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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. This is consistent with how most image file formats store pixel data, and with how most graphics APIs work (including DirectX, Vulkan, Metal, WebGPU, but not OpenGL).

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

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

How to write Shaders in Unity using HLSL

Febucci

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Shaders are used to create many effects, like “water”, “fire” and more. In order to understand them and become a wizard/witch, we have to learn a bit about meshes first. A mesh is made (usually!) You can see the mesh as the structure of your object, built by combining its triangles together. Shaders Theory.

Shaders

Shaders Writing Mesh Pixel

Advanced GPU optimization techniques in Unity 6 • Insights from Unite 2024

PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Another essential tool, the Shader Graph heatmap, provides a visual estimate of the cost associated with different Shader Graph nodes. Developers can leverage this feedback to make informed decisions when optimizing shader programs. Another important consideration is transparency.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Culling Pixel Render

Accelerating Ultra-Realistic Game Development with NVIDIA DLSS 3 and NVIDIA RTX Path Tracing

Nvidia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

One of the key components of the SDK is Shader Execution Reordering (SER), a new scheduling system that reorders shading work on-the-fly for better execution efficiency. An NVIDIA API extension, it is useful for ray-traced workloads, as it achieves maximum parallelism and performance from path tracing shaders.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Mesh Game Developer Game Development

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 23, 2018

generate C++ classes for GLSL shaders at compile time. adapt shader compiler to work with GLSL ES 2.0. adapt shader compiler to work with GLSL ES 2.0. load meshes. render meshes. generate C++ classes for GLSL shaders at compile time. Those shaders are written in GLSL, the GL shading language.

Shaders

Shaders Render Texture Mesh

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #4

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 16, 2018

Last time I promised more fancy screenshots, here some perspective-correct renderings of some meshes. Yes, some more invalid OpenGL state was fixed and a first attempt to get spatial shaders working and then this could be seen. The TIME variable in shaders? A lot of text and no code so far, so here you go! material API refactor.

Shaders

Shaders Render Mesh Code

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Best Practices for Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing (Updated)

Nvidia

JULY 25, 2022

Flagging instances or geometries as opaque allows uninterrupted hardware intersection search and prevents invocation of the any-hit shader. Enable the use of any-hit shaders only for those geometries that need it; for example, to do alpha testing. Consider representing mesh particles as instances in TLAS.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Shaders Culling Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 15

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

Editor: Improvements to shader editor ( GH-63582 ). GUI: Add font LCD sub-pixel anti-aliasing support ( GH-64422 ). Warning: This has the potential to break meshes imported in earlier alphas, we are still working on improving the compatibility code. Rendering: Add font LCD sub-pixel anti-aliasing support ( GH-64422 ).

Alpha

Alpha Dev Shaders Beta

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

2024 Cherry-picks

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2025

Look at these shiny highlights: 2D physics interpolation 2D hierarchical culling Mesh merging Discrete level of detail (LOD) ORM materials Text to speech Arctic Eggs This game about cooking eggs in a cold climate found great reception on the internet. The feature freeze for 3.6 July The Godot robot plushies took the internet by storm.

Engineering

Engineering Engine Mechanics Co-op

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Import: Fix crash when exporting meshes to glTF that have no skin ( GH-55246 ). macOS: Fix driver crash when enabling per-pixel transparency on M1 macs ( GH-55464 ). Particles: Fix for double use of seed in random shader variables ( GH-55607 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix incompatible addition in auto exposure shader ( GH-55983 ).

Tile

Tile Render Shaders Editing

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.1 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Import: Fix crash when exporting meshes to glTF that have no skin ( GH-55246 ). macOS: Fix driver crash when enabling per-pixel transparency on M1 macs ( GH-55464 ). macOS: Fix driver crash when enabling per-pixel transparency on M1 macs ( GH-55464 ). Particles: Fix for double use of seed in random shader variables ( GH-55607 ).

Tile

Tile Render Bug Build

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Shader language features. Although raster (pixel based) occlusion culling will not be available until Godot 4, some geometrical occlusion methods are being added to Godot 3. Shader language features. Our shader language maintainer Yuri Roubinsky ( Chaosus ) is busy doing magic on the development branch for Godot 4.0,

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.1 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Import: Fix crash when exporting meshes to glTF that have no skin ( GH-55246 ). macOS: Fix driver crash when enabling per-pixel transparency on M1 macs ( GH-55464 ). Particles: Fix for double use of seed in random shader variables ( GH-55607 ). Import: Fix support for CSG and GridMap in glTF scene export ( GH-54911 ).

Tile

Tile Render Bug Build

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ). Import: Respect 'mesh compression' editor import option in Assimp and glTF importers ( GH-39134 ). Shaders: Add shader time scaling ( GH-38995 ). Windows: Per-pixel transparency no longer lets mouse events pass-through ( GH-39914.

Debug

Debug Point and Click Bug Render

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #6

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2018

This is a screenshot that displays the object-space position of each pixel as the color. 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.

Pixel

Pixel Texture Render Shaders

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GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #1

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #4

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Best Practices for Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing (Updated)

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 15

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

2024 Cherry-picks

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.1

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.1 RC 2

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.1 RC 3

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #6

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