Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 8, 2025

Reorganized shader editor UI The editor experience for shaders and visual shaders got some TLC in GH-100287. Godot already supports using the Vulkan Fragment Shading Rate extension to render the outside of the viewport at a lower resolution, leading to performance improvements with little noticeable decrease in quality.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Export: Disable Metal and Vulkan renderers in simulator builds. Rendering: 2D: Fix clip children and rendering artefacts ( GH-102161 ). Rendering: Add loop annotations to ubershaders to prevent loop unrolling ( GH-102480 ). Rendering: Fix shadow peter-panning with default spotlight ( GH-101952 ).

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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. Refactor the Image class to include modern data types.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 14, 2024

At Unite 2024, Unity’s development team introduced a series of advanced GPU optimization techniques aimed at improving rendering performance across various platforms. One of the fundamental challenges in real-time rendering is reducing GPU latency to improve frame rate. Another important consideration is transparency.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Rendering: Shaders: Only convert default value to linear color if type hint is source_color ( GH-103201 ). Rendering: Metal: Fix SPIR-V MSL compilation on iOS targets ( GH-103337 ). Be sure to make frequent backups, or use a version control system such as Git, to preserve your projects in case of corruption or data loss.

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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.

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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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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.

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Febucci

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Shaders are used to create many effects, like “water”, “fire” and more. Now, focusing on vertices, it’s important to know that each single vertex contains some data, more than its position. Shaders Theory. Now that we’ve scratched the topic of meshes, we can finally talk about shader. Shader Example.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 30, 2025

Rendering: Bake UV2 emission using half float in the compatibility backend ( GH-101730 ). Rendering: Ensure Voxelizer SDF generation uses the correct cell level ( GH-101631 ). Shaders: Fix space transformations in WorldPositionFromDepth visual shader node generation ( GH-100350 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Import: Fix swapped color channels in ETC1/ETC2 textures, etcpak expects BGRA data ( GH-69448 ). Rendering: Use circular fade instead of linear fade for distance fade ( GH-50294 ). Rendering: Tweak shadow bias defaults for DirectionalLight3D and OmniLight3D ( GH-55757 ). GUI: Use system fonts as fallback ( GH-68995 ).

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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.

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Game Errors

JANUARY 28, 2023

Shaders are quick applications that modify how in-game objects are rendered on the graphics processing unit (GPU). If Dead Space Remake stuck on building shaders, it may indicate that the game is having problems loading or processing the visual data. Why is Building Shaders Taking Forever in Dead Space Remake?

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Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

This version optimizes some rendering and lighting capabilities, fixes a series of key issues recently reported by users, and recommends that all v3.x Engine • Added DebugView at runtime UI control rendering debugging function. Skip rendering when the UI element Opacity is 0. Skip rendering when the UI element Opacity is 0.

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Cocos

MARCH 28, 2024

stringwizard5: If you use the material.setProperty function, one of the possible arguments that it can take is render pass I am not quite sure what do you mean. We are currently using this shader to create dynamic light effect on 2d sprites, so we are updating it very often. First of all declare your array on the shader.

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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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Nvidia

MARCH 17, 2023

Unlike previous formats, USD compositions can be used to edit data in a non-destructive manner. Even data containing unique specifications for games can be transferred back and forth between various tools without losing data. It is necessary to understand the USD specifications, data structure, API specifications, and so on.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Deserted house in the night, rendered In RedShift. The payload registers are the mechanism NVIDIA OptiX offers for passing arbitrary data along with a ray, from the caller that traces a ray, and back. The new payload size provides a greater variety of applications to be able to take advantage of using only registers for passing data.

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Nvidia

MAY 21, 2021

Recently, NetEase introduced Mesh Shader support to Justice. His work focuses on the rendering engine in Justice, specifically GPU features enabled by DirectX 12. Our first thought is to render some highly detailed models which may need insane number of triangles. Mesh shader solves this problem from the hardware level.

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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.

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Cocos

AUGUST 29, 2023

I have a question related to shaders. I created a game in which I added a shader; it works fine in web mobile and Android, but in iOS it gives an error during rendering. error - Attribute a_uv0 is missing, add a dummy data for it. error - Attribute a_uv0 is missing, add a dummy data for it. float g = texColor.g;

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Cocos

MAY 6, 2023

So they came and asked: How do I add a new Shader for the CRP? pipeline/passes ：Related scripts pipeline/resources/effects ：Related shaders pipeline/resources/materials ：Related materials Pass Code Next, we’ll ignore all principles and details for now, quickly implement a grayscale effect, and grasp the workflow.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2023

Editor: Fix node preview crashes after updating visual shader node ( GH-71385 ). Editor: Make keyboard shortcuts in tile data editors consistent with tilemap editor ( GH-71517 ). Rendering: Fix polyline not supporting closed polygons and not having a uniform width ( GH-62236 ). This release is built from commit caacade56.

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Cocos

MAY 6, 2023

So they came and asked: How do I add a new Shader for the CRP? pipeline/passes ：Related scripts pipeline/resources/effects ：Related shaders pipeline/resources/materials ：Related materials Pass Code Next, we’ll ignore all principles and details for now, quickly implement a grayscale effect, and grasp the workflow.

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Differentiable Slang easily integrates with existing codebases—from Python, PyTorch, and CUDA to HLSL—to aid multiple computer graphics tasks and enable novel data-driven and neural research. Rendering is highly nonlinear, so linear operations on texture maps do not produce the correct linearly changing appearance.

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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.

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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). This is being implemented by facilitating object instance binding data. perspective rendering. cubemap filter.

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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.

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Nvidia

AUGUST 9, 2023

When using advanced rendering techniques like ray tracing or path tracing, Nsight tools are your companion for creating a smooth and polished experience. Today’s update to the Nsight Aftermath SDK improves the contextual data provided through low-overhead, application-specific markers. Make sure it’s enabled first.

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Nvidia

MAY 17, 2023

Resource allocation and destruction Creating and destroying buffers, textures, and shaders is fundamental to efficient computer graphics. Recommended Use a dedicated thread for resource creation to avoid hidden OS costs and blocking frame rendering, as this can result in costly OS paging work.

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Cocos

JUNE 1, 2023

by default it’s not activated in Sprite component because the commitComp was invoked without any transform data github.com cocos/cocos-engine/blob/develop/cocos/2d/components/sprite.ts#L579-L581 L579-L581 protected _render (render: IBatcher) { render.commitComp(this, this.renderData, this._spriteFrame, _spriteFrame, this._assembler,

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Nvidia

AUGUST 7, 2023

Used with a graphics API like OpenGL or DirectX, NVIDIA OptiX permits you to create a renderer that enables faster and more cost-effective product development cycles. It empowers designers to render high-quality images and animations of their products, helping them visualize and iterate on designs more effectively.

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Febucci

MAY 14, 2022

Render the components that are present in the Volume Manager stack. ??? We will do this too (kind of) - and jokes aside - things are not documented yet AND shaders are obscure anyways, so I’ll explain stuff as easily as I have understood them. A custom renderer feature, which will be added to camera’s URP renderer and render our pass.

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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 worker threads for generating AS building command lists. Do this whenever possible.

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Nvidia

APRIL 20, 2023

Where can I find each piece of data, previously shown in the Range Profiler? Initial Connect to process dialog box, per activity Data collection Here are the previous steps for viewing profiling data with the Range Profiler: Press F11 in the application, or choose Capture for Live Analysis in the UI.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). In-depth documentation is available.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

For example, a shader can use warp shuffle instructions to exchange data between threads in a warp without going through shared memory, which is especially valuable in pixel shaders where there is no shared memory. Or a shader can perform atomic additions on half-precision floating-point numbers in global memory.

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