Ask a Game Dev

JUNE 14, 2024

Expertise on visuals like lighting, rendering, shaders, etc. Expertise on visuals like lighting, rendering, shaders, etc. I posted a challenge for aspiring developers to identify as many specific features and systems as they could spot. My expertise is in gameplay, so that’s where I will be focusing.

Cinematics 64

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

For example: On GLES3+ we can use UBOs to optimize shader parameters. Shader abstraction. This may sound like the obvious way of doing things but, in truth, it creates a big bottleneck on allowing users to write shaders. Users need to learn not only the language, but how the engine internals work regarding shaders.

Render 52

Render Shaders Texture Engineering 52

Game Designing

OCTOBER 2, 2023

A cell shader gives the appearance of a traditional drawing with a flatter surface and hard, unfinished edges. Since cel shading works by applying a shader to 3D models, you must create the models first. Maya Animation: Toon Shader  Creators use different approaches to creating cel-shading materials. What Is Cel Shading?

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Game Errors

MARCH 8, 2023

Enable all options except Lights and Patterns and Shaders for Friends. The general advance here is experimenting with different Avatar Performance and Advanced Graphics settings to find the balance where the game runs smoothly, without crashes, with enjoyable graphics. Disable the other options. Disable the other options.

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iXie gaming

APRIL 21, 2025

Shader management is critical. Unitys Profiler , Android GPU Inspector , and console-specific diagnostics offer the insights needed to balance visual quality and device performance. URP is tailored for performance-sensitive titles such as mobile or VR, while HDRP enables cinematic fidelity for high-end PC and console games.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Rendering: Various bug fixes to both shaders and the Vulkan setup (including updating to Vulkan SDK 1.3.204 ). Rendering: Various tweaks to default environment and lighting config to balance quality and performance. Networking: Fix multi-peer path-only replication, optimize single peer object cache ( GH-58400 ).

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Game Errors

MARCH 24, 2023

Scroll down to find and adjust the following settings : Texture Quality : Normal Shader Quality : Normal Shadow Quality : Normal Reflection Quality : Normal Grass Quality : High Find VSync and turn it Off.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Volumetric fog is making its first appearance in Godot 4, balancing a realistic look and fast performance, thanks to the use of temporal reprojection. You can even create complex dynamic effects by writing custom shaders that operate on FogVolume nodes. For more information see the article introducing sky shaders.

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

If they don’t create textures themselves, 3D modelers will work especially closely with texture artists and look development artists (aka surfacing artists) who will add realism and detail to their model through texture maps and shaders. 3D modeling software 3D modelers use a range of software for modeling, sculpting, and texturing.

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Cocos

AUGUST 16, 2023

Preface In the last article , Kylin shared how to add your own post-effect Shader in the custom render pipeline in Cocos Creator 3.8. However, based on the BlitScreen solution, we can only write the simplest post-effect Shader. Today Kylin will use Gaussian blur to demonstrate how to write a multi-pass post-effect shader.

Shaders 98

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iXie gaming

MARCH 28, 2025

Tools like ZBrush, Blender, and Maya help maintain a balance between detail and efficiency. Developers focus on: Shader programming to fine-tune lighting and material properties. LOD optimization to balance quality and performance. Organic modelling (e.g., Assets go through rigorous QA to detect and fix inconsistencies.

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CG Spectrum

JANUARY 13, 2023

I thought that the challenge of balancing a moody yet magical atmosphere would be really interesting. Having control over all technical aspects of the shaders allowed me to art direct the scene as a whole. Once I have a story, I usually go straight to gathering reference, from both games and movies but also from the real world.

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Cinematics Engineering Engine Art 97

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 13, 2022

We still don't know if the game is balanced enough, which is why we are on Early Access to check what works right and what doesn’t. Another thing that was quite useful is the option to quickly test shaders. Being able to see the results of a shader the moment you change some code makes development so much better.

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Sirlin

DECEMBER 30, 2014

We've had toon shaders for years that can make 3D look like 2D, but Team Red has perfected it to such a degree that I sometimes can't even tell I'm looking at 3D. The Potemkin model on the left is a development shot of what he looks like without any shaders. They should have left it how it was and balanced around it.

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