Harold Serrano

MAY 26, 2024

For a long time, the first version of my game engine lacked a UI. Thus, I ended up developing a BRDF renderer. If you didn't get a chance to read the article, here are some screenshots of what I accomplished with my renderer. The UI in my renderer is simple. And that is what I did. So, this is where I am right now.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Export: Disable Metal and Vulkan renderers in simulator builds. Rendering: 2D: Fix clip children and rendering artefacts ( GH-102161 ). Rendering: Add loop annotations to ubershaders to prevent loop unrolling ( GH-102480 ). Rendering: Fix shadow peter-panning with default spotlight ( GH-101952 ).

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iXie gaming

MARCH 28, 2025

Today, advancements in tools like ZBrush, Unreal Engine, and Substance Painter have revolutionized the pipeline, making it more streamlined and efficient. A well-defined art style, whether realistic, stylized, or pixel-based, guides asset complexity, rendering performance, and development timelines. Hard surface modelling (e.g.,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

has an entirely new rendering architecture, which is divided into modern and compatibility backends. The modern one does rendering via RenderingDevice (which is implemented in drivers such as Vulkan, Direct3D 12, and more in the future). Rendering is significantly more efficient in Godot 4.0, Core engine. improvements.

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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. In this post I’m going to explain to you how to use render textures in your game.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Last year we announced that we were planning on creating an OpenGL-based renderer to complement the current Vulkan-based renderers. with an OpenGL-based renderer; it just won't be feature complete. As a reminder, an OpenGL-based renderer is still crucial so we can support older platforms, and Web export. LightmapGI.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Rendering: Shaders: Only convert default value to linear color if type hint is source_color ( GH-103201 ). Rendering: Metal: Fix SPIR-V MSL compilation on iOS targets ( GH-103337 ). GDScript: Add bound checks to Array / Packed*Array variant call get and set methods ( GH-103362 ). Input: Change default deadzone back to 0.5

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Last year we announced that we were planning on creating an OpenGL-based renderer to complement the current Vulkan-based renderers. with an OpenGL-based renderer; it just won’t be feature complete. As a reminder, an OpenGL-based renderer is still crucial so we can support older platforms, and Web export. LightmapGI.

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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. 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. Running the whole graphics rendering in a separate thread.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: String and StringName are now mostly cross-compatible throughout the engine API, as well as in various GDScript-specific expressions and statements ( GH-68747 ). The illustration picture for this article is from Raffaele Picca 's car scene , rendered in Godot 4.0

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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

JANUARY 27, 2023

Flag dirty dependencies when GeometryInstance dependencies change in renderer ( GH-71581 ). 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: Fix LCD font AA on OpenGL renderer ( GH-72125 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 25, 2023

renderer support ( GH-71848 ). Rendering: Fix Vulkan validation errors related to enabling extensions ( GH-70429 ). Rendering: Fix DirectionalLight3D shadow opacity on Forward Mobile rendering backend ( GH-71690 ). Rendering: Use proper space for forward GI reflections ( GH-71694 ). iOS: Restore OpenGL ES 3.0

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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

JANUARY 30, 2025

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

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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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Nvidia

JULY 10, 2023

One factor to consider is whether background driver optimizations were engaged and when their resulting optimized shaders were deployed. The observations are then used to compile a shader asynchronously. Understandably, this can cause a great deal of confusion in timing your shaders.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2016

As many of you have probably heard, a new rendering backend is being worked on for Godot. Our goal is to have a modern, clustered renderer that supports everything mainstream engines support, including PBR, global illumination and flexible shader editing. Write a more flexible, GLES 3 GLSL compatible shader language.

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Cocos

JULY 8, 2024

I have a question related to shaders. 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. How to solve this issue version-3.8.2 17:49:37 [ERROR]: [ERROR] file /Applications/Cocos/Creator/3.8.2/CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/resources/3d/engine/native/cocos/renderer/gfx-metal/MTLCommandBuffer.mm:

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Cocos

JULY 7, 2024

I have a question related to shaders. 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. How to solve this issue version-3.8.2 17:49:37 [ERROR]: [ERROR] file /Applications/Cocos/Creator/3.8.2/CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/resources/3d/engine/native/cocos/renderer/gfx-metal/MTLCommandBuffer.mm:

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Cocos

JUNE 21, 2024

I have a question related to shaders. 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. How to solve this issue version-3.8.2 17:49:37 [ERROR]: [ERROR] file /Applications/Cocos/Creator/3.8.2/CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/resources/3d/engine/native/cocos/renderer/gfx-metal/MTLCommandBuffer.mm:

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Cocos

JUNE 28, 2024

I have a question related to shaders. 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. How to solve this issue version-3.8.2 17:49:37 [ERROR]: [ERROR] file /Applications/Cocos/Creator/3.8.2/CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/resources/3d/engine/native/cocos/renderer/gfx-metal/MTLCommandBuffer.mm:

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Cocos

JUNE 21, 2024

I have a question related to shaders. 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. How to solve this issue version-3.8.2 17:49:37 [ERROR]: [ERROR] file /Applications/Cocos/Creator/3.8.2/CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/resources/3d/engine/native/cocos/renderer/gfx-metal/MTLCommandBuffer.mm:

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Cocos

JUNE 21, 2024

I have a question related to shaders. 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. How to solve this issue version-3.8.2 17:49:37 [ERROR]: [ERROR] file /Applications/Cocos/Creator/3.8.2/CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/resources/3d/engine/native/cocos/renderer/gfx-metal/MTLCommandBuffer.mm:

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Cocos

JUNE 19, 2024

I have a question related to shaders. 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. How to solve this issue version-3.8.2 17:49:37 [ERROR]: [ERROR] file /Applications/Cocos/Creator/3.8.2/CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/resources/3d/engine/native/cocos/renderer/gfx-metal/MTLCommandBuffer.mm:

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Cocos

JUNE 4, 2024

I have a question related to shaders. 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. How to solve this issue version-3.8.2 17:49:37 [ERROR]: [ERROR] file /Applications/Cocos/Creator/3.8.2/CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/resources/3d/engine/native/cocos/renderer/gfx-metal/MTLCommandBuffer.mm:

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Cocos

JUNE 5, 2024

I have a question related to shaders. 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. How to solve this issue version-3.8.2 17:49:37 [ERROR]: [ERROR] file /Applications/Cocos/Creator/3.8.2/CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/resources/3d/engine/native/cocos/renderer/gfx-metal/MTLCommandBuffer.mm:

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Cocos

MAY 28, 2024

I have a question related to shaders. 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. How to solve this issue version-3.8.2 17:49:37 [ERROR]: [ERROR] file /Applications/Cocos/Creator/3.8.2/CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/resources/3d/engine/native/cocos/renderer/gfx-metal/MTLCommandBuffer.mm:

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Rendering: Use circular fade instead of linear fade for distance fade ( GH-50294 ). Rendering: Tweak shadow bias defaults for DirectionalLight3D and OmniLight3D ( GH-55757 ). Rendering: Fix AABB errors on meshes with bones on multiple surfaces ( GH-65035 ). Rendering: Allow black metallic materials to reflect IBL ( GH-69522 ).

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Fast, Modular and Differentiable Shader Programming. Fast, Modular and Differentiable Shader Programming. The paper shows how a single language can serve as a unified platform for real-time, inverse, and differentiable rendering. NVIDIA just released a SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 research paper, SLANG.D:

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 17, 2022

we introduced the ability to compile the engine with double precision floats instead so that all these calculations happen with much higher precision. What is happening here is that the positions are being downcast into single-precision floats before being sent to the GPU for rendering. Doubles in Shaders. In Godot 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: A ton of fixes for all rendering backends, and missing features implemented for the OpenGL3 one. GUI: Add a Font import option to pre-render all glyphs required for the translation ( GH-68448 ). Physics: Implement adjusting the maximum number of physics steps per rendered frame ( GH-65836 ).

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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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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. Rendering: Implement basic ASTC support ( GH-65376 ). Rendering: Added options for sorting transparent objects ( GH-69998 ). GH-59810 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: String and StringName are now mostly cross-compatible throughout the engine API, as well as in various GDScript-specific expressions and statements ( GH-68747 ). The illustration picture for this article is from Raffaele Picca ’s car scene , rendered in Godot 4.0

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Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

This version optimizes some rendering and lighting capabilities, fixes a series of key issues recently reported by users, and recommends that all v3.x Engine • Added DebugView at runtime UI control rendering debugging function. Skip rendering when the UI element Opacity is 0. Cocos Creator 3.7.2 was released last week.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 3, 2016

It's been a month since the first progress report , and progress continues towards the new Godot renderer. Little by little every system falls into place, and rendering starts feeling a lot more mature. Implement Particle Shaders, with support for: Sorting, Collision and Soft Particles. Add Layered/Stencil rendering.

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