PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Framerate Optimization To address this, Unity offers several profiling and debugging tools. Another essential tool, the Shader Graph heatmap, provides a visual estimate of the cost associated with different Shader Graph nodes. Developers can leverage this feedback to make informed decisions when optimizing shader programs.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2023

You can now deploy your projects to all desktop platforms over SSH, as well as run a remote debug session similar to what we already offered for Android and Web. As the number of remote debug options is quite big by now, we’ve packed them neatly in a single drop-down menu ( GH-63312 , GH-70701 ). Jump to the Downloads section.

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Nvidia

MARCH 20, 2023

At GDC 2023, NVIDIA released new tools that make real-time path tracing more accessible to developers while accelerating the creation of ultra-realistic game. At GDC 2023 , NVIDIA released new tools that make real-time path tracing more accessible to developers while accelerating the creation of ultra-realistic game worlds.

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Nvidia

JULY 19, 2021

Nsight developer tools is a suite of powerful tools and SDKs for profiling, debugging and optimizing applications focused on improving performance for graphics, Nsight developer tools is a suite of powerful tools and SDKs for profiling, debugging and optimizing applications focused on improving performance for graphics, gaming and other use cases.

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Nvidia

MAY 21, 2021

NetEase Thunder Fire Games Uses Mesh Shading To Create Beautiful Game Environments for Justice In December, we interviewed Haiyong Qian, NetEase Game Engine. Recently, NetEase introduced Mesh Shader support to Justice. Not only are the updated environments breathtaking, the game supports 1.8

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Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

Engine • Added DebugView at runtime UI control rendering debugging function. 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. Fixed an issue with Facebook instant games not starting. Fixed Mat4.getRotation

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The game is developed by Vedg Studio / NoirosL and was recently ported to Godot 4.0 Rendering: Fix several render issues found while debugging XR ( GH-68102 ). Rendering: Enable mipmaps in cubemap roughness shader ( GH-68511 ). Rendering: Enable mipmaps in cubemap roughness shader ( GH-68511 ). Wishlist it on Steam!

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 4, 2022

We sat down with Dinggen Zhan of NetEase to discuss his team's implementation of path tracing in the popular martial arts game, Justice Online. We sat down with Dinggen Zhan of NetEase to discuss his team’s implementation of path tracing in the popular martial arts game, Justice Online. What is your.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

The game is currently being ported to Godot 4.0 Follow Kenny Park on Twitter or Mastodon for development updates, and check his website to discover other games and applications. Export: Fix missing "debug"/"release" export presets feature tags ( GH-71274 ). What's new.

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Nvidia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Featuring third-generation Ray Tracing Cores and fourth-generation Tensor Cores, they accelerate games that take advantage of the latest neural graphics and ray tracing technology. The latest suite of technologies multiply performance in games while accelerating how quickly developers can create content.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 26, 2021

To enable this, set the ‘Capture Type’ to ‘One-shot [Beta]’ While TraceRays/DispatchRays has been the common way to initiate ray generation, it’s now possible to ray trace directly from your compute shaders using DXR1.1 Finally, we’ve added the Nsight HUD to Windows Vulkan applications in all frame debugging capture states.

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Nvidia

APRIL 20, 2023

The Range Profiler’s pie chart shows instructions executed, per shader stage. GPU Trace can measure total instructions, but a per-shader stage decomposition is only available in the Occupancy chart. What about the Shader Profiler? the Shader Profiler continues to be available through the Frame Debugger activity.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Numbers are using debug (numbers on release are lower, but when I started optimizing, Godot had problems running on release, so it's difficult to compare). Re-written most shaders to reduce VGPR usage, thus improve occupancy. Did general optimization in most shaders to improve performance. These test do culling on 10k objects.

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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. start work on shader compiler. implement more shader features. implement more shader features. The fragment shader then calculates the associated UV coordinate for each fragment.

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Nvidia

JULY 25, 2022

This post gathers best practices based on our experiences so far using NVIDIA RTX ray tracing in games. Flagging instances or geometries as opaque allows uninterrupted hardware intersection search and prevents invocation of the any-hit shader. This feature becomes available in HLSL Shader Model 6.6. Do this whenever possible.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 18, 2020

While this is not a feature per se, it fixes a major annoyance that users have had with pointers to freed objects unexpectedly being re-assigned to new objects, causing hard-to-debug issues. GLES2 batching is enabled by default both in-game and in the editor. 2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ).

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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. Ability to completely reimplement all rendering code if desired, without changing the underlying game. For example: On GLES3+ we can use UBOs to optimize shader parameters. Shader abstraction.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2020

While this is not a feature per se, it fixes a major annoyance that users have had with pointers to freed objects unexpectedly being re-assigned to new objects, causing hard-to-debug issues. GLES2 batching is enabled by default both in-game and in the editor. 2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ).

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Cocos

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Many friends associate post-effects with AAA 3D games, but in reality, their application is also extensive in 2D game development. Properly utilizing post-effects can significantly enhance the visual quality of a 2D game by several levels. You can also drag the material into the module’s material slot in the editor.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 12, 2020

While this is not a feature per se, it fixes a major annoyance that users have had with pointers to freed objects unexpectedly being re-assigned to new objects, causing hard-to-debug issues. GLES2 batching is enabled by default both in-game and in the editor. 2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

The game is currently being ported to Godot 4.0 Follow Kenny Park on Twitter or Mastodon for development updates, and check his website to discover other games and applications. Export: Fix missing “debug”/”release” export presets feature tags ( GH-71274 ). What’s new.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

stable branch in January 2020 as a major update to our free and open source game engine. Such pointer could be reported as valid even though the memory it points to was not, or worse, that memory could now hold a different object, leading to hard to debug situations. 2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 11, 2022

Add often used built-ins to spatial shaders ( NODE_POSITION_WORLD , CAMERA_POSITION_WORLD , CAMERA_DIRECTION_WORLD , NODE_POSITION_VIEW ) ( GH-63597 ). Navigation: Add more detailed Navigation debug visualization ( GH-62601 ). Same deal as usual, lots of bugs fixed and more refactoring and feature work.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Editor: Add custom debug shape thickness and color options to RayCast ( GH-49726 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Our script editor maintainer, Paul Batty ( Paulb23 ), implemented initial support for multi-caret editing in TextEdit, which is therefore usable in the GDScript and shader editors, as well as any other multi-line text field in the editor. target=template_debug : Debug template, optimized, with debugging code.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Our script editor maintainer, Paul Batty ( Paulb23 ), implemented initial support for multi-caret editing in TextEdit, which is therefore usable in the GDScript and shader editors, as well as any other multi-line text field in the editor. target=template_debug : Debug template, optimized, with debugging code.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 23, 2022

Edit 2022-03-24 @ 12:15 UTC: There was a slight packaging mistake affecting the macOS editor, and the iOS and macOS export templates, as well as a build issue affecting the iOS debug template. Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix compression on blend shapes ( GH-58838 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 30, 2021

Here are the 5 projects/students with links to the relevant sections in this post: Implementing a DAP backend for debugging Godot projects by Ricardo Subtil ( Ev1lbl0w ). Implementing a DAP backend for debugging Godot projects. Project: Implementing a DAP backend for debugging Godot projects. Branch: Ev1lbl0w/gsoc21-dap.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Core: Add detailed error messages to release builds (used to be debug-only) ( GH-53405 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Editor: Add custom debug shape thickness and color options to RayCast ( GH-49726 ). HTML5: Debug HTTP server refactor with SSL support ( GH-48250 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 7, 2020

While this is not a feature per se, it fixes a major annoyance that users have had with pointers to freed objects unexpectedly being re-assigned to new objects, causing hard-to-debug issues. GLES2 batching is enabled by default both in-game and in the editor. 2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Core: Add detailed error messages to release builds (used to be debug-only) ( GH-53405 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ).

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Fast, Modular and Differentiable Shader Programming. Fast, Modular and Differentiable Shader Programming. While Slang began as a research project, it has grown into a practical solution used in the NVIDIA Omniverse and NVIDIA RTX Remix renderers, and the NVIDIA Game Works Falcor research infrastructure.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 11, 2021

This week, we are interviewing Leonardo "Leocesar3D" Veloso about their game Human Diaspora. My name is Leonardo Veloso and I am a 3D artist working on TV broadcasting in Brazil, in my spare time I am a hobbyist game developer. Do you have prior experience with other game engines? Introduce yourself in a few sentences.

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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. Sometimes systems are not equipped to render the most resource-heavy parts of the game, and as a result, the game flatlines immediately. Cyberpunk 2077 has flatlined.”

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

There will still be many fixes made before the final release, and we will need your detailed bug reports to debug issues and fix them. GH-25839 : Visual Shader compile error with CanvasShaderGLES2 (fixed in master ). would be on its release. The features. and Steam.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Core: Add detailed error messages to release builds (used to be debug-only) ( GH-53405 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ).

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