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

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

JULY 27, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). See the full changelog since 3.3-stable

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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 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). See the full changelog since 3.3-stable

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The Swedish games conglomerate is in the midst of a bloody restructuring and has been culling its personnel expenses. Cacophony on digital distribution platforms With few opportunities to join a larger organization, many game devs choose to build their own portfolio or start their own indie studio.

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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 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Before getting into the GPU side, several optimizations have been done on the CPU side: Culling is now done in a brute-force way which is extremely cache efficient. Everything in the main frame is culled at the same time, objects, light cascades, SDFGI cascades, etc. These test do culling on 10k objects.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 7, 2020

Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. C#: Revert marshalling of IDictionary/IEnumerable implementing types ( GH-38141 ). Core: Ensure COWData does not always reallocate on resize ( GH-37373 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 22, 2020

Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. C#: Fix inherited scene not inheriting parent's exported properties ( GH-38638 ). Core: Ensure COWData does not always reallocate on resize ( GH-37373 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2020

Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. C#: Fix exported values not updated in the remote inspector ( GH-38940. Core: Ensure COWData does not always reallocate on resize ( GH-37373 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 1, 2021

My first task will be integrating an occlusion culling system into the new Vulkan renderer. While occlusion culling is not a silver bullet, it can give big performance improvements in a variety of scenes. Moving forward, and with my full focus on Godot development, my goal is to work on Godot's 3D rendering and help bring Godot 4.0

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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 ). For those following our dev snapshots closely, 118 commits have been merged since 3.2 Object: Make sure we know when deleting an emitting object ( GH-35423 ). Tween: Fixed Tween::start with pending updates ( GH-35452 ).

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Grumpy Gamer

MAY 25, 2020

I also uploaded the dev build of the Delores engine (including the complete debugger) so you can run all your edits and changes. The other downside is these really are the dev tools we used to make the game, and like most in-house dev tools, they are poorly documented and very crude around the edges.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: Added Viewport canvas cull mask feature ( GH-52350 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET Multiplayer: Add peer authentication support to the default MultiplayerAPI( GH-67917 ). XR: Add support for OpenGL to OpenXR ( GH-67775 ).

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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 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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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

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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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

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

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

OCTOBER 14, 2022

And for people doing engine development, there’s a new dev_build option which can be used together with target to enable dev-specific code and also affects a few presets. Rendering: Vulkan: Fix culling of negatively-scaled objects ( GH-67176 ). target=template_debug : Debug template, optimized, with debugging code. Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

And for people doing engine development, there's a new dev_build option which can be used together with target to enable dev-specific code and also affects a few presets. Rendering: Vulkan: Fix culling of negatively-scaled objects ( GH-67176 ). target=template_debug : Debug template, optimized, with debugging code. Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). In-depth documentation is available. See the full changelog since 3.3-stable

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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 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ).

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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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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 22, 2020

Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. C#: Fix exported values not updated in the remote inspector ( GH-38940. Core: Ensure COWData does not always reallocate on resize ( GH-37373 ). Godot 3.2.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 18, 2020

Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. C#: Fix exported values not updated in the remote inspector ( GH-38940. Core: Ensure COWData does not always reallocate on resize ( GH-37373 ). Godot 3.2.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 12, 2020

Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. C#: Fix exported values not updated in the remote inspector ( GH-38940. Core: Ensure COWData does not always reallocate on resize ( GH-37373 ). Godot 3.2.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: Added Viewport canvas cull mask feature ( GH-52350 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET Multiplayer: Add peer authentication support to the default MultiplayerAPI( GH-67917 ). XR: Add support for OpenGL to OpenXR ( GH-67775 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2021

Rendering: Various fixes to light culling ( GH-46694 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). Rendering: New dynamic BVH ( GH-44901 ). Rendering: Add METALLIC to light() builtins ( GH-42548 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 19, 2021

Rendering: Various fixes to light culling ( GH-46694 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). Rendering: New dynamic BVH ( GH-44901 ). Rendering: Add METALLIC to light() builtins ( GH-42548 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

Rendering: Various fixes to light culling ( GH-46694 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. Rendering: Add option for snapping 2D transforms to whole coordinates, for pixel art motion ( GH-43554 ). Rendering: New dynamic BVH ( GH-44901 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

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

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