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Creating a See-Through | X-Ray Effect In Unity – Shader Tutorial

Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 24, 2022

If you’re a complete beginner who never coded a single game in Unity, start with the tutorial in the link below: Getting Started With Unity And C# If however, you know how to create basic games in Unity on your own, then you can follow this tutorial to implement this effect in your game. What Is a Shader?

Shaders

Shaders Pixel Point and Click Scripting

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

Breaking changes Animation Audio C# Core Editor GDScript Import Input Physics Platforms Rendering and shaders XR New in Beta 1! Weve unified the code to make sure it works the same on both platforms, and weve fixed some bugs. Add 2D shader instance uniforms Previously, Godot only supported shader instance uniforms in Spatial shaders.

Beta

Beta Dev Lightmap Baking

Identifying Shader Limiters with the Shader Profiler in NVIDIA Nsight Graphics

Nvidia

APRIL 25, 2022

and later feature the new Real-Time Shader Profiler, the first temporal sampling profiler for GPU shaders. and later feature the new Real-Time Shader Profiler, the first temporal sampling profiler for GPU shaders. This profiler enables you to examine the most expensive shaders at each moment in your frame.

Shaders

Shaders Graphics Localization Code

Practical Tips for Optimizing Ray Tracing

Nvidia

JANUARY 5, 2023

Technically, you can use shader atomic increments to account for all the rays on each frame if needed. This can be partially achieved using a bindless resource model where all required resources are available directly from the shader code on GPU without explicit CPU-side bindings. Shader table data and updates.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Mesh Shaders Data

Strategies for Optimizing Multiplayer Games in Unity

Logic Simplified

APRIL 4, 2025

The game enables multiplayer gameplay through two options: local mode or server-hosted online mode, allowing players to either connect directly on the same local network or join others via dedicated servers through automatic system pairing. What worked? Proper memory management ensures smooth, stutter-free multiplayer gameplay.

Games

Games Texture Render Balance

Major update for Visual Shaders in Godot 3.2 (part 2)

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

This is the second blog post describing enhancements for visual shaders and shader scripts landed in Godot 3.2. Since the previous update, I've (Chaosus) spent much time and effort adding a lot of new things to enhance the overall experience developing shaders. Shader changes. First, let's have a look at shader scripts.

Shaders

Shaders Texture Scripting Code

Improve Shader Performance and In-Game Frame Rates with Shader Execution Reordering

Nvidia

OCTOBER 12, 2022

NVIDIA recently introduced a new feature available in the next generation of GPUs: Shader execution reordering (SER). NVIDIA recently introduced a new feature available in the next generation of GPUs: Shader execution reordering (SER). For more information, see the Shader Execution Reordering whitepaper.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Shaders Engineering Engine

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 15

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 25, 2023

Cleanup and unify keyboard input, adds new Key Label property for localized key mappings ( GH-70052 ). Add AudioStreamPolyphonic to simplify sound playback from code ( GH-71855 , GH-71906 ). Audio: Add AudioStreamPolyphonic to simplify sound playback from code ( GH-71855 , GH-71906 ). Jump to the Downloads section.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Shaders

Godot 4.0 gets global and per-instance shader uniforms

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, The editor supports code-completion, real-time errors and real-time update. Shaders can take take inputs, modify them and produce outputs.

Shaders

Shaders Mesh Texture Editing

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

GUI: Copy local theme overrides from Control to Window ( GH-69353 ). Note: This breaks compatibility intentionally, but we missed merging relevant transition code in this beta ( GH-70244 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Fix scene shader error when using Omni or Spot but not both ( GH-69901 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Shaders

Shader Help required (UV distortion with cc_time[0])

Cocos

MAY 13, 2023

Hello, so my issue is such, I have made a shader that causes a UV distortion in the fragment shader, to simulate “flame-like” effects at the edges. There are two variants of these shaders, one where the distortion is dependent on cc_time[0] i.e the time elapsed in seconds when a game is running. 1.0 - newUV.x), min(newUV.y,

Shaders

Shaders Alpha Texture Simulation

Shader doesn't work on brower, or run it in the editor

Cocos

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

y * sin(rad); o.rgb *= mix(startColor.rgb, endColor.rgb, smoothstep(edge1, edge2, diagCoord)); o *= color; ALPHA_TEST(o); return o; } }% [topic] When I use above codes, the shaders I apply to the sprite work fine when I’m in the editor, or when I run it in an emulator. 1.0], editor: {type: color} } endColor: { value: [1.0,

Shaders

Shaders Sprite Alpha Localization

Shader doesn't work on brower, or run it int the editor

Cocos

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

y * sin(rad); o.rgb *= mix(startColor.rgb, endColor.rgb, smoothstep(edge1, edge2, diagCoord)); o *= color; ALPHA_TEST(o); return o; } }% [topic] When I use above codes, the shaders I apply to the sprite work fine when I’m in the editor, or when I run it in an emulator. 1.0], editor: {type: color} } endColor: { value: [1.0,

Shaders

Shaders Sprite Alpha Localization

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

GUI: Copy local theme overrides from Control to Window ( GH-69353 ). Note: This breaks compatibility intentionally, but we missed merging relevant transition code in this beta ( GH-70244 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Fix scene shader error when using Omni or Spot but not both ( GH-69901 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Shaders

What are game development jobs that most people have not heard of?

Ask a Game Dev

JULY 6, 2023

Here are some of the lesser-known roles in the game industry that you may not have heard of: [ Technical Artist ] - an artist who writes code to help other artists realize their visions. Localization managers serve to guide localization development to ensure that the game passes regulations and make sense to the audience in those regions.

Prototyping

Prototyping Game Developer Game Development Development

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #5

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 6, 2018

The actual deformation usually happens in the vertex shader , where the bone transforms get looked up from a texture. (In backend is supposed to run on old hardware, there are some problems with hardware support for that: not all GPUs allow textures to be used in vertex shaders. added TIME uniform to all "scriptable" shaders.

Shaders

Shaders Texture Render Scripting

Dev Error 6345 in Warzone & Modern Warfare [Solved]

Game Errors

AUGUST 25, 2023

What is Dev code 6345? Dev code 6345 is a fatal error occurring in Modern Warfare and Warzone. How to fix Dev code 6345? Disable overclock settings: Although it can be an excellent way to boost performance, it is also known to cause Dev code 6345. Run the cleanup with DirectX shader and temporary files selected.

Dev

Dev PC Code Localization

Miasma Chronicles Crashing: The Most Effective Ways to Fix

Game Errors

MAY 22, 2023

In most situations, this game will crash when any of the following reasons exist: System requirements: If your PC doesn’t meet the system requirements properly, Miasma Chronicles may stop working randomly and crashes on the desktop with or without showing error codes. Clear shader cache Open Windows Settings like before.

Shaders

Shaders PC FPS Feature

[Share] 2D Post-Processing & Lighting Framework

Cocos

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Taking inspiration from community experts @gamemcu and @iwae for the ultimate solution, we can use code to directly display the post-processed RT rendered by the camera onto the final window. Since we create a rectangle rendered at the top layer through code, users(who use this solution) won’t notice it, making it both elegant and convenient.

Render

Render Texture Shaders Pixel

GSoC 2021 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 30, 2021

Like in previous years, Godot is participating again in the Google Summer of Code program for its 2021 edition. A lot of developers prefer to use their familiar tools when it comes to writing and debugging code. Stepping the code, and stepping in function calls ( next/stepIn ). Setting breakpoints ( setBreakpoints ). Hey there!

Debug

Debug Simulation Communications Feature

Maintenance release: Godot 3.1.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Edit 2019-12-04 @ 10:30 UTC: A follow-up regarding HTML5 templates: if you used the "Custom Html Shell" preset option to use your own loading code, you need to update your HTML template as shown in this commit. macOS: Fix locale detection when running from.app bundle ( GH-33883 ). Release branches. Thirdparty library updates.

Bug

Bug Beta Editing Localization

Vulkan progress report #7

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 30, 2020

will allow you to have low level access to the rendering APIs, allowing you to do all the same things Godot does during rendering, or calling your custom code in the middle of render passes. Additionally, GLSL shaders (not Godot shaders, real GLSL 4.50+Vulkan Vulkan extensions) can now be imported.

Render

Render Shaders Simulation Texture

Fog Volumes arrive in Godot 4.0

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 6, 2022

These allow users to dynamically place fog and control complex fog effects with shaders. Perhaps the most exciting part about FogVolumes is the introduction of the fog shader type. FogVolumes can be controlled with custom Fog shaders to add detail or to shape them however you want. write back that data to density.

Shaders

Shaders Render Alpha Engineering

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

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 Materials and shaders. Materials and shaders. writing shaders is very easy! Full principled BSDF. Global illumination (GI). Mid- and post-processing. GPU particles.

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

Visual Shaders overhaul. Coding tools. as default target, and the rewrite of the Mono-specific editor code in C# (ported from C++). Visual Shaders overhaul. introduced a new graph-based editor to edit shaders visually, reimplemented from the previous version that was included in Godot 2.1. New editor features.

Feature

Feature Render Shaders Bug

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

when running in the editor, or exporting a debug build) will properly handle such situations and, when using the debugger, provide a clear error message so that the user code can be adapted to prevent the issue. Updated and localized documentation. A big thankyou to all the documentation and localization contributors!

Debug

Debug Point and Click Bug Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.5.1 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Core: Fix locale resource remapping with binary conversion on export ( GH-63629 ). Editor: Change code folding behavior to include terminal indented comments ( GH-63113 ). iOS: Workaround WebKit/ANGLE shader compilation bug for WebGL 2.0 ( GH-64811 ). C#: Use custom project setting for C# project files name ( GH-64460 ).

Bug

Bug Render Scripting Build

Boosting Unreal Engine Performance with Amazon FSx for OpenZFS as a Shared Derived Data Cache

AWS Games

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

DDC stores processed derived asset data such as texture compressions, shader compilations, and geometry conversions that can be quickly accessed by the engine during load times. DDC can be local to a single user or shared across a team via a network to improve the efficiency of the development pipeline.

Data

Data Engine Engineering Asset

Cyberpunk 2077 Has Flatlined: Fixed

Game Errors

JULY 6, 2023

While the development studio has been busy rolling out patches, many still see the error code surfacing mid-game moments after playing. Minimum Requirements: CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K/ AMD FX-8310 GPU: GTX 780/ Radeon RX 470 RAM: 8 GB Operating System: 64-bit Windows 7/ 64-bit Windows 10 Pixel Shader: 5.1 Vertex Shader: 5.1

PC

PC Graphics Debug Shaders

Release candidate: Godot 3.1.2 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Internationalization: Various fixes to Control localization ( GH-28709 , GH-31078 , GH-32440 , GH-32638 ), and fixes to support of some regional locales ( GH-28599 , GH-31198 ). Shaders: Fix support for hint_range using integers ( GH-31650 ). Import: Various improvements to BMP support. Thirdparty library updates. mbedtls 2.16.3,

Bug

Bug Beta Localization Engineering

Release candidate: Godot 3.5.1 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Core: Fix locale resource remapping with binary conversion on export ( GH-63629 ). Editor: Change code folding behavior to include terminal indented comments ( GH-63113 ). iOS: Workaround WebKit/ANGLE shader compilation bug for WebGL 2.0 ( GH-64811 ). C#: Use custom project setting for C# project files name ( GH-64460 ).

Bug

Bug Render Collision Animation

Maintenance release: Godot 3.5.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Core: Fix locale resource remapping with binary conversion on export ( GH-63629 ). Editor: Change code folding behavior to include terminal indented comments ( GH-63113 ). iOS: Workaround WebKit/ANGLE shader compilation bug for WebGL 2.0 ( GH-64811 ). C#: Use custom project setting for C# project files name ( GH-64460 ).

Render

Render Baking Bug Collision

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

As users, please report all bugs that you encounter and provide as much detail as you can (including screenshots, code, and where possible, a minimal reproduction project). While our existing integration testing can highlight critical issues preventing the code from compiling or running, it does little to ensure the stability of the engine.

Beta

Beta Engineering Engine Feature

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 1, 2022

Core: Remake ResourceCache thread safety code and API ( GH-62309 ). Core: Fix VECTOR/LOCAL transitions in Node3D ( GH-62396 ). Editor: Refactored shader editor, now a permanent bottom dock with support to edit multiple files ( GH-61459 ). Core: Add print_rich() for printing with BBCode ( GH-60675 ).

Alpha

Alpha Dev Render Bug

GSoC 2018 progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 25, 2018

For the first time this year, Godot participates in the Google Summer of Code ( GSoC ). sdfgeoff is so responsible, he carefully reviews all my commits down to every line of code. Textures, normal maps and some of the BSDF shaders are already well supported. Here is a link to my branch and the code I’ve written so far: [link].

Communications

Communications Code Engineering Engine

GSoC 2020 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 29, 2020

As we announced a few months ago , Godot is participating again in the Google Summer of Code program for its 2020 edition. You can find some example code in the PR and check the docs of the Performance class (not updated at the time of writing). So they either have to read the source code or to search help through the Internet.

Code

Code Feature Scripting Point and Click

Getting Started with Web GL Game Development

iXie gaming

MAY 8, 2023

A text editor or integrated development environment (IDE): To write the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code required for creating Web GL games, you’ll need a text editor or IDE. Some popular choices include Atom, Microsoft Visual Studio Code, and Sublime Text.

Game Developer

Game Developer Game Development Development Game Design

Maintenance release: Godot 3.5.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Core: Fix locale resource remapping with binary conversion on export ( GH-63629 ). Editor: Change code folding behavior to include terminal indented comments ( GH-63113 ). iOS: Workaround WebKit/ANGLE shader compilation bug for WebGL 2.0 ( GH-64811 ). C#: Use custom project setting for C# project files name ( GH-64460 ).

Render

Render Baking Bug Collision

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Shader language features. Localized class reference. To simplify some of the most common constructs in input handling code for character movement, Aaron Franke ( aaronfranke ) added two new helper methods : Input.get_axis() and Input.get_vector(). Shader language features. Large files support (> 2.0 normalized().

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

Creating a Build Environment on AWS with Incredibuild

AWS Games

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Game developers often need to compile large amounts of C++ code, which requires lots of CPU resources, and developers also need to process other types of heavy compute tasks such as; shader compilation, rendering, asset creation, image conversion, lightmap baking and more.

Agent

Agent Build Console Communications

Godot reaches 2.1 stable!

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 9, 2016

Tired of having to reload your game for each small little code change or fix? Trying to keep track of what changed and how to merge it proved to be a lot of work, so instead, we now encourage users to try the scene inheritance feature to do local modifications to imported scenes. Live script reloading. Improved asset pipeline.

Asset

Asset Scripting Engineering Engine

The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #32

Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

Soon, Fede will be experimenting with our custom fur shader and working with hair cards to create realistic fur for these toothy baddies. This sprint, Fede was able to continue working on the soldiers and armor he'd started, polishing up details and working on intricate textures. Here are some shots of Fede's WIP.

Dev

Dev Demo Concepts Animation

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #6

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2018

This is done here in the code. Because now the mipmap-level (the amount of "small-ness" of the texture) has a different use case we need to access it manually in the shaders rather than letting OpenGL handle that for us automatically. The cubemap filtering shader can be found here. This makes lookups more memory local.

Pixel

Pixel Texture Render Shaders

RDR2 Error FFFF: What Is It & How to Fix It

Game Errors

AUGUST 3, 2023

What does error code FFFFFFFF mean? Disable game modifications: This includes any shaders, textures, and other third-party mods you installed for Red Dead Redemption 2. We discovered that an outdated GPU driver could cause the error code FFFF. Head to the Local folder and manually delete all folders from there.

Shaders

Shaders PC Graphics Texture

Creating a See-Through | X-Ray Effect In Unity – Shader Tutorial

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Trending Sources

Identifying Shader Limiters with the Shader Profiler in NVIDIA Nsight Graphics

Practical Tips for Optimizing Ray Tracing

Strategies for Optimizing Multiplayer Games in Unity

Major update for Visual Shaders in Godot 3.2 (part 2)

Improve Shader Performance and In-Game Frame Rates with Shader Execution Reordering

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 15

Godot 4.0 gets global and per-instance shader uniforms

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Shader Help required (UV distortion with cc_time[0])

Shader doesn't work on brower, or run it in the editor

Shader doesn't work on brower, or run it int the editor

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

What are game development jobs that most people have not heard of?

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #5

Dev Error 6345 in Warzone & Modern Warfare [Solved]

Miasma Chronicles Crashing: The Most Effective Ways to Fix

[Share] 2D Post-Processing & Lighting Framework

GSoC 2021 - Progress report #1

Maintenance release: Godot 3.1.2

Vulkan progress report #7

Fog Volumes arrive in Godot 4.0

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Release candidate: Godot 3.5.1 RC 1

Boosting Unreal Engine Performance with Amazon FSx for OpenZFS as a Shared Derived Data Cache

Cyberpunk 2077 Has Flatlined: Fixed

Release candidate: Godot 3.1.2 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.5.1 RC 2

Maintenance release: Godot 3.5.1

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 11

GSoC 2018 progress report #1

GSoC 2020 - Progress report #1

Getting Started with Web GL Game Development

Maintenance release: Godot 3.5.1

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Creating a Build Environment on AWS with Incredibuild

Godot reaches 2.1 stable!

The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #32

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #6

RDR2 Error FFFF: What Is It & How to Fix It

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