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Project Structure - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos

APRIL 14, 2023

1、 Comprehensive TPS gameplay framework 2、 A reusable implementation of Custom Render Pipeline 3、 Forward & Deferred Rendering, PostProcessing 4、 Usage of Reflection Probes 5、 Static Occlusion Culling 6、 Compatible with High-end, Mid-end and Low-end devices In this article, we will locate the files that correspond to the features above.

Code

Code Culling Lightmap Render

Godot 4.0 will get a new, modernized lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 8, 2020

Lightmaps offer significant advantages over any other technique when the following requirements are met: Performance above anything else (for mobile, lightmaps are still a must-have). If these requirements are met, then lightmapping is probably the best for you. Lighting will not change (lights won't move). Easy to use.

Lightmap

Lightmap Baking Render Shaders

Introducing the new "last minute" lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The newly added VR support also suffers with GIProbe, as it has to render in very high resolutions. Light is precomputed offline and rendered to a texture, which is then used by the geometry. Lightmapping is a very cheap operation, so it should run fine even on low end mobile. How does it look? How do I use it? Tweaking Options.

Lightmap

Lightmap Baking Mesh Texture

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. macOS: ARM64 build, code signing. Dynamic BVH for rendering and GodotPhysics. Rendering: Unified 2D batching. More rendering improvements.

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #6

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2018

This is done here in the code. The GLES2 backend is a forward renderer, that means each gets shaded once. The counter-part - deferred rendering - renders each of the objects properties into a separate framebuffer. This is all pretty technical, but if you are interested, the code can be found here. Seeing the code.

Pixel

Pixel Texture Render Shaders

Creating a Build Environment on AWS with Incredibuild

AWS Games

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Game developers often need to compile large amounts of C++ code, which requires lots of CPU resources, and developers also need to process other types of heavy compute tasks such as; shader compilation, rendering, asset creation, image conversion, lightmap baking and more.

Agent

Agent Build Console Communications

Cocos Creator 3.8 Post-Process Shader Writing (2/2) Advanced

Cocos

AUGUST 16, 2023

Preface In the last article , Kylin shared how to add your own post-effect Shader in the custom render pipeline in Cocos Creator 3.8. If we want to support more complex Shaders, such as Blur, Depth of Field, and other effects, we need to work with the code to build it. Next, let’s do the actual rendering implementation.

Shaders

Shaders Writing Pixel Render

Maintenance release: Godot 3.0.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

The lightmap baker will now use all available cores on Windows like it does on macOS and Linux. If you use the Bullet physics engine and relied on the fact that the calculated effective gravity on KinematicBodies was always '0' then you will need to fix your code as this is now correctly calculated. Fixed issues. This is now corrected.

Beta

Beta Bug Lightmap Build

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

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: A ton of fixes for all rendering backends, and missing features implemented for the OpenGL3 one. Editor: Disable code font ligatures by default in the editor ( GH-68571 ). GUI: Add a Font import option to pre-render all glyphs required for the translation ( GH-68448 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Alpha

Godot's new renderer, progress report #3

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 30, 2016

It's been a month since the second progress report , and progress continues towards the new Godot renderer. Add Layered/Stencil rendering. renderer works entirely in linear space (Gamma is no longer supported). Hoping that by the end of January, the new renderer will be mostly done! Seeing the code. Introduction.

Render

Render Baking Lightmap Shaders

GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2022

Like in previous years, Godot is participating again in the Google Summer of Code program for its 2022 edition. Multi window code editors by trollodel. Multi window code editors. Undocking the code editors can be done using shortcuts and command palette too. PRs: #62075 , #62910. Project description. Student: trollodel.

Lightmap

Lightmap UX Shaders Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: A ton of fixes for all rendering backends, and missing features implemented for the OpenGL3 one. Editor: Disable code font ligatures by default in the editor ( GH-68571 ). GUI: Add a Font import option to pre-render all glyphs required for the translation ( GH-68448 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Alpha

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. Full principled BSDF.

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

GLES3 renderer). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). Highlights.

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

GLES3 renderer). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). Highlights.

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

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. all rendering code was rewritten to use the more modern OpenGL ES 3.0 / OpenGL 3.3 renderer was removed. renderer was removed.

Feature

Feature Render Editing Shaders

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Notable changes are in-editor class reference translations (so far Chinese (Simplified), Spanish, and some French), some new rendering features (high quality glow mode, 3D point light attenuation option), and a number of C# marshalling fixes. Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). In-depth documentation is available.

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #7

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2018

depth rendering for shadow mapping. The shader code for the lights can be found here. I will go more in-depth about shadow-mapping later, for now just know that in order to show shadows, the scene needs to be rendered from the perspective of each light and the result has to be saved. The code is located here.

Render

Render Pixel Debug Shaders

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

As users, please report all bugs that you encounter and provide as much detail as you can (including screenshots, code, and where possible, a minimal reproduction project). While our existing integration testing can highlight critical issues preventing the code from compiling or running, it does little to ensure the stability of the engine.

Beta

Beta Engine Engineering Animation

How to Use Unity Cinemachine Virtual Cameras

Game Designing

APRIL 21, 2022

Coding camera angles for games and animation has been a pain … Until now. Before Unity Cinemachine, camera movement needed to be directly keyframed or, using code, had to be carefully scripted. You can even store cinematography data so it doesn’t need to be coded directly to the Unity camera you are currently using.

Animation

Animation Animation Code Software

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Project Structure - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Godot 4.0 will get a new, modernized lightmapper

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Introducing the new "last minute" lightmapper

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

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #6

Creating a Build Environment on AWS with Incredibuild

Cocos Creator 3.8 Post-Process Shader Writing (2/2) Advanced

Maintenance release: Godot 3.0.1

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

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Godot's new renderer, progress report #3

GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #7

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

How to Use Unity Cinemachine Virtual Cameras

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