Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Portal occlusion culling. Platforms: Android: Scoped storage, Play Asset Delivery, input responsiveness. Such use-after-free access needs to be guarded with is_instance_valid(obj) , but this has been surprisingly difficult to get right due to a number of bugs and inconsistencies between debug and release builds.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Core: Improve the console error logging appearance: ( GH-49577 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Windows: Fix platform file access to allow file sharing with external programs ( GH-51430 ). Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Windows: Fix platform file access to allow file sharing with external programs ( GH-51430 ). Core: Improve the console error logging appearance: ( GH-49577 ).

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Beta Dev Mesh Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Core: Improve the console error logging appearance: ( GH-49577 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Core: Fix platform-specific issues with OS.set_current_screen() ( GH-63192 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

We switched it back to disabled by default for all platforms. Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view.

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