Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Import: Fix swapped color channels in ETC1/ETC2 textures, etcpak expects BGRA data ( GH-69448 ). Rendering: Implement CAMERA_VISIBLE_LAYERS as built-in shader variable ( GH-67387 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Use internal texture name when setting texture uniform location ( GH-69633 ). GH-68870 ).

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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. Rendering: Properly append global uniform buffer name in gl_compatibility shaders ( GH-72138 ). XR: Correctly apply world_scale in WebXR (Godot 4) ( GH-71948 ).

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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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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Techniques such as using lower-resolution textures, controlling particle spawn rates, and optimizing the lifespan of particles can significantly reduce the load on the GPU. 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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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 25, 2023

Rendering: Decrement texture_binding count when using screen textures ( GH-71764 ). 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. This fixes a regression in beta 14.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Godot uses a considerably different approach to rendering (and rendering abstraction) than other, popular, game engines. For example: On GLES3+ we can use UBOs to optimize shader parameters. Shader abstraction. Most game engines nowadays start with HLSL or CG as a base and offer it to the user directly.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2020

It still lacks a few minor details (like colorspace adjustment via 3D textures) but it's mostly there. Due to this, it is now possible to associate a roughness texture with a normal texture, which will adjust roughness based on normal mipmap variance. While it more or less retains the functionality from Godot 3.x,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Additionally, all 2D shadows and light textures use a single atlas, resulting in improved performance. the new CanvasTexture texture type has been introduced. A very requested feature for the 2D engine is the possibility to have 2D directional lights and shadows. Improved 2D materials. For Godot 4.0, This has been added for 4.0

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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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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: Add texture reading code to OpenGL3 renderer for web and mobile ( GH-68138 ). Rendering: Enable mipmaps in cubemap roughness shader ( GH-68511 ). Rendering: Properly set TIME shader uniform when rendering shadows ( GH-68574 ). Rendering: Scale light shadow bias by soft_shadow_scale to reduce shadow acne ( GH-68339 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ). Visual Shader: Add few improvements for VisualShaderNodeParticleRandomness ( GH-71123 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Add support for FORMAT_{ETC2,DXT5}_RA_AS_RG ( GH-71248 ). However, we still try to provide a migration path for your projects.

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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.

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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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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The character asset and animation are from GDQuest's "godot-3d-mannequin" project and the ground texture is from Kenney's "Prototype Textures" bundle. The solution should be easy, let’s just use doubles in all of our shaders! Doubles in Shaders. How about we just don’t support this on Apple devices?

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iXie gaming

JUNE 28, 2024

Particle Systems Within Game Engines Unity’s Shuriken and Unreal Engine’s Cascade/Niagara particle systems are powerful tools for creating 2D effects in your games. These tools work smoothly with your game engine, making it easy to use and improve your effects.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 30, 2020

It supported roughness, but it did so in a way where the texture reads appeared rough, but not the reflected image (the edges of the reflected objects remained intact). A very common complaint when using shadowmaps in Godot is that tweaking shadow bias is extremely difficult compared to other game engines. x was rather limited.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 8, 2020

Let's hope this implementation will also be of use to others making their own technology or engines, so they can use it as reference or just copy it. The new lightmapper is GPU based written mostly on Compute shaders (meaning it does most of the heavy lifting using the GPU, via Vulkan). Features of the new Godot 4.0 lightmapper.

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Cocos

DECEMBER 25, 2023

You just need the following resources and code: A post-processing shader A material with the shader bound to it A post-processing extension TypeScript file for passing parameters to the material Let’s use an example of creating a screen grayscale effect: 1. I’ve traversed various game engines, and currently, my primary choice is Cocos.

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Cocos

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Texture Channel Separation Rendering based on real data inevitably involves the use of a large number of textures, leading to constraints on both graphics memory and performance. This becomes particularly evident in crashes on platforms such as mini-games and low-end devices. Closing Thoughts Why do I use Cocos Creator?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Editor: Fix preview grid and preserve source texture margins in SpriteFrames editor ( GH-52910 ). GLES3: Properly clear cubemap filter state when texture array environment disabled ( GH-51938 ). Rendering: Prevent shaders from generating code before the constructor finishes ( GH-52475 ). API documentation updates.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ). Visual Shader: Add few improvements for VisualShaderNodeParticleRandomness ( GH-71123 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Add support for FORMAT_{ETC2,DXT5}_RA_AS_RG ( GH-71248 ). However, we still try to provide a migration path for your projects.

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Cocos

MAY 14, 2023

Next, let’s take a look at the common 3D rendering processes in a 3D game engine: Shadow Map Rendering → 3D Objects Rendering → Screen Space Post-Processing → 2D Elements & UI Rendering. In Vertex Shader, process vertex transformations, UVs, etc. In Fragment Shader, perform lighting calculations with the 7 lights.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Editor: Fix preview grid and preserve source texture margins in SpriteFrames editor ( GH-52910 ). GLES3: Properly clear cubemap filter state when texture array environment disabled ( GH-51938 ). Rendering: Prevent shaders from generating code before the constructor finishes ( GH-52475 ). API documentation updates.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 8, 2022

Note: You might need to delete your.godot/imported folder to force reimporting all your textures with the new class name. Rendering: Fix shader compilation error with anisotropy ( GH-58419 ). Visual Shader: Add few more input/output built-ins ( GH-58719 ). Visual Shader: Add varying support ( GH-58750 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

GUI: Fix TextureButton focus texture logic ( GH-56472 ). Import: Fix glTF scene export crash on null normal texture ( GH-56380 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader compile error with Oren Nayar + Vertex Lighting ( GH-56802 ). XR: Fix external textures being freed by Godot ( GH-56148 ). See the full changelog since 3.4.2-stable

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Shaders: Fix specular render_mode for Visual Shaders ( GH-41536 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! branch, there's a lot of surface covered in a game engine and some bug fixes might have an impact on your projects if you somehow used a bug as a feature.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Import: Fix swapped color channels in ETC1/ETC2 textures, etcpak expects BGRA data ( GH-69448 ). Rendering: Implement CAMERA_VISIBLE_LAYERS as built-in shader variable ( GH-67387 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Use internal texture name when setting texture uniform location ( GH-69633 ). GH-68870 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The character asset and animation are from GDQuest’s “godot-3d-mannequin” project and the ground texture is from Kenney’s “Prototype Textures” bundle. The solution should be easy, let’s just use doubles in all of our shaders! Doubles in Shaders. The Godots clump together and the character teleports from point to point.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2021

Batching: Fix light pass modulate , a potential crash, polygon rotation from vertex shader, and 2D skinning with unrigged polygons ( GH-48151 , GH-48125 , GH-48457 , GH-48647 )). Rendering: Fix usage of proxy textures on GLES2 PanoramaSky ( GH-48541 ). Here are some of the main changes since 3.3-stable: please file an issue on GitHub.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

GUI: Fix TextureButton focus texture logic ( GH-56472 ). Import: Fix glTF scene export crash on null normal texture ( GH-56380 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader compile error with Oren Nayar + Vertex Lighting ( GH-56802 ). XR: Fix external textures being freed by Godot ( GH-56148 ). Known incompatibilities.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ).

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

To show the benefits of GDeflate, we measured system performance without compression, with standard CPU-side decompression, and with GPU-accelerated GDeflate decompression on a representative game-focused dataset, containing texture and geometry data. GDeflate is available as a standard GPU decompression option in DirectStorage 1.1—a

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ). API documentation updates.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

GUI: Fix TextureButton focus texture logic ( GH-56472 ). Import: Fix glTF scene export crash on null normal texture ( GH-56380 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader compile error with Oren Nayar + Vertex Lighting ( GH-56802 ). XR: Fix external textures being freed by Godot ( GH-56148 ). See the full GitHub changelog since 3.4.2-stable

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ).

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