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Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

This version optimizes some rendering and lighting capabilities, fixes a series of key issues recently reported by users, and recommends that all v3.x Engine • Added DebugView at runtime UI control rendering debugging function. Skip rendering when the UI element Opacity is 0. Skip rendering when the UI element Opacity is 0.

Render

Render Baking Lightmap Debug

Cocos Creator 3.8 Community Beta is now available

Cocos

JUNE 11, 2023

Render Graph The Render Pipeline customization based on Render Graph will be officially available to developers in version 3.8. The documentation for the Render Graph and pipeline customization is not yet ready, please give us more patience, we will provide the complete documentation before the official release of 3.8.

Beta

Beta Lightmap Render Animation

Cocos Creator 3.7.1 Released

Cocos

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Developer Notes Engine Add more API docs (engine#13937, engine#14079, engine#14088) [Optimize] add image asset’s zh i18n (engine#14108) [Optimize] Add pointerlock function for mac platform (engine#14187) [Pipeline] enable custom pipeline in the editor (engine#14084) [Pipeline] add native pipeline ubo uploading (engine#14061) [Pipeline] Fix web-pipeline (..)

Lightmap

Lightmap Engine Engineering Mesh

Cocos Creator 3.7.3 comes with an update to Cocos Effect

Cocos

MAY 9, 2023

ENGINE Features ● Custom Render Pipeline based on Render Graph supports for GLES backend ● Deprecated interfaces, such as addRasterView, addComputeView, etc., Fixed bone animation texture size error on some platforms that don’t support float point texture format. Fixed error caused by removeSpotLight on native platforms.

Terrain

Terrain Render Simulation Texture

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

has an entirely new rendering architecture, which is divided into modern and compatibility backends. The modern one does rendering via RenderingDevice (which is implemented in drivers such as Vulkan, Direct3D 12, and more in the future). Rendering is significantly more efficient in Godot 4.0, Low level rendering access.

AAA

AAA Game Developer Game Development Development

Project Structure - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos

APRIL 14, 2023

The purpose of developing Cocos Cyberpunk is to showcase the Cocos Engine’s ability to create complex 3D games on multiple platforms and to motivate the developers in Cocos community to learn game development. Custom Render Pipeline For easier reusability, the Custom Render Pipeline has been implemented as an Cocos Creator extension.

Code

Code Culling Lightmap Render

Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

in January 2020, we switched the development focus towards the upcoming Godot 4.0 , which is a major, compatibility-breaking rewrite of the engine's core and rendering. x releases, now that we have a fairly mature base to build upon. Platforms: Godot editor on the Web! macOS: ARM64 build, code signing.

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

With this first Release Candidate , we completely freezes feature development, and comes after a long series of beta builds to fix a number of bugs reported against previous builds (as well as against previous stable branches). Core: Promote object validity checks to release builds ( GH-51796 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This beta 6 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. C#: macOS: Mono builds are now universal builds with support for both x86_64 and arm64 architectures ( GH-49248 ). Core: Promote object validity checks to release builds ( GH-51796 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

GLES3 renderer). C#: macOS: Mono builds are now universal builds with support for both x86_64 and arm64 architectures ( GH-49248 ). Core: Promote object validity checks to release builds ( GH-51796 ). Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Jump to the Downloads section. Highlights.

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

GLES3 renderer). C#: macOS: Mono builds are now universal builds with support for both x86_64 and arm64 architectures ( GH-49248 ). Core: Promote object validity checks to release builds ( GH-51796 ). Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Jump to the Downloads section. Highlights.

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

new Quake map: There's a Certain Slant of Light

Radiator Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Compared to his contemporaries and successors, Barragán didn't make a lot of buildings nor design huge cities. If we faithfully followed the spirit of brutalism, we would only use solid colors or wireframe rendering. Technically from a game engine / rendering perspective, any use of textures is ornament.

Texture

Texture Fighting Lightmap Render

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

with 17 alpha builds distributed in 2022, and continuous development effort since 2019. The ugly reality of software development is that legacy code builds up really quick and keeping it up to date, ready for new challenges that arise several years down the line takes a lot of effort. It has been a long road to Godot 4.0

Beta

Beta Engine Engineering Animation

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

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.

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

Maintenance release: Godot 3.0.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

The 'server' platform is back as it was in Godot 2.1. Godot can now be started with --build-solutions on the command line. This will let you build C# solutions without starting the editor. A button has been added to the debugger to copy the error messages, useful for pasting them in bug reports or other community platforms.

Beta

Beta Bug Lightmap Build

Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

This new version builds upon it by improving it and finishing the pending work. x branch used OpenGL ES 2.0 / OpenGL 2.1 ( GLES2 ) as its rendering API. This worked well, but had many limitations preventing us to use more modern rendering techniques. renderer was removed. renderer was removed. Revamped inspector.

Feature

Feature Render Editing Shaders

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