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

Awesome Tuts

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.

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Object Placement on Terrain (Mesh)

Mnenad

This chapter is all about how I solved it (so far) to be able to place all kinds of assets like 3D-meshes or self-growing fractal seeds on the terrain. Let’s assume we do it for each vertex on a mesh with let’s say 10’000 vertices.   Asset placement - depending on mesh height vertices. Before we start.

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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

Mesh streaming : Models are loaded as low detail (few vertices). The most complex is mesh streaming , which generally needs to be implemented together with a GPU culling strategy to ensure that very large amounts of models can be drawn at no CPU cost. Visual scripting. That said, Godot 4.0 Specialized artist UIs.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 16

Mircosoft Game Dev

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. Core: Add PROPERTY_USAGE_NEVER_DUPLICATE flag and use for script ( GH-71142 ). Import: Avoid nested skeletons, and handle skinned meshes with children ( GH-72158 ).

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Godot Tactics RPG – 01. Intro & Setup

The Liquid Fire

From there I used Sphere, an open source 2d Engine that scripted in javascript. We’re not really doing anything with shaders or post processing in the tutorial, so depending on where you want to take the tutorial later, its really up to you which you choose. Type in mesh in the search and select MeshInstance3D.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 8

Mircosoft Game Dev

Rendering: Fix AABB errors on meshes with bones on multiple surfaces ( GH-65035 ). Rendering: Implement CAMERA_VISIBLE_LAYERS as built-in shader variable ( GH-67387 ). Visual Shader: Make custom visual shader nodes automatically updates from script ( GH-69738 ). XR: WebXR is now fully working in Godot 4! (

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Optimize Vegetation Generation

Mnenad

Mainly I focused on generating grass that bends in the wind and some fern like plants, but what comes next is usable for all kind of meshes. Batching means to combine mesh objects that share the same material or that are marked as static in the Unity inspector. In my case I had terrible FPS with just some thousand mesh instances.

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