Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Godot uses a considerably different approach to rendering (and rendering abstraction) than other, popular, game engines. This document was written in hopes to find more developers that would like to help us write rendering code, as it explains the overall design. Running the whole graphics rendering in a separate thread.

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Cocos

MAY 14, 2023

This article will delve into the principles, implementation details, common issues and solutions, memory overhead, and compatibility of the Deferred Rendering technique. The rendering stages involved in Deferred Rendering. The problems that are solved by Deferred Rendering. Solution for transparent object rendering.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: A ton of fixes for all rendering backends, and missing features implemented for the OpenGL3 one. GUI: Add a Font import option to pre-render all glyphs required for the translation ( GH-68448 ). Physics: Implement adjusting the maximum number of physics steps per rendered frame ( GH-65836 ).

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Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 24, 2022

A shader is a script where you write code that determines how the colors will be rendered based on various scenarios like lighting and material configuration. The ZWrite Off and ZTest Greater are responsible for making the shader render the material behind other objects. Then we give it a type – Color.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 3, 2016

It's been a month since the first progress report , and progress continues towards the new Godot renderer. Little by little every system falls into place, and rendering starts feeling a lot more mature. Add Layered/Stencil rendering. One of the main features of PBR rendering is having all sort of sources for reflections.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Add support for FORMAT_{ETC2,DXT5}_RA_AS_RG ( GH-71248 ). See the list below.

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Cocos

MARCH 24, 2024

Thanks so much!

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Catnip Games

JUNE 20, 2023

Everything is just one big texture. I export the rendered terrain from Blender as a RGBA image but with alpha value set to depth. The graphics backend rewrite took a while. However, the situation is now good. This gives me freedom in level design and saves work making tiles… tileable. So it’s RGBZ.

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Game Development

JANUARY 23, 2019

Full Unity 2D Game Tutorial 2019 – Mini Map Render Texture. Our Camera is still working like a normal camera, we want it to render its view to an image instead of to us the player. In order to do that we first need to make a render texture. To display our new mini map render texture we will be using the canvas UI.

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DameDev.tv

MARCH 7, 2023

In today's post, I'd like to show you how to retrieve an image provided by The Art Institute of Chicago via its public API , how to create a texture from this image, and how to feed this texture to a material and render it on a plane accompanied by a floating text with title, name of the artist and some other details.

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

UE5’s features and functionality have further expanded to include experimental new features for rendering, animation and simulation. Design: Working with the artist, the design team renders character models, iterates on the interfaces, designs dynamic and interactive level designs and environments, and so on. The steps involved are: 2.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Add support for FORMAT_{ETC2,DXT5}_RA_AS_RG ( GH-71248 ). See the list below.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Textures are simply bound to bind points starting from 0, and the bind point number is sent via attributes too. In this case, the UV coordinate (for reading the texture). We use the sprite texture uniform to read the sprite pixels. render queue position, render type such as alpha or opaque, etc.).

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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

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

The main one was performance due to every light being rendered in a separate draw pass. Additionally, all 2D shadows and light textures use a single atlas, resulting in improved performance. the new CanvasTexture texture type has been introduced. The regular CanvasOccluders have a new option to enable them for SDF rendering.

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Cocos

APRIL 18, 2024

Remember the previous article, where we used the image’s Alpha to find edges, determining whether there were pixels with Alpha of 0 around the image. Consider the characteristics of this rt; apart from the tree where Alpha is greater than 0, the rest of the Alpha is 0. aExtend is the expanded Alpha.

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Nvidia

MARCH 1, 2023

The solution also enables users to fill objects in with color, paint over them with an RBG brush, or cover regions with physically based rendering (PBR) materials. In addition to intuitive, nondestructive editing capabilities–including the application of textures–Shapeyard enables automatic human-grade retopology.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 6, 2018

The progress of last month was largely defined by stabilizing the 3D renderer with many smaller fixes, but work on the PRB side of things has begun and the GDNative system also saw some quality-of-life changes again, with improvements to the GDNativeLibrary resource as well as an API to provide safe type-casting in NativeScript. Introduction.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In parallel to our work on Godot 3.5 ( with a first beta ) and 4.0 ( and finally alpha 1! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 GUI: Fix RichTextLabel underline prevents strikethrough from rendering ( GH-56686 ). GUI: Fix TextureButton focus texture logic ( GH-56472 ). branch for use in production.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In parallel to our work on the upcoming feature releases Godot 3.5 ( with a first beta ) and 4.0 ( now at alpha 3! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 GUI: Fix RichTextLabel underline prevents strikethrough from rendering ( GH-56686 ). GUI: Fix TextureButton focus texture logic ( GH-56472 ). Known incompatibilities.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 22, 2020

Assign a panorama texture to the material and you are all done! These subpasses run the sky shader on a half-resolution or quarter-resolution texture to allow expensive calculations to be done fewer times (e.g. Currently, to use the subpasses you must set the appropriate render mode use_half_res_pass or use_quarter_res_pass.

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Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Materials are used to determine the appearance of objects, such as their color, texture, transparency, and other visual characteristics. The point of the instance material is to save the rendering power and thus the performance of the game. Texture Materials. Texture materials allow us to make our game objects look realistict.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In parallel to our work on Godot 3.5 ( with a first beta ) and 4.0 ( now at alpha 2! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 GUI: Fix RichTextLabel underline prevents strikethrough from rendering ( GH-56686 ). GUI: Fix TextureButton focus texture logic ( GH-56472 ). branch for use in production. stable or since 3.4.3

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Febucci

OCTOBER 31, 2019

UVs are also called texture coordinates and they let you map textures on your objects. You’re basically saying to the computer: “hey, I want this texture drawn from here to here”. If you change the UVs (or texture coordinates) of one vertex, you’re also changing the way the texture is displayed on your mesh.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

But the "1" in beta 1 means that it's only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we're going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. Editor: Make texture preview filter setting content aware ( GH-67426 ). Rendering: Add OpenGL timer queries to OpenGL3 backend ( GH-67032 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 30, 2020

While not entirely rendering specific, a lot of nodes are being renamed. It supported roughness, but it did so in a way where the texture reads appeared rough, but not the reflected image (the edges of the reflected objects remained intact). Accurate frame render time. Vulkan progress report #3. Vulkan progress report #4.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: A ton of fixes for all rendering backends, and missing features implemented for the OpenGL3 one. GUI: Add a Font import option to pre-render all glyphs required for the translation ( GH-68448 ). Physics: Implement adjusting the maximum number of physics steps per rendered frame ( GH-65836 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

But the “1” in beta 1 means that it’s only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we’re going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. Lots of rendering changes. Our rendering contributors keep working on finalizing the implementation of all expected features for Godot 4.0,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

But the "1" in beta 1 means that it's only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we're going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. Lots of rendering changes. Our rendering contributors keep working on finalizing the implementation of all expected features for Godot 4.0,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

But the “1” in beta 1 means that it’s only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we’re going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. Editor: Make texture preview filter setting content aware ( GH-67426 ). Rendering: Add OpenGL timer queries to OpenGL3 backend ( GH-67032 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 11, 2017

Export options (convert textures, etc.) Automatic detection and reimport of many use cases for textures. Other than that, some people from key companies were pretty amazed about the new renderer features we have and will be following our progress more closely! Godot import/export code was most likely simplified tenfold.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). Rendering: Properly calculate Polygon2D AABB with skeleton ( GH-40869 ). If you upgrade from 3.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 6, 2022

alpha 1 and later. This post starts off with a high-level description of what FogVolumes are and how to use them, and then includes some technical details about what is going on under the hood and how we get them to render so fast. Note: FogVolumes are available in 4.0 On top of the existing non-volumetric fog, Godot 4.0 density = 0.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

with 17 alpha builds distributed in 2022, and continuous development effort since 2019. You may have already seen some of this content on social media, in blog posts, or in alpha release notes. We know many users are excited about the coming improvements to 2D and 3D rendering in 4.0. It has been a long road to Godot 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

It brings a brand new rendering engine with state-of-the-art PBR workflow for 3D, an improved assets pipeline, GDNative to load native code as plugins, C# 7.0 After meeting the initial goal, we hired karroffel to continue her work on GDNative (more about this below) and work on a new rendering backend. New physically based 3D renderer.

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Nvidia

JULY 25, 2022

Especially in hybrid rendering, where G-buffer or shadow maps are rasterized, it’s potentially beneficial to execute AS building on async compute. In hybrid rendering, using the same LOD for rasterization and ray tracing can be considered. Consider alpha testing instead of blending. LODs used for far-away objects can be simpler.

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Big Games

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Play testers explore the game, checking for bugs, rendering issues, and exploitable features. Developers make final touches to enhance immersion, like adding depth to landscapes or improving textures. Neglecting thorough testing can leave a game unready, even for an Alpha release. Testing Testing is like quality control.

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