Nvidia

MARCH 17, 2023

Tools Pipeline Engineering Lead Megumi Ando sat down with NVIDIA to discuss the integration process in the company’s latest release as well as their adoption plans in Polyphony’s game development pipeline. Why did you choose USD for your game development pipeline? Do you plan to continue using USD in your future game development?

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Nvidia

JULY 10, 2023

If you are a DirectX 12 (DX12) game developer, you may have noticed that GPU times displayed in real time in your game HUD may change over time for a given. If you are a DirectX 12 (DX12) game developer, you may have noticed that GPU times displayed in real time in your game HUD may change over time for a given pass.

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Cocos

MAY 6, 2023

Cocos Cyberpunk is a complete open-source TPS 3D game developed by the Cocos Engine official team to showcase the engine’s capabilities in creating heavy 3D games and to boost the community’s learning motivation. I hope to help you advance further in 3D game development. So they came and asked: How do I add a new Shader for the CRP?

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Cocos

MAY 6, 2023

Cocos Cyberpunk is a complete open-source TPS 3D game developed by the Cocos Engine official team to showcase the engine’s capabilities in creating heavy 3D games and to boost the community’s learning motivation. I hope to help you advance further in 3D game development. So they came and asked: How do I add a new Shader for the CRP?

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Ask a Game Dev

JULY 6, 2023

This can include creating shaders, working on the pipeline to keep assets within technical constraints, or any number of other roles involving art and programming. Test Engineer ] - a programmer whose focus is on building and maintaining automated tests to validate game assets, rules, and gameplay.

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Cocos

JANUARY 13, 2023

I am developing some shaders (trying, anyway) and I’ve got a simple burn dissolve shader on a poker chip in the editor. Again ONLY in the build preview… it still shows fine in the editor and the camera preview…. It looks fine. When I adjust the dissolve amount, it burns away as it should.

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iXie gaming

JULY 23, 2023

Because of its adaptability, user-friendliness, and tremendous capabilities, it is a popular choice among developers working in a variety of fields and sectors. In this article, we will discuss the factors that contribute to Unity’s continued dominance in the game development industry.

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AWS Games

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Game developers often need to compile large amounts of C++ code, which requires lots of CPU resources, and developers also need to process other types of heavy compute tasks such as; shader compilation, rendering, asset creation, image conversion, lightmap baking and more. Operating the build environment. First Step.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 13, 2022

Lumencraft is a top-down shooter with base-building elements where you're a lonely little digger sent into bug infested underground caves. I have years of random experience in development with my first games made way back for Commodore 64. Which parts of the game development process did you enjoy the most while working on your project?

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iXie gaming

MAY 8, 2023

WebGL, or Web Graphics Library, is a powerful technology that allows developers to create high-performance 3D graphics and games that run directly in the browser without the need for plugins. With WebGL, developers can harness the power of the GPU to create immersive gaming experiences that can be accessed by a wide range of users.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 10, 2023

There are plenty of city building games around but Fabledom adds a fairytale twist to the genre. Set in a storybook kingdom filled with magical creatures, kings and castles, the game gives players the opportunity to build their own kingdom and find their true love. Fabledom offers a casual, relaxing approach to city building.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 5, 2023

There are plenty of city building games around but Fabledom adds a fairytale twist to the genre. Set in a storybook kingdom filled with magical creatures, kings and castles, the game gives players the opportunity to build their own kingdom and find their true love. Fabledom offers a casual, relaxing approach to city building.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 25, 2023

There are a few known regressions which we’ll aim to address in a later build ( GH-71891 , GH-71913 ). Linux: Include headers for dynamically loaded libraries to simplify build dependencies ( GH-71263 ). Shaders: Fix code generation for ProximityRange node in visual shader ( GH-71760 ). emojis) ( GH-71909 ). specifically.

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Cocos

MARCH 25, 2024

OR you can try disabling uniform buffers in engine if you’re not using any custom shaders… but I really wouldn’t recommend this for a number of different reasons. Unfortunately, sometimes web browser developers release borked updates… I think it’s always a good idea to have a fall back plan (webgl 1.0

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Nvidia

MARCH 20, 2023

At GDC 2023, NVIDIA released new tools that make real-time path tracing more accessible to developers while accelerating the creation of ultra-realistic game. At GDC 2023 , NVIDIA released new tools that make real-time path tracing more accessible to developers while accelerating the creation of ultra-realistic game worlds.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

But we're not there yet and we'll keep having frequent alpha builds until we're ready to slap the beta label on the engine. Update 2022-07-29 @ 10:30 UTC: A regression was found in the original build that prevented exporting projects to Windows and Linux with official templates. Grouping annotations for shaders ( uniform_group ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Porting: Enable raycast/embree module build for Web and Windows x86_32 ( GH-69169 ). Rendering: Implement CAMERA_VISIBLE_LAYERS as built-in shader variable ( GH-67387 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Expose emulated *Unorm4x8 GLSL functions in non-Android builds ( GH-69521 ). NET 6 build (C#, GDScript, GDExtension). specifically.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

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. It is developed by Chasing Carrots using Godot 4.0 Rendering: Properly append global uniform buffer name in gl_compatibility shaders ( GH-72138 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Rendering: OpenGL: Fix scene shader error when using Omni or Spot but not both ( GH-69901 ). Shaders: Fix the sorting of shader uniforms ( GH-70016 ). Shaders: Optimize code generation of visual shader particles ( GH-69900 ). NET 6 build (C#, GDScript, GDExtension). Requires.NET SDK 6.0 specifically.

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PreMortem.Games

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Developer Globiss Interactive has worked hard to build a convincing virtual replica of the Titanic. Through many shader iterations, we can finally say that the water has reached a level where it actually feels convincing in VR.” It’s quite an intense VR experience!” A lesson they learned along the way. “As

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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. Be wary of CPU overhead directly related to geometric complexity for full builds. Be aware of the extra CPU overhead associated with FAST_TRACE builds.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2022

So we're starting the beta testing phase with this already significant set of changes, and we'll have frequent beta builds to polish them for the stable release. Some more features are still being worked on and will be included in future beta builds. A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Rendering: OpenGL: Fix scene shader error when using Omni or Spot but not both ( GH-69901 ). Shaders: Fix the sorting of shader uniforms ( GH-70016 ). Shaders: Optimize code generation of visual shader particles ( GH-69900 ). NET 6 build (C#, GDScript, GDExtension). Requires.NET SDK 6.0 specifically.

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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 ). The illustration picture for this article is from Dauphin , a 2D RPG in development by Ben / devduck which was recently ported to Godot 4.0 NET 6 build (C#, GDScript, GDExtension). Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

While this process is ongoing, we'll keep releasing alpha builds so here's 4.0 This alpha doesn't include official builds with.NET 6 support yet, as we still have more work to do to enable this. alpha builds. Editor: Improvements to shader editor ( GH-63582 ). Shaders: Quality of life Visual Shaders updates ( GH-63999 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 16, 2022

Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader state caching when blend shapes used ( GH-58808 ) [regression fix]. The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). Bug reports.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 11, 2022

While this process is ongoing, we'll keep releasing alpha builds so here's 4.0 Add often used built-ins to spatial shaders ( NODE_POSITION_WORLD , CAMERA_POSITION_WORLD , CAMERA_DIRECTION_WORLD , NODE_POSITION_VIEW ) ( GH-63597 ). alpha builds. Mono builds are currently not available as our focus is on porting to.NET 6.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

The illustration picture for this article is from an unnamed RPG by developer bitbrain (working title "cave"). The game started development with Godot 3.x, Shaders: Fix shader crash when using boolean type for vertex->fragment varyings ( GH-70460 ). NET 6 build (C#, GDScript, GDExtension).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 8, 2022

Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader state caching when blend shapes used ( GH-58808 ) [regression fix]. The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). API documentation updates.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 2022

alpha builds and maintenance releases for the stable branch ( 3.4.3 , 3.4.4 and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. Shaders: Many improvements backported from master ( GH-56794 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 8, 2022

alpha builds. Rendering: Fix shader compilation error with anisotropy ( GH-58419 ). Visual Shader: Add few more input/output built-ins ( GH-58719 ). Visual Shader: Add varying support ( GH-58750 ). Mono builds are currently not available as our focus is on porting to.NET 6. Jump to the Downloads section.

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Cocos

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

fixes many bugs that were found by the staff and developers when upgrading to 3.7. Cocos Creator 3.7.1 We appreciate your help and work to improve the engine. We also have added a new demo project that will share many of the new upgrades that have come with 3.7 and previous updates. You can download it from the Cocos Store.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

alpha builds , we're trying to release 3.5 beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. In this build, we also built it for 32-bit platforms (armv7 and x86) as there was some demand for it, so you'll find the APK is a bit heavier. Like with 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2022

alpha builds , we're trying to release 3.5 beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). Shaders: Many improvements backported from master ( GH-56794 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 2, 2022

Straight out of the Godot Sprint in Barcelona, here's another alpha snapshot of the development branch, this time with 4.0 alpha builds. Shaders: Rename hint_albedo , hint_white / black in shaders ( GH-60803 ). Mono builds are currently not available as our focus is on porting to.NET 6. What's new. Known issues.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2022

alpha builds , we're trying to release 3.5 beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). Shaders: Many improvements backported from master ( GH-56794 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. You can enable it in the Project Settings ( rendering/gles3/shaders/shader_compilation_mode ). The upcoming Godot 3.5 stable for all users. Give it a try!

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