Game Errors

JULY 17, 2023

Are you disappointed that games crashing on ROG Ally makes your handheld console useless? If so, we invite you to dive deep with us as we explore potential causes and pair them with solutions to bring stability back to games on ROG Ally. Why are games crashing on ROG Ally? Why are games crashing on ROG Ally?

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 17, 2023

Video games have become a prominent form of entertainment, deeply ingrained in pop culture, and have shed the previous stigma of being a time-wasting activity. Nowadays, gaming surpasses mainstream movies in terms of audience engagement, and popular game titles consistently generate substantial revenue.

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iXie gaming

JULY 23, 2023

Unity has rapidly risen in popularity to become one of the most widely used game production engines throughout the globe. In this article, we will discuss the factors that contribute to Unity’s continued dominance in the game development industry. This enhances Unity’s reputation as a fantastic game engine.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

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.). The traditional way to make games longer since the beginning of times is to divide them in stages. Rendering is significantly more efficient in Godot 4.0,

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Nvidia

MARCH 17, 2023

Tools Pipeline Engineering Lead Megumi Ando sat down with NVIDIA to discuss the integration process in the company’s latest release as well as their adoption plans in Polyphony’s game development pipeline. Why did you choose USD for your game development pipeline? What challenges did you face in the process of integrating USD?

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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. Not only are the updated environments breathtaking, the game supports 1.8

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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. The surprise, though, is how good this format is for video game asset exchange. Khronos, with glTF 2.0,

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iXie gaming

APRIL 24, 2023

Epic Games recently announced an expansive creation toolkit for its juggernaut of a game you may know as Fortnite. Roblox arrived at the gaming scene at a time when user-generated content in games was mostly uncharted territory. What are the benefits of developing games in Roblox and what are its drawbacks?

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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 ).

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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. Android: Fix Android editor crash when returning from the launched and running game ( GH-72106 ). Rendering: Fix LCD font AA on OpenGL renderer ( GH-72125 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

using the Movie Maker mode , for the main menu of the upcoming FRANZ FURY game (made with Godot 3.x). Rendering: OpenGL: Fix scene shader error when using Omni or Spot but not both ( GH-69901 ). Shaders: Fix the sorting of shader uniforms ( GH-70016 ). Also check out Raffaele's Beat Invaders released earlier this year.

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Nvidia

MAY 17, 2023

The main design philosophy of D3D12 and Vulkan is to enable game engines to distribute graphics workloads across multiple CPU cores. Resource allocation and destruction Creating and destroying buffers, textures, and shaders is fundamental to efficient computer graphics. Evenly balance work across all threads for best results.

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iXie gaming

MAY 8, 2023

WebGL, or Web Graphics Library, is a powerful technology that allows developers to create high-performance 3D graphics and games that run directly in the browser without the need for plugins. With WebGL, developers can harness the power of the GPU to create immersive gaming experiences that can be accessed by a wide range of users.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 13, 2022

My name is Leszek Nowak and I’m a part of independent studio 2Dynamic Games located in Kraków, Poland. The game is made in Godot Engine 3, with many custom-made technologies that enable a fully destructible environment, fluid simulation and dynamic lighting. Do you have prior experience with other game engines?

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

If you’ve ever wondered what the best game engine is, we invite you to figure it out with us. Let’s discover their pros and cons so it will be easier to decide which engine suits your project better. Unity versus Unreal – this seems to be an ever-lasting battle in the game development world. What is Unity?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The idea of using a game engine for projects other than creating video games is not new. For decades, game engines have been used to create applications, simulations and more. There are many scenarios where this is useful: Recording game trailers for promotional use. Example output. References.

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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.

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Nvidia

MARCH 20, 2023

At GDC 2023, NVIDIA released new tools that make real-time path tracing more accessible to developers while accelerating the creation of ultra-realistic game. At GDC 2023 , NVIDIA released new tools that make real-time path tracing more accessible to developers while accelerating the creation of ultra-realistic game worlds.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The idea of using a game engine for projects other than creating video games is not new. For decades, game engines have been used to create applications, simulations and more. There are many scenarios where this is useful: Recording game trailers for promotional use. Example output. References.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The illustration picture for this article is a screenshot of Sandfire , an upcoming 3D person action-adventure game by Kmitt. The game was recently ported to Godot 4, see Kmitt's YouTube channel and Twitter for devlogs and updates. Rendering: Implement CAMERA_VISIBLE_LAYERS as built-in shader variable ( GH-67387 ). What's new.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

using the Movie Maker mode , for the main menu of the upcoming FRANZ FURY game (made with Godot 3.x). Rendering: OpenGL: Fix scene shader error when using Omni or Spot but not both ( GH-69901 ). Shaders: Fix the sorting of shader uniforms ( GH-70016 ). Also check out Raffaele’s Beat Invaders released earlier this year.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

Some noteworthy changes in this release: Shader preprocessor support and shader includes. Grouping annotations for shaders ( uniform_group ). Rendering: Force regenerating shader cache when updating Godot ( GH-62848 ). Shaders: Add shader preprocessor and includes support ( GH-62513 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 17, 2022

One of the problems with developing games with large game worlds is that objects start to jitter and teleport around as you move away from the world origin. This has been a problem for users who want to do things like make games that take place in a to-scale solar system. Doubles in Shaders. The Problem.

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Cocos

JUNE 11, 2023

We also support Compute Shader capabilities. Google Play Games on PC Platform Support At this year’s Google IO conference, Google Play Games on PC and the large-screen experience received significant attention as Android platform updates. There are already many well-known Cocos games published on the platform on their own.

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Nvidia

MARCH 24, 2022

This week at GDC, NVIDIA announced a number of new tools for game developers to help save time, more easily integrate NVIDIA RTX, and streamline the creation of. This week at GDC , NVIDIA announced a number of new tools for game developers to help save time, more easily integrate NVIDIA RTX, and streamline the creation of virtual worlds.

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Cocos

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Many friends associate post-effects with AAA 3D games, but in reality, their application is also extensive in 2D game development. Properly utilizing post-effects can significantly enhance the visual quality of a 2D game by several levels. I’ve traversed various game engines, and currently, my primary choice is Cocos.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Trying to hide loading in a game by forcing a player to shimmy. Trying to hide loading in a game by forcing a player to shimmy through narrow passages or take extremely slow elevators breaks immersion. The current Game Ready Driver (version 526.47) contains NVIDIA RTX IO technology, including optimizations for GDeflate.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 2023

For shaders, we removed the now-redundant SCREEN_TEXTURE , DEPTH_TEXTURE , and NORMAL_ROUGHNESS_TEXTURE ( GH-70967 ). Note that there’s a helpful error in the shader editor telling you how to port code, but there’s a typo: filter_linear_mipmaps should be filter_linear_mipmap (no ‘s’).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2022

and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. The main changes coming in Godot 3.5 Estébanez ( RandomShaper )! Please test this thoroughly and let us know how it performs on your projects.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 17, 2022

One of the problems with developing games with large game worlds is that objects start to jitter and teleport around as you move away from the world origin. This has been a problem for users who want to do things like make games that take place in a to-scale solar system. Doubles in Shaders. The Problem.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 11, 2021

This week, we are interviewing Leonardo "Leocesar3D" Veloso about their game Human Diaspora. My name is Leonardo Veloso and I am a 3D artist working on TV broadcasting in Brazil, in my spare time I am a hobbyist game developer. Do you have prior experience with other game engines? Foremost, Godot is FOSS.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

The game started development with Godot 3.x, Shaders: Fix shader crash when using boolean type for vertex->fragment varyings ( GH-70460 ). You can also try the Web editor (early testing, it's still slow and unstable). x, and was recently ported to 4.0 beta, with the process covered in this devlog.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 8, 2022

Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader state caching when blend shapes used ( GH-58808 ) [regression fix]. Portals: Fix duplication of instanced scenes during conversion ( GH-58650 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix compression on blend shapes ( GH-58838 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 11, 2022

Add often used built-ins to spatial shaders ( NODE_POSITION_WORLD , CAMERA_POSITION_WORLD , CAMERA_DIRECTION_WORLD , NODE_POSITION_VIEW ) ( GH-63597 ). Shaders: Add often used built-ins to spatial shaders ( NODE_POSITION_WORLD , CAMERA_POSITION_WORLD , CAMERA_DIRECTION_WORLD , NODE_POSITION_VIEW ) ( GH-63597 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 2022

and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). The main changes coming in Godot 3.5

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

Editor: Improvements to shader editor ( GH-63582 ). Shaders: Quality of life Visual Shaders updates ( GH-63999 ). Shaders: Implement custom non-trivial Visual Shader nodes ( GH-64248 ). Editor: Add per-scene UndoRedo ( GH-59564 ). Editor: Disable editing properties in foreign resources ( GH-63282 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 16, 2022

Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader state caching when blend shapes used ( GH-58808 ) [regression fix]. Rendering: GLES2: Fix compression on blend shapes ( GH-58838 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix incorrect buffer upload size in draw_gui_primitive ( GH-58150 ).

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