Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 26, 2025

at full speed (with a first dev snapshot released last week!), Rendering: Use separate WorkThreadPool for shader compiler ( GH-103506 ). Shaders: Fix 2D instance params crashing using outside of main() ( GH-103348 ). Shaders: 2D: Fix light shader accessing TEXTURE_PIXEL_SIZE ( GH-103617 ). We released Godot 4.4

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 30, 2025

Shaders: Fix space transformations in WorldPositionFromDepth visual shader node generation ( GH-100350 ). 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 ).

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 11, 2024

Revealed during its Worldwide Development Conference on June 10, Gaming Porting Toolkit 2 adds support for Intel's Advanced Vector Extensions 2, ray tracing, improved compatibility with Windows games, and new shader debugging tools, as Apple noted on its blog.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

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: Properly append global uniform buffer name in gl_compatibility shaders ( GH-72138 ). Shaders: Add derivative functions with precision to shaders ( GH-72109 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 14, 2025

Rendering: Use separate WorkThreadPool for shader compiler ( GH-103506 ). Shaders: Fix 2D instance params crashing using outside of main() ( GH-103348 ). Shaders: Fix 2D instance params crashing using outside of main() ( GH-103348 ). Shaders: Fix unused varying incorrect warning in shaders ( GH-103434 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 25, 2023

Shaders: Fix code generation for ProximityRange node in visual shader ( GH-71760 ). Note that you need to force recompiling your affected visual shaders by doing any change in their graph. Shaders: Clean up shader parameter remap ( GH-71797 ). Shaders: Fix shader include dependency handling ( GH-71878 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Rendering: OpenGL: Fix scene shader error when using Omni or Spot but not both ( GH-69901 ). Shaders: Fix the sorting of shader uniforms ( GH-70016 ). Shaders: Optimize code generation of visual shader particles ( GH-69900 ). Shaders: Optimize code generation of visual shader particles ( GH-69900 ).

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 29, 2024

Working in Mixed Reality, I met many ex game devs and artists, who I learned from and was greatly inspired by. Although we weren’t making games, the tech for Mixed Reality was identical to making games, so I picked up a lot of technical ability with Unity, game dev, shaders and more.” It’s made a huge difference.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Beta 10 will be the last dev snapshot of the year 2022, as a lot of our contributors will no doubt be slowing down for the end of year celebrations and some quality family time. Thank you for being an integral part of the dev process with your rigorous testing and timely reports! This release is built from commit d0398f62f.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Rendering: Implement CAMERA_VISIBLE_LAYERS as built-in shader variable ( GH-67387 ). Visual Shader: Make custom visual shader nodes automatically updates from script ( GH-69738 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET GH-68870 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 2023

For shaders, we removed the now-redundant SCREEN_TEXTURE , DEPTH_TEXTURE , and NORMAL_ROUGHNESS_TEXTURE ( GH-70967 ). Note that there’s a helpful error in the shader editor telling you how to port code, but there’s a typo: filter_linear_mipmaps should be filter_linear_mipmap (no ‘s’). As well as many improvements to the documentation.

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That One Game Dev

MAY 30, 2023

In this article you will learn on the basic level what shaders are and how they are used in graphics programming. The post What are Shaders? appeared first on That One Game Dev.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

Visual Shader: Add few improvements for VisualShaderNodeParticleRandomness ( GH-71123 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET Rendering: Only setup depth framebuffer properties when not rendering ReflectionProbes ( GH-71303 ).

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That One Game Dev

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

In this article I will give you an insight on how to include compiled GLSL shaders into your project build step using CMake. The post How to compile shaders with CMake appeared first on That One Game Dev.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: Enable mipmaps in cubemap roughness shader ( GH-68511 ). Rendering: Properly set TIME shader uniform when rendering shadows ( GH-68574 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET XR: Add support for OpenGL to OpenXR ( GH-67775 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2023

Editor: Fix node preview crashes after updating visual shader node ( GH-71385 ). Rendering: Properly initialize directional_light_count in RD sky shaders ( GH-71526 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 29, 2024

We are breaking compatibility for some custom shaders. Here is why.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Rendering: OpenGL: Fix scene shader error when using Omni or Spot but not both ( GH-69901 ). Shaders: Fix the sorting of shader uniforms ( GH-70016 ). Shaders: Optimize code generation of visual shader particles ( GH-69900 ). Shaders: Optimize code generation of visual shader particles ( GH-69900 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Beta 10 will be the last dev snapshot of the year 2022, as a lot of our contributors will no doubt be slowing down for the end of year celebrations and some quality family time. Thank you for being an integral part of the dev process with your rigorous testing and timely reports! This release is built from commit d0398f62f.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Rendering: Use proper indices for lights, decals, and reflection probes in mobile scene shader ( GH-70929 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET Rendering: Ignore depth draw optimization when using depth draw alpha prepass ( GH-70884 ). specifically.

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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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 13, 2018

After some weeks of work, the new visual shader editor is ready for testing! What is a visual shader editor? This editor allows creating shaders using nodes and connections, instead of typing code. It provides a simple and fool-proof way for those not confident in writing shader code to create complex shaders.

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Cocos

DECEMBER 7, 2023

GitHub： shader-graph Preview Basic Structure Preparation Phase Cocos Creator 3.8.2 editor and the shader-graph.zip shader-graph.zip plugin. Click , choose the shader-graph.zip extension file, and import it. Creating Asset Right-click in the Assets panel, select Create/Shader Graph to create a.shadergraph asset.

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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. It is easy to tweak and update and uses a lightweight shader to avoid consuming GPU resources. Sky Shaders. Sky Shaders draw to the background and to the radiance cubemap.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

Visual Shader: Add few improvements for VisualShaderNodeParticleRandomness ( GH-71123 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET Rendering: Only setup depth framebuffer properties when not rendering ReflectionProbes ( GH-71303 ).

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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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

Some noteworthy changes in this release: Shader preprocessor support and shader includes. Grouping annotations for shaders ( uniform_group ). Rendering: Force regenerating shader cache when updating Godot ( GH-62848 ). Shaders: Add shader preprocessor and includes support ( GH-62513 ). Known issues.

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 10, 2025

I love to make everything myself, using only my own or custom assets and my own shaders. I spend a lot of time working on my own shaders, recording sounds, and composing music. Thats why Gorman loves working by himself. My focus is on developing unique and personal games. Why did you become a solo developer?

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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, Shaders can take take inputs, modify them and produce outputs. Shaders can take take inputs, modify them and produce outputs. Simple, right?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Rendering: Use proper indices for lights, decals, and reflection probes in mobile scene shader ( GH-70929 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET Rendering: Ignore depth draw optimization when using depth draw alpha prepass ( GH-70884 ). specifically.

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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 ). Shaders: Add often used built-ins to spatial shaders ( NODE_POSITION_WORLD , CAMERA_POSITION_WORLD , CAMERA_DIRECTION_WORLD , NODE_POSITION_VIEW ) ( GH-63597 ). Known issues.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2022

and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript).

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 14, 2024

A single purchasable asset is never atomic - the purchased item is comprised of many parts like the 3D model, the diffuse textures, normal map, occlusion map, any other materials, rigging, animations, shaders, and so on. If MW3's carry-forward is wildly successful, other devs will take notice.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 6, 2025

Add proper support for the immersive-ar and immersive-vr webXR modes Provides signals to notify when the user enters or exits XR Pickable objects now include an action_released signal so additional logic can be written when objects are dropped by the user Allow grab-points and poses to work with different types of hand trackers The vignette shader (..)

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Game Errors

AUGUST 25, 2023

Encountering Dev error 6345 in Warzone or Modern Warfare can be confusing and frustrating, the worst mixture when troubleshooting game errors. What is Dev code 6345? Dev code 6345 is a fatal error occurring in Modern Warfare and Warzone. How to fix Dev code 6345? How to fix Dev code 6345?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 2022

and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. Shaders: Many improvements backported from master ( GH-56794 ). The main changes coming in Godot 3.5 Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

Editor: Improvements to shader editor ( GH-63582 ). Shaders: Quality of life Visual Shaders updates ( GH-63999 ). Shaders: Implement custom non-trivial Visual Shader nodes ( GH-64248 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET

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