Cocos

JULY 28, 2023

several useful features have been added, and one of my favorites is that it comes with its own post-effects pipeline and a number of advanced effects built in. This article is part of a two-part series by Kylin, the ecological director at Cocos. In Cocos Creator version 3.8, There’s FSR, ColorGrading, and Bloom for enhanced graphics.

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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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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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iXie gaming

JUNE 7, 2023

Unity has emerged as one of the most powerful engines today thanks to its wide range of tools and features that help create visually stunning and immersive experiences. Shader Graph Shader Graph is a node-based visual interface that allows artists and developers to create shaders without writing complex code.

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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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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. First, let's have a look at shader scripts.

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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. thanks to two new features!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

beta 1 blog post , so if you havent read that one, have a look to be introduced to the main new features added in the 4.4 for the first time, youll want to get a condensed overview of what new features you might want to make use of. feature release. Highlights We covered the most important highlights from Godot 4.4 rc2 snapshot.

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Game Errors

MARCH 29, 2023

If you are having building shaders issues on The Last of Us, you are not alone. This article will explain this issue and feature a few possible solutions. Building shaders problem is one of them. What is the building shaders problem on The Last of Us Part 1? Shaders in games are essential. This is the real problem.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 30, 2025

feature freeze, so our energy has been focused on addressing any new regressions or the aforementioned bugs. Shaders: Fix space transformations in WorldPositionFromDepth visual shader node generation ( GH-100350 ). feature release. Weve been keeping busy these past two weeks squashing the bugs that cropped up in 4.4

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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. Unless I click and hold the right mouse button the shader doesn’t move or update in the scene. (I

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

It brings much-requested improvements to usability and many important features. now and keep on reading about the great features added in this version. While this article focuses mostly on the new features of the engine, it's worth mentioning that Godot's documentation has seen a lot of work from dozens of contributors.

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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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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 12, 2023

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. One day, Dave Kosak, who helped us with some writing, suggested the idea of finding true love. ” “It’s a game where you can win without ever starting a war.

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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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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

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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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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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

It includes major improvements all across the board in features, performance, and usability. The features offered are also a lot more reminiscent of AAA games, such as far more material options and advanced visual effects (including circle DOF , volumetric fog, AMD FSR, etc.). Several features were added to Godot Physics since 3.x,

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Cocos

AUGUST 19, 2023

So, out of curiosity… why is it that some people’s editor is running the shader and some aren’t? We are all working on the same project using the same editor version? Thank you for your response btw!

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Cocos

AUGUST 10, 2023

If you want to force the editor to run the shader, you can attach a component with executeInEditMode. The reason is that our editor doesn’t run scene if there is no modification or no executing components, for the sake of performance.

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Cocos

MAY 6, 2023

So they came and asked: How do I add a new Shader for the CRP? pipeline/passes ：Related scripts pipeline/resources/effects ：Related shaders pipeline/resources/materials ：Related materials Pass Code Next, we’ll ignore all principles and details for now, quickly implement a grayscale effect, and grasp the workflow.

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Cocos

MAY 6, 2023

So they came and asked: How do I add a new Shader for the CRP? pipeline/passes ：Related scripts pipeline/resources/effects ：Related shaders pipeline/resources/materials ：Related materials Pass Code Next, we’ll ignore all principles and details for now, quickly implement a grayscale effect, and grasp the workflow.

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Cocos

JANUARY 8, 2023

<! . * [ ] 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. <!--

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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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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Shaders: Fix source_color default value ( GH-101642 ). feature release. something that worked in a previous release is now broken) and significant new bugs introduced by new features. Rendering: Mark pipeline compilation of ubershaders as high priority ( GH-102125 ). beta2 snapshot. You can also review all changes included in 4.4

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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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Cocos

MARCH 29, 2023

Many developers say that they can just become a UI Assembler and let GPT-4 write shaders for them. All aspects of the project, including programming, shader development, art, and music, are generated by AIGC. So I started communicating frantically with ChatGPT, and everything went smoothly in the development of the next 5 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

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 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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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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The Knights of Unity

JUNE 5, 2020

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. For shaders, I used Amplify Shader Editor to add some visual effects on top of the render texture.

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Cocos

MAY 26, 2024

It’s a feature that allows players to spray graffiti on walls, floors, and various surfaces. Getting back on track, how do we implement such an interesting and fun feature in our ga… Take a look at this. In this classic FPS game, there’s a particularly interesting system, which is the spray paint (decal) system.

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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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Nvidia

MARCH 20, 2023

Streamline is the NVIDIA open-source cross-IHV framework that simplifies the integration of features like DLSS 3. This SDK demonstrates best practices for building a path tracer using the latest versions of the following tools and features: DLSS 3 for super-resolution and frame generation, to multiply performance.

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Cocos

JUNE 8, 2023

So if you heavily depending on this feature, it’s not a good idea I’m not sure what you want to cache. But depends on what you do with texelFetch it could be expensive, any read back from texture would be too.

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