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. If your previous development experience is based on OpenGL, you may find that the texture on your grid is vertically flipped. to make the color in bottom darker.

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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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 8, 2025

Reorganized shader editor UI The editor experience for shaders and visual shaders got some TLC in GH-100287. Godot already supports using the Vulkan Fragment Shading Rate extension to render the outside of the viewport at a lower resolution, leading to performance improvements with little noticeable decrease in quality.

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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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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.

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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. Anyhow, the shader works, I can set it up on a spriteframe and it works as expected… however, when I add the render text. Basic masking functionality without using the mask component.

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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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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

has an entirely new rendering architecture, which is divided into modern and compatibility backends. The modern one does rendering via RenderingDevice (which is implemented in drivers such as Vulkan, Direct3D 12, and more in the future). Rendering is significantly more efficient in Godot 4.0, Low level rendering access.

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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.

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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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Import: Fix swapped color channels in ETC1/ETC2 textures, etcpak expects BGRA data ( GH-69448 ). Rendering: Use circular fade instead of linear fade for distance fade ( GH-50294 ). Rendering: Tweak shadow bias defaults for DirectionalLight3D and OmniLight3D ( GH-55757 ). GUI: Use system fonts as fallback ( GH-68995 ).

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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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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 ).

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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. I also tried distortion for the bottom layer but UV wrapping is a problem because the tiles are in a texture atlas. Putting tiles in an array texture instead of an atlas would give me more options.

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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

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Febucci

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Shaders are used to create many effects, like “water”, “fire” and more. UVs are also called texture coordinates and they let you map textures on your objects. You’re basically saying to the computer: “hey, I want this texture drawn from here to here”. Shaders Theory. Shader Example.

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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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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.

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Cocos

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

I want to use shader to draw circle on spine animation (result of animtion after render) without using texture renderer, but in shader uv0 it calculates on atlas so the result is not as expected. Can anyone help me?

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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.

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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

JUNE 8, 2023

Another thing is I noticed that the FPS dropped after the shader was applied to some sprites. So, is there way to cache the rendered texture (including the shader effect) rather than recalculating the same thing every frame. I will check and get back to you.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: A ton of fixes for all rendering backends, and missing features implemented for the OpenGL3 one. GUI: Add a Font import option to pre-render all glyphs required for the translation ( GH-68448 ). Physics: Implement adjusting the maximum number of physics steps per rendered frame ( GH-65836 ).

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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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 9, 2020

While Juan ( reduz ) has been busily working on Vulkan, the rest of the rendering team have not been idle. They have been working on many bug fixes and some improvements to the OpenGL rendering in the 3.x Up until now, the GLES2 2D renderer has been drawing primitives (such as rectangles) on an individual basis. How it works.

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Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

This version optimizes some rendering and lighting capabilities, fixes a series of key issues recently reported by users, and recommends that all v3.x Engine • Added DebugView at runtime UI control rendering debugging function. Skip rendering when the UI element Opacity is 0. Skip rendering when the UI element Opacity is 0.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 30, 2016

It's been a month since the second progress report , and progress continues towards the new Godot renderer. Implement Particle Shaders, with support for: Sorting, Collision and Soft Particles. Add Layered/Stencil rendering. renderer works entirely in linear space (Gamma is no longer supported). Introduction.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The character asset and animation are from GDQuest's "godot-3d-mannequin" project and the ground texture is from Kenney's "Prototype Textures" bundle. What is happening here is that the positions are being downcast into single-precision floats before being sent to the GPU for rendering. Doubles in Shaders.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

To ensure high performance, it’s crucial to limit the number of particles rendered at any given time. Techniques such as using lower-resolution textures, controlling particle spawn rates, and optimizing the lifespan of particles can significantly reduce the load on the GPU.

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

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 5, 2024

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. Then I unwrapped the low poly mesh model into three UV sets in order to get a good resolution of the textures. They define how the texture wraps around the model.

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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

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

1.0), color, gradient); // Output the final fragment color gl_FragColor = texColor * gradientColor; } }% Can someone help me with this issue? 1.0), color, gradient); // Output the final fragment color gl_FragColor = texColor * gradientColor; } }% Can someone help me with this issue?

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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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 2023

For shaders, we removed the now-redundant SCREEN_TEXTURE , DEPTH_TEXTURE , and NORMAL_ROUGHNESS_TEXTURE ( GH-70967 ). Rendering: Remove SCREEN_TEXTURE , DEPTH_TEXTURE , and NORMAL_ROUGHNESS_TEXTURE ( GH-70967 ). Rendering: Decompress RA_AS_RG formats on Web platform in GLES3 renderer and disable texture swizzling ( GH-71574 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Add support for FORMAT_{ETC2,DXT5}_RA_AS_RG ( GH-71248 ). See the list below.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 2, 2019

to use specular and shininess both as parameter and as textures supplied to Sprite, AnimatedSprite, Polygon2D and other nodes. 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.

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