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Best Practices for Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing (Updated)

Nvidia

It can be directly in the AS build calls or in some related task like the culling of the objects. Cull instances for TLAS. Instead, cull instances depending on the situation. For example, consider culling based on an expanded camera frustum. Consider writing a safe default value to unused payload fields.

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Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

Rendering: Portal occlusion culling. 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. Portal occlusion culling. Core: Promote object validity checks to release builds.

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

The Android plugin documentation has been updated with instructions on how to write plugins for this new system. Such pointer could be reported as valid even though the memory it points to was not, or worse, that memory could now hold a different object, leading to hard to debug situations. Porting existing 3.2 feature set.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). Core: Add detailed error messages to release builds (used to be debug-only) ( GH-53405 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). Core: Add detailed error messages to release builds (used to be debug-only) ( GH-53405 ).

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Editor: Add custom debug shape thickness and color options to RayCast ( GH-49726 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). Core: Add detailed error messages to release builds (used to be debug-only) ( GH-53405 ).

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