Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 8, 2025

The cover illustration is from Fortune Avenue , a capitalism simulator where you shrewdly extort and outmaneuver your friends in a chaotic, board-game environment. Reorganized shader editor UI The editor experience for shaders and visual shaders got some TLC in GH-100287. It is developed by Binogure Studio.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The cover illustration is from Ballionaire , a roguelike pachinko simulator where the laws of physics bend to your will, developed by newobject and published by Raw Fury! Export: Disable Metal and Vulkan renderers in simulator builds. Remove simulator support from editor/exporter ( GH-102179 ).

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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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 16, 2020

Godot shader language is one of the easiest ones to use of any engine. Letting visual shaders aside, the shading language is a very tidy and self-contained version of GLSL ES 3.0, Shaders can take take inputs, modify them and produce outputs. Shaders can take take inputs, modify them and produce outputs. Simple, right?

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Cocos

MAY 13, 2023

Hello, so my issue is such, I have made a shader that causes a UV distortion in the fragment shader, to simulate “flame-like” effects at the edges. There are two variants of these shaders, one where the distortion is dependent on cc_time[0] i.e the time that I manually increase in the material inspector, to simulate time.

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iXie gaming

MARCH 28, 2025

Artists use multiple texture maps, including: Diffuse maps (base colours) Normal maps (simulating surface detail) Roughness & metallic maps (controlling reflections and material properties) Example: Games like Red Dead Redemption 2 use PBR workflows to create stunningly realistic textures that react dynamically to weather and lighting.

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Nvidia

AUGUST 31, 2023

In DirectX Raytracing (DXR) this self-intersection check would be implemented in an any-hit shader. Finally, the method does not rely on self-intersection rejection using an any-hit shader and has a fixed overhead per shading point. In the user shader, the object-space hit point is reconstructed and transformed into world-space.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

Cars/people in city simulators, where thousands appear all across the city. Sandbox style simulations. When doing tasks such as shader editing, VFX (particles) or animation, there is a large difference between Godot and engines such as Unreal. GPUParticlesMaterial resource (or even an optional dedicated shader).

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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. The gun has metallic surfaces and I wanted that successfully simulated. I believe forms first - details last. A high poly mesh model of the gun came into being.

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iXie gaming

JUNE 28, 2024

They include everything from 2D particle effects to realistic 3D simulations. Today’s VFX artists use advanced tools to create real-time particle systems, complex simulations, and stunning visuals that captivate players. Whether it’s swirling smoke or flowing waterfalls, Houdini’s simulation features are unmatched.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Utilizing Shaders Wisely Shaders are powerful tools that can enhance the visual quality of a game, but they can also be demanding on mobile devices. To balance performance and quality, it’s essential to use shaders judiciously. What role do shaders play in enhancing mobile game visuals?

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Nvidia

MARCH 17, 2023

USD is an open-scene description with APIs for describing, composing, simulating, and collaborating within 3D worlds. In particular, shaders are complex and developing a new environment for previewing and editing shaders in Houdini is expensive and difficult to implement quickly.

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Game Errors

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

This game offers a unique blend of dating simulation and action, making it a worthwhile experience for those seeking a simple yet engaging game. However, the dating simulation aspect surprisingly surpasses expectations. Clear DirectX shader cache DirectX Shader Cache stores shaders to improve app, game, and program performance.

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Nvidia

AUGUST 7, 2023

Realistic lighting and materials can be accurately simulated, providing a more realistic representation of the final product. It enables artists to create striking visual effects, simulate complex lighting scenarios, and achieve cinematic realism. This release adds support for Shader Execution Reordering (SER).

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 17, 2023

Custom shaders Gain control over your game’s visual style and performance by creating custom shaders. Shader programming allows you to manipulate lighting, textures, and visual effects, resulting in unique and optimized visuals.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Talk: Nonconventional games: Godot in medical simulation | Ilaria Cislaghi ( QbieShay ). Godot is a powerful multipurpose engine that can be used for pushing the boundaries of medical simulation. Talk: Simulations with Godot at Jagiellonian University | Leszek Nowak ( John Meadow ). Simple and overhead free. The speakers.

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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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Nvidia

MAY 21, 2021

Recently, NetEase introduced Mesh Shader support to Justice. Soon we found we can combine Mesh Shaders with auto-generated LODs to achieve almost only-resolution-relevant rendering complexity, instead of polygon number. With so much potential of Mesh Shader, we conceive that it would be the main stream of future games.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 13, 2022

The game is made in Godot Engine 3, with many custom-made technologies that enable a fully destructible environment, fluid simulation and dynamic lighting. Paweł and I are teaching classes on simulations and game dev that are heavily based on Godot Engine mostly due to Godot being perfect for fast prototyping. That one was tricky.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

For decades, game engines have been used to create applications, simulations and more. Comparing the visual output of graphics settings, shaders, or rendering techniques in an animated scene. Non-real-time simulation, which is enabled using the --fixed-fps command line argument.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

NVIDIA is researching tools and developing ways to accelerate and simplify digital human creation and we believe that AI and simulation are the key to doing this. To generate digital humans, teams must first make 3D models, textures, shaders, skeleton rig, and deformation of the skin so it follows the skeleton. What is a digital human?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

For decades, game engines have been used to create applications, simulations and more. Comparing the visual output of graphics settings, shaders, or rendering techniques in an animated scene. Non-real-time simulation, which is enabled using the --fixed-fps command line argument.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 30, 2020

using a special screen-space filter to correctly simulate roughness. Additionally to being able to simulate skin more correctly, it also supports transmittance, so light that comes from behind will spread towards the front by scattering below the surface. Additionally, GLSL shaders (not Godot shaders, real GLSL 4.50+Vulkan

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

If a shader is applied to them, or if transparency is changed, the effect is applied to every node individually, given they each do it in their own draw call. Custom shaders can be used with CanvasGroup to also apply effects like drop shadows or glows to a group of objects as a single one, greatly enhancing the flexibility of the 2D engine.

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Cocos

MAY 9, 2023

Fixed Toon shader data issue on iOS Wechat. Fixed error on macOS simulator when selecting “Open simulator with debugger” and “Simulator wait for debugger connection” in Cocos Creator → Preferences → Preview at the same time. （contributed by @May2nd ） ● Fixed remote bundles loading failed issue when running in GameView.

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Nvidia

MAY 17, 2023

Resource allocation and destruction Creating and destroying buffers, textures, and shaders is fundamental to efficient computer graphics. The pipeline state object encapsulates all of the state required to execute a graphics command, such as the input layout, shader programs, blending state, depth-stencil state, and rasterizer state.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2025

Of Life and Land Build your own settlements in Of Life and Land and experience different maps, scenarios, and rich simulations. Strategize with animals and nature in mind! May Did you know that we still update Godot 3? August Instead of our usual release blogposts, we tried something new for Godot 4.3:

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Game Errors

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The KSP 2 is a new sensation for space-flight simulation game lovers. Clear shader cache Press Win + I on the keyboard to open Windows settings. Tick DirectX Shader Cache , and untick all other options. A corrupted shader cache can cause crashing problems during KSP 2 gameplay. Click on Temporary files.

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 31, 2023

Games often incorporate advanced visual effects, complex shaders, and intricate animations. One approach to address this challenge is to implement a robust test environment that can simulate a wide range of scenarios and inputs. Verifying the correctness of these elements through automation can be a daunting task.

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Fast, Modular and Differentiable Shader Programming. Fast, Modular and Differentiable Shader Programming. Slang generates custom PyTorch plugins from graphics shader code. This is where Slang comes in, as it can automatically generate differentiated shader code for multiple backends. The paper shows how a single language.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 26, 2021

To enable this, set the ‘Capture Type’ to ‘One-shot [Beta]’ While TraceRays/DispatchRays has been the common way to initiate ray generation, it’s now possible to ray trace directly from your compute shaders using DXR1.1 and the new Khronos Vulkan Ray Tracing extension.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

GH-25839 : Visual Shader compile error with CanvasShaderGLES2 (fixed in master ). The illustration picture is a screenshot from Kodera Software (Mariusz Chwalba) 's upcoming game, ΔV: Rings of Saturn , a hard sci-fi, top-down space simulator with a demo available on itch.io and Steam.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 30, 2021

This is where pseudolocalization comes in: it simulates localization so that the project's robustness when it comes to changes in locale can be checked regularly during development and any problem regarding that can be detected early on. The second task will introduce a new object for the simulation of wind.

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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. Since cel shading works by applying a shader to 3D models, you must create the models first. Maya Animation: Toon Shader  Creators use different approaches to creating cel-shading materials. What Is Cel Shading?

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Nvidia

MARCH 24, 2022

Creating virtual worlds with Omniverse Virtual world simulation technology is opening new portals for game developers. Users can plug into any layer of the modular Omniverse stack to build advanced tools that simplify workflows, integrate advanced AI and simulation technologies, or help connect complex production pipelines.

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Cocos

JUNE 11, 2023

We also support Compute Shader capabilities. Render Graph The Render Pipeline customization based on Render Graph will be officially available to developers in version 3.8. It will support the implementation of engine builtin Custom Pipeline and the default Deferred Pipeline. AGP upgraded to 8.0.2.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 24, 2022

GUI: Add options to embolden and transform font outlines to simulate bold and italic typefaces ( GH-59013 ). Visual Shader: Add _get_func_code / _is_available virtual functions to custom nodes ( GH-57769 ). GUI: Rename Control's Rect properties to exclude rect_ part ( GH-57095 ). GUI: Add RichTextLabel hint tag ( GH-58394 ).

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