PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 14, 2024

At Unite 2024, Unity’s development team introduced a series of advanced GPU optimization techniques aimed at improving rendering performance across various platforms. One of the fundamental challenges in real-time rendering is reducing GPU latency to improve frame rate. Another important consideration is transparency.

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iXie gaming

MARCH 2, 2025

continues to evolve, leveraging AI, modern rendering techniques, and cutting-edge game engines to push the boundaries of game design. allows for stylized, hand-painted visuals, blending nostalgia with modern rendering techniques. From pixel-perfect platformers to tactical RPGs, this hybrid approach enhances both design and gameplay.

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Cocos

JUNE 29, 2023

SDFs make specific textures that give a pixel a value for the distance corresponding to the boundaries of the image. So using the SDF we discussed allows the fonts to be filled in with the correct pixels, no matter the size, with the help of the SDF shader information. To fix this, the use of SDFs are used. What does Label Plus do?

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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. Editor: Always allow selecting any rendering driver in the settings, add auto option ( GH-103026 ). in the previous 4.4 Changelog As we released 4.4

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iXie gaming

MARCH 28, 2025

A well-defined art style, whether realistic, stylized, or pixel-based, guides asset complexity, rendering performance, and development timelines. Physically Based Rendering (PBR) ensures materials behave consistently under different lighting conditions. Style guides to maintain artistic consistency.

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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. The rendering stages involved in Deferred Rendering. The problems that are solved by Deferred Rendering. Solution for transparent object rendering.

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Cocos

JULY 18, 2024

Do render Textures not support alpha in cocos?

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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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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. In the game’s rendering pipeline, you can then trigger when to execute the plug-in. Learn how DLSS 3.5

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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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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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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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Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 24, 2022

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. The ZWrite Off and ZTest Greater are responsible for making the shader render the material behind other objects.

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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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Cocos

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

You can pass your render texture to Camera as a targetTexture. Or even use special custom layers for nodes that should be visible by camera with render texture target. You can use second camera for it.

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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).

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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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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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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. Before the end of 2021, NVIDIA DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) will be natively supported for HDRP in Unity 2021.2.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2018

depth rendering for shadow mapping. I will go more in-depth about shadow-mapping later, for now just know that in order to show shadows, the scene needs to be rendered from the perspective of each light and the result has to be saved. For the GLES2 renderer, I had to implement the interface for those shadow atlases.

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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. It also prepares the data (like the UVs) that will be used next by the Pixel Shader. The Pixel Shader runs once per each pixel and renders your object.

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Nvidia

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

As pixel density and the number of connected devices grow, continued investment in fast, efficient, high-quality video encoding and decoding is essential. This content is generated by and consumed across various devices, including IoT gadgets, smartphones, computers, Today, over 80% of internet traffic is video.

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Cocos

APRIL 18, 2024

Principle Since it’s an outer stroke, it doesn’t occupy the pixels of the original image to draw the edges. Remember the previous article, where we used the image’s Alpha to find edges, determining whether there were pixels with Alpha of 0 around the image. First, we get the uv of the surrounding pixel through the offset uv.

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Nvidia

MARCH 24, 2021

NVIDIA set out to redefine real-time rendering through AI-based super resolution — rendering a fraction of the original pixels and then using AI to reconstruct sharp, higher resolution images. This eliminates the GPU render queue and reduces CPU back pressure in GPU-bound scenarios.

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Radiator Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

If we faithfully followed the spirit of brutalism, we would only use solid colors or wireframe rendering. Technically from a game engine / rendering perspective, any use of textures is ornament. Certainly, aligning these fake painted-on bevels and seams goes against this spirit of brutalism? Labor evokes thickness, depth, and mass.

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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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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Our sprite is 32x32 pixels in size, and it must be drawn at some position. For each pixel drawn to the screen, OpenGL will interpolate the outputs that were generated from the vertex program and use them to fill the triangle. This process is done in the fragment program (pixel shader in DirectX terminology). Fragment Program.

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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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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.” In Extended Abstracts of the 2021 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play. CHI PLAY ’21.

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Game Development

JANUARY 23, 2019

Then set the pixels per unit to 64 and click apply to update the sprites. Full Unity 2D Game Tutorial 2019 – Mini Map Render Texture. Our Camera is still working like a normal camera, we want it to render its view to an image instead of to us the player. In order to do that we first need to make a render texture.

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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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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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Game Industry News

JUNE 11, 2021

Art: The art is very pixelated, but that’s fine because it stands the test of time much better than any 3D Rendered game that came out later. Honestly I enjoyed playing this more as a kid than the first entry, though the fact that it was such a radical departure was and still is incredibly weird.

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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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Nvidia

APRIL 5, 2022

DLSS uses advanced AI rendering to produce image quality comparable to native resolution, and in some cases even better quality, while only conventionally rendering a fraction of the pixels. Balancing quality and performance is done by controlling the game’s internal rendering resolution. Courtesy of JSFILMZ.

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Cocos

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Post-processing effects, are used for further processing of rendered results to achieve various advanced and special effects. Analysis of 2D Post-Processing Solutions Cocos Creator currently lacks built-in support for post-processing in the 2D render phase, requiring developers to explore various approaches to achieve the rendering goals.

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