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

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.

Ray Tracing

Cocos

JUNE 29, 2023

The issue for most developers is knowing how to use SDF with shaders to achieve these effects. One developer has built an excellent extension that allows you to not worry about this and develop more font styles, saving the shaders for you. Thanks to Signed Distance Fields or SDF, you can do this and so much more with them.

Render

Nvidia

JANUARY 5, 2023

Some ray-traced effects, like reflections or shadows, require support for out-of-frustum objects for rendering accuracy. Technically, you can use shader atomic increments to account for all the rays on each frame if needed. This way, you can process many dynamic meshes sharing the same shader using a single Dispatch call.

Ray Tracing

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 5, 2016

About shaders. For most game developers, shaders are this scary monster that presents itself with such a complexity that it seems out of reach. In reality, shaders are quite simple by default and just get more complex the more you add to them. Our sprite is 32x32 pixels in size, and it must be drawn at some position.

Shaders

Febucci

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Shaders are used to create many effects, like “water”, “fire” and more. Shaders Theory. Now that we’ve scratched the topic of meshes, we can finally talk about shader. Shaders are programs that describe the traits of vertices and pixels. is read from the computer and is passed to the Vertex Shader.

Shaders

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.

Render

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 22, 2020

Update (2021-10-28): You can find a documentation page about Sky shaders in the Godot documentation. We aim to change that by introducing sky shaders. It is easy to tweak and update and uses a lightweight shader to avoid consuming GPU resources. Sky Shaders. Sky Shaders draw to the background and to the radiance cubemap.

Shaders

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.

Render

Cocos

JULY 18, 2024

Hello all, I have a shader that takes the alpha value of one texture and applies to a sprite frame. Do render Textures not support alpha in cocos? Basic masking functionality without using the mask component.

Texture

Game Errors

MARCH 29, 2023

If you are having building shaders issues on The Last of Us, you are not alone. Building shaders problem is one of them. What is the building shaders problem on The Last of Us Part 1? Shaders in games are essential. It’s a program that renders different pixels to create shadows, lighting, texture effects, etc.

Shaders

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. Implement Particle Shaders, with support for: Sorting, Collision and Soft Particles. Add Layered/Stencil rendering.

Render

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2018

depth rendering for shadow mapping. billboard support in shaders and editor fixes. The shader code for the lights can be found here. They reach around in a spherical way, so what the GLES2 backend does is render into a cubemap (6 images, arranged like the faces of a cube). depth rendering for shadow mapping.

Render

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 23, 2018

compatible rendering backend for Godot 3.1, The first month I spent on getting started and familiar with the rendering in Godot. Because I am still new to the rendering system in Godot, I might not be experienced enough to make good estimates of what can be achieved, but the rough roadmap looks like this. render meshes.

Shaders

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.

Sprite

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 16, 2018

In this case I'm talking about a rather big refactoring of how materials are handled in the GLES2 renderer. perspective rendering. perspective rendering. stabilize 3D rendering (unshaded workflow). perspective rendering. Still there were some improvements on the GDNative side of things! Done March 2018.

Shaders

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

Pixel

Nvidia

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

For example, a shader can use warp shuffle instructions to exchange data between threads in a warp without going through shared memory, which is especially valuable in pixel shaders where there is no shared memory. Or a shader can perform atomic additions on half-precision floating-point numbers in global memory.

Shaders

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.

Render

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.

Render

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

Rendering: Octahedral normal/tangent compression ( GH-60309 ). Editor: Improvements to shader editor ( GH-63582 ). GUI: Add font LCD sub-pixel anti-aliasing support ( GH-64422 ). Rendering: Octahedral normal/tangent compression ( GH-60309 ). Rendering: Add font LCD sub-pixel anti-aliasing support ( GH-64422 ).

Alpha

Nvidia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Since the introduction of the GeForce RTX 20 Series, NVIDIA has paved the way for groundbreaking graphics with novel research on how AI can enhance rendering and improve computer games. It delivers up to 4x improvements in frame rate and up to 2x improvements in latency compared to native resolution rendering.

Ray Tracing

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 30, 2020

While not entirely rendering specific, a lot of nodes are being renamed. Accurate frame render time. you can only see the frames per second that takes rendering the whole editor. This is very misleading and not representative of rendering performance. Additionally, GLSL shaders (not Godot shaders, real GLSL 4.50+Vulkan

Render

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). In-depth documentation is available.

Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 17, 2021

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: Fix vertex attribute specification for octahedral compression ( GH-54768 ). Rendering: Portals: Allow user to set roaming expansion margin ( GH-54921 ).

Tile

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Rendering: Various bug fixes to both shaders and the Vulkan setup (including updating to Vulkan SDK 1.3.204 ). Rendering: Various tweaks to default environment and lighting config to balance quality and performance. Rendering: Use prefiltered radiance for Sky high quality update mode ( GH-58177 ).

Alpha

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Notable changes are in-editor class reference translations (so far Chinese (Simplified), Spanish, and some French), some new rendering features (high quality glow mode, 3D point light attenuation option), and a number of C# marshalling fixes. Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

Mesh

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). In-depth documentation is available.

Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

GLES3 renderer). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). Highlights.

Mesh

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

GLES3 renderer). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). Highlights.

Mesh

Game Designing

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Cel shading can be described as a technique that gives any 3D or 2D rendering a cartoonish or hand-drawn effect. A cell shader gives the appearance of a traditional drawing with a flatter surface and hard, unfinished edges. Since cel shading works by applying a shader to 3D models, you must create the models first.

Animation

iXie gaming

JUNE 28, 2024

Other Specialized 2D Tools Pyxel Edit For games that use retro pixel art, Pyxel Edit is a must-have tool. TexturePacker helps by automatically packing many sprites into one texture atlas, which reduces the number of draw calls and improves overall rendering efficiency. Pyxel Edit: Perfect for creating retro pixel art.

Software

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 15, 2021

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: Fix vertex attribute specification for octahedral compression ( GH-54768 ). Rendering: Portals: Allow user to set roaming expansion margin ( GH-54921 ).

Tile

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 8, 2021

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: Fix vertex attribute specification for octahedral compression ( GH-54768 ). Rendering: Portals: Allow user to set roaming expansion margin ( GH-54921 ).

Tile

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 7, 2021

It also adds a much-requested minimap to GraphEdit , and thus to the VisualScript and Visual Shader editors. New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). mbedtls 2.16.9, tinyexr 1.0.0,

Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 24, 2020

Editor: Fix import of AtlasTextures with semi-transparent pixels ( GH-35363 ). Rendering: Fix shadow culling with orthogonal camera and wrong VIEWPORT_SIZE shader builtin ( GH-35406 ). Notable changes since RC 2: Android: Virtual keyboard now respects LineEdit max length ( GH-35438 ). Core/Editor: Various memory leaks fixed.

Bug

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

2D batching for the GLES2 renderer. While most rendering work was postponed for the 4.0 release with its new Vulkan-based renderer, our contributors lawnjelly and Clay ( clayjohn ) decided to give some more attention to the 3.2 2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ).

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