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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 15

Mircosoft Game Dev

While this process is ongoing, we'll keep releasing alpha builds so here's 4.0 This alpha doesn't include official builds with.NET 6 support yet, as we still have more work to do to enable this. For users of previous alphas, we don't always have compatibility code to ease transition. alpha builds.

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Ultra-Realism Made Accessible with NVIDIA AI and Path Tracing Technologies

Nvidia

Portal’s next-generation lighting rebuilt with path-traced direct and indirect illumination and shader execution re-ordering The RTX Path Tracing SDK accurately re-creates the physics of all light sources in a scene to reproduce what the eye sees in real life. OMM SDK 1.0 is available to all developers.

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Practical Use of Render Textures

The Knights of Unity

For shaders, I used Amplify Shader Editor to add some visual effects on top of the render texture. Then I’ve put the recorded render texture to a Standard Shader. On top of this, I added another mesh with custom shader, this time, for refraction. And the outcome of the shader looks like this: And that’s it.

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Godot 4.0 optimization progress report

Mircosoft Game Dev

Instancing is used to render similar objects (mesh, material and misc settings), reducing the pressure over the rendering API. There are special versions of meshes to render when doing shadow maps or depth pre-pass. Re-written most shaders to reduce VGPR usage, thus improve occupancy. A set of benchmarks was created at : [link].

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.4

Mircosoft Game Dev

In parallel to our work on the upcoming feature releases Godot 3.5 ( with a second beta ) and 4.0 ( now at alpha 4! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader state caching when blend shapes used ( GH-58808 ) [regression fix].

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Godot 3.0 progress report #6

Mircosoft Game Dev

While we offer a default particles material (which is very powerful and customizable), it is possible to write your own particle logic entirely in a shader. It is also possible to convert a particle system to a shader and do further modifications to it by yourself, manually. More power. are implemented.

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Optimize Vegetation Generation

Mnenad

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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