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Integrating 2D and 3D Art: Creating Cohesive Game Worlds

iXie gaming

JULY 11, 2025

Pro Tip: Use orthographic or isometric perspectives for both 2D sprites and 3D environments. Pro Tip: Use real-time lighting rigs on 3D elements and hand-paint corresponding shadows on 2D sprites. Unified Texturing and Color Grading Visual coherence hinges on color and texture harmony. Solution: Create an art bible early.

Art

Art Sprite Texture Asset

Strategies for Optimizing Multiplayer Games in Unity

Logic Simplified

APRIL 4, 2025

Use Compressed Textures : Textured images can be saved with lower resolutions while compressed formats such as ASTC and DXT1 and DXT5 reduce memory usage without quality reduction. Texture Atlasing combines multiple textures into one atlas to lower the number of texture switches that occur.

Games

Games Texture Render Culling

Cocos Shader Tutorial 1.0 - about UV

Cocos

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The vertical axes of textures and picture pixels is shown above, when sampling textures in shaders, that is from top to bottom, which is top-right corner. If your previous development experience is based on OpenGL, you may find that the texture on your grid is vertically flipped. _pass = this.node.getComponent(Sprite).material.passes[0];

Shaders

Shaders Mesh Point and Click Sprite

Godot Tactics RPG – 01. Intro & Setup

The Liquid Fire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Resources just feels like it should be things like 3d Models and Textures, but if you want to stick with the original, that’s fine. The first thing to download will be the sprites and textures from the original tutorial. 02_TacticsRPG_Textures.zip Unzip the folder and move Dirt.png into the Textures folder.

Point and Click

Point and Click Mesh Texture Tile

Developer Shares Building Fabrics, Ropes, And Soft Bodies

Cocos

JUNE 14, 2023

Analysis The whole effect can be split into two parts, one for the simulation of the mesh and one for the rendering of the mesh. Combined with the knowledge of the rendering, the texture is actually very close to the rendering vertex data. If I can pass this texture in between the direct rendering, then I get a 2D real fabric.

Build

Build Mesh Development Simulation

Coloring of billboard is white?

Cocos

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

By test case i am assuming a way to recreate, I simply created a node with a billboard component and used a sprite as the texture. The color changes based on what is behind the billboard: The ‘water’ behind the white icon is a plane mesh I can bring the icon back to normal color by compromising the water material (see next reply)

Mesh

Mesh Sprite Texture

GLES2 renderer optimization - 2D batching

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 9, 2020

Right now batching has only been implemented for rectangle primitives (which includes tilemaps, text, sprites, and many GUI nodes). Similarly, batches must share a texture, material, blend mode, shader, and skeleton. Top: 10,000 Sprites with a randomized modulate and position. Left is without batching, right is with.

Render

Render Polygon Sprite Mesh

Full Unity 2D Game Tutorial 2019 – Particle Effects CPU and GPU

Game Development

JANUARY 24, 2019

Particle effects are a special type of technique used to display many objects/sprites in an efficient manner to create various effects. Texture Sheet Animation. To use the GPU to compute our particle we must first change the render method from Billboard to mesh. Then make sure the Enable Mesh GPU Instancing is checked.

Render

Render Mesh Texture Games

Does Spine work with USE_INSTANCING?

Cocos

JANUARY 10, 2024

Hello, I’m working on a custom material/effect with a USE_INSTANCING branch that works on sprites, but does not work on a spine character. Maybe spine outputs skinned meshes that don’t support instancing? I’ve tried the different animation cache modes, and enable/disable batch. Nothing special, but I’ve attached it below.

Texture

Texture Mesh Alpha Localization

Vulkan progress report #2

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 2, 2019

to use specular and shininess both as parameter and as textures supplied to Sprite, AnimatedSprite, Polygon2D and other nodes. One interesting effect of the new material system is that there is now no restriction on the amount of textures your shaders can use. Because of this, it will be possible in Godot 4.0 2D materials.

Shaders

Shaders Render Texture Engine

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.1 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Import: Fix texture atlas generation when source sprite is larger than generated atlas ( GH-55094 ). Import: Fix crash when exporting meshes to glTF that have no skin ( GH-55246 ). Import: Fix incorrect glTF cubic spline interpolation times/values size error ( GH-54805 ). iOS: Capture and display xcodebuild output ( GH-54711 ).

Tile

Tile Render Bug Collision

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #4

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 16, 2018

Last time I promised more fancy screenshots, here some perspective-correct renderings of some meshes. Texture handles? Meshes with similar shaders can be grouped together so that shaders don't need to be unloaded and loaded again, and many other cool things. branch of the GDNative-demos repository here. perspective rendering.

Shaders

Shaders Render Mesh Code

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.1 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Import: Fix texture atlas generation when source sprite is larger than generated atlas ( GH-55094 ). Import: Fix crash when exporting meshes to glTF that have no skin ( GH-55246 ). Import: Fix incorrect glTF cubic spline interpolation times/values size error ( GH-54805 ).

Tile

Tile Render Bug Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.1 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Import: Fix texture atlas generation when source sprite is larger than generated atlas ( GH-55094 ). Import: Fix crash when exporting meshes to glTF that have no skin ( GH-55246 ). Import: Fix incorrect glTF cubic spline interpolation times/values size error ( GH-54805 ).

Tile

Tile Render Bug Build

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Import: Fix texture atlas generation when source sprite is larger than generated atlas ( GH-55094 ). Import: Fix crash when exporting meshes to glTF that have no skin ( GH-55246 ). Import: Fix incorrect glTF cubic spline interpolation times/values size error ( GH-54805 ).

Tile

Tile Render Shaders Editing

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

This drastically reduces drawcall-related bottlenecks and can give massive gains in specific scenarios (drawing lots of sprites, big TileMaps, text rendering). Top: 10,000 Sprites with a randomized modulate and position. Bottom: 8 layers of a screen full of "A"s with two Sprites intermixed. Can you spot the difference?

Debug

Debug Point and Click Bug Render

Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

Godot now supports 2D meshes , which can be used from code or converted from sprites to avoid drawing large transparent areas. CSG tools have been added for fast level prototyping, allowing generic primitives and custom meshes to be combined via boolean operations to generate more complex shapes. Revamped filesystem dock.

Feature

Feature Render Editing Mesh

Unreal Engine 5 FPS: Create A Zombie Horde Shooter

Awesome Tuts

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Inside the BP_Player editor, click on the mesh component in the Component tab at the top right corner: Now inside the Details tab on the right side, under the Mesh option for the Skeletal Mesh 3D object we are going to select the Mannequin 3D object: But make sure that you select the one which is located in the Art folder.

FPS

FPS Engine Engineering Animation