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Strategies for Optimizing Multiplayer Games in Unity

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APRIL 4, 2025

When to profile: - Before making system changes - After adding new features - When releasing on different platforms Key Profiler Segments: - GPU Usage: Analyzes GPU workload for visual-heavy games. The optimization of shaders combines calculation simplification methods which lowers both shader passes and processing redundancy.

Games

Games Texture Render Balance

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 13

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2023

You can now deploy your projects to all desktop platforms over SSH, as well as run a remote debug session similar to what we already offered for Android and Web. Editor: Fix node preview crashes after updating visual shader node ( GH-71385 ). Rendering: Properly initialize directional_light_count in RD sky shaders ( GH-71526 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Debug Render

Godot's new renderer, progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Our goal is to have a modern, clustered renderer that supports everything mainstream engines support, including PBR, global illumination and flexible shader editing. As always, honoring the Godot tradition, this renderer will be super easy to use and run on as many platforms as possible. support, included the #version 300 es shaders.

Render

Render Shaders Texture Mesh

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2021

Batching: Fix light pass modulate , a potential crash, polygon rotation from vertex shader, and 2D skinning with unrigged polygons ( GH-48151 , GH-48125 , GH-48457 , GH-48647 )). Buildsystem: Various compilation fixes for some platforms/compilers, and Linux packaging fixes. Here are some of the main changes since 3.3-stable:

Polygon

Polygon Render Scripting Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.1 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 15, 2021

Batching: Fix light pass modulate , a potential crash, polygon rotation from vertex shader, and 2D skinning with unrigged polygons ( GH-48151 , GH-48125 , GH-48457 , GH-48647 )). Buildsystem: Various compilation fixes for some platforms/compilers, and Linux packaging fixes. Here are some of the main changes since 3.3-stable:

Polygon

Polygon Bug Render Build

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

In this build, we also built it for 32-bit platforms (armv7 and x86) as there was some demand for it, so you'll find the APK is a bit heavier. and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J.

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.1 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 10, 2021

Batching: Fix light pass modulate , a potential crash, and polygon rotation from vertex shader ( GH-48151 , GH-48125 , GH-48457 )). Buildsystem: Various compilation fixes for some platforms/compilers, and Linux packaging fixes. Core: Expose Shape.get_debug_mesh() to the scripting API ( GH-48316 ).

Bug

Bug Build Polygon Render

Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader). A long awaited improvement to reduce shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL is coming to Godot 3.5, You can move the polygon with the node transform, drag the corners to reshape it, add delete points. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view.

Shaders

Shaders Render Feature Mesh

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

This RC 6 has a few notable changes compared to the previous build: In RC 4, async shader compilation and caching was enabled by default on desktop, but several users reported issues with it on some hardware. We switched it back to disabled by default for all platforms. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Shaders: Fix specular render_mode for Visual Shaders ( GH-41536 ). TileSet: Fix potential crash when editing polygons ( GH-40560 ). Instead, browse our download repository and fetch the editor binary that matches your platform: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). Mono build (C# support + all the above).

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. You can move the polygon with the node transform, drag the corners to reshape it, add delete points. Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

Materials and shaders. Materials and shaders. makes up for it by providing an extremely powerful default material (which supports detail textures, triplanar mapping and other nice features) and an extremely easy-to-use shader language. writing shaders is very easy! Full principled BSDF. Global illumination (GI).

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. You can move the polygon with the node transform, drag the corners to reshape it, add delete points. Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Maintenance release: Godot 3.0.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

The 'server' platform is back as it was in Godot 2.1. Several new GLSL built-in functions are exposed to the shader language : radians degrees asinh acosh atanh exp2 log2 roundEven. A button has been added to the debugger to copy the error messages, useful for pasting them in bug reports or other community platforms.

Beta

Beta Bug Lightmap Build

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

The rationale for the OpenGL ES 3 renderer was having a single codebase for targeting all platforms: Desktop Linux, Windows, macOS. Save for Tegra, all other platforms (Adreno, Mali and PowerVR) are buggy and this prevented implementing many potential optimizations for the sake of stability. The rationale behind OpenGL ES 3.0.

Render

Render Mobile Mobile Writing

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JUNE 10, 2024

For instance, a model may also need to be under a certain polygon count, or it may need to be constructed in a way that will optimize the deformation and animation process. This involves tasks ranging from optimizing geometry (preventing undue strain on an artist's scene) to more complex requests.

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Strategies for Optimizing Multiplayer Games in Unity

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 13

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.1

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.1 RC 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 4

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.1 RC 1

Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 7

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

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