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Realtime Rendering With OpenGL – A Students Perspective (Week 3)

Game Developer

Week 3 was focused on getting textures into the render engine, making a camera so the user can move around the scene, and the creation of a new mesh class that takes advantage of the VBO and EBO classes.

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Emerging Trends in Game Art: Real-Time Rendering, Stylized Game Art, and Beyond 

iXie gaming

By 2026, the gaming industry is expected to reach $321 billion , with real-time rendering and AI-driven game art playing a pivotal role in its growth. What was once a domain dominated by pre-rendered graphics and traditional artistry has now shifted toward real-time rendering, highly stylized visuals, and experimental aesthetics.

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Sprite Shader Render out of bounds

Cocos

Good evening, I just finished writing my own custom shader to create 2D shadows on sprites, but I can’t find a way to increase the render area of ​​the sprite. The problem is that the shader does not render outside these limits, even though the original area was 450x450. Is there a way to increase the render bounds?

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Maintenance release: Godot 4.4.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

GUI: Use Viewport s default texture filter/repeat in GUI tooltips ( GH-103636 ). Rendering: Add ASTC HDR format variants ( GH-102777 ). Rendering: Fix voxelizer normals ( GH-102893 ). Rendering: Fix 2D quad primitive missing lighting data in GLES3 renderer ( GH-102908 ). GUI: Label: Fix min.

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Strategies for Optimizing Multiplayer Games in Unity

Logic Simplified

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.

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Cocos Creator 3.8.5 forum version

Cocos

This release focuses on package size reduction, rendering pipeline improvements, and editor usability, alongside extensive bug fixes and platform compatibility enhancements. Rendering pipeline improvements : Added support for PipelinePass in the new pipeline. 3D empty project (default settings) : Reduced by 384 KB.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Breaking changes Animation Audio C# Core Editor GDScript Import Input Physics Platforms Rendering and shaders XR New in Beta 1! This integration ensures developers targeting macOS or iOS can achieve excellent rendering quality and performance on supported Apple hardware. Highlights Many features originally intended for 4.3 Import 4.4

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