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New Shader Graph Node Reference Samples

Unity Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Announcing the new Shader Graph Node Reference Samples – a set of samples, examples, and reference assets that help new Shader Graph users learn faster and enable advanced users to gain a deeper understanding of the tool.

Shaders

Shaders Asset Platformer Engine

Unity Shader Variants Optimization & Troubleshooting Tips

Unity Blog

MAY 28, 2024

A deep dive into shader variants, plus some practical tips on how to reduce them to improve project build time and memory footprint.

Shaders

Shaders Build Platformer Engine

Powerful Shader Insights: Using Shader Debug Info with NVIDIA Nsight Graphics

Nvidia

MARCH 14, 2024

As ray tracing becomes the predominant rendering technique in modern game engines, a single GPU RayGen shader can now perform most of the light simulation of a. As ray tracing becomes the predominant rendering technique in modern game engines, a single GPU RayGen shader can now perform most of the light simulation of a frame.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Shaders Debug Graphics

New Shader Graph feature examples in 2022 LTS

Unity Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

The new Shader Graph Feature Examples sample set is now available to import now from the Package Manager to help you create a wide range of effects and techniques using Shader Graph.

Shaders

Shaders Feature Platformer Engine

Cocos Creator 3.8 Post-Process Shader Writing (2/2) Advanced

Cocos

AUGUST 16, 2023

Preface In the last article , Kylin shared how to add your own post-effect Shader in the custom render pipeline in Cocos Creator 3.8. However, based on the BlitScreen solution, we can only write the simplest post-effect Shader. Today Kylin will use Gaussian blur to demonstrate how to write a multi-pass post-effect shader.

Shaders

Shaders Writing Pixel Render

How to make nature shaders with Shader Graph in 2022 LTS

Unity Blog

JULY 28, 2023

Shader Graph is a node-based shader editor that can be used with URP, HDRP, and Built-In Render Pipeline. Here’s how to can use Shader Graph to create natural elements in 2022 LTS.

Shaders

Shaders Render Platformer Engine

Amy Hennig's new Marvel game leads off Epic's State of Unreal | GDC 2024

GamesIndustry.biz

MARCH 20, 2024

Hennig was on hand to not only introduce the game, but also show off some new Unreal Engine effects featured in the game, like a Nanite adaptive tessellation feature that allows developers to later tile textures and use shader logic to create complex environment effects like foot prints or tire tracks in real-time with a minimum of geometry.

Tile

Tile Shaders Texture Media

Unreal Engine March 2023 Free Assets

Game From Scratch

MARCH 7, 2023

GameFromScratch.com Unreal Engine March 2023 Free Assets It’s the first Tuesday of the month of March, meaning it is time for another Unreal Engine marketplace asset giveaway. There are 5 free assets that are yours to keep forever if “purchased” (for $0) before the first Tuesday of April.

Asset

Asset Engine Engineering Shaders

Making shaders more accessible

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.

Shaders

Shaders Sprite Pixel Clipping

Improve Shader Performance and In-Game Frame Rates with Shader Execution Reordering

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.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Shaders Engine Engineering

Potential of shader graph and VFX graph in Unity

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. Unity is synonymous with game developers around the world. Let’s find out.

Shaders

Shaders Simulation Texture Mapping Texture

In-Game GPU Profiling for DirectX 12 Using SetBackgroundProcessingMode

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.

Shaders

Shaders Games Render Debug

Shader Problem in IOS

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:

Shaders

Shaders Render Mobile Mobile

Shader Problem in IOS

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:

Shaders

Shaders Render Mobile Mobile

Shader Problem in IOS

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:

Shaders

Shaders Render Mobile Mobile

Shader Problem in IOS

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:

Shaders

Shaders Render Mobile Mobile

Shader Problem in IOS

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:

Shaders

Shaders Render Mobile Mobile

Shader Problem in IOS

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:

Shaders

Shaders Render Mobile Mobile

Shader Problem in IOS

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:

Shaders

Shaders Render Mobile Mobile

Shader Problem in IOS

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:

Shaders

Shaders Render Mobile Mobile

Shader Problem in IOS

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:

Shaders

Shaders Render Mobile Mobile

Shader Problem in IOS

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:

Shaders

Shaders Render Mobile Mobile

Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

returns to its own physics engine which, despite not being a high end physics engine like PhysX, aims to offer a lot more flexibility and “just works” capabilities to users. The custom physics engine still has a considerable amount of issues remaining but we are working hard to ensure it is in a decent state for shipping when 4.0

AAA

AAA Game Developer Game Development Development

Boosting Unreal Engine Performance with Amazon FSx for OpenZFS as a Shared Derived Data Cache

AWS Games

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

For instance, Unreal Engine uses a mechanism known as the Derived Data Cache (DDC) for this purpose. The Derived Data Cache in Unreal Engine serves as a storage mechanism for data that is computationally expensive to generate. Setting up a cloud-based shared Derived Data Cache offers scalability for your Unreal Engine projects.

Data

Data Engine Engineering Asset

I got distracted and built a Physically-Based Renderer

Harold Serrano

MAY 16, 2024

I was completely immersed in rewriting my game engine when I stumbled upon these captivating images. I was a bit hesitant to take a detour from my engine and modify the renderer. See, there were several things that I needed to change in my engine. For starters, I was using non-physically-based shaders.

Render

Render Shaders Engine Engineering

Godot 4.0 gets global and per-instance shader uniforms

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.

Shaders

Shaders Mesh Texture Editing

Finding your true love may win the game in Fabledom by Grenaa Games

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 João does all the art and shaders. “We don’t take ourselves very seriously. I think that is clear in the language of the game and players seem to appreciate the humor.” And João was straight out of university.

Games

Games Build Studios Shaders

Godot's 2D engine gets several improvements for upcoming 4.0

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. More work is also going towards the 2D engine. While the focus of Godot 4.0 Improved Performance. CanvasGroup.

Engine

Engine Engineering Alpha Texture

Shader Problem in IOS

Cocos

MAY 23, 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:

Shaders

Shaders Sprite Alpha Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

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 ). Core: Add feature tags to signify engine float precision ( GH-69538 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Shaders

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 16

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 ). Rendering: Fix LCD font AA on OpenGL renderer ( GH-72125 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Dive into the URP 3D Sample

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.

Render

Render Shaders Feature Development

Ultra-Realism Made Accessible with NVIDIA AI and Path Tracing Technologies

Nvidia

MARCH 20, 2023

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 Shader execution reordering (SER) for improving shader scheduling, thus increasing performance.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Technology AI Shaders

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 15

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 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Shaders

Write a Post-Processing Shader using CRP Step-by-Step - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos

MAY 6, 2023

Cocos Cyberpunk is a complete open-source TPS 3D game developed by the Cocos Engine official team to showcase the engine’s capabilities in creating heavy 3D games and to boost the community’s learning motivation. So they came and asked: How do I add a new Shader for the CRP? Now, our shader is ready to use.

Shaders

Shaders Writing Code Content

Stacking Shaders: Problem with 'new EffectAsset' in code

Cocos

JUNE 23, 2024

For example, I just can say I had to figure out s**t like this (and more): type error: Error EFX3302: illegal property declaration for 'texture': **non-array for buffer members** If you search with a search engine for “ non-array for buffer members ” on the internet you’ll find absolutely nothing.

Code

Code Shaders Texture Internet

Stacking Shaders: Problem with 'new EffectAsset' in code

Cocos

JUNE 23, 2024

For example, I just can say I had to figure out s**t like this (and more): type error: Error EFX3302: illegal property declaration for 'texture': **non-array for buffer members** If you search with a search engine for “ non-array for buffer members ” on the internet you’ll find absolutely nothing.

Code

Code Shaders Texture Internet

[Tutorial] Write a Post-Processing Shader using CRP Step-by-Step - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos

MAY 6, 2023

Cocos Cyberpunk is a complete open-source TPS 3D game developed by the Cocos Engine official team to showcase the engine’s capabilities in creating heavy 3D games and to boost the community’s learning motivation. So they came and asked: How do I add a new Shader for the CRP? Now, our shader is ready to use.

Shaders

Shaders Writing Code Content

Shader on IOS error

Cocos

AUGUST 29, 2023

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 error - Attribute a_uv0 is missing, add a dummy data for it. 17:39:35 [ERROR]: [ERROR] file /Applications/CocosCreator/Creator/3.8.0/CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/resources/3d/engine/native/cocos/renderer/gfx-metal/MTLCommandBuffer.mm:

Shaders

Shaders Sprite Alpha Render

Simple ParticleSystem shader unlit

Cocos

JANUARY 8, 2023

github.com/cocos/cocos-engine. fix 2d particle effect bug. cocos:develop ← zxx43:v3.6.2_2dparticle. opened 03:13AM - 15 Nov 22 UTC. Re: # ### Changelog * - ### Continuous Integration This pul … l request: * [ ] needs automatic test cases check. >

Shaders

Shaders Code Platformer Build

Solving Self-Intersection Artifacts in DirectX Raytracing

Nvidia

AUGUST 31, 2023

In DirectX Raytracing (DXR) this self-intersection check would be implemented in an any-hit shader. Finally, the method does not rely on self-intersection rejection using an any-hit shader and has a fixed overhead per shading point. In the user shader, the object-space hit point is reconstructed and transformed into world-space.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Shaders Render Game Engine

Why we should all support glTF 2.0 as THE standard asset exchange format for game engines

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 2, 2017

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. has given us a fantastic chance to standardize a smooth workflow between 3D modelling software and game engines.

Game Engine

Game Engine Asset Engine Engineering

Realistic Lighting in Justice with Mesh Shading

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.

Mesh

Mesh Culling Shaders Ray Tracing

Making my PBR Renderer more user-friendly

Harold Serrano

MAY 26, 2024

For a long time, the first version of my game engine lacked a UI. For about two weeks I dropped my Renderer Engineer hat and worked as a UI designer. My goal for next week is to focus on fixing the Disney shaders and Lighting. One of the activities that I strongly dislike is creating a User-Interface. And that is what I did.

Render

Render Point and Click Engine Engineering

New Shader Graph Node Reference Samples

Unity Shader Variants Optimization & Troubleshooting Tips

Trending Sources

Powerful Shader Insights: Using Shader Debug Info with NVIDIA Nsight Graphics

New Shader Graph feature examples in 2022 LTS

Cocos Creator 3.8 Post-Process Shader Writing (2/2) Advanced

How to make nature shaders with Shader Graph in 2022 LTS

Amy Hennig's new Marvel game leads off Epic's State of Unreal | GDC 2024

Unreal Engine March 2023 Free Assets

Making shaders more accessible

Improve Shader Performance and In-Game Frame Rates with Shader Execution Reordering

Potential of shader graph and VFX graph in Unity

In-Game GPU Profiling for DirectX 12 Using SetBackgroundProcessingMode

Shader Problem in IOS

Shader Problem in IOS

Shader Problem in IOS

Shader Problem in IOS

Shader Problem in IOS

Shader Problem in IOS

Shader Problem in IOS

Shader Problem in IOS

Shader Problem in IOS

Shader Problem in IOS

Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Boosting Unreal Engine Performance with Amazon FSx for OpenZFS as a Shared Derived Data Cache

I got distracted and built a Physically-Based Renderer

Godot 4.0 gets global and per-instance shader uniforms

Finding your true love may win the game in Fabledom by Grenaa Games

Godot's 2D engine gets several improvements for upcoming 4.0

Shader Problem in IOS

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 16

Dive into the URP 3D Sample

Ultra-Realism Made Accessible with NVIDIA AI and Path Tracing Technologies

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 15

Write a Post-Processing Shader using CRP Step-by-Step - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Stacking Shaders: Problem with 'new EffectAsset' in code

Stacking Shaders: Problem with 'new EffectAsset' in code

[Tutorial] Write a Post-Processing Shader using CRP Step-by-Step - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Shader on IOS error

Simple ParticleSystem shader unlit

Solving Self-Intersection Artifacts in DirectX Raytracing

Why we should all support glTF 2.0 as THE standard asset exchange format for game engines

Realistic Lighting in Justice with Mesh Shading

Making my PBR Renderer more user-friendly

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