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D2 log 074 – New level format

Catnip Games

I export the rendered terrain from Blender as a RGBA image but with alpha value set to depth. The custom terrain shader uses the z-channel to draw water in lower areas of the level. The graphics backend rewrite took a while. However, the situation is now good. So it’s RGBZ.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

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. 2D: Make TileMap terrain painting not change neighbors centers bits ( GH-67390 ). Rendering: Add OpenGL timer queries to OpenGL3 backend ( GH-67032 ).

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

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. 2D: Make TileMap terrain painting not change neighbors centers bits ( GH-67390 ). Rendering: Add OpenGL timer queries to OpenGL3 backend ( GH-67032 ).

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Optimize Vegetation Generation

Mnenad

Since the last post I’ve been working on the terrain’s vegetation. Static batching : combines static (not moving) GameObjects into big Meshes, and renders them in a faster way.   The creator Mr.   Nevertheless, I also spent some money on the Advanced Foliage Shaders v.5. That’s it. When

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

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,

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

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,

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Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

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. Materials and shaders.

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