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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

is coming with huge improvements to texture importing quality and speed thanks to new maintainer Bluecube3310. The import times of textures using the VRAM Compressed import setting have been greatly improved by integrating the GPU-based Betsy texture compressor. Import 4.4 Now 2D performance is comparable between all backends.

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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. As you can see cocos recognizes the original area as 450x450, but the shader limits itself to rendering only the trimmed texture. Is there a way to increase the render bounds?

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How to write Shaders in Unity using HLSL

Febucci

UVs are also called texture coordinates and they let you map textures on your objects. You’re basically saying to the computer: “hey, I want this texture drawn from here to here”. If you change the UVs (or texture coordinates) of one vertex, you’re also changing the way the texture is displayed on your mesh.

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Some Scattered Thoughts About Hades

The Bottom Feeder

It did well enough over long enough to get a sequel, but I'm still writing about the old original one. I'm getting over a flu and can't work up the energy to write a proper article with paragraphs and stuff, so I'll experiment with a quicker, looser format. Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.

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Enticing mix of genres in Ghibli-inspired The Brew Barons by Lifetap Studios

PreMortem.Games

“Every plane part, wings, fuselage, pontoons, engine and such, plus every pirate vessel, they all run off just a couple 4098×4098 textures, a single material per entity. That’s very different to most games that tend to use hundreds of textures and multiple materials.

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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

The most common types of streaming are: Texture streaming : All textures are loaded in a tiny size by default. As textures get closer to the camera, higher resolution versions (or mip-maps) are streamed from disk. Textures which haven’t been used for some frames are freed instead. Large team VCS support.

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Godot Tactics RPG – 01. Intro & Setup

The Liquid Fire

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) 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. x for this tutorial.