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.

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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.

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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.

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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. Assign a panorama texture to the material and you are all done! It is easy to tweak and update and uses a lightweight shader to avoid consuming GPU resources. Sky Shaders.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

x branch of Ogre aka ogre-next and I wrote Betsy, a GPU texture compressor that runs on GPUs. This work was commissioned by Godot Engine through the Software Freedom Conservancy to solve a major complaint: importing textures is excruciantly slow and takes many minutes. What is texture compression and why you care. ktx A.etc2.ktx

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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.

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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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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 23, 2018

implement basic texture loading. generate C++ classes for GLSL shaders at compile time. adapt shader compiler to work with GLSL ES 2.0. implement basic texture loading. The RasterizerStorage interface has methods for creating and modifying various resources such as textures, shaders, materials, meshes and many more.

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Cocos

MAY 14, 2023

In Vertex Shader, process vertex transformations, UVs, etc. In Fragment Shader, perform lighting calculations with the 7 lights. 1、Shader Instruction Limit On some old devices, it can only support a certain number of lights. So, how do we obtain all these render textures? Process the next model.

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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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

For example: On GLES3+ we can use UBOs to optimize shader parameters. At the end of the day, the use case where Vulkan and DirectX12 make the most sense is when you have hundreds of thousands of objects, which are all different (different geometry, textures, etc.), Shader abstraction. Ability to bundle shaders inside materials.

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Cocos

DECEMBER 25, 2023

You just need the following resources and code: A post-processing shader A material with the shader bound to it A post-processing extension TypeScript file for passing parameters to the material Let’s use an example of creating a screen grayscale effect: 1. You can also drag the material into the module’s material slot in the editor.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 30, 2019

This means that if you wanted to run custom low-level rendering code to a texture or buffer, custom post-processing, custom drawing code (other than what Godot shaders allow), custom compute, etc., flags on imported textures. Up to now, it was impossible to do any internal modifications to how Godot does rendering.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2018

billboard support in shaders and editor fixes. The shader code for the lights can be found here. A DirectionalLight needs their own space, but using single textures for each other light would be pretty wasteful, so what is used as an optimization is a Shadow Atlas. Done June 2018. finish lights. implement shadow atlas.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 16, 2018

Yes, some more invalid OpenGL state was fixed and a first attempt to get spatial shaders working and then this could be seen. This point actually took most of the development time this month, it was a rather frustrating and iterative process to find out how to best handle materials and shaders. The TIME variable in shaders?

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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.

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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. This feature becomes available in HLSL Shader Model 6.6.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 30, 2020

It supported roughness, but it did so in a way where the texture reads appeared rough, but not the reflected image (the edges of the reflected objects remained intact). They are very easy to use, just select the right texture channels and blending options and they work without much hassle. New screen-space reflection. Light projectors.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Android: Implement per-pixel transparency ( GH-51935 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Android: Implement per-pixel transparency ( GH-51935 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ).

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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. GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). Rewritten and greatly improved FBX importer.

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 29, 2024

Oscar Salandin , known as Peculiar Pixels, received a major validation for his debut game, BOTSU Ridiculous Robots , by being named the Overall Winner at the Develop Indie Showcase Awards 2024. The English solo developer began his journey right after the Pandemic. If the game can make enough money to employ others, I’d love to do that.

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Game Designing

OCTOBER 2, 2023

A cell shader gives the appearance of a traditional drawing with a flatter surface and hard, unfinished edges. You should also decide on the style you want to achieve, whether you’re going for cartoonish or more realistic textures. Since cel shading works by applying a shader to 3D models, you must create the models first.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Import: Fix texture atlas generation when source sprite is larger than generated atlas ( GH-55094 ). 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 ). Input: Add Input.is_physical_key_pressed() method ( GH-55251 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Android: Implement per-pixel transparency ( GH-51935 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Android: Implement per-pixel transparency ( GH-51935 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Android: Implement per-pixel transparency ( GH-51935 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ). GLES2/GLES3: Add support for OpenGL external textures ( GH-36342 ). GLES2/GLES3: Reset texture flags after radiance map generation ( GH-37815 ). Shaders: Add shader time scaling ( GH-38995 ). Android: Fix LineEdit virtual keyboard issues ( GH-38309 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Import: Fix texture atlas generation when source sprite is larger than generated atlas ( GH-55094 ). 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 ). Input: Add Input.is_physical_key_pressed() method ( GH-55251 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 3, 2016

Implement Particle Shaders, with support for: Sorting, Collision and Soft Particles. Shadow atlases exist for Spot and Omni lights (Directional uses its own texture, and multiple directional lights need several passes). How the atlas texture is organized is up to the user, though the default is sensible enough to work in most cases.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Import: Fix texture atlas generation when source sprite is larger than generated atlas ( GH-55094 ). 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 ). Input: Add Input.is_physical_key_pressed() method ( GH-55251 ).

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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,

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

If they don’t create textures themselves, 3D modelers will work especially closely with texture artists and look development artists (aka surfacing artists) who will add realism and detail to their model through texture maps and shaders. They may also be required to use software that processes scans and photogrammetry.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

Web editor running the "Ninja Adventure" demo from the eponymous CC0 asset pack by Pixel-Boy and AAA. "2D Pixel" preset for textures), but until there was no easy way to configure all presets easily in a unified interface. For Godot 4.0, Uģis' original proposal. Minimap support in GraphEdit.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2018

This is a screenshot that displays the object-space position of each pixel as the color. That was fixed by reflecting the view-vector with the normal of the current pixel. A mipmap is a smaller version of the original texture, usually filtered in a special way to make them look nicer when they are viewed from an angle or far away.

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Radiator Blog

APRIL 9, 2021

The engine should be able to render and simulate 200+ lightweight game objects -- frame-animated sprites with simple collision, no fancy physics or shaders. However, it has been designed for a fairly specific use case: tile-based pixel art platformers. (Reminder: for iOS, that means WebGL 1.0 and no WASM.) I didn't try to find out.

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