Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

Fix a handful of regressions from some of the bigger input and animation changes merged for beta 15. Those typically shouldn’t add instability to the engine, but may require doing some changes in your scripts, scenes, and shaders if you were using the affected APIs. Audio: Disable OGG and MP3 looping by default on import ( GH-71858 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Add track validator to AnimationPlayerEditor to detect tracks which have error ( GH-68770 ). Animation: Refactor process of animation to retrive keys more exactly ( GH-69336 ). See the list of PRs with the breaks compat label for details. GH-68870 ).

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Febucci

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Shaders are used to create many effects, like “water”, “fire” and more. 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”. Shaders Theory. Shader Example.

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Febucci

MAY 31, 2019

Simply, the Inner Sprite Outline shader is drawn “inside” the sprite, while “Outer” is the opposite. Read more about “Texture’s Texel Size” here. Amplify Shader. In this “Unity Sprite Outline” tutorial we’ll discover how to create both a “Sprite Innerline” and a “Outer Sprite Outline”. Your browser does not support the video.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 16, 2020

Godot shader language is one of the easiest ones to use of any engine. Letting visual shaders aside, the shading language is a very tidy and self-contained version of GLSL ES 3.0, Shaders can take take inputs, modify them and produce outputs. Shaders can take take inputs, modify them and produce outputs. Simple, right?

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 5, 2024

Maya is also more effective for animations. I used a Blinn Shader on the asset to spot any issues with the mesh. Blinn Shader helped me see highlights produced due to light shining off the surface at low angles. Then I unwrapped the low poly mesh model into three UV sets in order to get a good resolution of the textures.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 2023

For shaders, we removed the now-redundant SCREEN_TEXTURE , DEPTH_TEXTURE , and NORMAL_ROUGHNESS_TEXTURE ( GH-70967 ). Animation: Tweak the name for new animations in the editor ( GH-48570 ). Animation: Add next/reset function to AnimationStateMachine ( GH-71264 ). Add astcenc compression and decompression ( GH-70363 ).

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

As avid fans of Studio Ghibli’s animated movie Porco Rosso, Rob Hartley and Diccon Yamanaka were inspired to create a game about seaplanes flying around in a beautiful Mediterranean setting. Special plane shader With Porco Rosso being such a great source of inspiration it feels only natural to have the game also look like a Ghibli film.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Techniques such as using lower-resolution textures, controlling particle spawn rates, and optimizing the lifespan of particles can significantly reduce the load on the GPU. Utilizing Shaders Wisely Shaders are powerful tools that can enhance the visual quality of a game, but they can also be demanding on mobile devices.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 6, 2018

CPU-calculated skeletal animations. add hardware support for skeletal animations. CPU-calculated skeletal animations. The actual deformation usually happens in the vertex shader , where the bone transforms get looked up from a texture. (In In rendering, textures are used for sooo many things. implement BRDF.

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 17, 2023

Use asset stores wisely Unity Asset Store offers a wide range of free and paid assets, such as 3D models, textures, sound effects, and plugins. Custom shaders Gain control over your game’s visual style and performance by creating custom shaders. Optimize performance Keep performance in mind throughout development.

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The Liquid Fire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

We’re not really doing anything with shaders or post processing in the tutorial, so depending on where you want to take the tutorial later, its really up to you which you choose. Resources just feels like it should be things like 3d Models and Textures, but if you want to stick with the original, that’s fine.

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 14, 2024

A single purchasable asset is never atomic - the purchased item is comprised of many parts like the 3D model, the diffuse textures, normal map, occlusion map, any other materials, rigging, animations, shaders, and so on. The argument tends to break down if you poke at it.

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Cocos

MARCH 25, 2024

until the issue is fixed (just remember that any scrolling textures that rely on “repeat” wrap mode must be power of 2 in webgl 1.0) OR you can try disabling uniform buffers in engine if you’re not using any custom shaders… but I really wouldn’t recommend this for a number of different reasons.

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 4, 2025

Use Compressed Textures : Textured images can be saved with lower resolutions while compressed formats such as ASTC and DXT1 and DXT5 reduce memory usage without quality reduction. Texture Atlasing combines multiple textures into one atlas to lower the number of texture switches that occur.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

A refactor of Animation APIs to change the stop(reset: bool) to two separate stop() and pause() methods ( GH-71218 ), as was heavily requested by the community. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Split pause() from AnimationPlayer's stop() ( GH-71218 ). A lot more GDScript fixes and improvements!

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Game Designing

OCTOBER 2, 2023

You may have seen some 2D or 3D animated movies and video games that look like they were hand-drawn or have a cartoon-like style. Usually, Japanese anime films and video games feature this distinct look. This type or technique of animation is known as cel-shading animation. Some also refer to it as toon shading.

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Jaunty Bear Games

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Fortunately the Unity 3D platform has a great selection of packages and assets to accelerate the build of tools, models, shaders, sound effects, animations etc. Text Animator for Unity by Febucci Creations. Bring your dialogues to life, animating your game texts with this easy to use and customize plugin. .

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iXie gaming

JUNE 28, 2024

Spine Spine is the best tool for 2D skeletal animation. It has a flexible system that uses bones to create smooth and expressive animations, which can be easily reused and customized. DragonBones DragonBones is a strong tool for 2D skeletal animation, focusing on making the work process easy and quick.

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Nvidia

AUGUST 7, 2023

It empowers designers to render high-quality images and animations of their products, helping them visualize and iterate on designs more effectively. Shuzo modeled and textured in Maya and Mudbox, with no scans used. This release adds support for Shader Execution Reordering (SER). Rendered with Chaos V-Ray.

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Cocos

AUGUST 10, 2023

Sorry to litter up the forums with a question like this but I couldn’t find anything about it anywhere online… So… I have made some shaders that use time to essentially animate themselves. Unless I click and hold the right mouse button the shader doesn’t move or update in the scene. (I

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Additionally, all 2D shadows and light textures use a single atlas, resulting in improved performance. the new CanvasTexture texture type has been introduced. x is that, several times, sprites are separated in many nodes in order to be animated or assembled. Improved 2D materials. Using normal mapping in 2D was also hit or miss.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

For example: On GLES3+ we can use UBOs to optimize shader parameters. At the end of the day, the use case where Vulkan and DirectX12 make the most sense is when you have hundreds of thousands of objects, which are all different (different geometry, textures, etc.), Shader abstraction. Ability to bundle shaders inside materials.

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Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

See the documentation “Render Debugging - Run Time Using Render debugging”: [link] • When the node animates, add the tween ‘destroySelf’ method to destroy the front nodal point. New and standard-material will default to Surface Shader. Fixed an issue where the auto-atlas texture compression configuration failed.

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Cocos

MAY 9, 2023

Fixed animation switch issue when GPU INSTANCING is enabled for the material of SkinnedMeshRenderer. Fixed bone animation texture size error on some platforms that don’t support float point texture format. Fixed animation system error by saving incorrect material uniform binding.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 16, 2018

basics for skeletal animations. finish up skeletal animations (- blend shapes). Yes, some more invalid OpenGL state was fixed and a first attempt to get spatial shaders working and then this could be seen. UBOs are chunks of memory that contain data that is available "globally" and immutably in every shader stage.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track featurex ( GH-44558 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track featurex ( GH-44558 ).

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

This month, Cass was able to fully texture all three sets of Jhacanda tree houses and officially cross this ongoing task off his to-do list. We're looking forward to seeing how Cass textures this beast of a model once he's done crafting it. Here's an update on the textures for the outdoor table and leaf shade Karena created.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

A refactor of Animation APIs to change the stop(reset: bool) to two separate stop() and pause() methods ( GH-71218 ), as was heavily requested by the community. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Split pause() from AnimationPlayer’s stop() ( GH-71218 ). A lot more GDScript fixes and improvements!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track featurex ( GH-44558 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 21, 2018

implement spatial shaders. skeletal animations. The main bug that was keeping me busy for weeks was related to a shader bind that was not descriptive enough when blitting a viewport to the screen. The drawing to the window happens by using a viewport as a texture and then displaying that in the correct position in the window.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The character asset and animation are from GDQuest's "godot-3d-mannequin" project and the ground texture is from Kenney's "Prototype Textures" bundle. The solution should be easy, let’s just use doubles in all of our shaders! Doubles in Shaders. So how does it work?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ).

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The Knights of Unity

JULY 21, 2020

Almost every 3D asset is painted using only one atlas texture. As I mentioned before – almost every 3D object uses the same atlas texture. We created 4 UV sets of each car and wrote a shader that swaps them. What’s more, it’s easy to imitate movement by creating a simple animation, as we did in the booster’s model.

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