The Knights of Unity

JUNE 5, 2020

Unity Engine introduces an awesome tools to empower your game development process. And even before an era of SRPs (Scriptable Render Pipelines), there was a good amount of solid features like today’s topic: Render textures. In this post I’m going to explain to you how to use render textures in your game. Portal Texture.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 8, 2025

development snapshots. Now the time for proper enhancements and features entirely unique to this development cycle has come, and this blogpost will aim to highlight them to the best of our ability. It is developed by Binogure Studio. You can wishlist the game on Steam and follow the developers on Bluesky. With the 4.4

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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.

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iXie gaming

JUNE 7, 2023

Unity is synonymous with game developers around the world. Among these, Shader Graph and VFX Graph stand out as the most important additions as they empower developers to craft complex shaders and breath-taking visual effects with relative ease. Let’s find out. Introduced in Unity 2018.3,

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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. In this case, the UV coordinate (for reading the texture).

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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. Visual Shader changes.

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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.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 29, 2024

Oscar Salandin , known as Peculiar Pixels, received a major validation for his debut game, BOTSU Ridiculous Robots , by being named the Overall Winner at the Develop Indie Showcase Awards 2024. The English solo developer began his journey right after the Pandemic. Why did you become a solo developer? “I

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Cocos

JUNE 29, 2023

Editor Introduction Many developers want to have as much uniqueness in their games as possible. Some developers share their uniqueness with the perfect font for their game, and some have played around with their font to make for some fun and interesting story-building. We’ll introduce his comments on the extension down below.

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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. Assign a panorama texture to the material and you are all done! It is easy to tweak and update and uses a lightweight shader to avoid consuming GPU resources. Sky Shaders.

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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. It is developed by Chasing Carrots using Godot 4.0 Rendering: Properly append global uniform buffer name in gl_compatibility shaders ( GH-72138 ). milestone.

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 5, 2024

At Logic Simplified , a leading game development company , we created an FPS game Mr. 45. I used a Blinn Shader on the asset to spot any issues with the mesh. Blinn Shader helped me see highlights produced due to light shining off the surface at low angles. They define how the texture wraps around the model.

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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: Implement CAMERA_VISIBLE_LAYERS as built-in shader variable ( GH-67387 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Use internal texture name when setting texture uniform location ( GH-69633 ). GH-68870 ). Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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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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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

Special plane shader With Porco Rosso being such a great source of inspiration it feels only natural to have the game also look like a Ghibli film. A large majority of the art was created from scratch, but Hartley admits having used a few asset packs to help speed up development. “I

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In the fast-paced world of mobile game development , visual effects (VFX) play a pivotal role in creating immersive experiences that captivate players. Techniques such as using lower-resolution textures, controlling particle spawn rates, and optimizing the lifespan of particles can significantly reduce the load on the GPU.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 25, 2023

Rendering: Decrement texture_binding count when using screen textures ( GH-71764 ). 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. This fixes a regression in beta 14. specifically.

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 17, 2023

Unity, a widely adopted game engine, plays a pivotal role in empowering aspiring game developers in making great gaming experiences, thanks to its user-friendly interface and strong community support. But where does one start with game development on Unity? Optimize performance Keep performance in mind throughout development.

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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. On modern GPUs, the L1TEX cache is a combined L1 Data Cache that contains a Load/Store Unit + Texture Unit.

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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 ). The illustration picture for this article is from Dauphin , a 2D RPG in development by Ben / devduck which was recently ported to Godot 4.0 Add next/reset function to AnimationStateMachine ( GH-71264 , GH-71418 ).

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Developer Globiss Interactive has worked hard to build a convincing virtual replica of the Titanic. 99% of our assets are self-modeled and textured, as we believe in creating a product that’s totally our own. Through many shader iterations, we can finally say that the water has reached a level where it actually feels convincing in VR.”

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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 Development Researcher and Manager of NetEase Thunder Fire Games Technical Center, to see what he’s learned as the Justice team added NVIDIA ray-tracing solutions to their development pipeline.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 23, 2018

implement basic texture loading. generate C++ classes for GLSL shaders at compile time. adapt shader compiler to work with GLSL ES 2.0. adapt shader compiler to work with GLSL ES 2.0. meet with other developers at FOSDEM and GodotCon. implement basic texture loading. Done December 2017. and GLSL ES 2.0

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Radiator Blog

APRIL 18, 2022

Most recently, respected developer Ethan Lee has weighed in. Being able to pinpoint bugs in the core Unreal Engine code, fix them, and submit patches to Epic is how modern software development works. For him it's not about the graphics, it's about source engine access and engineering processes. I'm waiting for Godot.

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Moonmana

JULY 11, 2022

Creating custom game assets is believed to be the most important and time-consuming stage in game development. Working with outsource game development providers, you can eliminate long-lasting hiring processes, onboarding, teams management and continuous reviews. full-cycle development from concept to screening . Time saving.

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Jaunty Bear Games

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Fortunately the Unity 3D platform has a great selection of packages and assets to accelerate the build of tools, models, shaders, sound effects, animations etc. For the development of Math it Right 3D Adventure I’ve used the following Unity packages. Unity Technologies Assets. Addressables by Unity Technologies.

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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 it is not, it is likely the initiative will be retired and developments will move on.

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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 In rendering, textures are used for sooo many things. Everything is a texture if you're brave enough). added TIME uniform to all "scriptable" shaders. Because the new OpenGL ES 2.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2016

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 texture API to include more modern texture compression formats. Write a more flexible, GLES 3 GLSL compatible shader language. For Godot 3.0 (our

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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: Add texture reading code to OpenGL3 renderer for web and mobile ( GH-68138 ). Rendering: Enable mipmaps in cubemap roughness shader ( GH-68511 ). Rendering: Properly set TIME shader uniform when rendering shadows ( GH-68574 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

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. This design makes some things easy: Avoiding user and developer mistakes by forcing a very clear API wall. For example: On GLES3+ we can use UBOs to optimize shader parameters.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Simplex noise, like any other type of noise, is especially useful in two areas of game development: procedural generation and visual effects. 2D noise textures are really useful when creating cloudy or wavy effects. But the true power of noise textures becomes available when used in combination with text shaders: Getting started.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

Follow Kenny Park on Twitter or Mastodon for development updates, and check his website to discover other games and applications. Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ). Visual Shader: Add few improvements for VisualShaderNodeParticleRandomness ( GH-71123 ). What's new.

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Example application: Appearance-based BRDF optimization One of the basic building blocks in computer graphics is BRDF texture maps representing multiple properties of materials and describing how the light interacts with the rendered surfaces. For more information and code examples, see the /shader-slang GitHub repo.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2020

It still lacks a few minor details (like colorspace adjustment via 3D textures) but it's mostly there. Due to this, it is now possible to associate a roughness texture with a normal texture, which will adjust roughness based on normal mipmap variance. While it more or less retains the functionality from Godot 3.x,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Additionally, all 2D shadows and light textures use a single atlas, resulting in improved performance. the new CanvasTexture texture type has been introduced. If a shader is applied to them, or if transparency is changed, the effect is applied to every node individually, given they each do it in their own draw call. CanvasGroup.

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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. meet with other developers at FOSDEM and GodotCon. implement more shader features. meet with other developers at FOSDEM and GodotCon.

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