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Unlocking GPU Intrinsics in HLSL

Nvidia

For example, a shader can use warp shuffle instructions to exchange data between threads in a warp without going through shared memory, which is especially valuable in pixel shaders where there is no shared memory. Or a shader can perform atomic additions on half-precision floating-point numbers in global memory.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.2 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

Editor: Fix import of AtlasTextures with semi-transparent pixels ( GH-35363 ). Rendering: Fix shadow culling with orthogonal camera and wrong VIEWPORT_SIZE shader builtin ( GH-35406 ). Notable changes since RC 2: Android: Virtual keyboard now respects LineEdit max length ( GH-35438 ). Core/Editor: Various memory leaks fixed.

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ). Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). Shaders: Add shader time scaling ( GH-38995 ). Windows: Per-pixel transparency no longer lets mouse events pass-through ( GH-39914. Core: Fix dangling Variants ( GH-38119 ).

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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. Moving the CPU work to one or more worker threads is potentially beneficial.

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

Web editor running the "Ninja Adventure" demo from the eponymous CC0 asset pack by Pixel-Boy and AAA. Various light culling fixes. "2D Pixel" preset for textures), but until there was no easy way to configure all presets easily in a unified interface. Search "rendering" in the changelog.

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Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

Rendering: Portal occlusion culling. Shader language features. 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). Shader language features.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Android: Implement per-pixel transparency ( GH-51935 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ). In-depth documentation is available.

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