Logic Simplified

APRIL 4, 2025

Choosing the Right Networking Solution Unity offers multiple networking solutions, but selecting the right one depends on the game's complexity, player count, and required features. The optimization of shaders combines calculation simplification methods which lowers both shader passes and processing redundancy. Look no further!

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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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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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iXie gaming

JUNE 7, 2023

Ever since its release in 2005, the game engine has seen several iterations and has evolved significantly over the years. The game engine has amassed popularity thanks to its versatility and ease of use compared to other engines in the market. Let’s find out. Introduced in Unity 2018.3,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Hi, I'm Yuri ( Chaosus ), and I made a number of changes this past 18 months to upgrade the shader language in Godot 4.0 There are changes to the editor usability, to the shader language itself, and to visual shaders. Shader creation dialog. A new warning system for shaders within the editor has been implemented.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 12, 2023

Nielsen quit his job as a software engineer two years ago and decided to go all-in on game development. “I Once we had that idea, the rest came really naturally, and it’s one of my favorite features!” João does all the art and shaders. “We don’t take ourselves very seriously. And João was straight out of university.

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Unity Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

The Universal Render Pipeline (URP) 3D Sample features four environments for developers to explore how to best use the latest URP features, such as Forward+ rendering, Decals, Lens Flares, Physically Based Rendering materials, Shader Graph, Volumes, and Post-processing.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 20, 2025

As is often the case following a feature-freeze, several quality PRs were finally released from the collective backlog, as merging them at the time wouldve been too much of a risk. Rendering: Use separate WorkThreadPool for shader compiler ( GH-103506 ). Our first development snapshot for 4.5 has arrived!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

has been in beta for over three months , and the overall feature completeness, stability and usability have improved a lot during that time. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 3D: Switch Mesh surface indexing to start at 0 so string name matches integer index ( GH-70176 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Shaders: Fix source_color default value ( GH-101642 ). feature release. While engine maintainers try their best to ensure that each preview snapshot and release candidate is stable, this is by definition a pre-release piece of software. Rendering: Mark pipeline compilation of ubershaders as high priority ( GH-102125 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 22, 2019

release, the Visual Shader editor was recreated from the ashes of its Godot 2.x While usable and packed with visual features, Visual Shaders lacked many features from their Shader (script) big brother. So, let's begin reviewing the new features. For example: Swirl shader code by LKS: [link].

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Cocos

AUGUST 10, 2023

Sorry to litter up the forums with a question like this but I couldn’t find anything about it anywhere online… So… I have made some shaders that use time to essentially animate themselves. Whenever I attach them to a material, and then a sprite in the engine, I can see them moving in the editor as expected.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 16, 2020

feature set continues at a vibrant pace (stay tuned for the progress report at the end of the month!). Today I will discuss a new feature that most likely takes a bit more time to understand than just looking at the above image. Godot shader language is one of the easiest ones to use of any engine. Simple, right?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

It brings much-requested improvements to usability and many important features. was a massive release, which required large rewrites of the engine codebase and breaking backwards compatibility significantly. now and keep on reading about the great features added in this version. New features. Visual shader editor.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Vulkan rewrite has largely been enhancements to the 3D engine, the 2D side will also see several improvements. A very requested feature for the 2D engine is the possibility to have 2D directional lights and shadows. Hopefully, users will give many other cool uses to this new feature. While the focus of Godot 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

The beta snapshots cadence allows us to better measure the overall stability and quickly catch regressions, especially when a lot of features are worked on at the same time. 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.

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Nvidia

MARCH 20, 2023

Streamline is the NVIDIA open-source cross-IHV framework that simplifies the integration of features like DLSS 3. In addition, Epic Games announced the DLSS Frame Generation plugin coming to Unreal Engine in its next release. NVIDIA DLSS 3 introduces truly impressive frame generation technology and the Unreal Engine 5.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 14, 2014

is to focus on improving the 2D engine with all the feedback that we have gathered during the past months, improving shader support for 2D, visual shader editing (for 2D and 3D), and more draw options such as per-node z-priority. Help us let the world know this little game engine exists! The plan for 1.1

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Cocos

AUGUST 23, 2023

Sorry to litter up the forums with a question like this but I couldn’t find anything about it anywhere online… So… I have made some shaders that use time to essentially animate themselves. Whenever I attach them to a material, and then a sprite in the engine, I can see them moving in the editor as expected.

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Radiator Blog

APRIL 18, 2022

For him it's not about the graphics, it's about source engine access and engineering processes. Being able to pinpoint bugs in the core Unreal Engine code, fix them, and submit patches to Epic is how modern software development works. I would never maintain my own engine branch.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 25, 2023

The beta snapshots cadence allows us to better measure the overall stability and quickly catch regressions, especially when a lot of features are worked on at the same time. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 2D: Add a method to get global CanvasItem modulate ( GH-70294 ). This fixes a regression in beta 14.

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Cocos

JANUARY 8, 2023

github.com/cocos/cocos-engine. <! . * [ ] affects file structure of the build package or build configuration which requires user project upgrade. * [ ] **introduces breaking changes**, please list all changes, affected features and the scope of violation. <!-- fix 2d particle effect bug. cocos:develop ← zxx43:v3.6.2_2dparticle.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2025

What a year it has been, with the number of Godot submissions in game jams rising to new heights, more people working for the Godot Foundation than ever before , and most industry award shows featuring one if not more games made with Godot. Subscribe to The Nodeletter to get a regular digest of Godot Engine news directly in your email inbox!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

has been in beta for over three months , and the overall feature completeness, stability and usability have improved a lot during that time. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 3D: Switch Mesh surface indexing to start at 0 so string name matches integer index ( GH-70176 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2023

Such cadence allows us to better measure the overall stability and quickly catch regressions, especially when a lot of features are worked on at the same time. This week we release a new batch of improvements and fixes, as well as some new features. Unfortunately, we also have to rollback one of the core animations features.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 2023

Such cadence allows us to better measure the overall stability and quickly catch regressions, especially when a lot of features are worked on at the same time. A lot of minor fixes and improvements to TileMap and TileSet, both feature wise and in the editor ( GH-71604 , GH-71615 , GH-71618 , GH-71626 , GH-71630 , GH-71664 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

As such, most of the focus was on implementing missing features or bugfixes which are critical for publishing 2D and 3D games with Godot 3, and on making the existing features more optimized and reliable. now and read on to learn more about the many new features in this update. Shader language features.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

The Brew Barons also features aerial combat. “As We turned once more to Porco Rosso which features a band of mischievous but loveable pirates, so we added them to the game to help introduce some combat.” ” Elaborating on the game’s aesthetics, Hartley feels particularly proud of the plane shader. But that’s not all.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

has been in beta for over two months , and the overall feature completeness, stability and usability have improved a lot during that time. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Add track validator to AnimationPlayerEditor to detect tracks which have error ( GH-68770 ). GH-68870 ).

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Harold Serrano

MAY 26, 2024

For a long time, the first version of my game engine lacked a UI. Since my goal is to learn more about the interaction between light and surfaces, i.e. BRDF, it became apparent that I needed to add more features to the renderer's UI. For about two weeks I dropped my Renderer Engineer hat and worked as a UI designer.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 20, 2015

Brand new 2D engine and more! This release brings a completely new 2D engine and more features (feature list below). At this point Godot is one of the most advanced 2D engines out there. this video with the new feature showcase! Full list of features. Check out (and share!) 2D Materials. 2D Materials.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 2, 2017

The reasoning behind this late feature addition is that, now that we released 3.0 alpha1, users need more content to test with the new 3D engine. Sites like Sketchfab provide plenty of PBR-ready assets for downloading, and plugins that export scenes from other popular game engines to this format. Khronos, with glTF 2.0,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Every beta release so far has included a lot of fixes in one or more key areas, and the next major version of the engine starts to finally look complete. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 2D: Simplify isometric tile shape polygon in TileSet to 4 vertices ( GH-70238 ).

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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. To learn more about the implementation and results, we sat down with Yuheng Zou, game engine developer at NetEase.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 21, 2024

Nielsen quit his job as a software engineer two years ago and decided to go all-in on game development. “I Once we had that idea, the rest came really naturally, and it’s one of my favorite features!” João does all the art and shaders. “We don’t take ourselves very seriously. And João was straight out of university.

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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. using legacy rendering, but the features I used work in SRPs too. Project Setup. Water Trails.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

We just announced that we'll enter feature freeze next week to focus on stabilizing the existing functionality in Godot 4.0 But we're not there yet and we'll keep having frequent alpha builds until we're ready to slap the beta label on the engine. Some noteworthy changes in this release: Shader preprocessor support and shader includes.

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