Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Often writes the least code overall among the engineers, but the code she writes is also the most mission critical because she has the best understanding of how everything fits together. Writes shaders, writes scripts, works with code. She writes that stuff.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 13, 2022

We are a small team working on our first team project, Lumencraft, which is released as I'm writing this. Since the path of a game developer is rarely straightforward, I ended up as an academic at the university doing PhD in skin cancer research, and as a part of not doing the PhD I started writing my own game engine.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

iOS: Check Xcode output and display errors if code signing, project build or.ipa export failed ( GH-71212 ). Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

We recommend using the Time singleton as much as possible so that your code will be forward compatible with 4.0. Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader). A long awaited improvement to reduce shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL is coming to Godot 3.5, Label3D and TextMesh. courtesy of Pedro J.

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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. ENDCG } } }.

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Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 24, 2022

If you’re a complete beginner who never coded a single game in Unity, start with the tutorial in the link below: Getting Started With Unity And C# If however, you know how to create basic games in Unity on your own, then you can follow this tutorial to implement this effect in your game. What Is a Shader?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

iOS: Check Xcode output and display errors if code signing, project build or.ipa export failed ( GH-71212 ). Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2018

A mipmap is a smaller version of the original texture, usually filtered in a special way to make them look nicer when they are viewed from an angle or far away. This is why for pixel-art games you often either change the filtering mode of textures or need to disable mipmaps to make the game look nice and sharp. ). implement BRDF.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

The easy-to-learn language code is another aspect that makes the engine a top choice among developers worldwide. Coding The very first thing you need to know is that both engines have a visual code editor – Blueprint in Unreal Engine and Prefab in Unity. The program in Unity will inform you about issues or incorrect code.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 10, 2020

There is a high demand from Godot users in countries and cultures where right-to-left writing systems are used to have proper support for it in Godot (such as Arabic, Hebrew, etc.). One of the main problems we have in Godot is the time it takes to import textures. we want to move our texture compressors to GPU using compute shaders.

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 22, 2023

In this post, we introduce several code examples using differentiable Slang to demonstrate the potential use across different rendering applications and the ease of integration. Rendering is highly nonlinear, so linear operations on texture maps do not produce the correct linearly changing appearance.

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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. If you are interested in the implementation, you can find the code on GitHub. Assign a panorama texture to the material and you are all done! Sky Shaders.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

The Android plugin documentation has been updated with instructions on how to write plugins for this new system. when running in the editor, or exporting a debug build) will properly handle such situations and, when using the debugger, provide a clear error message so that the user code can be adapted to prevent the issue.

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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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Cocos

MAY 14, 2023

This series of articles will analyze the source code from various perspectives to improve your learning efficiency. Download the project source code for free at： [ CocosCyberpunk ] Many articles talk about the differences between Forward Rendering and Deferred Rendering on the Internet. Process the next model.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Hi, I'm Yuri ( Chaosus ), and I made a number of changes this past 18 months to upgrade the shader language in Godot 4.0 There are changes to the editor usability, to the shader language itself, and to visual shaders. Shader creation dialog. A new warning system for shaders within the editor has been implemented.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

macOS: ARM64 build, code signing. Fabio Alessandrelli ( Faless ) has done a lot of work to enable running the Godot editor on the Web, using the same export code as for Godot-made games (since the Godot editor is developed 100% with the Godot API). macOS: ARM64 build, code signing. Platforms: Godot editor on the Web!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

release (there is just too much new code that needs to be tested throughly). 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. Scene job system.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

x branch of Ogre aka ogre-next and I wrote Betsy, a GPU texture compressor that runs on GPUs. This work was commissioned by Godot Engine through the Software Freedom Conservancy to solve a major complaint: importing textures is excruciantly slow and takes many minutes. What is texture compression and why you care. ktx A.etc2.ktx

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Fast, Modular and Differentiable Shader Programming. Fast, Modular and Differentiable Shader Programming. Slang is an open-source language for real-time graphics programming that brings new capabilities for writing and maintaining large-scale, high-performance, cross-platform graphics codebases.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Apart from that, the month was mostly spent on implementing more 2D items in the renderer as well as working on getting custom shaders running. start work on shader compiler. implement more shader features. implement more shader features. adding read and write lock objects for PoolVector types. Done January 2018.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ).

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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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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

Visual Shaders overhaul. Coding tools. 2D: Pseudo 3D, Texture atlas, AStar2D. as default target, and the rewrite of the Mono-specific editor code in C# (ported from C++). Visual Shaders overhaul. This enabled us to modernize the code, fix some long-standing issues and improve upon the initial work done by Juan.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2022

Like in previous years, Godot is participating again in the Google Summer of Code program for its 2022 edition. We asked them to write a progress report to present what they're working on and the current status. Multi window code editors by trollodel. Multi window code editors. PRs: #62075 , #62910. Project description.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

It brings a brand new rendering engine with state-of-the-art PBR workflow for 3D, an improved assets pipeline, GDNative to load native code as plugins, C# 7.0 Materials and shaders. Materials and shaders. writing shaders is very easy! Full principled BSDF. Global illumination (GI). Mid- and post-processing.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

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. Ability to completely reimplement all rendering code if desired, without changing the underlying game. It is not possible to control, from user code, the internal steps of rendering.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

Visual shader editor. all rendering code was rewritten to use the more modern OpenGL ES 3.0 / OpenGL 3.3 Some shader features will not work and throw an error when used (which is to be expected when using an older OpenGL version). GDScript allows to write code in a quick way within a controlled environment.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Shader language features. To simplify some of the most common constructs in input handling code for character movement, Aaron Franke ( aaronfranke ) added two new helper methods : Input.get_axis() and Input.get_vector(). Shader language features. Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Our goal is to have a modern, clustered renderer that supports everything mainstream engines support, including PBR, global illumination and flexible shader editing. Refactor the texture API to include more modern texture compression formats. Write a more flexible, GLES 3 GLSL compatible shader language.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

As users, please report all bugs that you encounter and provide as much detail as you can (including screenshots, code, and where possible, a minimal reproduction project). While our existing integration testing can highlight critical issues preventing the code from compiling or running, it does little to ensure the stability of the engine.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 25, 2018

For the first time this year, Godot participates in the Google Summer of Code ( GSoC ). I've asked all students to write a short progress report about their projects, which are all in the last stages of development for the GSoC internship. sdfgeoff is so responsible, he carefully reviews all my commits down to every line of code.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 6, 2022

These allow users to dynamically place fog and control complex fog effects with shaders. Perhaps the most exciting part about FogVolumes is the introduction of the fog shader type. FogVolumes can be controlled with custom Fog shaders to add detail or to shape them however you want. write back that data to density.

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