Cocos

MAY 14, 2023

When you’ve made an excellent 3D game, you definitely want it to run on more devices, not just high-end ones, as this would mean losing many users. In this article, I will share the methods I’ve learned from over a decade of 3D game development to make a game run smoothly on high-end, mid-range, and low-end devices.

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Nvidia

MARCH 20, 2023

At GDC 2023, NVIDIA released new tools that make real-time path tracing more accessible to developers while accelerating the creation of ultra-realistic game. At GDC 2023 , NVIDIA released new tools that make real-time path tracing more accessible to developers while accelerating the creation of ultra-realistic game worlds.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The illustration picture for this article is a screenshot of Sandfire , an upcoming 3D person action-adventure game by Kmitt. The game was recently ported to Godot 4, see Kmitt's YouTube channel and Twitter for devlogs and updates. Rendering: Use circular fade instead of linear fade for distance fade ( GH-50294 ). What's new.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Every supported renderer option is now selectable from the project creation screen, which means you can create OpenGL 3 (“Compatibility”) projects without using the command line ( GH-70028 ). The illustration picture for this article is from Raffaele Picca ’s car scene , rendered in Godot 4.0 What’s new.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! The game is currently being ported to Godot 4.0 Follow Kenny Park on Twitter or Mastodon for development updates, and check his website to discover other games and applications. See the list below.

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Ask a Game Dev

JULY 11, 2023

There are two main issues with visualization when it comes to adjustible meshes (the “body sliders”). The way that all of the customizable character data is stored isn’t actually a body at all, but a common default mesh with offsets for each adjustible value. The engine gives the thumbs up and the model with those values gets rendered.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

Flag dirty dependencies when GeometryInstance dependencies change in renderer ( GH-71581 ). The illustration picture for this article is from Halls of Torment , a roguelite action RPG with retro late-90s pre-rendered 2D graphics. Android: Fix Android editor crash when returning from the launched and running game ( GH-72106 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

As most of the rendering features for the upcoming Godot 4.0 are done, I have spent the past two months optimizing the rendering engine, both on the CPU and GPU side. All this work has resulted in significantly faster rendering times. A lot of the render state is now better cached, so less is done at render time.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. Editor: Bring back the renderer options button on the main editor ( GH-70500 ). Import: Fix usages of mesh simplification functions in float=64 builds ( GH-67853 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! The game is currently being ported to Godot 4.0 Follow Kenny Park on Twitter or Mastodon for development updates, and check his website to discover other games and applications. See the list below.

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Cocos

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

GitHub - axmolengine/axmol: Axmol Engine – A Multi-platform Engine for Desktop, XBOX (UWP) and Mobile games. (A axmol is just a fork of cocos2d-x-4.0: A fork of Cocos2d-x-4.0) release notes Add experimental WebAssembly build support(WebGL 2.0) fmtlib: 10.0.0 ==> 10.1.0 FreeType: 2.13.0 ==> 2.13.2 llhttp: 8.1.1 ==> 9.0.1

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Nvidia

JANUARY 11, 2021

In this video, NVIDIA’s Alexey Panteleev explains the key details needed to add performant resampling to modern game engines. In this video, NVIDIA’s Alexey Panteleev explains the key details needed to add performant resampling to modern game engines. He also discusses roadmap plans.

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The Liquid Fire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

I’ve been dabbling at creating my own game for ages, starting with RPG maker back when the only english version was not officially available. While Unity might not be as efficient, it played better with my system, and I found this really nice tutorial for a tactics game on theliquidfire.com , who knows what that site is.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

rendering may be slower for a second or two, but the slowdown will not be nearly as bad as the typical hiccup caused by classic synchronous compilation. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Full details are available in the updated docs.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

Notably, it fixes some rendering regressions with transparent materials, and crashing iOS templates and Web editor build in RC 2. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. This ensures your game will run the same on all machines.

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Jaunty Bear Games

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

There are many aspects to consider when building a game. The post-processing stack (v2) comes with a collection of effects and image filters you can apply to your cameras to improve the visuals of your games. . It’s the perfect replacement for Unity’s UI Text and the legacy Text Mesh. . Terrain Tools. TextMeshPro.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

You can enable it in the Project Settings ( rendering/gles3/shaders/shader_compilation_mode ). rendering may be slower for a second or two, but the slowdown will not be nearly as bad as the typical hiccup caused by classic synchronous compilation. This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. Two years ago (!),

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

rendering may be slower for a second or two, but the slowdown will not be nearly as bad as the typical hiccup caused by classic synchronous compilation. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Full details are available in the updated docs.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 21, 2018

This time with the early beginnings of 3D rendering in GLES2 and some GDNative ecosystem updates. 2D rendering stabilized. mesh loading. basic mesh drawing. It was a joy to be there and talk with other people about things we love - free and open source software and game development! 2D rendering stabilized.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 4, 2021

Import: glTF: Fix mesh nodes which are also bones ( GH-49119 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Rendering: VisualServer now sorts based on AABB position ( GH-43506 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). no longer works in 3.3.3

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Nvidia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Hybrid Translucency Another way to do ray traced translucency, with greater compatibility, speed and rendering options. World position offset simulation for ray traced instanced static meshes (beta) Allows ambient motion of foliage like trees and grass. Selectable per instance type.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 16, 2022

Rendering: GLES2: Fix compression on blend shapes ( GH-58838 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix incorrect buffer upload size in draw_gui_primitive ( GH-58150 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader state caching when blend shapes used ( GH-58808 ) [regression fix].

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Import: glTF: Fix mesh nodes which are also bones ( GH-49119 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Rendering: VisualServer now sorts based on AABB position ( GH-43506 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. Editor: Bring back the renderer options button on the main editor ( GH-70500 ). Import: Fix usages of mesh simplification functions in float=64 builds ( GH-67853 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 17, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter. Read the updated docs for details.

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Theia is known for pioneering the use of real-time rendering for non-game mixed reality and interactive development. However, using a configurator in a built environment presents multiple challenges including 3D meshes changing shape, shadows not lining up, and materials reflecting different lighting and colors.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

rendering may be slower for a second or two, but the slowdown will not be nearly as bad as the typical hiccup caused by classic synchronous compilation. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Full details are available in the updated docs.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

x branch to develop and publish their games today, so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience. Most of work was aimed at implementing missing features or fixing bugs which are critical for publishing 2D and 3D games with Godot 3.x, This ensures your game will run the same on all machines.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

The fix seems relatively safe but this will require heavy testing to make sure it doesn't regress - if you have 3D games using Bullet physics, please try this RC 2 and report any issue. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 23, 2022

Rendering: GLES2: Fix compression on blend shapes ( GH-58838 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix incorrect buffer upload size in draw_gui_primitive ( GH-58150 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader state caching when blend shapes used ( GH-58808 ) [regression fix].

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 16, 2021

Import: glTF: Fix mesh nodes which are also bones ( GH-49119 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Rendering: VisualServer now sorts based on AABB position ( GH-43506 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). no longer works in 3.3.3

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Nvidia

APRIL 5, 2022

Evolving from its state-of-the-art use in game engines into a multitude of industries, Unreal Engine is an open and advanced real-time 3D creation platform. Evolving from its state-of-the-art use in game engines into a multitude of industries, creators can deliver cutting-edge content, interactive experiences, and immersive virtual worlds.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The illustration picture for this article is a screenshot of Sandfire , an upcoming 3D person action-adventure game by Kmitt. The game was recently ported to Godot 4, see Kmitt’s YouTube channel and Twitter for devlogs and updates. Rendering: Use circular fade instead of linear fade for distance fade ( GH-50294 ). What’s new.

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CG Spectrum

JANUARY 26, 2023

During the challenge he pushed himself to learn the new Karma rendering workflow in Houdini, which he says he loves and will continue using going forward. Daniel enjoyed working on the challenge, and even after working in the film industry as an FX Artist for almost two decades, he still gained new skills. SEE ALL COURSES

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