PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Overdraw can lead to excessive GPU workload, particularly in scenes with transparent materials, which don’t typically write to the depth buffer. External bandwidth usage—such as reading and writing to the frame buffer—drains battery life and generates heat, causing mobile devices to throttle the GPU.

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The Liquid Fire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

I’ll be writing most code in Godot’s Gdscript, so familiarity with that or Python will help. x version(at the time of writing that is 4.1.3) Type in mesh in the search and select MeshInstance3D. Search for mesh and again choose MeshInstance3D. Downloading & Running I am using Godot 4.x x for this tutorial.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 8, 2017

While we offer a default particles material (which is very powerful and customizable), it is possible to write your own particle logic entirely in a shader. The new particle system uses meshes by default (to work with impostor quads, just create a QuadMesh and assign a material with billboard set to enabled). Customization. More power.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). A couple fixes to the text resource loader which could impact notably reloading scripts ( GH-71170 ). Fix Tab key usage in the inspector ( GH-71271 ).

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Brand Game Development

APRIL 21, 2017

As a general rule of thumb, if a mechanic breaks theme immersion, is fiddly by necessity, or doesn’t mesh with existing mechanics then save yourself the time and drop it. It gives you a chance to strategize, interact with your opponents, and write your destiny. Back to the drawing board!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 27, 2018

Mesh (can use any custom geometry). Custom meshes. Any mesh can be used for CSG, this makes it easier to implement some types of custom shapes. Make sure CSG geometry remains relatively simple, as complex meshes can take a while to process. How does it work? Godot provides a bunch of Primitive nodes: Sphere.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 23, 2017

In a scene description format, materials can be contained in instances (as in, the instance is the mesh used, the transform in the world, and the material) or inside meshes (mesh comes with a material). does to meshes (the later). OpenGEX and Collada apply materials to instances (the former), while glTF 2.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 11, 2017

This was a necessary change for many reasons: It's much, much simpler to write import/export code this way. If you care about using meshes separately, it is also possible to tell Godot to save them as files. Reimports will overwrite those meshes, though. Will be writing a post with more details about this shortly.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Write a more flexible, GLES 3 GLSL compatible shader language. Write a more efficient Mesh format, which allows faster loading/saving. Why don't you use a backend library such as BGFX and forget about writing for different OpenGL versions? It manages resource storage such as textures, meshes, skeletons, etc.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Runtime navigation mesh baking. Now the NavigationRegion can be added during gameplay, and it's possible to change its transform or even bake the navigation mesh data at runtime. You can compose the NavigationRegion as you like, mine looks like this: Note: The meshes have a common static body under their node. Navigation Agent.

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DameDev.tv

JULY 4, 2023

I have also prepared a starter package for you, which includes meshes, textures, materials, and a prefab with an assembled calculator using these assets. It's composed of a CalcBase object, which consists of a CalcBase mesh and a BoxCollider. Now, let's write our Press method. I recommend using Unity 2021.3.24f1.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 3, 2021

Finger tracking itself is fully supported both through updating orientation of meshes, for which a sample scene is included in the plugin, and through animating a skeleton and bone deformation. It now knows if subsequent passes write to the same buffer and continue working on the same tile.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). A couple fixes to the text resource loader which could impact notably reloading scripts ( GH-71170 ). Fix Tab key usage in the inspector ( GH-71271 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2020

Ensure your meshes are marked as "Static Bake", then enable SDFGI in the Environment settings. Will write an article about this soon. SDFGI is mostly leak free, unlike VCT techniques which are the most common in use today (like SVOGI/GIProbe/etc). How do you use it? How does it work?

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DameDev.tv

MARCH 7, 2023

To achieve that, we're going to write a custom C++ class derived from Actor , with UStaticMeshComponent and UTextRenderComponent both attached to a USceneComponent set as a RootComponent. Importing Modules Time to write some code. Type aliases are useful in reducing the amount of code you need to write.

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Cocos

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

(A fork of Cocos2d-x-4.0) release notes Add experimental WebAssembly build support(WebGL 2.0) axmol run -p wasm -xb "--target,cpp_tests" Add 2 cmake options: AX_WASM_THREADS , AX_WASM_SHELL_FILE , refer to CMakeOptions.md fmtlib: 10.0.0 ==> 10.1.0 FreeType: 2.13.0 ==> 2.13.2 llhttp: 8.1.1 ==> 9.0.1 OpenSSL: 3.0.9 ==> 3.0.10

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2018

It also allows writing custom plugins to customize the looks, like in the image below: New Spin-Slider for numerical editing. In many types of nodes (Mesh, Particles, etc), editing sub-resources was truly a hassle. Here's all the new features that come with it: Control-based instead of Tree. The new inspector is Control based.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. For more advanced use cases, you can use TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add WordArt to your scenes ;). The whole API is now a lot more flexible than it used to be.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Morris Arroad ( mortarroad ) has worked on using a more reliable algorithm from Bullet to generate physics convex hulls from meshes. Added basic support for CPU blendshapes in GLES2 ( GH-48480 , GH-51363 ). Search "rendering" in the changelog.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

GDScript allows to write code in a quick way within a controlled environment. Does not always catch errors during compile (or write) time. Support for root motion as well as the ability to write your own custom blend nodes has also been added. Revamped filesystem dock. KinematicBody2D (and 3D) improvements. Visual shader editor.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 2, 2019

The 2D material system is back, so writing custom shaders works with the new Vulkan renderer. Loading resources in threads is now much more efficient, because both textures and meshes can be created in sub-threads at no cost at all for the main thread. Because of this, it will be possible in Godot 4.0 2D materials.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2025

Look at these shiny highlights: 2D physics interpolation 2D hierarchical culling Mesh merging Discrete level of detail (LOD) ORM materials Text to speech Arctic Eggs This game about cooking eggs in a cold climate found great reception on the internet. The feature freeze for 3.6

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

load meshes. render meshes. adding read and write lock objects for PoolVector types. Done January 2018. bring GDNative API into stable state. improve C++ bindings. add simple C++ GDNative demo. add line rendering. add ninepatch rendering. add polygon and GUI primitive rendering. start work on shader compiler. NativeScript 1.1

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Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 24, 2022

A shader is a script where you write code that determines how the colors will be rendered based on various scenarios like lighting and material configuration. The vert function on line 37 uses UnityObjectToClipPos which will transform the mesh vertex position from local object space to clip space. What Is a Shader?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

Beyond improving usability and fixing bugs, he implemented many additional useful nodes to write more advanced shaders with greater flexibility. Skin support allows multiple meshes to share a single skeleton. formats permit more than 4 bone weights per vertex, such meshes are currently unsupported in Godot 3.2. For Godot 3.2,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Single codebase for everything is like a dream come true for writing an engine. Still, there seems to be a large chunk of them (36% at the time of this writing) that only support OpenGL ES 2.0. Having to write a Metal backend to support this OS is a lot of effort for a platform not used very much. Android, iOS. OpenGL ES 3.0

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Game Designing

AUGUST 23, 2023

By default, it needs to render, so it needs its mesh renderer as well as it comes with a collider by default. Like for example, we have the mesh renderer that we have up here. (01:55) We’re going to make it multiply by two and I’m going to write it the other way this time. There’s a ton of things you can add.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

Still, this workflow is easy and efficient as 3D objects get a second set of UVs generated on import, and baking works with instantiated meshes, scenes and even GridMaps. In other engines, you have to provide many shader variants, mix HLSL with a metalanguage, error reporting is terrible and writing shaders is difficult in general.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2018

A very common request, though, was the ability to do custom mesh deformation based on the same bones used to animate separate parts. This allows, however for the community to write importers for tools such as Spine or CoaTools that become actual Godot scenes instead of an opaque node. Using with Polygon2D.

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Cocos

MAY 14, 2023

I have actually wanted to write about this topic for a long time, but to clarify this topic, it’s not enough to just talk about it. Mesh LOD In 3D games, when all the above work is done and the performance still not up to requirements, you can consider reducing mesh details.

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Game Daily

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

” The company unveiled new avatar creation tools including mesh and texture APIs that help developers increase the range of an avatar’s animations and reactions, and allows people to customize avatars inside the game. “Today, avatar creation takes an experienced creator days, or up to a week.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 18, 2021

Godot just works in a way that meshes with how I like to think and work. Just drop some images in and drag them onto the canvas, attach a script, write a few lines of GDScript and you've got the beginning of a game. I think without Godot I'd be much farther behind where I am now. I'd be much less productive for sure.

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