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Practical Use of Render Textures

The Knights of Unity

JUNE 5, 2020

And even before an era of SRPs (Scriptable Render Pipelines), there was a good amount of solid features like today’s topic: Render textures. In this post I’m going to explain to you how to use render textures in your game. using legacy rendering, but the features I used work in SRPs too. What is a Render Texture.

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Texture Render Shaders Alpha

Godot 4.0 optimization progress report

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

As most of the rendering features for the upcoming Godot 4.0 are done, I have spent the past two months optimizing the rendering engine, both on the CPU and GPU side. All this work has resulted in significantly faster rendering times. A lot of the render state is now better cached, so less is done at render time.

Culling

Culling Render Shaders Mesh

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

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: Bring back the renderer options button on the main editor ( GH-70500 ). They've been building upon Godot 4.0

Beta

Beta Dev Render Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

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: Bring back the renderer options button on the main editor ( GH-70500 ). They’ve been building upon Godot 4.0

Beta

Beta Dev Render Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 2022

alpha builds and maintenance releases for the stable branch ( 3.4.3 , 3.4.4 This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. It's already been 2 months since 3.5

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Full Unity 2D Game Tutorial 2019 – Making Mini Map Mask

Game Development

JANUARY 23, 2019

Finally we update the culling mask and remove the default layer by clicking on it. Full Unity 2D Game Tutorial 2019 – Mini Map Render Texture. Our Camera is still working like a normal camera, we want it to render its view to an image instead of to us the player. In order to do that we first need to make a render texture.

Texture

Texture Render Alpha Editing

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

alpha builds , we're trying to release 3.5 This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Rendering: Add OccluderShapePolygon ( GH-57361 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2022

alpha builds , we're trying to release 3.5 This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Rendering: Add OccluderShapePolygon ( GH-57361 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2022

alpha builds , we're trying to release 3.5 This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Rendering: Add OccluderShapePolygon ( GH-57361 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: A ton of fixes for all rendering backends, and missing features implemented for the OpenGL3 one. GUI: Add a Font import option to pre-render all glyphs required for the translation ( GH-68448 ). Physics: Implement adjusting the maximum number of physics steps per rendered frame ( GH-65836 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Alpha

Optimize Vegetation Generation

Mnenad

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Static batching : combines static (not moving) GameObjects into big Meshes, and renders them in a faster way. The foliage shader has an alpha cutout value and uses a texture + culling set to off (it is visible from both sides of the planes). And it has just twelve vertices.

Mesh

Mesh Shaders FPS Polygon

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: A ton of fixes for all rendering backends, and missing features implemented for the OpenGL3 one. GUI: Add a Font import option to pre-render all glyphs required for the translation ( GH-68448 ). Physics: Implement adjusting the maximum number of physics steps per rendered frame ( GH-65836 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Alpha

Godot's new renderer, progress report #2

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 3, 2016

It's been a month since the first progress report , and progress continues towards the new Godot renderer. Little by little every system falls into place, and rendering starts feeling a lot more mature. Improve Culling: Portals (rewrite as polygon-based) and Rooms. Add Layered/Stencil rendering. Introduction.

Render

Render Simulation Texture Engine

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

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. Lots of rendering changes. Our rendering contributors keep working on finalizing the implementation of all expected features for Godot 4.0,

Beta

Beta Dev Render Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

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. Lots of rendering changes. Our rendering contributors keep working on finalizing the implementation of all expected features for Godot 4.0,

Beta

Beta Dev Render Debug

Best Practices for Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing (Updated)

Nvidia

JULY 25, 2022

Especially in hybrid rendering, where G-buffer or shadow maps are rasterized, it’s potentially beneficial to execute AS building on async compute. 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.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Shaders Culling Render

Godot 3's renderer design explained

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Godot uses a considerably different approach to rendering (and rendering abstraction) than other, popular, game engines. This document was written in hopes to find more developers that would like to help us write rendering code, as it explains the overall design. Running the whole graphics rendering in a separate thread.

Render

Render Shaders Texture Engine

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

with 17 alpha builds distributed in 2022, and continuous development effort since 2019. You may have already seen some of this content on social media, in blog posts, or in alpha release notes. We know many users are excited about the coming improvements to 2D and 3D rendering in 4.0. It has been a long road to Godot 4.0

Beta

Beta Engine Engineering Animation

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. New physically based 3D renderer.

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

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Practical Use of Render Textures

Godot 4.0 optimization progress report

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 2

Full Unity 2D Game Tutorial 2019 – Making Mini Map Mask

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 4

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 5

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Optimize Vegetation Generation

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Godot's new renderer, progress report #2

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Best Practices for Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing (Updated)

Godot 3's renderer design explained

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

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