Ask a Game Dev

JUNE 14, 2024

Expertise on visuals like lighting, rendering, shaders, etc. Expertise on visuals like lighting, rendering, shaders, etc. I posted a challenge for aspiring developers to identify as many specific features and systems as they could spot. My expertise is in gameplay, so that’s where I will be focusing.

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Cinematics NPC Terrain Scripting 64

Cocos

MAY 9, 2023

Fixed Toon shader data issue on iOS Wechat. Fixed the terrain as too dark, caused by the lighting calculation issue in the builtin-terrain material. Fixed crash issue when baking high-precision Lightmap for the terrain. . ● Fixed error caused by removeSpotLight on native platforms. Fixed pre-backed AO calculation issue.

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Mnenad

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Since the last post I’ve been working on the terrain’s vegetation. Doing it before starting the actual game would mean to already generate all the content that needs to be batched at the beginning, which is no solution for a theoretically “endless procedurally generated” terrain. That’s it. When

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Mesh Shaders FPS Polygon 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

If you want to learn more about how fractal noise works and some other terrain generation techniques I strongly recommend this article by Red Blob Games. But the true power of noise textures becomes available when used in combination with text shaders: Getting started. The examples below have been updated accordingly.

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Texture Terrain Prototyping Shaders 52

Cocos

JULY 2, 2024

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. Fixed the issue where the terrain editing information was lost after entering prefab editing and returning to the scene.

Beta 40

Beta Terrain Texture Editing 40

Cocos

JULY 2, 2024

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. Fixed the issue where the terrain editing information was lost after entering prefab editing and returning to the scene.

Beta 40

Beta Terrain Texture Editing 40

Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

. • New and standard-material will default to Surface Shader. See the documentation “Built-in shaders”: [link] • Tooltip that supplements common material parameters. Fixed an issue where the main light source still acted on the terrain after baking. Optimize the experience of the Roaming Scene Editor scroll wheel/touchpad.

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Render Baking Lightmap Debug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

2D: Make TileMap terrain painting not change neighbors centers bits ( GH-67390 ). Visual Shader: Add math operators to node names for easier and simpler searching ( GH-67905 ). See the changelog on GitHub , or the list of merged PRs , for an overview of all changes since 4.0 Core: Make some Image methods static ( GH-63332 ).

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Beta Dev Render Alpha 52

Game Errors

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

It’s the shader cache from last game but different wording and no longer just a toggle. Click on Quality 4. Scroll down, locate Spot Cache and change it to High or Ultra If you’re experiencing stuttering on PC, change “spot cache” in graphics settings to high or ultra. Assume many just threw it on low.

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FPS Graphics Internet Texture 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

Materials and shaders. Materials and shaders. makes up for it by providing an extremely powerful default material (which supports detail textures, triplanar mapping and other nice features) and an extremely easy-to-use shader language. writing shaders is very easy! Full principled BSDF. Global illumination (GI).

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Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Our script editor maintainer, Paul Batty ( Paulb23 ), implemented initial support for multi-caret editing in TextEdit, which is therefore usable in the GDScript and shader editors, as well as any other multi-line text field in the editor. Editor: Add multi-caret support to TextEdit (and the script/shader editors) ( GH-61902 ).

Beta 52

Beta Dev Render Debug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Our script editor maintainer, Paul Batty ( Paulb23 ), implemented initial support for multi-caret editing in TextEdit, which is therefore usable in the GDScript and shader editors, as well as any other multi-line text field in the editor. Editor: Add multi-caret support to TextEdit (and the script/shader editors) ( GH-61902 ).

Beta 52

Beta Dev Render Debug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

2D: Make TileMap terrain painting not change neighbors centers bits ( GH-67390 ). Visual Shader: Add math operators to node names for easier and simpler searching ( GH-67905 ). See the changelog on GitHub , or the list of merged PRs , for an overview of all changes since 4.0 Core: Make some Image methods static ( GH-63332 ).

Beta 40

Beta Dev Render Alpha 40

SOVEREIGN MOON

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

For example here, notice if I drag in this new material on my rock the rock doesn’t match my terrain texture at all. In order to bring those colors closer together, I can just open my object shaders color tab and bring those colors closer together. This will help a bit. But in my world I expect to have a lot of rough edges.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 25, 2018

reduz is always quick to respond on IRC, although he is busy developing new features for Godot (during that time, he finished the new Animation editor, the new AnimationTree and visual shader editor. Textures, normal maps and some of the BSDF shaders are already well supported. I am mentored by sdfgeoff and reduz. Amazing!!).

Communications 52

Communications Code Engineering Engine 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 29, 2020

One of the most common uses for IK in 3D is to place a character's feet on uneven ground without clipping through the geometry, where the legs realistically adjust to the terrain. Because the motions that IK creates is completely done in real-time, animations created via IK can be changed at any time. That's it for this progress report!

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