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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. Our sprite is 32x32 pixels in size, and it must be drawn at some position.

Shaders

Shaders Sprite Pixel Clipping

Enhancing Mobile Game Performance: Essential VFX Techniques for Visual Excellence

iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Additionally, employing sprite sheets can help manage particles efficiently by combining multiple images into a single texture, minimizing draw calls and improving performance. 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.

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Top Tools and Software for Creating Visual FX in Games

iXie gaming

JUNE 28, 2024

This guide will help you pick the best software to create amazing effects and take your games to the next level. 2D VFX Software While 3D VFX often gets the most attention, 2D effects are still very important for many types of games, like side-scrolling platformers and top-down RPGs.

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How to get started with Unity Game Development – Tips & Tricks from iXie Experts

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.

Game Development

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Godot Showcase - Lumencraft developer talks about his experience

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 13, 2022

Do you have prior experience with other game engines? I have years of random experience in development with my first games made way back for Commodore 64. I used the most known game engines there were, and some of my obscure games were made in Pascal, and even Matlab. and Global Game Jam.

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[Share] 2D Post-Processing & Lighting Framework

Cocos

DECEMBER 25, 2023

The most commonly used method involves rendering the camera to a RenderTexture (RT) and then displaying it on a Sprite. Add a Post-Processing Shader precision highp float; #include <pp-shared-ubos> in vec2 v_uv; uniform sampler2D mainTexture; #pragma define intensity matParams.x Preview to see the effects.

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Render Texture Shaders Pixel

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

x is that, several times, sprites are separated in many nodes in order to be animated or assembled. If a shader is applied to them, or if transparency is changed, the effect is applied to every node individually, given they each do it in their own draw call. This has been added for 4.0 thanks to the new DirectionalLight2D node.

Engine

Engine Engineering Alpha Texture

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Import: Fix texture atlas generation when source sprite is larger than generated atlas ( GH-55094 ). Particles: Fix for double use of seed in random shader variables ( GH-55607 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix incompatible addition in auto exposure shader ( GH-55983 ). Input: Add Input.is_physical_key_pressed() method ( GH-55251 ).

Tile

Tile Render Shaders Editing

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: Animated sprites, both 2D and 3D, now support options for more precise timing of individual frames ( GH-65609 ). More engine enums are now bound with BitField, making their usage more type-safe, especially in C# ( GH-71037 , GH-71045 , GH-71116 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Animation

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

stable branch in January 2020 as a major update to our free and open source game engine. This drastically reduces drawcall-related bottlenecks and can give massive gains in specific scenarios (drawing lots of sprites, big TileMaps, text rendering). Top: 10,000 Sprites with a randomized modulate and position.

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Debug Point and Click Bug Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.1 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Import: Fix texture atlas generation when source sprite is larger than generated atlas ( GH-55094 ). Particles: Fix for double use of seed in random shader variables ( GH-55607 ). Import: Fix incorrect glTF cubic spline interpolation times/values size error ( GH-54805 ). Input: Add Input.is_physical_key_pressed() method ( GH-55251 ).

Tile

Tile Render Bug Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.1 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Import: Fix texture atlas generation when source sprite is larger than generated atlas ( GH-55094 ). Particles: Fix for double use of seed in random shader variables ( GH-55607 ). Import: Fix incorrect glTF cubic spline interpolation times/values size error ( GH-54805 ). Input: Add Input.is_physical_key_pressed() method ( GH-55251 ).

Tile

Tile Render Bug Build

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: Animated sprites, both 2D and 3D, now support options for more precise timing of individual frames ( GH-65609 ). More engine enums are now bound with BitField, making their usage more type-safe, especially in C# ( GH-71037 , GH-71045 , GH-71116 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Animation

Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

If you use and enjoy Godot, plan to use it, or want support the cause of having a mature, high quality free and open source game engine, then please consider becoming our patron. Visual shader editor. Some shader features will not work and throw an error when used (which is to be expected when using an older OpenGL version).

Feature

Feature Render Editing Shaders

Getting started with HaxeFlixel in 2021

Radiator Blog

APRIL 9, 2021

The engine should be able to render and simulate 200+ lightweight game objects -- frame-animated sprites with simple collision, no fancy physics or shaders. Which game engine should I use to maximize ease of learning and compatibility, and manage hundreds of simple objects on-screen? and no WASM.)

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Making shaders more accessible

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Top Tools and Software for Creating Visual FX in Games

How to get started with Unity Game Development – Tips & Tricks from iXie Experts

Godot Showcase - Lumencraft developer talks about his experience

[Share] 2D Post-Processing & Lighting Framework

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

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.1

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.1 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.1 RC 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Getting started with HaxeFlixel in 2021

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