing and the monster placement / player flow. One of my big motivations was to use Makkon's updated textures. Yet as I aligned the 100th trim texture on a brush, I wondered whether my level was also anti-brutalist in its own way. Maybe it wasn't such a bad map after all?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2018

A DirectionalLight needs their own space, but using single textures for each other light would be pretty wasteful, so what is used as an optimization is a Shadow Atlas. As mentioned before, in order to know which pixels are "in a shadow" and which are lit, the scene has to be rendered from the viewpoint of the light.

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iXie gaming

JULY 19, 2024

Faster but less realistic, it determines colors based on how much of each pixel is covered by light. These are pre-made textures that store lighting info for objects that don’t move. Texture Compression. Makes texture files smaller, speeding up loading times and using less memory. Rasterization.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

Web editor running the "Ninja Adventure" demo from the eponymous CC0 asset pack by Pixel-Boy and AAA. The biggest difference with the old lightmapper is that the new one features proper path tracing, which results in better looking lightmaps. More rendering improvements. For Godot 4.0,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Android: Implement per-pixel transparency ( GH-51935 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Android: Implement per-pixel transparency ( GH-51935 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Android: Implement per-pixel transparency ( GH-51935 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ).

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