iXie gaming

JUNE 28, 2024

With the right tools, you can turn simple sprites into stunning displays of art and movement. Particle Systems Within Game Engines Unity’s Shuriken and Unreal Engine’s Cascade/Niagara particle systems are powerful tools for creating 2D effects in your games. Spine Spine is the best tool for 2D skeletal animation.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 5, 2016

To explain the idea of how shaders work, let's consider a very simple shader for drawing a sprite to the screen. Our sprite is 32x32 pixels in size, and it must be drawn at some position. The following OpenGL code sends the sprite to the shader for drawing: OpenGL Commands. Multiply by 2. Substract (1, 1). Shaders in Godot.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Over the course of the last four months the engine has seen many changes, making it more stable and feature complete, and it’s getting very close to the state that we would be happy with. More engine enums are now bound with BitField, making their usage more type-safe, especially in C# ( GH-71037 , GH-71045 , GH-71116 ). beta releases.

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Cocos

MAY 23, 2024

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. CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/resources/3d/engine/native/cocos/renderer/gfx-metal/MTLCommandBuffer.mm: line 904 17:49:37 [ERROR]: Sampler binding cc_spriteTexture at set 2 binding 12 is not bounded.

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Cocos

JUNE 1, 2023

Are you using this material with normal Sprite component ? 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 If so, how did you activate USE_LOCAL for it ?

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

This is why many HTML5 engines abound on the market because of their ease of use. You can use this engine to build a variety of games, even complicated ones. There is an in-built asset loader that enables animation sprite loading, sprite sheets, and many other features that are useful for creating functional games.

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Cocos

AUGUST 29, 2024

I’m specifically coping with the following difficulties: Frame rate decreases: I’m seeing noticeable frame rate drops when I add more sprites and animations, particularly on devices with lesser specs. What methods are there for maximising the performance of sprite animation and rendering?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 2, 2019

to use specular and shininess both as parameter and as textures supplied to Sprite, AnimatedSprite, Polygon2D and other nodes. The 2D material system is back, so writing custom shaders works with the new Vulkan renderer. For 3D rendering, a persistent thread worker pool was created for the rendering thread. 2D materials.

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Big Games

MARCH 28, 2025

These games used 2D sprites, with each frame presenting a specific pose. 2D Animation- It is the process of creating movement in a two-dimensional space, often by using 2D sprites. Rendering and Lighting Depends on basic shading and lighting techniques to add detail to flat visuals. Advancements in 2.5D

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Cocos

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Hi @A_S , how did you customized Sprite Component and Assembler? There is a doc ( Optimization of Cross-Language Invocation | Cocos Creator ) here to describe this optimization strategy in engine. Is it feasible to update the render data directly in the C++ code if I move the calculations to C++ by any way.

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Logic Simplified

MAY 7, 2024

Drawing a Spine-friendly character means you also need to draw parts of images that are normally obscured, as the visibility can change as the sprite moves. Smaller size - Spine animations store only the bone data, hence their loading and rendering is stable and fast, even on mobile devices like Android or iOS.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Import: Fix texture atlas generation when source sprite is larger than generated atlas ( GH-55094 ). macOS: Enable multithreaded OpenGL engine flag when using multithreaded VisualServer ( GH-54526 ). Rendering: Fix vertex attribute specification for octahedral compression ( GH-54768 ). if something that worked fine in 3.4

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The Liquid Fire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Like many people, I’ve recently been looking at other engines for ‘reasons’ and have been checking out Godot. For the past couple weeks I’ve been learning some of the ins and outs of the engine, and getting a feel for how it compares to Unity. Downloading & Running I am using Godot 4.x x for this tutorial.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

To ensure high performance, it’s crucial to limit the number of particles rendered at any given time. Additionally, employing sprite sheets can help manage particles efficiently by combining multiple images into a single texture, minimizing draw calls and improving performance.

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Cocos

AUGUST 29, 2023

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. CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/resources/3d/engine/native/cocos/renderer/gfx-metal/MTLCommandBuffer.mm: line 902 17:39:35 [ERROR]: Sampler binding at set 2 binding 2 is not bounded.

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Cocos

JULY 20, 2023

197 Import engine: 0.006103515625 ms C:ProgramDatacocoseditorsCreator3.7.0resourcesapp.asarbuiltinscenedistscript3dmanagerstartupindex.ccc:1 Require engine time: 1659.67919921875 ms C:ProgramDatacocoseditorsCreator3.7.0resourcesresources3denginebin.cachedeveditorbundledindex.js:19314 resources/3d/engine/bin/.cache/dev/editor/bundled/index.js.map:

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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). The biggest user-facing change in the bindings is, that user-created classes can now directly inherit from engine types.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Import: Fix texture atlas generation when source sprite is larger than generated atlas ( GH-55094 ). macOS: Enable multithreaded OpenGL engine flag when using multithreaded VisualServer ( GH-54526 ). Rendering: Fix vertex attribute specification for octahedral compression ( GH-54768 ). which fixes that issue.

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Cocos

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Post-processing effects, are used for further processing of rendered results to achieve various advanced and special effects. Analysis of 2D Post-Processing Solutions Cocos Creator currently lacks built-in support for post-processing in the 2D render phase, requiring developers to explore various approaches to achieve the rendering goals.

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The Liquid Fire

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

As a game engine, Unity provides a lot of functionality right out of the box. Right-click in the Hierarchy window, and choose “2D Object -> Physics -> Dynamic Sprite” Congratulations, you have just created a GameObject. Sprite Renderer – is what makes the object show up in the camera.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Import: Fix texture atlas generation when source sprite is larger than generated atlas ( GH-55094 ). macOS: Enable multithreaded OpenGL engine flag when using multithreaded VisualServer ( GH-54526 ). Rendering: Fix vertex attribute specification for octahedral compression ( GH-54768 ). if something that worked fine in 3.4

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Import: Fix texture atlas generation when source sprite is larger than generated atlas ( GH-55094 ). macOS: Enable multithreaded OpenGL engine flag when using multithreaded VisualServer ( GH-54526 ). Rendering: Fix vertex attribute specification for octahedral compression ( GH-54768 ). if something that worked fine in 3.4

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

was a massive release, which required large rewrites of the engine codebase and breaking backwards compatibility significantly. If you use and enjoy Godot, plan to use it, or want support the cause of having a mature, high quality free and open source game engine, then please consider becoming our patron. renderer was removed.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 4, 2021

Do you have prior experience with other game engines? We started making Primal Light in Python (using the PyGame module), but when we started getting serious about the project, we decided to shift to a full-fledged engine. Finally, Godot has better animation tools than other engines I have worked with.

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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. 2D batching for the GLES2 renderer. While most rendering work was postponed for the 4.0 release with its new Vulkan-based renderer, our contributors lawnjelly and Clay ( clayjohn ) decided to give some more attention to the 3.2

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Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

Find character sprites, environment tiles, UI elements, sound effects, and music tracks, all contributed by artists and musicians within the game development community. Visual Scripting And No-Code Solutions Bolt for Unity: This visual scripting editor within the Unity game engine allows you to build game logic without writing code.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

We also took the chance to rewrite key parts of Godot, which were considerably overdesigned (and dated), such as the audio engine, and the import framework. This allows for simplifying some behaviors, such as using a Viewport directly as a texture in a Sprite, or creating button groups without a special control. New audio engine.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 4, 2017

Modules have access to all the C++ classes available in Godot and can extend engine functionality. You want a different renderer? "A Native script", as in "a script you're writing", is just a script, just like a GDScript file, so it doesn't have access to those classes, it also can't extend engine functionality.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 7, 2018

The existing animation system in Godot was already one of the most powerful of any game engine, but its age was starting to show (it was written 10 years ago and barely improved). Changing sprite textures, colors, animation frames, calling functions, playing animations in other animation players, playing sounds, etc. A bit of history.

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iXie gaming

MARCH 2, 2025

continues to evolve, leveraging AI, modern rendering techniques, and cutting-edge game engines to push the boundaries of game design. allows for stylized, hand-painted visuals, blending nostalgia with modern rendering techniques. From indie studios to AAA developers, 2.5D merges the best of both worlds. What Powers 2.5D?

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Radiator Blog

APRIL 9, 2021

The engine should be able to render and simulate 200+ lightweight game objects -- frame-animated sprites with simple collision, no fancy physics or shaders. Which game engine should I use to maximize ease of learning and compatibility, and manage hundreds of simple objects on-screen? Reminder: for iOS, that means WebGL 1.0

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