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Cocos Shader Tutorial 1.0 - about UV

Cocos

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The vertical axes of textures and picture pixels is shown above, when sampling textures in shaders, that is from top to bottom, which is top-right corner. Use UV in Shader Both 2D and 3D shaders in Cocos are obtained in the vertex shader (VS) and passed to the pixel shader (FS). x,waveFactor.y-uv0.y); x,waveFactor.y-uv0.y);

Shaders

Shaders Mesh Point and Click Sprite

Practical Tips for Optimizing Ray Tracing

Nvidia

JANUARY 5, 2023

This starts from mesh instance selection and their data. This starts from mesh instance selection and their data processing towards optimized tracing and shading of every hit that you encounter. Parallel mesh processing for instance data generation. Each instance alone requires 64 bytes of memory. Batched vertex data processing.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Mesh Shaders Data

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

Breaking changes Animation Audio C# Core Editor GDScript Import Input Physics Platforms Rendering and shaders XR New in Beta 1! Add 2D shader instance uniforms Previously, Godot only supported shader instance uniforms in Spatial shaders. GH-98163 ) CSGMesh3D now explicitly requires the mesh to be manifold.

Beta

Beta Dev Lightmap Baking

Realistic Lighting in Justice with Mesh Shading

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. Their results were nothing short of stunning with local 8K DLSS support and global illumination through RTXGI. Recently, NetEase introduced Mesh Shader support to Justice.

Mesh

Mesh Culling Shaders Ray Tracing

Creating a See-Through | X-Ray Effect In Unity – Shader Tutorial

Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 24, 2022

What Is a Shader? Since the main premise of this effect is going to be a shader, we’ll start with explaining what a shader is. A shader is a script where you write code that determines how the colors will be rendered based on various scenarios like lighting and material configuration.

Shaders

Shaders Pixel Point and Click Scripting

Strategies for Optimizing Multiplayer Games in Unity

Logic Simplified

APRIL 4, 2025

The game enables multiplayer gameplay through two options: local mode or server-hosted online mode, allowing players to either connect directly on the same local network or join others via dedicated servers through automatic system pairing. What worked?

Games

Games Texture Render Balance

Godot 4.0 gets global and per-instance shader uniforms

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 16, 2020

Godot shader language is one of the easiest ones to use of any engine. Letting visual shaders aside, the shading language is a very tidy and self-contained version of GLSL ES 3.0, Shaders can take take inputs, modify them and produce outputs. Shaders can take take inputs, modify them and produce outputs. Simple, right?

Shaders

Shaders Mesh Texture Editing

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 dev 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 20, 2025

Import: Use UID in addition to path for extracted meshes, materials and animations ( GH-100786 ). Rendering: Update ViewportTexture path relative to its local scene instead of the Viewport owner ( GH-97861 ). Rendering: Use separate WorkThreadPool for shader compiler ( GH-103506 ).

Dev

Dev Render Scripting Bug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 3D: Switch Mesh surface indexing to start at 0 so string name matches integer index ( GH-70176 ). GUI: Copy local theme overrides from Control to Window ( GH-69353 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Fix scene shader error when using Omni or Spot but not both ( GH-69901 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Shaders

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 3D: Switch Mesh surface indexing to start at 0 so string name matches integer index ( GH-70176 ). GUI: Copy local theme overrides from Control to Window ( GH-69353 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Fix scene shader error when using Omni or Spot but not both ( GH-69901 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Shaders

Axmol-2.0 released

Cocos

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

(A fork of Cocos2d-x-4.0) release notes Add experimental WebAssembly build support(WebGL 2.0) axmol run -p wasm -xb "--target,cpp_tests" Add 2 cmake options: AX_WASM_THREADS , AX_WASM_SHELL_FILE , refer to CMakeOptions.md fmtlib: 10.0.0 ==> 10.1.0 FreeType: 2.13.0 ==> 2.13.2 llhttp: 8.1.1 ==> 9.0.1 OpenSSL: 3.0.9 ==> 3.0.10

Shaders

Shaders Render Mesh Prototyping

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #5

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 6, 2018

In order to deform the mesh according to the bone transforms, each vertex (generally "point of a triangle") can be influenced by up to 4 bones. The actual deformation usually happens in the vertex shader , where the bone transforms get looked up from a texture. (In added TIME uniform to all "scriptable" shaders.

Shaders

Shaders Texture Render Scripting

Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

. • Fixed native side LOD screen share calculation using local coordinates, causing calculation error. Fixed an issue where Mesh objects created through MeshUtils.createMesh caused data anomalies. Fixed an issue where the setter for the Mesh:: _ hash attribute was not bound. . •

Render

Render Baking Lightmap Debug

Accelerate your Game Design, Development and Build with Unity Asset Store

Jaunty Bear Games

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Fortunately the Unity 3D platform has a great selection of packages and assets to accelerate the build of tools, models, shaders, sound effects, animations etc. Wherever the asset resides (local or remote), the system will locate it and its dependencies, then return it. . Unity Technologies Assets. Addressables by Unity Technologies.

Asset

Asset Game Design Game Designer Build

Fog Volumes arrive in Godot 4.0

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 6, 2022

These allow users to dynamically place fog and control complex fog effects with shaders. Perhaps the most exciting part about FogVolumes is the introduction of the fog shader type. FogVolumes can be controlled with custom Fog shaders to add detail or to shape them however you want. write back that data to density.

Shaders

Shaders Render Alpha Engineering

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Shader language features. Localized class reference. Shader language features. Our shader language maintainer Yuri Roubinsky ( Chaosus ) is busy doing magic on the development branch for Godot 4.0, Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Large files support (> 2.0

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

Materials and shaders. Still, this workflow is easy and efficient as 3D objects get a second set of UVs generated on import, and baking works with instantiated meshes, scenes and even GridMaps. Materials and shaders. writing shaders is very easy! Full principled BSDF. Global illumination (GI). Mid- and post-processing.

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

Visual Shaders overhaul. Visual Shaders overhaul. introduced a new graph-based editor to edit shaders visually, reimplemented from the previous version that was included in Godot 2.1. our contributor Yuri Roubinsky did a huge rework of the new visual shader's UX , and eventually assumed full maintainership of the feature.

Feature

Feature Render Shaders Bug

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

Updated and localized documentation. Additionally, translators have been hard at work to localize the online documentation , and we now have 100% complete documentation in French , as well as near complete versions in Chinese (Simplified) , Japanese , and Spanish. A big thankyou to all the documentation and localization contributors!

Debug

Debug Point and Click Bug Render

GSoC 2021 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 30, 2021

For projects catering to people from various backgrounds, supporting multiple languages might be important, and with that, comes the need for the project to be robust enough to not break when using different locales. The scene has a single soft body cloth with a coarse mesh that is fixed along one edge. Overview and progress.

Debug

Debug Simulation Communications Feature

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

You can even create complex dynamic effects by writing custom shaders that operate on FogVolume nodes. is introducing sky shaders which allow users to create dynamic skies that update in real time (including reflections). For more information see the article introducing sky shaders. For other atmospheric effects, Godot 4.0

Beta

Beta Engineering Engine Feature

Godot reaches 2.1 stable!

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 9, 2016

Trying to keep track of what changed and how to merge it proved to be a lot of work, so instead, we now encourage users to try the scene inheritance feature to do local modifications to imported scenes. Importing 3D scenes also suffered some changes, as scenes will no longer be merged by default. New AnimatedSprite features. Our goal with 3.0

Asset

Asset Scripting Engineering Feature

GSoC 2018 progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 25, 2018

reduz is always quick to respond on IRC, although he is busy developing new features for Godot (during that time, he finished the new Animation editor, the new AnimationTree and visual shader editor. Textures, normal maps and some of the BSDF shaders are already well supported. I am mentored by sdfgeoff and reduz. Amazing!!).

Communications

Communications Code Engineering Engine

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #6

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2018

Heyyy, this pretty much looks like the sky projected onto the meshes, that's better! At that point of development, the sky reflection didn't respond to the camera position, so it basically looked like the sky was painted ontop of the mesh. The cubemap filtering shader can be found here. This makes lookups more memory local.

Pixel

Pixel Texture Render Shaders

Logjam as mourning wood

Radiator Blog

MAY 17, 2022

About my splitting tech: I didn't manually model pre-split meshes, it's all dynamic via shader. I paired it with the music track "By The River" by Sin City , a local New Zealand based country soul duo -- and if the player times it right, the screen fades to black just as the singer croons, "I guess I'll just go back home."

Point and Click

Point and Click Animation Animation Clipping

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Realistic Lighting in Justice with Mesh Shading

Creating a See-Through | X-Ray Effect In Unity – Shader Tutorial

Strategies for Optimizing Multiplayer Games in Unity

Godot 4.0 gets global and per-instance shader uniforms

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 dev 1

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Axmol-2.0 released

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #5

Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Accelerate your Game Design, Development and Build with Unity Asset Store

Fog Volumes arrive in Godot 4.0

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

GSoC 2021 - Progress report #1

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Godot reaches 2.1 stable!

GSoC 2018 progress report #1

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #6

Logjam as mourning wood

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