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Strategies for Optimizing Multiplayer Games in Unity

Logic Simplified

APRIL 4, 2025

The Unity Profiler provides tools for detecting issues that affect CPU, GPU, rendering, and memory performance. Rendering Analysis: Monitors draw calls, overdraw, and other performance metrics. Rendering Analysis: Monitors draw calls, overdraw, and other performance metrics.

Games

Games Texture Render Balance

Object Placement on Terrain (Mesh)

Mnenad

JANUARY 25, 2018

This chapter is all about how I solved it (so far) to be able to place all kinds of assets like 3D-meshes or self-growing fractal seeds on the terrain. Because the computer won’t render the next frame until all the needed calculations are done! Before we start. This struggle is visible for the player as a freezing screen.

Terrain

Terrain Mesh Asset Shaders

D2 log 074 – New level format

Catnip Games

JUNE 20, 2023

I export the rendered terrain from Blender as a RGBA image but with alpha value set to depth. The custom terrain shader uses the z-channel to draw water in lower areas of the level. The graphics backend rewrite took a while. However, the situation is now good. So it’s RGBZ.

Terrain

Terrain Render Tile Alpha

Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

This version optimizes some rendering and lighting capabilities, fixes a series of key issues recently reported by users, and recommends that all v3.x Engine • Added DebugView at runtime UI control rendering debugging function. Skip rendering when the UI element Opacity is 0. Skip rendering when the UI element Opacity is 0.

Render

Render Baking Lightmap Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 13

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2023

Editor: Keep terrain choice when changing layer in TileMap editor ( GH-70601 ). Editor: Fix node preview crashes after updating visual shader node ( GH-71385 ). Rendering: Fix polyline not supporting closed polygons and not having a uniform width ( GH-62236 ). Editor: Move remote debug buttons to a single menu ( GH-70701 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Debug Render

Accelerate your Game Design, Development and Build with Unity Asset Store

Jaunty Bear Games

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Fortunately the Unity 3D platform has a great selection of packages and assets to accelerate the build of tools, models, shaders, sound effects, animations etc. Terrain Tools. The Terrain Tools package adds additonal terrain sculpting brushes and tools to your project to help create stunning terrain assets and ease the workflows. .

Asset

Asset Game Design Game Designer Build

Cocos Creator 3.7.3 comes with an update to Cocos Effect

Cocos

MAY 9, 2023

ENGINE Features ● Custom Render Pipeline based on Render Graph supports for GLES backend ● Deprecated interfaces, such as addRasterView, addComputeView, etc., Fixed Toon shader data issue on iOS Wechat. Fixed the terrain as too dark, caused by the lighting calculation issue in the builtin-terrain material.

Terrain

Terrain Render Simulation Texture

Vertical Slice Breakdown - Dragon Age Veilguard

Ask a Game Dev

JUNE 14, 2024

Expertise on visuals like lighting, rendering, shaders, etc. Expertise on visuals like lighting, rendering, shaders, etc. I posted a challenge for aspiring developers to identify as many specific features and systems as they could spot. My expertise is in gameplay, so that’s where I will be focusing.

Cinematics

Cinematics NPC Terrain Scripting

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Our script editor maintainer, Paul Batty ( Paulb23 ), implemented initial support for multi-caret editing in TextEdit, which is therefore usable in the GDScript and shader editors, as well as any other multi-line text field in the editor. Lots of rendering changes. OpenGL3: Add 2D lights to canvas renderer ( GH-67335 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Our script editor maintainer, Paul Batty ( Paulb23 ), implemented initial support for multi-caret editing in TextEdit, which is therefore usable in the GDScript and shader editors, as well as any other multi-line text field in the editor. Lots of rendering changes. OpenGL3: Add 2D lights to canvas renderer ( GH-67335 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Debug

Optimize Vegetation Generation

Mnenad

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Since the last post I’ve been working on the terrain’s vegetation. Static batching : combines static (not moving) GameObjects into big Meshes, and renders them in a faster way. The creator Mr. Nevertheless, I also spent some money on the Advanced Foliage Shaders v.5. That’s it. When

Mesh

Mesh Shaders FPS Polygon

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

2D: Make TileMap terrain painting not change neighbors centers bits ( GH-67390 ). Rendering: Add OpenGL timer queries to OpenGL3 backend ( GH-67032 ). Rendering: Improve behaviour of clip_children by clipping to parent alpha value but still retaining parent color ( GH-67043 ). Core: Make some Image methods static ( GH-63332 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Alpha

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

It brings a brand new rendering engine with state-of-the-art PBR workflow for 3D, an improved assets pipeline, GDNative to load native code as plugins, C# 7.0 After meeting the initial goal, we hired karroffel to continue her work on GDNative (more about this below) and work on a new rendering backend. Materials and shaders.

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

2D: Make TileMap terrain painting not change neighbors centers bits ( GH-67390 ). Rendering: Add OpenGL timer queries to OpenGL3 backend ( GH-67032 ). Rendering: Improve behaviour of clip_children by clipping to parent alpha value but still retaining parent color ( GH-67043 ). Core: Make some Image methods static ( GH-63332 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Alpha

Warzone 2 Stuttering: Why and How to Fix Lag Issues

Game Errors

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

It’s the shader cache from last game but different wording and no longer just a toggle. Click on Quality 4. Scroll down, locate Spot Cache and change it to High or Ultra If you’re experiencing stuttering on PC, change “spot cache” in graphics settings to high or ultra. Assume many just threw it on low.

FPS

FPS Graphics Internet Texture

GSoC 2018 progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 25, 2018

reduz is always quick to respond on IRC, although he is busy developing new features for Godot (during that time, he finished the new Animation editor, the new AnimationTree and visual shader editor. Textures, normal maps and some of the BSDF shaders are already well supported. s EEVEE render engine. Amazing!!). Thank you all!

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Strategies for Optimizing Multiplayer Games in Unity

Object Placement on Terrain (Mesh)

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D2 log 074 – New level format

Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 13

Accelerate your Game Design, Development and Build with Unity Asset Store

Cocos Creator 3.7.3 comes with an update to Cocos Effect

Vertical Slice Breakdown - Dragon Age Veilguard

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Optimize Vegetation Generation

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 4

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 4

Warzone 2 Stuttering: Why and How to Fix Lag Issues

GSoC 2018 progress report #1

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