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Sprite Shader Render out of bounds

Cocos

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Good evening, I just finished writing my own custom shader to create 2D shadows on sprites, but I can’t find a way to increase the render area of the sprite. The problem is that the shader does not render outside these limits, even though the original area was 450x450. Is there a way to increase the render bounds?

Sprite

Sprite Shaders Render Texture

Shader Debugging Made Easy with NVIDIA Nsight Graphics

Nvidia

JULY 31, 2024

Shaders are specialized programs that run on the GPU that manipulate rays, pixels, vertices, and textures to achieve unique visual effects. With shaders, you. Shaders are specialized programs that run on the GPU that manipulate rays, pixels, vertices, and textures to achieve unique visual effects.

Debug

Debug Shaders Ray Tracing Graphics

Maintenance release: Godot 4.4.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 26, 2025

Rendering: Add ASTC HDR format variants ( GH-102777 ). Rendering: Fix voxelizer normals ( GH-102893 ). Rendering: Fix 2D quad primitive missing lighting data in GLES3 renderer ( GH-102908 ). Rendering: Fix uninitialized value in Tonemap ( GH-103092 ). Rendering: Fix incorrect parameters passed to VMA ( GH-103730 ).

Render

Render Shaders Bug Animation

Release candidate: Godot 4.4.1 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 14, 2025

Rendering: Add ASTC HDR format variants ( GH-102777 ). Rendering: Fix voxelizer normals ( GH-102893 ). Rendering: Fix 2D quad primitive missing lighting data in GLES3 renderer ( GH-102908 ). Rendering: Fix uninitialized value in Tonemap ( GH-103092 ). Rendering: Fix incorrect parameters passed to VMA ( GH-103730 ).

Shaders

Shaders Render Bug Data

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

Breaking changes Animation Audio C# Core Editor GDScript Import Input Physics Platforms Rendering and shaders XR New in Beta 1! Add 2D shader instance uniforms Previously, Godot only supported shader instance uniforms in Spatial shaders. Highlights Many features originally intended for 4.3 meaning that Godot 4.4

Beta

Beta Dev Lightmap Baking

How to make nature shaders with Shader Graph in 2022 LTS

Unity Blog

JULY 28, 2023

Shader Graph is a node-based shader editor that can be used with URP, HDRP, and Built-In Render Pipeline. Here’s how to can use Shader Graph to create natural elements in 2022 LTS.

Shaders

Shaders Render Platformer Engine

Powerful Shader Insights: Using Shader Debug Info with NVIDIA Nsight Graphics

Nvidia

MARCH 14, 2024

As ray tracing becomes the predominant rendering technique in modern game engines, a single GPU RayGen shader can now perform most of the light simulation of a. As ray tracing becomes the predominant rendering technique in modern game engines, a single GPU RayGen shader can now perform most of the light simulation of a frame.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Shaders Debug Graphics

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

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

Shaders Pixel Point and Click Scripting

I got distracted and built a Physically-Based Renderer

Harold Serrano

MAY 16, 2024

The author experimented with the properties of various metals and demonstrated how to create them in a Physically-Based Renderer through renderings. They looked so cool that made me wonder if I could build a Physically-Based Renderer myself and render these metals. For starters, I was using non-physically-based shaders.

Render

Render Shaders Engine Engineering

Cocos Shader Tutorial 1.0 - about UV

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. Use UV in Shader Both 2D and 3D shaders in Cocos are obtained in the vertex shader (VS) and passed to the pixel shader (FS). to make the color in bottom darker.

Shaders

Shaders Mesh Point and Click Sprite

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 dev 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 20, 2025

Rendering: Clean up more dynamic allocations in the RD renderers with a focus on 2D ( GH-103889 ). Rendering: Optimize _fill_instance_data function in Forward+ renderer ( GH-103547 ). Rendering: Significantly reduce per-frame memory allocations from the heap in the Mobile renderer ( GH-103794 ).

Dev

Dev Render Scripting Bug

Making my PBR Renderer more user-friendly

Harold Serrano

MAY 26, 2024

Thus, I ended up developing a BRDF renderer. If you didn't get a chance to read the article, here are some screenshots of what I accomplished with my renderer. The UI in my renderer is simple. For about two weeks I dropped my Renderer Engineer hat and worked as a UI designer. And that is what I did. Thanks for reading.

Render

Render Point and Click Engineering Engine

Practical Use of Render Textures

The Knights of Unity

JUNE 5, 2020

And even before an era of SRPs (Scriptable Render Pipelines), there was a good amount of solid features like today’s topic: Render textures. In this post I’m going to explain to you how to use render textures in your game. using legacy rendering, but the features I used work in SRPs too. What is a Render Texture.

Texture

Texture Render Shaders Alpha

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Export: Disable Metal and Vulkan renderers in simulator builds. Rendering: 2D: Fix clip children and rendering artefacts ( GH-102161 ). Rendering: Add loop annotations to ubershaders to prevent loop unrolling ( GH-102480 ). Rendering: Fix shadow peter-panning with default spotlight ( GH-101952 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Baking Render

Label Plus – An SDF-based BMFont generation and rendering plug-in is here!

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

Render Shaders Pixel Build

Status of the OpenGL 3 renderer

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Last year we announced that we were planning on creating an OpenGL-based renderer to complement the current Vulkan-based renderers. with an OpenGL-based renderer; it just won't be feature complete. As a reminder, an OpenGL-based renderer is still crucial so we can support older platforms, and Web export. LightmapGI.

Render

Render Beta Feature Bug

Dive into the URP 3D Sample

Unity Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

The Universal Render Pipeline (URP) 3D Sample features four environments for developers to explore how to best use the latest URP features, such as Forward+ rendering, Decals, Lens Flares, Physically Based Rendering materials, Shader Graph, Volumes, and Post-processing.

Render

Render Shaders Feature Development

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 15

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 25, 2023

renderer support ( GH-71848 ). Rendering: Fix Vulkan validation errors related to enabling extensions ( GH-70429 ). Rendering: Fix DirectionalLight3D shadow opacity on Forward Mobile rendering backend ( GH-71690 ). Rendering: Use proper space for forward GI reflections ( GH-71694 ). iOS: Restore OpenGL ES 3.0

Beta

Beta Dev Render Shaders

Making shaders more accessible

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. The following OpenGL code sends the sprite to the shader for drawing: OpenGL Commands.

Shaders

Shaders Sprite Pixel Clipping

Godot 3's renderer design explained

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

Render Shaders Texture Engine

Advanced GPU optimization techniques in Unity 6 • Insights from Unite 2024

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

Ray Tracing Culling Pixel Render

Practical Tips for Optimizing Ray Tracing

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

Ray Tracing Mesh Shaders Data

From Concept to Completion: Navigating the Game Art Production Pipeline

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.

Concepts

Concepts Art Texture Asset

Status of the OpenGL 3 renderer

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Last year we announced that we were planning on creating an OpenGL-based renderer to complement the current Vulkan-based renderers. with an OpenGL-based renderer; it just won’t be feature complete. As a reminder, an OpenGL-based renderer is still crucial so we can support older platforms, and Web export. LightmapGI.

Render

Render Beta Feature Bug

Godot's new renderer, progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2016

As many of you have probably heard, a new rendering backend is being worked on for Godot. 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.

Render

Render Shaders Texture Mesh

Release candidate: Godot 4.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Rendering: Shaders: Only convert default value to linear color if type hint is source_color ( GH-103201 ). Rendering: Metal: Fix SPIR-V MSL compilation on iOS targets ( GH-103337 ). GDScript: Add bound checks to Array / Packed*Array variant call get and set methods ( GH-103362 ). Input: Change default deadzone back to 0.5

Bug

Bug Render Build Alpha

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 16

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

Flag dirty dependencies when GeometryInstance dependencies change in renderer ( GH-71581 ). 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. Rendering: Fix LCD font AA on OpenGL renderer ( GH-72125 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Every supported renderer option is now selectable from the project creation screen, which means you can create OpenGL 3 ("Compatibility") projects without using the command line ( GH-70028 ). The illustration picture for this article is from Raffaele Picca 's car scene , rendered in Godot 4.0 Jump to the Downloads section.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Shaders

Custom sky shaders in Godot 4.0

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

Shaders Render Texture Alpha

In-Game GPU Profiling for DirectX 12 Using SetBackgroundProcessingMode

Nvidia

JULY 10, 2023

One factor to consider is whether background driver optimizations were engaged and when their resulting optimized shaders were deployed. The observations are then used to compile a shader asynchronously. Understandably, this can cause a great deal of confusion in timing your shaders.

Shaders

Shaders Games Render Debug

Differentiable Slang: A Shading Language for Renderers That Learn

Nvidia

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Fast, Modular and Differentiable Shader Programming. Fast, Modular and Differentiable Shader Programming. The paper shows how a single language can serve as a unified platform for real-time, inverse, and differentiable rendering. Build differentiable renderers from existing graphics code.

Render

Render Shaders Graphics Code

Identifying Shader Limiters with the Shader Profiler in NVIDIA Nsight Graphics

Nvidia

APRIL 25, 2022

and later feature the new Real-Time Shader Profiler, the first temporal sampling profiler for GPU shaders. and later feature the new Real-Time Shader Profiler, the first temporal sampling profiler for GPU shaders. This profiler enables you to examine the most expensive shaders at each moment in your frame.

Shaders

Shaders Graphics Localization Code

Improve Shader Performance and In-Game Frame Rates with Shader Execution Reordering

Nvidia

OCTOBER 12, 2022

NVIDIA recently introduced a new feature available in the next generation of GPUs: Shader execution reordering (SER). NVIDIA recently introduced a new feature available in the next generation of GPUs: Shader execution reordering (SER). For more information, see the Shader Execution Reordering whitepaper.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Shaders Engine Engineering

D2 log 068 – Water shader

Catnip Games

JULY 17, 2022

Spent some time tinkering with shaders. Ended up with a subtle effect which is blended on top of the pre-rendered water surface. It was fun but also hard to come up with something actually usable in the game. It doesn’t tile properly but the seam is hard to notice so I’m fine with it.

Shaders

Shaders Tile Texture Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 8

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Rendering: Use circular fade instead of linear fade for distance fade ( GH-50294 ). Rendering: Tweak shadow bias defaults for DirectionalLight3D and OmniLight3D ( GH-55757 ). Rendering: Fix AABB errors on meshes with bones on multiple surfaces ( GH-65035 ). Rendering: Allow black metallic materials to reflect IBL ( GH-69522 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Shaders

How to write Shaders in Unity using HLSL

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. Shader Example.

Shaders

Shaders Writing Mesh Pixel

Shader Problem in IOS

Cocos

JULY 8, 2024

I have a question related to shaders. I created a game in which I added a shader; it works fine in web mobile and Android, but in iOS it gives an error during rendering. How to solve this issue version-3.8.2 17:49:37 [ERROR]: [ERROR] file /Applications/Cocos/Creator/3.8.2/CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/resources/3d/engine/native/cocos/renderer/gfx-metal/MTLCommandBuffer.mm:

Shaders

Shaders Render Mobile Mobile

Shader Problem in IOS

Cocos

JULY 7, 2024

I have a question related to shaders. I created a game in which I added a shader; it works fine in web mobile and Android, but in iOS it gives an error during rendering. How to solve this issue version-3.8.2 17:49:37 [ERROR]: [ERROR] file /Applications/Cocos/Creator/3.8.2/CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/resources/3d/engine/native/cocos/renderer/gfx-metal/MTLCommandBuffer.mm:

Shaders

Shaders Render Mobile Mobile

Shader Problem in IOS

Cocos

JUNE 21, 2024

I have a question related to shaders. I created a game in which I added a shader; it works fine in web mobile and Android, but in iOS it gives an error during rendering. How to solve this issue version-3.8.2 17:49:37 [ERROR]: [ERROR] file /Applications/Cocos/Creator/3.8.2/CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/resources/3d/engine/native/cocos/renderer/gfx-metal/MTLCommandBuffer.mm:

Shaders

Shaders Render Mobile Mobile

Shader Problem in IOS

Cocos

JUNE 28, 2024

I have a question related to shaders. I created a game in which I added a shader; it works fine in web mobile and Android, but in iOS it gives an error during rendering. How to solve this issue version-3.8.2 17:49:37 [ERROR]: [ERROR] file /Applications/Cocos/Creator/3.8.2/CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/resources/3d/engine/native/cocos/renderer/gfx-metal/MTLCommandBuffer.mm:

Shaders

Shaders Render Mobile Mobile

Shader Problem in IOS

Cocos

JUNE 21, 2024

I have a question related to shaders. I created a game in which I added a shader; it works fine in web mobile and Android, but in iOS it gives an error during rendering. How to solve this issue version-3.8.2 17:49:37 [ERROR]: [ERROR] file /Applications/Cocos/Creator/3.8.2/CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/resources/3d/engine/native/cocos/renderer/gfx-metal/MTLCommandBuffer.mm:

Shaders

Shaders Render Mobile Mobile

Shader Problem in IOS

Cocos

JUNE 21, 2024

I have a question related to shaders. I created a game in which I added a shader; it works fine in web mobile and Android, but in iOS it gives an error during rendering. How to solve this issue version-3.8.2 17:49:37 [ERROR]: [ERROR] file /Applications/Cocos/Creator/3.8.2/CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/resources/3d/engine/native/cocos/renderer/gfx-metal/MTLCommandBuffer.mm:

Shaders

Shaders Render Mobile Mobile

Shader Problem in IOS

Cocos

JUNE 19, 2024

I have a question related to shaders. I created a game in which I added a shader; it works fine in web mobile and Android, but in iOS it gives an error during rendering. How to solve this issue version-3.8.2 17:49:37 [ERROR]: [ERROR] file /Applications/Cocos/Creator/3.8.2/CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/resources/3d/engine/native/cocos/renderer/gfx-metal/MTLCommandBuffer.mm:

Shaders

Shaders Render Mobile Mobile

Shader Problem in IOS

Cocos

JUNE 4, 2024

I have a question related to shaders. I created a game in which I added a shader; it works fine in web mobile and Android, but in iOS it gives an error during rendering. How to solve this issue version-3.8.2 17:49:37 [ERROR]: [ERROR] file /Applications/Cocos/Creator/3.8.2/CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/resources/3d/engine/native/cocos/renderer/gfx-metal/MTLCommandBuffer.mm:

Shaders

Shaders Render Mobile Mobile

Sprite Shader Render out of bounds

Shader Debugging Made Easy with NVIDIA Nsight Graphics

Trending Sources

Maintenance release: Godot 4.4.1

Release candidate: Godot 4.4.1 RC 1

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

How to make nature shaders with Shader Graph in 2022 LTS

Powerful Shader Insights: Using Shader Debug Info with NVIDIA Nsight Graphics

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

I got distracted and built a Physically-Based Renderer

Cocos Shader Tutorial 1.0 - about UV

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 dev 1

Making my PBR Renderer more user-friendly

Practical Use of Render Textures

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 3

Label Plus – An SDF-based BMFont generation and rendering plug-in is here!

Status of the OpenGL 3 renderer

Dive into the URP 3D Sample

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 15

Making shaders more accessible

Godot 3's renderer design explained

Advanced GPU optimization techniques in Unity 6 • Insights from Unite 2024

Practical Tips for Optimizing Ray Tracing

From Concept to Completion: Navigating the Game Art Production Pipeline

Status of the OpenGL 3 renderer

Godot's new renderer, progress report #1

Release candidate: Godot 4.4 RC 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 16

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Custom sky shaders in Godot 4.0

In-Game GPU Profiling for DirectX 12 Using SetBackgroundProcessingMode

Differentiable Slang: A Shading Language for Renderers That Learn

Identifying Shader Limiters with the Shader Profiler in NVIDIA Nsight Graphics

Improve Shader Performance and In-Game Frame Rates with Shader Execution Reordering

D2 log 068 – Water shader

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 8

How to write Shaders in Unity using HLSL

Shader Problem in IOS

Shader Problem in IOS

Shader Problem in IOS

Shader Problem in IOS

Shader Problem in IOS

Shader Problem in IOS

Shader Problem in IOS

Shader Problem in IOS

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