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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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Practical Use of Render Textures

The Knights of Unity

You just have to create a new asset using Create > Render Texture and then assign it to your camera. I can now use this asset like any other texture in the project. I have also set up Culling Mask so that the camera captures only the things with the correct layer. This is how Render Texture Inspector looks like.

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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

using data oriented algorithms to process the culling of objects and both secondary command buffers and automatic batching to efficiently submit the draw primitives. It means that assets are pulled from disk on demand (loaded only at the time they are needed), rather than as a part of a larger stage. Low level rendering access.

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Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

Rendering: Portal occlusion culling. Platforms: Android: Scoped storage, Play Asset Delivery, input responsiveness. Assets pipeline: Export 3D scenes as glTF. Portal occlusion culling. As well as performing occlusion culling it also provides a solution for throttling AI and processing based on proximity to the viewer.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

Some big changes since the previous beta are the promotion of object validity checks to release builds (no more "dangling pointers" release surprises), initial support for Android Play Asset Delivery , and a new ACES Fitted high quality tonemapper. Android: Add initial support for Play Asset Delivery ( GH-52526 ). Highlights.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

Android: Add initial support for Play Asset Delivery ( GH-52526 ). GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Android: Add initial support for Play Asset Delivery ( GH-52526 ). GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ).

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