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Practical Tips for Optimizing Ray Tracing

Nvidia

This starts from mesh instance selection and their data. This starts from mesh instance selection and their data processing towards optimized tracing and shading of every hit that you encounter. Parallel mesh processing for instance data generation. Better GPU utilization using batched vertex data processing for dynamic meshes.

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Realistic Lighting in Justice with Mesh Shading

Nvidia

NetEase Thunder Fire Games Uses Mesh Shading To Create Beautiful Game Environments for Justice In December, we interviewed Haiyong Qian, NetEase Game Engine. Their results were nothing short of stunning with local 8K DLSS support and global illumination through RTXGI. Recently, NetEase introduced Mesh Shader support to Justice.

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Cocos Shader Tutorial 1.0 - about UV

Cocos

Here are the implementation of water wave effects on 2D sprites and 3D meshes: Preview Link The math behind it is simple, the water wave is simulated by the Sin function, and then the fluctuation range is increased in the Update function. Use the water wave effect on the 3D meshes This is only for 3D planes with tiled UV Mapping.

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Strategies for Optimizing Multiplayer Games in Unity

Logic Simplified

The game enables multiplayer gameplay through two options: local mode or server-hosted online mode, allowing players to either connect directly on the same local network or join others via dedicated servers through automatic system pairing. What worked?

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

GH-98163 ) CSGMesh3D now explicitly requires the mesh to be manifold. A manifold mesh must be closed, have each edge connected to only two faces, and have volume. Commonly, this means that it needs to be a watertight mesh without any holes and where you can never see the backside of the triangles. (

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 dev 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Import: Use UID in addition to path for extracted meshes, materials and animations ( GH-100786 ). Rendering: Update ViewportTexture path relative to its local scene instead of the Viewport owner ( GH-97861 ). GUI: Implement properties that can recursively disable child controls FocusMode and MouseFilter ( GH-97495 ).

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Mircosoft Game Dev

Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 3D: Switch Mesh surface indexing to start at 0 so string name matches integer index ( GH-70176 ). GUI: Copy local theme overrides from Control to Window ( GH-69353 ). See the list of PRs with the breaks compat label for details.

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