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Optimize Vegetation Generation

Mnenad

Since the last post I’ve been working on the terrain’s vegetation. Doing it before starting the actual game would mean to already generate all the content that needs to be batched at the beginning, which is no solution for a theoretically “endless procedurally generated” terrain. The creator Mr. X-NONE.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ) reworked the features and user experience of Godot’s ColorPicker during Google Summer of Code 2022. So we refactored all this to have a single target option for the main three supported configurations which should be familiar to Godot users: target=editor : Editor build, optimized, with debugging code.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ) reworked the features and user experience of Godot's ColorPicker during Google Summer of Code 2022. So we refactored all this to have a single target option for the main three supported configurations which should be familiar to Godot users: target=editor : Editor build, optimized, with debugging code.

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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 It parses your code and automatically understands what you are trying to do (such as writing to alpha for transparency, reading from screen, etc.) In Godot 3.0,

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Why does Godot use Servers and RIDs?

Mircosoft Game Dev

If you ever lurked in Godot source code, and tried to follow the flow of the logic, you most likely noticed that most code related to scene, formats, etc. This would make code more complex, and likely still impact performance due to waiting for mutexes or semaphores. Servers and RIDs. Architecture. How is this achieved?

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