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. UV sets are the coordinates that map the 2D texture images onto the 3D model surface.

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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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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

The most common types of streaming are: Texture streaming : All textures are loaded in a tiny size by default. As textures get closer to the camera, higher resolution versions (or mip-maps) are streamed from disk. Textures which haven’t been used for some frames are freed instead. Sandbox style simulations.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

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. 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.

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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

AUGUST 17, 2023

Use asset stores wisely Unity Asset Store offers a wide range of free and paid assets, such as 3D models, textures, sound effects, and plugins. Custom shaders Gain control over your game’s visual style and performance by creating custom shaders. Be mindful of memory usage, especially on mobile platforms.

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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. Shuzo modeled and textured in Maya and Mudbox, with no scans used. It enables artists to create striking visual effects, simulate complex lighting scenarios, and achieve cinematic realism.

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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

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Additionally, all 2D shadows and light textures use a single atlas, resulting in improved performance. the new CanvasTexture texture type has been introduced. 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. CanvasGroup.

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Cocos

MAY 9, 2023

Fixed bone animation texture size error on some platforms that don’t support float point texture format. 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.

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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). using a special screen-space filter to correctly simulate roughness. Both the Omni and Spot lights are now able to project textures. x was rather limited.

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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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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.

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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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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

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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Cocos

JULY 2, 2024

Fixed the issue where multiple bones were added in the skeleton texture layout in the project settings, but there was no scrollbar. Fixed the issue where the selected texture layer could not be painted again after reselecting the terrain node, and the texture layer needed to be switched to paint.

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Cocos

JULY 2, 2024

Fixed the issue where multiple bones were added in the skeleton texture layout in the project settings, but there was no scrollbar. Fixed the issue where the selected texture layer could not be painted again after reselecting the terrain node, and the texture layer needed to be switched to paint.

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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 ). Rendering: Add sky cover texture for ProceduralSkyMaterial ( GH-58018 ). Visual Shader: Add _get_func_code / _is_available virtual functions to custom nodes ( GH-57769 ). GUI: Add RichTextLabel hint tag ( GH-58394 ).

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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 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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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

3D models can be rigged and then animated, placed as stationary objects in a scene by a layout artist, simulated or destroyed by an FX artist, and used for shadows or holdouts by a lighting artist. 3D modeling software 3D modelers use a range of software for modeling, sculpting, and texturing.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

The Dodge The Creeps C# demo running on the iOS Simulator. 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 ).

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Open-ended curves can be desirable for avoiding shader divergence having to do with special-case handling of endcap normals. Red fabric with golden texture rendered with Houdini XPU. In addition to the new curve primitive, NVIDIA OptiX has added an option for controlling whether cubic and quadratic curves will have open or closed ends.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

Luckily both engines offer asset stores that allow users to download free and paid props, shading, textures, and many more. Although Unity supports normal maps, occlusion maps, base textures, and other standard shading features, it lacks the advanced material editor found in Unreal engine. Unity still lacks the shading details.

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Radiator Blog

APRIL 9, 2021

For an upcoming project commission, I'm making a 2D game with crowd simulation and simple controls that works well on mobile browsers. The engine should be able to render and simulate 200+ lightweight game objects -- frame-animated sprites with simple collision, no fancy physics or shaders. Reminder: for iOS, that means WebGL 1.0

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