Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The cover illustration is from Tiny Pasture , an endearing literal desktop pet that has cute pixel art animals grazing at the bottom of your screen while you do other things. Developed by CaveLiquid ( Bluesky , website ), the game was just released on Steam. Porting: Fix Embedded Game startup location on Windows ( GH-103021 ).

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Cocos

JUNE 29, 2023

Editor Introduction Many developers want to have as much uniqueness in their games as possible. Some developers share their uniqueness with the perfect font for their game, and some have played around with their font to make for some fun and interesting story-building. To fix this, the use of SDFs are used. What does Label Plus do?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 8, 2025

The cover illustration is from Fortune Avenue , a capitalism simulator where you shrewdly extort and outmaneuver your friends in a chaotic, board-game environment. You can wishlist the game on Steam and follow the developers on Bluesky. It is developed by Binogure Studio. Highlights In case you missed them, see the 4.5

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Filmustage

JANUARY 16, 2025

Grab your virtual toolkit - we're about to journey through the wonderful world where imagination dances with pixels, and dreams become digital reality. Buckle up, future VFX virtuoso - this ride through the pixels is about to get exciting! It's not just the fancy pixels or mind-bending effects - it's the stories they tell!

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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

AUGUST 25, 2023

Now, the AI neural rendering technology takes the next step forward with DLSS 3.5. replaces hand-tuned denoisers with an NVIDIA supercomputer-trained AI network that generates higher quality pixels in between sampled rays. It does this by analyzing the in-game camera orientation on every DLSS Frame Generation frame pair.

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Played with Fire

JANUARY 27, 2025

1️⃣ Hyper-realistic Graphics and Immersion The days of pixelated virtual worlds are long gone. Thanks to advancements in real-time rendering technologies, such as ray tracing, and next-generation VR headsets, users can now experience environments that look and feel almost indistinguishable from reality.

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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. Running the whole graphics rendering in a separate thread.

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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. Add Layered/Stencil rendering. Atlas cells are assigned according to their size in pixels on the screen (e.g.

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Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 24, 2022

In video games, the small effects add up to making your game look stunning. And popular games like Batman Arkham Asylum have this effect: Other notable games that have this effect are Mortal Kombat – which they implement when the characters perform special attacks on each other. What Is a Shader?

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Nvidia

JUNE 22, 2021

This is a challenging task, even in cinematic rendering, because it is difficult to find all the paths of light that contribute meaningfully to an image. Solving this problem through brute force requires hundreds, sometimes thousands of paths per pixel, but this is far too expensive for real-time rendering.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 5, 2023

Some ray-traced effects, like reflections or shadows, require support for out-of-frustum objects for rendering accuracy. One way to reduce the tracing cost is to start with pre-tracing, where you trace local neighborhoods for each pixel in screen space, similar to screen space shadows or ambient occlusion techniques.

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Jesper Juul

OCTOBER 28, 2021

I have a new paper out, just presented at the CHI Play’21 conference: “The Game of Video Game Objects: A Minimal Theory of When We See Pixels as Objects Rather than Pictures.” During the pandemic, I built a game for exploring this question and wrote an accompanying essay. CHI PLAY ’21. And we know this.

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CG Spectrum

JANUARY 26, 2023

3D lighting involves simulating the behavior of light in a real-world or fantasy situation, including shadows, reflections, highlights, and color, using specialized lighting software and rendering tools. Scene from the 3D animation Finding Nemo before and after its been lit and rendered by a 3D lighting artist (Image: Pixar).

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Cocos

MAY 22, 2023

I am rendering the game through RenderTexture for pixelated effect and when it’s enabled, I can’t shoot through it. Canvas Disabled and Target Texture not set (click for more details) Canvas Enabled and Target Texture set (click for more details) Project files: 5.3 MB file on MEGA

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

NVIDIA DLSS uses advanced AI rendering to produce image quality that’s comparable to native resolution–and sometimes even better–while only conventionally rendering a fraction of the pixels. Once trained, the model can be integrated into the core DLSS library, the game itself or even downloaded by NVIDIA’s Game Ready driver.

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Game Industry News

JUNE 11, 2021

Hey all I’m back with the sequel to the game I covered last time for this week’s Retro Game Friday. Plot: The plot is a direct sequel to the first game, with the premise being that on the ship they repaired and used to get home to Funkotron, a bunch of Earthlings stowed away and are now causing chaos.

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Game Development

JANUARY 23, 2019

Full Unity 2D Game Tutorial 2019 – Making Mini Map Mask. Full Unity 2D Game Tutorial 2019 – Making Minor Modifications. Then set the pixels per unit to 64 and click apply to update the sprites. Full Unity 2D Game Tutorial 2019 – Mini Map Camera. Adding a camera is the same as adding any other game object.

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Nvidia

MARCH 24, 2021

There's a new standard in gaming — and system optimizations have set the bar high. There’s a new standard in gaming — and system optimizations have set the bar high. Developers are using the latest NVIDIA RTX technology to deliver the best gaming experience to players, complete with high-quality graphics and fast performance.

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Febucci

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Shaders are programs that describe the traits of vertices and pixels. In other words, via shaders, you can set and change the way the computer renders the meshes. They’re essential for your games, since you wouldn’t be able to see anything without them. The Pixel Shader runs once per each pixel and renders your object.

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Nvidia

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

DLSS is a deep learning, super-resolution network that boosts frame rates by rendering fewer pixels and then using AI to construct sharp, higher-resolution. DLSS is a deep learning, super-resolution network that boosts frame rates by rendering fewer pixels and then using AI to construct sharp, higher-resolution images.

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Big Games

MARCH 28, 2025

In todays dynamic game development world, animation plays a vital role in defining player experiences and shaping game aesthetics. From the pixelated classics of the 80s to todays immersive and realistic graphics, animation has redefined the gaming experience. How did 2D and 3D Animation Evolve in Gaming?

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iXie gaming

JUNE 28, 2024

Visual effects (VFX) are essential for making gaming experiences immersive and exciting. This guide will help you pick the best software to create amazing effects and take your games to the next level. These tools work smoothly with your game engine, making it easy to use and improve your effects.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 5, 2016

For most game developers, shaders are this scary monster that presents itself with such a complexity that it seems out of reach. Our sprite is 32x32 pixels in size, and it must be drawn at some position. This process is done in the fragment program (pixel shader in DirectX terminology). About shaders. 1 range for drawing).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2021

just a few days ago with a huge array of bugfixes, but a regression was then found for macOS rendering which could cause flickering. Rendering: GLES2: Fix trunc shader function compilation on Android ( GH-56061 ). It is developed by Pixel-Archipel and scheduled to release in early 2022. We released Godot 3.4.1 Godot 3.4.2

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Nvidia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Featuring third-generation Ray Tracing Cores and fourth-generation Tensor Cores, they accelerate games that take advantage of the latest neural graphics and ray tracing technology. The latest suite of technologies multiply performance in games while accelerating how quickly developers can create content.

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Cocos

OCTOBER 14, 2024

This version has not only significantly enhanced performance and rendering but also improved editor experience and stability, which is recommended for everyone to upgrade. Rendering Enhancements 1. The new customizable rendering pipeline mainly has the following benefits: In Cocos Creator 3.8.4 more stable and mature.

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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.

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Nvidia

APRIL 5, 2022

Evolving from its state-of-the-art use in game engines into a multitude of industries, Unreal Engine is an open and advanced real-time 3D creation platform. Evolving from its state-of-the-art use in game engines into a multitude of industries, creators can deliver cutting-edge content, interactive experiences, and immersive virtual worlds.

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Nvidia

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Back then, cinematic-quality rendering required computer farms to slowly bake every frame. Back then, cinematic-quality rendering required computer farms to slowly bake every frame overnight—a painstaking process. Path tracing and ray tracing are both rendering techniques, but they have key differences.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 30, 2019

What used to be a few lines of OpenGL/GLX code is a large amount of Vulkan extension code to handle initialization and creation of rendering surfaces. Up to now, it was impossible to do any internal modifications to how Godot does rendering. this was not possible without modifying Godot's rendering backend. Architecture changes.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

NVIDIA continues to make it easier for game developers using Unreal Engine to access leading-edge technologies. They are intended to shorten development cycles and help games look more photo-realistic. The Sun Temple scene from ORCA rendered in real time using RTXDI. RTX Global Illumination 1.2 RTX Direct Illumination 1.2

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

Executable and Project Files Available to Download For Game Developers and Digital Artists [link] Finding ways to improve. Executable and Project Files Available to Download For Game Developers and Digital Artists Finding ways to improve performance and visual fidelity in your games and applications is challenging.

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Logic Simplified

MAY 7, 2024

Spine is a 2D skeletal animation tool for game development and other animation projects. Abhishek had to reinvent the pose to what can be called ‘resting but still ready for action’ (if you hire game designers from us, this is how you will find them during lunch hour.) Our game app developers could hardly wait to adopt him!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 3, 2021

Windows Mixed Reality headsets are currently only supported through SteamVR as WMR natively only supports DirectX game engines. Godot 4 stereoscopic rendering through Multiview. One of the bigger changes we did to enabled XR support in Godot 4 is implementing multiview support into the rendering engine.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Some noteworthy changes in this release: Re-enable support for Web exports using the OpenGL 3 / WebGL 2 renderer. Implement physical light units in Vulkan renderers. Re-enable per-pixel transparency support on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Porting: Re-enable per-pixel transparency support on Linux, macOS, and Windows ( GH-65283 ).

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Game Errors

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Nvidia DLSS, also known as Deep Learning Super Sampling, is a tool that boosts your overall gaming performance. I personally use it in many games, and it fixed some of my graphics-related problems such as stuttering, freezing, and low fps. How to enable DLSS in games? Open the game, and go to Settings or Options.

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