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Powerful Shader Insights: Using Shader Debug Info with NVIDIA Nsight Graphics

Nvidia

MARCH 14, 2024

As ray tracing becomes the predominant rendering technique in modern game engines, a single GPU RayGen shader can now perform most of the light simulation of a. As ray tracing becomes the predominant rendering technique in modern game engines, a single GPU RayGen shader can now perform most of the light simulation of a frame.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Shaders Debug Graphics

Cocos Creator 3.8 Post-Process Shader Writing (2/2) Advanced

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

Shaders Writing Pixel Render

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 Scripting Point and Click

I got distracted and built a Physically-Based Renderer

Harold Serrano

MAY 16, 2024

The author experimented with the properties of various metals and demonstrated how to create them in a Physically-Based Renderer through renderings. They looked so cool that made me wonder if I could build a Physically-Based Renderer myself and render these metals. For starters, I was using non-physically-based shaders.

Render

Render Shaders Engineering Engine

Practical Tips for Optimizing Ray Tracing

Nvidia

JANUARY 5, 2023

Some ray-traced effects, like reflections or shadows, require support for out-of-frustum objects for rendering accuracy. Technically, you can use shader atomic increments to account for all the rays on each frame if needed. This way, you can process many dynamic meshes sharing the same shader using a single Dispatch call.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Mesh Shaders Data

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 15

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 25, 2023

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 ). renderer support ( GH-71848 ). Rendering: Fix Vulkan validation errors related to enabling extensions ( GH-70429 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Shaders

Making shaders more accessible

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 5, 2016

About shaders. For most game developers, shaders are this scary monster that presents itself with such a complexity that it seems out of reach. In reality, shaders are quite simple by default and just get more complex the more you add to them. The following OpenGL code sends the sprite to the shader for drawing: OpenGL Commands.

Shaders

Shaders Sprite Pixel Clipping

Godot 3's renderer design explained

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.

Render

Render Shaders Texture Engineering

Godot's new renderer, progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2016

As many of you have probably heard, a new rendering backend is being worked on for Godot. Our goal is to have a modern, clustered renderer that supports everything mainstream engines support, including PBR, global illumination and flexible shader editing. Write a more flexible, GLES 3 GLSL compatible shader language.

Render

Render Shaders Texture Mesh

Differentiable Slang: A Shading Language for Renderers That Learn

Nvidia

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Fast, Modular and Differentiable Shader Programming. Fast, Modular and Differentiable Shader Programming. The paper shows how a single language can serve as a unified platform for real-time, inverse, and differentiable rendering. Build differentiable renderers from existing graphics code.

Render

Render Shaders Graphics Code

Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

has an entirely new rendering architecture, which is divided into modern and compatibility backends. The modern one does rendering via RenderingDevice (which is implemented in drivers such as Vulkan, Direct3D 12, and more in the future). Rendering is significantly more efficient in Godot 4.0, Low level rendering access.

AAA

AAA Game Developer Game Development Development

[Tutorial]A Comprehensive Explanation of Deferred Rendering - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

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. This series of articles will analyze the source code from various perspectives to improve your learning efficiency. Solution for transparent object rendering.

Render

Render Code Texture Pixel

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

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 Jump to the Downloads section.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Shaders

In-Game GPU Profiling for DirectX 12 Using SetBackgroundProcessingMode

Nvidia

JULY 10, 2023

One factor to consider is whether background driver optimizations were engaged and when their resulting optimized shaders were deployed. The observations are then used to compile a shader asynchronously. Understandably, this can cause a great deal of confusion in timing your shaders.

Shaders

Shaders Games Render Debug

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

Custom sky shaders in Godot 4.0

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 22, 2020

Update (2021-10-28): You can find a documentation page about Sky shaders in the Godot documentation. We aim to change that by introducing sky shaders. If you are interested in the implementation, you can find the code on GitHub. It is easy to tweak and update and uses a lightweight shader to avoid consuming GPU resources.

Shaders

Shaders Render Texture Alpha

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 16

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

Flag dirty dependencies when GeometryInstance dependencies change in renderer ( GH-71581 ). 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. Rendering: Fix LCD font AA on OpenGL renderer ( GH-72125 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Write a Post-Processing Shader using CRP Step-by-Step - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos

MAY 6, 2023

This series of articles will analyze the source code from various perspectives to improve your learning efficiency. Download the project source code for free at： [link] Today’s content is relatively simple, suitable for both juniors to explore and seniors for entertainment. So they came and asked: How do I add a new Shader for the CRP?

Shaders

Shaders Writing Code Content

[Tutorial] Write a Post-Processing Shader using CRP Step-by-Step - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos

MAY 6, 2023

This series of articles will analyze the source code from various perspectives to improve your learning efficiency. Download the project source code for free at： [link] Today’s content is relatively simple, suitable for both juniors to explore and seniors for entertainment. So they came and asked: How do I add a new Shader for the CRP?

Shaders

Shaders Writing Code Content

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: A ton of fixes for all rendering backends, and missing features implemented for the OpenGL3 one. Editor: Disable code font ligatures by default in the editor ( GH-68571 ). GUI: Add a Font import option to pre-render all glyphs required for the translation ( GH-68448 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Bug

Godot's new renderer, progress report #3

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 30, 2016

It's been a month since the second progress report , and progress continues towards the new Godot renderer. Implement Particle Shaders, with support for: Sorting, Collision and Soft Particles. Add Layered/Stencil rendering. renderer works entirely in linear space (Gamma is no longer supported). Seeing the code.

Render

Render Baking Lightmap Shaders

How to write Shaders in Unity using HLSL

Febucci

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Shaders are used to create many effects, like “water”, “fire” and more. Shaders Theory. Now that we’ve scratched the topic of meshes, we can finally talk about shader. Shaders are programs that describe the traits of vertices and pixels. is read from the computer and is passed to the Vertex Shader. Shader Example.

Shaders

Shaders Writing Mesh Pixel

[Release post of the official Shader Graph extension]

Cocos

DECEMBER 7, 2023

To promote collaboration and innovation within the developer community, we have open-sourced the full set of source code for this plugin under the MIT license. GitHub： shader-graph Preview Basic Structure Preparation Phase Cocos Creator 3.8.2 editor and the shader-graph.zip shader-graph.zip plugin. Open Cocos Creator 3.8.2

Shaders

Shaders Point and Click Asset UX

Godot's new renderer, progress report #2

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. Implement Particle Shaders, with support for: Sorting, Collision and Soft Particles. Add Layered/Stencil rendering.

Render

Render Simulation Texture Engineering

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 14

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 2023

For shaders, we removed the now-redundant SCREEN_TEXTURE , DEPTH_TEXTURE , and NORMAL_ROUGHNESS_TEXTURE ( GH-70967 ). Rendering: Remove SCREEN_TEXTURE , DEPTH_TEXTURE , and NORMAL_ROUGHNESS_TEXTURE ( GH-70967 ). See the PR for details on the rationale and how to adapt your code.

Beta

Beta Dev Animation Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 10

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: A lot of bug fixes and improvements in these areas particularly, check out the PRs listed below: Animation, Navigation, GDScript, Rendering. However, many of you still used these properties in code, preferring degrees to radians. GH-59810 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Animation Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

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 Jump to the Downloads section.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Shaders

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 23, 2018

compatible rendering backend for Godot 3.1, The first month I spent on getting started and familiar with the rendering in Godot. Because I am still new to the rendering system in Godot, I might not be experienced enough to make good estimates of what can be achieved, but the rough roadmap looks like this. render meshes.

Shaders

Shaders Render Texture Mesh

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! iOS: Check Xcode output and display errors if code signing, project build or.ipa export failed ( GH-71212 ). Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Collision Render

Solving Self-Intersection Artifacts in DirectX Raytracing

Nvidia

AUGUST 31, 2023

In DirectX Raytracing (DXR) this self-intersection check would be implemented in an any-hit shader. For more information, see Ray Tracing Gems: High-Quality and Real-Time Rendering with DXR and Other APIs. Rendering with self-intersection avoidance (left) and without self-intersection avoidance (right). edge1, mul(barys.y,

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Shaders Render Game Engine

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #2

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Apart from that, the month was mostly spent on implementing more 2D items in the renderer as well as working on getting custom shaders running. add line rendering. add ninepatch rendering. add polygon and GUI primitive rendering. start work on shader compiler. add circle rendering. render meshes.

Shaders

Shaders Render Demo Polygon

Ultra-Realism Made Accessible with NVIDIA AI and Path Tracing Technologies

Nvidia

MARCH 20, 2023

NVIDIA at GDC 2023: Frame Generation and Path Tracing Tools Now Available Generate frames with the latest breakthrough in AI rendering Announced with the NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture, DLSS 3 raised the bar not just for visuals but also performance and responsiveness. Frame generation is the latest evolution.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Technology AI Shaders

Error Code 0xc0000005 Modern Warfare 2: Quick Fixes

Game Errors

MARCH 31, 2023

And when it comes to an immersive game such as CoD, error code 0xc0000005 Modern Warfare 2 usually means trouble is brewing not just on the battlefield but in the game itself. What is Error Code 0xc0000005 Modern Warfare 2? Error code 0xc0000005 MW 2 is bad news any way you look at it. Here’s why it happens. Get DriverFix 2.

Code

Code Graphics Texture Render

Project Structure - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos

APRIL 14, 2023

1、 Comprehensive TPS gameplay framework 2、 A reusable implementation of Custom Render Pipeline 3、 Forward & Deferred Rendering, PostProcessing 4、 Usage of Reflection Probes 5、 Static Occlusion Culling 6、 Compatible with High-end, Mid-end and Low-end devices In this article, we will locate the files that correspond to the features above.

Code

Code Culling Lightmap Render

Differentiable Slang: Example Applications

Nvidia

OCTOBER 22, 2023

In this post, we introduce several code examples using differentiable Slang to demonstrate the potential use across different rendering applications and the ease of integration. Rendering is highly nonlinear, so linear operations on texture maps do not produce the correct linearly changing appearance.

Render

Render Texture Texture Mapping Shaders

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #4

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 16, 2018

In this case I'm talking about a rather big refactoring of how materials are handled in the GLES2 renderer. perspective rendering. perspective rendering. stabilize 3D rendering (unshaded workflow). A lot of text and no code so far, so here you go! perspective rendering. Done March 2018. Planned April 2018.

Shaders

Shaders Render Mesh Code

Error in Custom Vertical Gradient Shader: "Can not find vertex attribute: a_texCoord"

Cocos

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

1.0), color, gradient); // Output the final fragment color gl_FragColor = texColor * gradientColor; } }% Can someone help me with this issue? 1.0), color, gradient); // Output the final fragment color gl_FragColor = texColor * gradientColor; } }% Can someone help me with this issue?

Shaders

Shaders Texture Render Code

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Editor: Bring back the renderer options button on the main editor ( GH-70500 ). Editor: Remove compatibility code for MeshInstance3D surface override material ( GH-70466 ). Rendering: Add options for sorting transparent objects ( GH-69998 ). Rendering: Cleanup and improve sky render ( GH-70253 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Animation

Vulkan progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 30, 2019

What used to be a few lines of OpenGL/GLX code is a large amount of Vulkan extension code to handle initialization and creation of rendering surfaces. Up to now, it was impossible to do any internal modifications to how Godot does rendering. this was not possible without modifying Godot's rendering backend.

Render

Render Shaders Texture Code

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #3

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. implement spatial shaders. 2D rendering stabilized. 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.

Mesh

Mesh Shaders Render Bug

Use shader for spine animation

Cocos

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Where can I find it in the source code? What I need is to get the uv of the animation render result, i am using cocos creator 2.1.3.

Animation

Animation Animation Shaders Render

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #5

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.

Shaders

Shaders Texture Render Scripting

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 10

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: A lot of bug fixes and improvements in these areas particularly, check out the PRs listed below: Animation, Navigation, GDScript, Rendering. However, many of you still used these properties in code, preferring degrees to radians. GH-59810 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Animation Animation

Powerful Shader Insights: Using Shader Debug Info with NVIDIA Nsight Graphics

Cocos Creator 3.8 Post-Process Shader Writing (2/2) Advanced

Trending Sources

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

I got distracted and built a Physically-Based Renderer

Practical Tips for Optimizing Ray Tracing

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 15

Making shaders more accessible

Godot 3's renderer design explained

Godot's new renderer, progress report #1

Differentiable Slang: A Shading Language for Renderers That Learn

Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

[Tutorial]A Comprehensive Explanation of Deferred Rendering - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

In-Game GPU Profiling for DirectX 12 Using SetBackgroundProcessingMode

Identifying Shader Limiters with the Shader Profiler in NVIDIA Nsight Graphics

Custom sky shaders in Godot 4.0

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

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 16

Write a Post-Processing Shader using CRP Step-by-Step - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

[Tutorial] Write a Post-Processing Shader using CRP Step-by-Step - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Godot's new renderer, progress report #3

How to write Shaders in Unity using HLSL

[Release post of the official Shader Graph extension]

Godot's new renderer, progress report #2

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 14

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 10

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #1

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Solving Self-Intersection Artifacts in DirectX Raytracing

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #2

Ultra-Realism Made Accessible with NVIDIA AI and Path Tracing Technologies

Error Code 0xc0000005 Modern Warfare 2: Quick Fixes

Project Structure - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Differentiable Slang: Example Applications

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #4

Error in Custom Vertical Gradient Shader: "Can not find vertex attribute: a_texCoord"

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Vulkan progress report #1

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #3

Use shader for spine animation

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #5

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 10

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