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. Thanks for reading.

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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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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

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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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. Shaders in Godot. Configuration parameters are sent via uniforms.

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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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Nvidia

JULY 10, 2023

Still, even with GPU Boost disabled using the DX12 SetStablePowerState API, GPU timings measured in-game may still change unexpectedly from run to run, or from frame to frame. One factor to consider is whether background driver optimizations were engaged and when their resulting optimized shaders were deployed.

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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, Low level rendering access.

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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. This may change in the future, though.

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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

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Every supported renderer option is now selectable from the project creation screen, which means you can create OpenGL 3 ("Compatibility") projects without using the command line ( GH-70028 ). The illustration picture for this article is from Raffaele Picca 's car scene , rendered in Godot 4.0 Jump to the Downloads section.

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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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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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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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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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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 17, 2022

What is happening here is that the positions are being downcast into single-precision floats before being sent to the GPU for rendering. So on the GPU we are still using single-precision and the end result as far as rendering goes is the same as if we were using single-precision. Doubles in Shaders. So how does it work?

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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 ). Rendering: Remove SCREEN_TEXTURE , DEPTH_TEXTURE , and NORMAL_ROUGHNESS_TEXTURE ( GH-70967 ). Rendering: Decompress RA_AS_RG formats on Web platform in GLES3 renderer and disable texture swizzling ( GH-71574 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Every supported renderer option is now selectable from the project creation screen, which means you can create OpenGL 3 (“Compatibility”) projects without using the command line ( GH-70028 ). The illustration picture for this article is from Raffaele Picca ’s car scene , rendered in Godot 4.0 Jump to the Downloads section.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Add support for FORMAT_{ETC2,DXT5}_RA_AS_RG ( GH-71248 ). See the list below.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: A lot of bug fixes and improvements in these areas particularly, check out the PRs listed below: Animation, Navigation, GDScript, Rendering. Rendering: Implement basic ASTC support ( GH-65376 ). Rendering: Added options for sorting transparent objects ( GH-69998 ).

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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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Nvidia

AUGUST 31, 2023

In DirectX Raytracing (DXR) this self-intersection check would be implemented in an any-hit shader. For more information, see Ray Tracing Gems: High-Quality and Real-Time Rendering with DXR and Other APIs. Rendering with self-intersection avoidance (left) and without self-intersection avoidance (right). edge1, mul(barys.y,

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Cocos

MAY 14, 2023

This article will delve into the principles, implementation details, common issues and solutions, memory overhead, and compatibility of the Deferred Rendering technique. I hope to help you advance further in 3D game development. The rendering stages involved in Deferred Rendering.

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Nvidia

MARCH 17, 2023

In particular, shaders are complex and developing a new environment for previewing and editing shaders in Houdini is expensive and difficult to implement quickly. There is no environment like KATANA or Houdini SOLARIS where you can lay out the USD, light it, render it, and so on.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Editor: Bring back the renderer options button on the main editor ( GH-70500 ). Rendering: Add options for sorting transparent objects ( GH-69998 ). Rendering: Cleanup and improve sky render ( GH-70253 ). Rendering: Ignore depth draw optimization when using depth draw alpha prepass ( GH-70884 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2023

Editor: Fix node preview crashes after updating visual shader node ( GH-71385 ). Rendering: Fix polyline not supporting closed polygons and not having a uniform width ( GH-62236 ). Rendering: Fix scaling issue in draw_line and similar methods ( GH-69851 ). Editor: Fix TileSet atlas merging not working correctly ( GH-71335 ).

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Nvidia

MARCH 20, 2023

NVIDIA at GDC 2023: Frame Generation and Path Tracing Tools Now Available Generate frames with the latest breakthrough in AI rendering Announced with the NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture, DLSS 3 raised the bar not just for visuals but also performance and responsiveness. Frame generation is the latest evolution.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 17, 2022

What is happening here is that the positions are being downcast into single-precision floats before being sent to the GPU for rendering. So on the GPU we are still using single-precision and the end result as far as rendering goes is the same as if we were using single-precision. Doubles in Shaders. So how does it work?

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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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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Add support for FORMAT_{ETC2,DXT5}_RA_AS_RG ( GH-71248 ). See the list below.

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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. These use cases include architecture visualization, cinema, animation and cutscene rendering. What is Movie Maker mode for?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: A lot of bug fixes and improvements in these areas particularly, check out the PRs listed below: Animation, Navigation, GDScript, Rendering. Rendering: Implement basic ASTC support ( GH-65376 ). Rendering: Added options for sorting transparent objects ( GH-69998 ).

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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. Utilizing Shaders Wisely Shaders are powerful tools that can enhance the visual quality of a game, but they can also be demanding on mobile devices. However, rendering these effects can be taxing on mobile devices.

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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. These use cases include architecture visualization, cinema, animation and cutscene rendering. What is Movie Maker mode for?

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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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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: Add Variable Rate Shading support ( GH-60901 ). Rendering: Force regenerating shader cache when updating Godot ( GH-62848 ).

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