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Black screen on old devices cocos 2.4.11

Cocos

MARCH 25, 2024

not file size large, but actual pixel size… if you have anything over 2k, I’d highly recommend making it smaller and testing. ) Also, take a look at the sprite data of the images that are showing up black… are any of them abnormally large?

Pixel

Pixel Texture Sprite Debug

Cocos Shader Tutorial 1.0 - about UV

Cocos

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The vertical axes of textures and picture pixels is shown above, when sampling textures in shaders, that is from top to bottom, which is top-right corner. This is consistent with how most image file formats store pixel data, and with how most graphics APIs work (including DirectX, Vulkan, Metal, WebGPU, but not OpenGL).

Shaders

Shaders Mesh Sprite Point and Click

[Share] 2D Post-Processing & Lighting Framework

Cocos

DECEMBER 25, 2023

const vec3 weight = vec3(0.2126, 0.7152, 0.0722); vec3 Grayscale(in vec3 o, float value){ float lumin = dot(o, weight); vec3 final = mix(o, vec3(lumin), value); return final; } vec4 frag() { vec4 pixel = texture(mainTexture, v_uv); pixel.rgb = Grayscale(pixel.rgb, intensity); return pixel; } 2. I tested it with an image.

Render

Render Texture Shaders Pixel

Leveraging PocoDriver for Game Test Automation

iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Image and Pixel Recognition: POCO Driver includes a powerful image and pixel recognition feature, which enables the tool to identify specific on-screen elements and react accordingly. This functionality is particularly useful for gamers who engage in multi-boxing or managing multiple characters/accounts within a game.

Scripting

Scripting Games Pixel Feature

The Best Tools to Improve Gameplay Performance

Nvidia

MARCH 24, 2021

NVIDIA set out to redefine real-time rendering through AI-based super resolution — rendering a fraction of the original pixels and then using AI to reconstruct sharp, higher resolution images. As a developer, System Latency (click-to-display) can be one of the hardest metrics to optimize for.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Render AI Technology

Ray Tracing Updates Available through NVIDIA SDKs and the NVIDIA Branch of Unreal Engine

Nvidia

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

which includes quality and performance improvements to the Infinite Scrolling Volumes feature, new functionality for static reflection probes, and a debug mode for 10-bit radiance. Designed to work with low ray per pixel signals, the NRD is a spatio-temporal API agnostic denoising library. RTX Direct Illumination 1.2

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Engine Engineering Render

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

Such pointer could be reported as valid even though the memory it points to was not, or worse, that memory could now hold a different object, leading to hard to debug situations. Thanks to the work of Pedro ( RandomShaper ), debug versions of Godot (e.g. Thanks to the work of Pedro ( RandomShaper ), debug versions of Godot (e.g.

Debug

Debug Point and Click Bug Render

Generate Code, Answer Queries, and Translate Text with New NVIDIA AI Foundation Models

Nvidia

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This model can generate code from natural language, translate code between programming languages, write unit tests, and assist in debugging. This open-source model can be used for various applications, such as code translation, summarization, documentation, analysis, and debugging. getbbox()[2] text_height = font.getmask(text_string).getbbox()[3]

AI

AI Code Fantasy Communications

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 11, 2020

There will still be various fixes made before the final release, and we will need your detailed bug reports to debug issues and fix them. The illustration picture is from Sealed Bite , a delightful pixel art metroidvania by Securas with music by Wandard , which is the winning entry of the GitHub Game Off 2019 ! would be on its release.

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Build

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 16

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Re-enable per-pixel transparency support on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Navigation: Add debug visuals for GridMap cell edge connections ( GH-64173 ). Porting: Re-enable per-pixel transparency support on Linux, macOS, and Windows ( GH-65283 ). The Web editor build is not functional yet. Implement MSAA for 2D with Vulkan.

Alpha

Alpha Dev Render Beta

QXR Studios accelerates game testing and development with Amazon GameLift Anywhere

AWS Games

JUNE 13, 2023

They were experimenting with pixel streaming in Epic Games’ Unreal Engine and using AWS for Games services to support that pipeline. Devine employs the solution to monitor gameplay traffic on a local workstation for debugging. GameLift quickly became our server of choice and how we launched the game.

Studios

Studios Development AAA Games

NVIDIA DLSS Plugin and Reflex Now Available for Unreal Engine

Nvidia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

NVIDIA DLSS Plugin for UE4 DLSS is a deep learning super resolution network that boosts frame rates by rendering fewer pixels and then using AI to construct sharp, higher resolution images. NVIDIA Reflex NVIDIA Reflex is a toolkit to measure, debug and improve CPU+GPU latency in competitive multiplayer games. The NVIDIA RTX UE4 4.25

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Engine Engineering Technology

Cyberpunk 2077 Has Flatlined: Fixed

Game Errors

JULY 6, 2023

Enabled debug mode: Mods are common in the gaming community, so Cyberpunk 2077 encountered an error can be a result. So, if you are trying to run multiple mods with the game on an Nvidia GPU, you will need to enable the Debug Mode present in the Nvidia Control Panel to stabilize the game. Vertex Shader: 5.1

PC

PC Graphics Debug Shaders

Release candidate: Godot 3.2 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 24, 2020

Editor: Fix import of AtlasTextures with semi-transparent pixels ( GH-35363 ). There will still be various fixes made before the final release, and we will need your detailed bug reports to debug issues and fix them. Notable changes since RC 2: Android: Virtual keyboard now respects LineEdit max length ( GH-35438 ). The features.

Bug

Bug Culling Build Pixel

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). Rendering: Add option for snapping 2D transforms to whole coordinates, for pixel art motion ( GH-43554 ). CSG: Various bug fixes.

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

New option to snapping 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions (new in 3.2.4 Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). Rendering: Add option for snapping 2D transforms to whole coordinates, for pixel art motion ( GH-43554 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 7, 2021

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). Rendering: Add option for snapping 2D transforms to whole coordinates, for pixel art motion ( GH-43554 ). CSG: Various bug fixes.

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Build

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 11, 2020

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). Rendering: Add option for snapping 2D transforms to whole coordinates, for pixel art motion ( GH-43554 ). CSG: Various bug fixes.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2021

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). Rendering: Add option for snapping 2D transforms to whole coordinates, for pixel art motion ( GH-43554 ).

Render

Render Bug Build Beta

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

Thanks to all pre-release testers who help us find and debug regressions! New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). stable soon™. Rewritten and greatly improved FBX importer.

Render

Render Collision Build Bug

Leveling Up Graphics and Performance with RTX, DLSS and Reflex at NVIDIA GTC

Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

NVIDIA Real Time Denoiser (NRD) NRD is a spatio-temporal API-agnostic denoising library that’s designed to work with low ray-per-pixel signals. Nsight Graphics Nsight Graphics is a standalone developer tool that enables you to debug, profile, and export frames built with DirectX12, Vulkan, OpenGL, and OpenVR. In version 2.0,

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Graphics Render Technology

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2021

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). Rendering: Add option for snapping 2D transforms to whole coordinates, for pixel art motion ( GH-43554 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Collision Render

Accelerating Ultra-Realistic Game Development with NVIDIA DLSS 3 and NVIDIA RTX Path Tracing

Nvidia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Nsight Graphics offers a comprehensive set of profiling and debugging tools to ensure scene rendering is performant across the entire pipeline, from acceleration structure composition down to the generation of individual pixels. Game crashes are frustrating for players and maybe even more frustrating for developers.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Mesh Game Developer Game Development

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). Rendering: Add option for snapping 2D transforms to whole coordinates, for pixel art motion ( GH-43554 ).

Render

Render Build Bug Collision

Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

Raise errors when accessing deleted objects in debug. Web editor running the "Ninja Adventure" demo from the eponymous CC0 asset pack by Pixel-Boy and AAA. Raise errors when accessing deleted objects in debug. but going one step too far: in debug builds in 3.2.3, HTML5: Threads, GDNative, AudioWorklet.

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). Rendering: Add option for snapping 2D transforms to whole coordinates, for pixel art motion ( GH-43554 ). This was a late addition in 3.2.4

Render

Render Build Bug Editing

Cocos Creator 3.8 Post-Process Shader Writing (2/2) Advanced

Cocos

AUGUST 16, 2023

Simply put, Gaussian blur takes every pixel on an image and processes it with the following process. To put it bluntly, it’s a simple weighted sum: while sampling the target pixel, sample some of the surrounding pixels and give each pixel a weight (the sum of the weights is 1.0). version : meaningless, can be ignored.

Shaders

Shaders Writing Pixel Render

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #7

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2018

As mentioned before, in order to know which pixels are "in a shadow" and which are lit, the scene has to be rendered from the viewpoint of the light. Each pixel that gets potentially illuminated by the light source has to check if it's in a shadow or not. The code is located here. depth rendering for shadow mapping.

Render

Render Pixel Debug Shaders

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Android: Implement per-pixel transparency ( GH-51935 ). Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Core: Add detailed error messages to release builds (used to be debug-only) ( GH-53405 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Android: Implement per-pixel transparency ( GH-51935 ). Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Core: Add detailed error messages to release builds (used to be debug-only) ( GH-53405 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Android: Implement per-pixel transparency ( GH-51935 ). Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Editor: Add custom debug shape thickness and color options to RayCast ( GH-49726 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Android: Implement per-pixel transparency ( GH-51935 ). Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Core: Add detailed error messages to release builds (used to be debug-only) ( GH-53405 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Android: Implement per-pixel transparency ( GH-51935 ). Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Core: Add detailed error messages to release builds (used to be debug-only) ( GH-53405 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Such use-after-free access needs to be guarded with is_instance_valid(obj) , but this has been surprisingly difficult to get right due to a number of bugs and inconsistencies between debug and release builds. Estébanez ( RandomShaper ) has become an expert on this topic and made a number of improvements included in Godot 3.2.2 and Godot 3.3.

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

Best Practices for Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing (Updated)

Nvidia

JULY 25, 2022

Avoid direct conversion from vertex and pixel shaders. Generally, I don’t recommend converting vertex and pixel shaders directly to hit shaders. Use NVIDIA Nsight Graphics for profiling and debugging. The more incoherent the rays, the less accurate replication of primary visibility features is typically required.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Shaders Culling Render

Getting started with HaxeFlixel in 2021

Radiator Blog

APRIL 9, 2021

However, it has been designed for a fairly specific use case: tile-based pixel art platformers. And really, you'll want something like Godot or Unity that has a visual editor to help preview / debug how the animation and game will come together. but the workflow here is really unclear to me.

Sprite

Sprite Simulation Build Animation

Godot 3's renderer design explained

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Added to that fact, Vulkan still has years to go until it's properly supported in most desktop and mobile platforms, which makes it unattractive to implement for us (as it means considerably more effort to write, debug and maintain). The image is converted to luminance and shrunk by sizes of 3x3 until it's a single pixel.

Render

Render Shaders Texture Engine

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Black screen on old devices cocos 2.4.11

Cocos Shader Tutorial 1.0 - about UV

Trending Sources

[Share] 2D Post-Processing & Lighting Framework

Leveraging PocoDriver for Game Test Automation

The Best Tools to Improve Gameplay Performance

Ray Tracing Updates Available through NVIDIA SDKs and the NVIDIA Branch of Unreal Engine

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Generate Code, Answer Queries, and Translate Text with New NVIDIA AI Foundation Models

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2 beta 6

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 16

QXR Studios accelerates game testing and development with Amazon GameLift Anywhere

NVIDIA DLSS Plugin and Reflex Now Available for Unreal Engine

Cyberpunk 2077 Has Flatlined: Fixed

Release candidate: Godot 3.2 RC 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 5

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 4

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 4

Leveling Up Graphics and Performance with RTX, DLSS and Reflex at NVIDIA GTC

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 6

Accelerating Ultra-Realistic Game Development with NVIDIA DLSS 3 and NVIDIA RTX Path Tracing

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 2

Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 3

Cocos Creator 3.8 Post-Process Shader Writing (2/2) Advanced

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #7

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Best Practices for Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing (Updated)

Getting started with HaxeFlixel in 2021

Godot 3's renderer design explained

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