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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

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 3.5 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

alpha builds , we're trying to release 3.5 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. You can move the polygon with the node transform, drag the corners to reshape it, add delete points.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

alpha builds , we're trying to release 3.5 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. You can move the polygon with the node transform, drag the corners to reshape it, add delete points.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

alpha builds , we're trying to release 3.5 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. You can move the polygon with the node transform, drag the corners to reshape it, add delete points.

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Optimize Vegetation Generation

Mnenad

  Some very basic tips: Rather be sure how much polygons you need before-hands and keep it as low as possible. The polygon reduction object from Cinema4D does not reduce the polygon count effectively. So, I started to remodel some meshes in Cinema4D, my prefered 3D modelling software.   And it has just twelve vertices.

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Godot's new renderer, progress report #2

Mircosoft Game Dev

Improve Culling: Portals (rewrite as polygon-based) and Rooms. Mid-Processing is the effects that are applied in the middle of rendering, before alpha pass and post-processing. TODO for Milestone #3 (December 2016). Implement the new version of the Godot SVO-based Light Baker. Add Clustered lighting (before this all is forward).

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Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

It parses your code and automatically understands what you are trying to do (such as writing to alpha for transparency, reading from screen, etc.) It has built-in collision, occlusion and navigation polygon editors, together with the possibility to extend the resource using a tool script to have control over what subtiles do.

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