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Best Practices for Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing (Updated)

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It can be directly in the AS build calls or in some related task like the culling of the objects. Cull instances for TLAS. Instead, cull instances depending on the situation. For example, consider culling based on an expanded camera frustum. Moving the CPU work to one or more worker threads is potentially beneficial.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

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Editor: Disable code font ligatures by default in the editor ( GH-68571 ). Rendering: Added Viewport canvas cull mask feature ( GH-52350 ). Rendering: Use opaque rendering pipeline for alpha hash materials ( GH-61884 ). Rendering: Add texture reading code to OpenGL3 renderer for web and mobile ( GH-68138 ).

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

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The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. since early alpha releases; follow them on Twitter for updates. Editor: Remove compatibility code for MeshInstance3D surface override material ( GH-70466 ). What's new.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. since early alpha releases; follow them on Twitter for updates. Editor: Remove compatibility code for MeshInstance3D surface override material ( GH-70466 ). What’s new.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

Editor: Disable code font ligatures by default in the editor ( GH-68571 ). Rendering: Added Viewport canvas cull mask feature ( GH-52350 ). Rendering: Use opaque rendering pipeline for alpha hash materials ( GH-61884 ). Rendering: Add texture reading code to OpenGL3 renderer for web and mobile ( GH-68138 ).

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 2

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alpha builds and maintenance releases for the stable branch ( 3.4.3 , 3.4.4 Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

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But the “1” in beta 1 means that it’s only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we’re going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ) reworked the features and user experience of Godot’s ColorPicker during Google Summer of Code 2022.

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