Mnenad

JANUARY 25, 2018

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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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?

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Shaders Mesh Texture Editing 52

Logic Simplified

APRIL 4, 2025

The optimization of shaders combines calculation simplification methods which lowers both shader passes and processing redundancy. The use of simple colliders should include box and sphere types instead of complex mesh colliders to minimize processing requirements.

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 5, 2024

This is also a stage where you should not rush in order to get a perfect mesh flow. I used a Blinn Shader on the asset to spot any issues with the mesh. Blinn Shader helped me see highlights produced due to light shining off the surface at low angles. A high poly mesh model of the gun came into being.

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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 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Fix scene shader error when using Omni or Spot but not both ( GH-69901 ). Shaders: Fix the sorting of shader uniforms ( GH-70016 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 20, 2025

Import: Use UID in addition to path for extracted meshes, materials and animations ( GH-100786 ). Rendering: Use separate WorkThreadPool for shader compiler ( GH-103506 ). GUI: Implement properties that can recursively disable child controls FocusMode and MouseFilter ( GH-97495 ).

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Dev Render Scripting Bug 75

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

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. GPUParticlesMaterial resource (or even an optional dedicated shader).

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Cocos

MAY 18, 2023

Firstly, Sprite is a quad, the mesh is static for easier usage. You can have a custom render component and make its mesh with multiple quad, but it really isn’t necessary. Just calculate color step in the fragment shader is enough. You can achieve gradient color within one quad.

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Mesh Shaders Sprite Render 52

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. Import: Avoid nested skeletons, and handle skinned meshes with children ( GH-72158 ). Shaders: Several shader preprocessor parser fixes and improvements ( GH-72058 ).

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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. In some cases, Solid Angle Culling reduced ARTAS processing time by 60%.

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Mnenad

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

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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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 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Fix scene shader error when using Omni or Spot but not both ( GH-69901 ). Shaders: Fix the sorting of shader uniforms ( GH-70016 ).

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Beta Dev Render Shaders 76

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

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! ( GH-68870 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 21, 2018

mesh loading. basic mesh drawing. implement spatial shaders. The main bug that was keeping me busy for weeks was related to a shader bind that was not descriptive enough when blitting a viewport to the screen. For that a new shader has to be used, the scene shader , as it can be found here. mesh loading.

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Mesh Render Shaders Bug 52

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.

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Ray Tracing Mesh Game Developer Game Development 52

Nvidia

MARCH 20, 2023

Portal’s next-generation lighting rebuilt with path-traced direct and indirect illumination and shader execution re-ordering The RTX Path Tracing SDK accurately re-creates the physics of all light sources in a scene to reproduce what the eye sees in real life. OMM SDK 1.0 is available to all developers.

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Ray Tracing Technology AI Shaders 71

The Liquid Fire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

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. Search for mesh and again choose MeshInstance3D.

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Point and Click Texture Mesh Tile 104

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.

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Shaders Render Texture Mesh 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 8, 2017

While we offer a default particles material (which is very powerful and customizable), it is possible to write your own particle logic entirely in a shader. It is also possible to convert a particle system to a shader and do further modifications to it by yourself, manually. More power. are implemented.

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The Knights of Unity

JUNE 5, 2020

For shaders, I used Amplify Shader Editor to add some visual effects on top of the render texture. Then I’ve put the recorded render texture to a Standard Shader. On top of this, I added another mesh with custom shader, this time, for refraction. And the outcome of the shader looks like this: And that’s it.

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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 ).

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Beta Dev Mesh Render 52

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? Now finally the more visual part of the progress report! Since OpenGL 3.1,

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Shaders Render Mesh Code 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 2, 2019

Finally, the way light shaders now works is more user friendly to creating custom lighting shaders. The 2D material system is back, so writing custom shaders works with the new Vulkan renderer. The shader language is mostly untouched since Godot 3.x, x, so existing shaders should just work. 2D materials.

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Shaders Render Texture Engineering 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Our goal is to have a modern, clustered renderer that supports everything mainstream engines support, including PBR, global illumination and flexible shader editing. Write a more flexible, GLES 3 GLSL compatible shader language. Write a more efficient Mesh format, which allows faster loading/saving. For Godot 3.0 (our

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

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 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ).

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Beta Dev Mesh Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Instancing is used to render similar objects (mesh, material and misc settings), reducing the pressure over the rendering API. There are special versions of meshes to render when doing shadow maps or depth pre-pass. Re-written most shaders to reduce VGPR usage, thus improve occupancy. A set of benchmarks was created at : [link].

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Culling Render Shaders Mesh 52

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 52

Beta Dev Mesh Render 52

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 ).

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Mesh Render Shaders Animation 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Apart from that, the month was mostly spent on implementing more 2D items in the renderer as well as working on getting custom shaders running. start work on shader compiler. implement more shader features. implement more shader features. load meshes. render meshes. start work on shader compiler.

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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.

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Shaders Texture Render Scripting 52

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 52

Mesh Render Shaders Animation 52

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 ).

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Mesh Render Shaders Animation 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This generally works and looks pretty, but it's quite shader intensive, which makes it not work on mobile or low end GPUs. First of all, you need to make sure your meshes have an UV2 layer. Godot lightmapper works with one texture per mesh, so sharing UVs between meshes will not give you more optimization.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

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 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ).

Beta 52

Beta Dev Mesh Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). Visual Shader: Add few improvements for VisualShaderNodeParticleRandomness ( GH-71123 ). A couple fixes to the text resource loader which could impact notably reloading scripts ( GH-71170 ). Fix Tab key usage in the inspector ( GH-71271 ).

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Beta Dev Collision Render 110

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Mesh: Fix UV mapping on CSGSphere ( GH-49195 ).

Beta 52

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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

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