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I got distracted and built a Physically-Based Renderer

Harold Serrano

I was completely immersed in rewriting my game engine when I stumbled upon these captivating images. They looked so cool that made me wonder if I could build a Physically-Based Renderer myself and render these metals. For starters, I was using non-physically-based shaders. The biggest changes I made were to the shaders.

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In-Game GPU Profiling for DirectX 12 Using SetBackgroundProcessingMode

Nvidia

Still, even with GPU Boost disabled using the DX12 SetStablePowerState API, GPU timings measured in-game may still change unexpectedly from run to run, or from frame to frame. One factor to consider is whether background driver optimizations were engaged and when their resulting optimized shaders were deployed.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 15

Mircosoft Game Dev

There are a few known regressions which we’ll aim to address in a later build ( GH-71891 , GH-71913 ). Linux: Include headers for dynamically loaded libraries to simplify build dependencies ( GH-71263 ). Shaders: Fix code generation for ProximityRange node in visual shader ( GH-71760 ). emojis) ( GH-71909 ). specifically.

Beta 97
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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 8

Mircosoft Game Dev

Porting: Enable raycast/embree module build for Web and Windows x86_32 ( GH-69169 ). Rendering: Implement CAMERA_VISIBLE_LAYERS as built-in shader variable ( GH-67387 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Expose emulated *Unorm4x8 GLSL functions in non-Android builds ( GH-69521 ). NET 6 build (C#, GDScript, GDExtension). specifically.

Beta 95
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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 13

Mircosoft Game Dev

But we're not there yet and we'll keep having frequent alpha builds until we're ready to slap the beta label on the engine. Update 2022-07-29 @ 10:30 UTC: A regression was found in the original build that prevented exporting projects to Windows and Linux with official templates. Feature build profiles for custom builds.

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Advanced API Performance: CPUs

Nvidia

The main design philosophy of D3D12 and Vulkan is to enable game engines to distribute graphics workloads across multiple CPU cores. Resource allocation and destruction Creating and destroying buffers, textures, and shaders is fundamental to efficient computer graphics. Evenly balance work across all threads for best results.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Mircosoft Game Dev

Rendering: OpenGL: Fix scene shader error when using Omni or Spot but not both ( GH-69901 ). Shaders: Fix the sorting of shader uniforms ( GH-70016 ). Shaders: Optimize code generation of visual shader particles ( GH-69900 ). Shaders: Optimize code generation of visual shader particles ( GH-69900 ).

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