Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In parallel to our work on the upcoming feature releases Godot 3.5 ( with a first beta ) and 4.0 ( now at alpha 3! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 GUI: Fix RichTextLabel underline prevents strikethrough from rendering ( GH-56686 ). GUI: Fix TextureButton focus texture logic ( GH-56472 ). Known incompatibilities.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 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. Editor: Make texture preview filter setting content aware ( GH-67426 ). Physics: Optimized support function for large meshes ( GH-64382 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 6, 2018

The progress of last month was largely defined by stabilizing the 3D renderer with many smaller fixes, but work on the PRB side of things has begun and the GDNative system also saw some quality-of-life changes again, with improvements to the GDNativeLibrary resource as well as an API to provide safe type-casting in NativeScript. Introduction.

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Mnenad

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Mainly I focused on generating grass that bends in the wind and some fern like plants, but what comes next is usable for all kind of meshes. Batching means to combine mesh objects that share the same material or that are marked as static in the Unity inspector. In my case I had terrible FPS with just some thousand mesh instances.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). GLES3: Fix OpenGL error when generating radiance ( GH-40558 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2018

Heyyy, this pretty much looks like the sky projected onto the meshes, that's better! At that point of development, the sky reflection didn't respond to the camera position, so it basically looked like the sky was painted ontop of the mesh. The GLES2 backend is a forward renderer, that means each gets shaded once.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 11, 2017

Export options (convert textures, etc.) Automatic detection and reimport of many use cases for textures. If you care about using meshes separately, it is also possible to tell Godot to save them as files. Reimports will overwrite those meshes, though. Godot import/export code was most likely simplified tenfold.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 5, 2023

This starts from mesh instance selection and their data. This starts from mesh instance selection and their data processing towards optimized tracing and shading of every hit that you encounter. Parallel mesh processing for instance data generation. Parallel mesh processing for instance data generation.

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Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 24, 2022

A shader is a script where you write code that determines how the colors will be rendered based on various scenarios like lighting and material configuration. The ZWrite Off and ZTest Greater are responsible for making the shader render the material behind other objects. Then we give it a type – Color.

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Febucci

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In order to understand them and become a wizard/witch, we have to learn a bit about meshes first. A mesh is made (usually!) You can see the mesh as the structure of your object, built by combining its triangles together. UVs are also called texture coordinates and they let you map textures on your objects.

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Nvidia

MARCH 1, 2023

Digital sculpting software, however, uses an extremely high-resolution polygon mesh (or a voxel grid). This mesh can be modeled like traditional clay with a vast array of tools, giving modelers more freedom and flexibility in their work. This is similar to the limitations of physical sculptures.

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DameDev.tv

MARCH 7, 2023

In today's post, I'd like to show you how to retrieve an image provided by The Art Institute of Chicago via its public API , how to create a texture from this image, and how to feed this texture to a material and render it on a plane accompanied by a floating text with title, name of the artist and some other details.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 9, 2016

Thanks to the development work done by Alket Rexhepi and Bojidar Marinov , this frontend will soon reach the alpha status and be announced officially, so that all community members can start submitting assets to the library. As of the 2.1 New plugin API. Together with the Asset Library, we have introduced an EditorPlugin API for Godot.

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Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Materials are used to determine the appearance of objects, such as their color, texture, transparency, and other visual characteristics. The point of the instance material is to save the rendering power and thus the performance of the game. Texture Materials. Texture materials allow us to make our game objects look realistict.

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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

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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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 6, 2022

alpha 1 and later. This post starts off with a high-level description of what FogVolumes are and how to use them, and then includes some technical details about what is going on under the hood and how we get them to render so fast. Note: FogVolumes are available in 4.0 On top of the existing non-volumetric fog, Godot 4.0 density = 0.

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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. In hybrid rendering, using the same LOD for rasterization and ray tracing can be considered. Consider alpha testing instead of blending. Instances should share the base mesh BLAS.

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