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Joan Fons is hired to work on Godot's rendering

Mircosoft Game Dev

I quickly felt at home and I started focusing on 3D editor and rendering contributions. Here you can see some screenshots: Comparison between no indirect lighting (top), and baked indirect lighting (bottom) in the TPS demo. My first task will be integrating an occlusion culling system into the new Vulkan renderer.

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Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code - A Valuable Learning Resource for 3D Game Development

Cocos

The latest release includes some of the most highly anticipated features, such as Custom Render Pipeline , Light Probe , Reflection Probe and LOD. A gift from the Cocos Engine team Even more surprising, the Cocos Engine team has released a 3D TPS game demo called called Cocos Cyberpunk to demonstrate that Cocos Creator 3.7

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

The Dodge The Creeps C# demo running on the iOS Simulator. 2D batching for the GLES2 renderer. While most rendering work was postponed for the 4.0 release with its new Vulkan-based renderer, our contributors lawnjelly and Clay ( clayjohn ) decided to give some more attention to the 3.2 CSG: Various bug fixes ( GH-38011 ).

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

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. Dynamic BVH for rendering and GodotPhysics. Rendering: Unified 2D batching. More rendering improvements. Dynamic BVH for rendering and GodotPhysics.

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Optimize Vegetation Generation

Mnenad

Static batching : combines static (not moving) GameObjects into big Meshes, and renders them in a faster way.   The foliage shader has an alpha cutout value and uses a texture + culling set to off (it is visible from both sides of the planes). This was recorded during the batching process. And it has just twelve vertices.

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Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

Rendering: Portal occlusion culling. More rendering improvements. Portal occlusion culling. Up till now a significant missing feature in the renderer has been the ability to cull (prevent rendering) objects that are within the camera view, but occluded by another object (for instance a wall).

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

The multiplayer demos have been updated with this change, and you’ll find a new reference implementation for WebSocketServer and WebSocketClient nodes in GDScript that should ease the transition to the new API. Lots of rendering changes. OpenGL3: Add 2D lights to canvas renderer ( GH-67335 ). Bug reports.

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