Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 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. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Rendering: Visual instance layers are regarded during shadow culling ( GH-70638 ). Rendering: Use depth prepass to increase opaque render performance ( GH-70214 ). Rendering: Use proper indices for lights, decals, and reflection probes in mobile scene shader ( GH-70929 ). XR: Various improvements to OpenXR extension wrappers ( GH-70694 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 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. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 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. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: Added Viewport canvas cull mask feature ( GH-52350 ). Multiplayer: Add peer authentication support to the default MultiplayerAPI( GH-67917 ). Physics: Implement adjusting the maximum number of physics steps per rendered frame ( GH-65836 ). Rendering: Use opaque rendering pipeline for alpha hash materials ( GH-61884 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 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. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Rendering: Visual instance layers are regarded during shadow culling ( GH-70638 ). Rendering: Use depth prepass to increase opaque render performance ( GH-70214 ). Rendering: Use proper indices for lights, decals, and reflection probes in mobile scene shader ( GH-70929 ). XR: Various improvements to OpenXR extension wrappers ( GH-70694 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 7, 2020

They are dynamic and can be moved around in real-time, colliding with any particle system which matches the cull mask. Additionally, a 3D vector field texture can be provided for use with vector fields generated in Maya or other tools. Likewise, Sphere and Box colliders are supported. Baked SDF Collision.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 24, 2020

Rendering: Fix shadow culling with orthogonal camera and wrong VIEWPORT_SIZE shader builtin ( GH-35406 ). Mono: Fix multi-threading crashes when reattaching threads (via a patch to Mono sources ) ( GH-33735 ). Mono: Various bug fixes ( GH-35372 , GH-35407 , GH-35472 , GH-35478 ). Tween: Fixed Tween::start with pending updates ( GH-35452 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 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. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

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Awesome Tuts

APRIL 8, 2022

Learning how to use occlusion culling will also help you in this case. In my projects at most, I use 4 cameras if I need to, but I try to make it less than that. When you need to break the rule here, always use the profiler to test things and see if the frame rate has changed.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 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. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 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. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

Rendering: Added Viewport canvas cull mask feature ( GH-52350 ). Multiplayer: Add peer authentication support to the default MultiplayerAPI( GH-67917 ). Physics: Implement adjusting the maximum number of physics steps per rendered frame ( GH-65836 ). Rendering: Use opaque rendering pipeline for alpha hash materials ( GH-61884 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: Added Viewport canvas cull mask feature ( GH-52350 ). Multiplayer: Add peer authentication support to the default MultiplayerAPI( GH-67917 ). Physics: Implement adjusting the maximum number of physics steps per rendered frame ( GH-65836 ). Rendering: Use opaque rendering pipeline for alpha hash materials ( GH-61884 ).

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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. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). Physics: Various fixes to 2D and 3D KinematicBody move_and_slide and move_and_collide ( GH-50495 ). Extensive documentation will be available soon.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 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. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 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. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

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The Bottom Feeder

JUNE 14, 2022

During a recession, the weak get culled. They need real sales. The world is looking very recessiony right now, and the main purpose of a recession is to rid the economy of excessive production. Most of these games are going to fail. It makes me sad. People get mad at me when I say it. But it's true. There's so many of us!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 17, 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. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

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Gamesbrief

AUGUST 11, 2022

Consumers can (and will) cull a lot of these as the cost-of-living crisis deepens. There are also more entertainment subscriptions than ever, as the great unbundling of cable continues, but subscription services exploding (Netflix, Disney+, Paramount+, CNN as well as all the game services).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 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. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 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. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). Physics: Various fixes to 2D and 3D KinematicBody move_and_slide and move_and_collide ( GH-50495 ). In-depth documentation is available.

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The Knights of Unity

JUNE 5, 2020

I have also set up Culling Mask so that the camera captures only the things with the correct layer. It’s good to change Clear Flags to Solid Color and select black, so that everything not rendered by our camera remains in this particular color, and then set opacity for black to 0. This is not obligatory though, you can also render everything.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

Rendering: Visual instance layers are regarded during shadow culling ( GH-70638 ). Rendering: Use depth prepass to increase opaque render performance ( GH-70214 ). Rendering: Use proper indices for lights, decals, and reflection probes in mobile scene shader ( GH-70929 ). XR: Various improvements to OpenXR extension wrappers ( GH-70694 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Rendering: Vulkan: Fix culling of negatively-scaled objects ( GH-67176 ). Rendering: OpenGL3: Use a giant UBO to optimize performance in 2D ( GH-66861 ). Rendering: Add a project setting to make the root viewport transparent ( GH-67104 ). This should fix crash-on-start issues for some users using old Vulkan drivers.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Rendering: Vulkan: Fix culling of negatively-scaled objects ( GH-67176 ). Rendering: OpenGL3: Use a giant UBO to optimize performance in 2D ( GH-66861 ). Rendering: Add a project setting to make the root viewport transparent ( GH-67104 ). This should fix crash-on-start issues for some users using old Vulkan drivers.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Physics: Various fixes to 2D and 3D KinematicBody move_and_slide and move_and_collide ( GH-50495 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

Rendering: Vulkan: Fix culling of negatively-scaled objects ( GH-67176 ). Rendering: OpenGL3: Use a giant UBO to optimize performance in 2D ( GH-66861 ). Rendering: Add a project setting to make the root viewport transparent ( GH-67104 ). This should fix crash-on-start issues for some users using old Vulkan drivers.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Improve Culling: Portals (rewrite as polygon-based) and Rooms. Implement post process effects: DOF Blur, Bloom and Tone Mapping. TODO for Milestone #4 (January 2017). Implement Particle Shaders, with support for: Sorting, Collision and Soft Particles. Add Clustered lighting (before this all is forward). Add Layered/Stencil rendering.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Physics: Various fixes to 2D and 3D KinematicBody move_and_slide and move_and_collide ( GH-50495 ).

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Game Development

JANUARY 23, 2019

Finally we update the culling mask and remove the default layer by clicking on it. The camera will need some adjustment to work as a minimap camera but the first thing we will do is rename it to MapCam. Then we will set its projection method to Orthographic, its size to 7 and its default color to black.

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Greenheart Games

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

We are lucky that despite the culling of thousands of 5-star reviews, only a handful of people rated the game 3-stars or lower and so our average is still a respectable 4.92 Instead, 13 days after our release, we have 25 fewer reviews (622) than what we had on the first day. but even so, the question of Why? burns in our minds.

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Grumpy Gamer

MAY 25, 2020

The first is that it uses a very large library of mine, most of which is not used in this engine, so I'd have to go though and cull out all the cruft, not to mention all the proprietary console crap. Releasing the engine source (c++) is problematic for a few reasons. I also use some third party source I don't have the rights to release.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Improve Culling: Portals (rewrite as polygon-based) and Rooms. It performs scene culling from the camera and generates the list of lights and geometries that are visible for rendering. TODO for Milestone #3 (December 2016). Implement the new version of the Godot SVO-based Light Baker. Add Layered/Stencil rendering.

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