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

Cocos

AUGUST 16, 2023

Preface In the last article , Kylin shared how to add your own post-effect Shader in the custom render pipeline in Cocos Creator 3.8. Simply put, Gaussian blur takes every pixel on an image and processes it with the following process. Final pixel value = sum of all (pixels * weights). name : the effect’s name.

Shaders

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[Share] 2D Post-Processing & Lighting Framework

Cocos

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Post-processing effects, are used for further processing of rendered results to achieve various advanced and special effects. Analysis of 2D Post-Processing Solutions Cocos Creator currently lacks built-in support for post-processing in the 2D render phase, requiring developers to explore various approaches to achieve the rendering goals.

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Godot 3's renderer design explained

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Godot uses a considerably different approach to rendering (and rendering abstraction) than other, popular, game engines. 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. Running the whole graphics rendering in a separate thread.

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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. This eliminates the GPU render queue and reduces CPU back pressure in GPU-bound scenarios.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Render AI Technology

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).

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GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #7

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2018

depth rendering for shadow mapping. I will go more in-depth about shadow-mapping later, for now just know that in order to show shadows, the scene needs to be rendered from the perspective of each light and the result has to be saved. For the GLES2 renderer, I had to implement the interface for those shadow atlases.

Render

Render Pixel Debug Shaders

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 16

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Some noteworthy changes in this release: Re-enable support for Web exports using the OpenGL 3 / WebGL 2 renderer. Implement physical light units in Vulkan renderers. Re-enable per-pixel transparency support on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Navigation: Add debug visuals for GridMap cell edge connections ( GH-64173 ).

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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. The Sun Temple scene from ORCA rendered in real time using RTXDI. It also provides support for rendering a denoiser confidence signal from RTXDI.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Engine Engineering Render

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

Nvidia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Since the introduction of the GeForce RTX 20 Series, NVIDIA has paved the way for groundbreaking graphics with novel research on how AI can enhance rendering and improve computer games. It delivers up to 4x improvements in frame rate and up to 2x improvements in latency compared to native resolution rendering.

Ray Tracing

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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. DLSS pairs perfectly with computationally intensive rendering algorithms such as real-time ray tracing.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Engine Engineering Technology

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

2D batching for the GLES2 renderer. While most rendering work was postponed for the 4.0 release with its new Vulkan-based renderer, our contributors lawnjelly and Clay ( clayjohn ) decided to give some more attention to the 3.2 Thanks to the work of Pedro ( RandomShaper ), debug versions of Godot (e.g. feature set.

Debug

Debug Point and Click Bug Render

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 fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). YSort: Make rendering order more deterministic ( GH-42375 ).

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 fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). C#: Official builds now use Mono 6.12.0.111.

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Render

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. New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ).

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Render Collision Build 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. New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ).

Render

Render Bug Build Beta

Cyberpunk 2077 Has Flatlined: Fixed

Game Errors

JULY 6, 2023

Sometimes systems are not equipped to render the most resource-heavy parts of the game, and as a result, the game flatlines immediately. Enabled debug mode: Mods are common in the gaming community, so Cyberpunk 2077 encountered an error can be a result. You might consider using Device Manager to look for updates automatically.

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PC Graphics Debug Shaders

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Notable changes are in-editor class reference translations (so far Chinese (Simplified), Spanish, and some French), some new rendering features (high quality glow mode, 3D point light attenuation option), and a number of C# marshalling fixes. Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

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Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). In-depth documentation is available.

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). In-depth documentation is available.

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

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

Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

RTXDI makes this possible while rendering in real time. 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. introduces a new boost feature that further reduces latency when a game becomes CPU render thread bound. Times Square billboards.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Graphics Render Technology

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 11, 2020

see recent devblogs on GDScript typed instructions , Complex Text Layout , Tiles editor , documentation , and 2D rendering improvements !), 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 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Bug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2021

New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends, which should fix some issues and improve performance significantly in games using a high number of dynamic objects. In this beta, the dynamic BVH is the default option for both physics and rendering. New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends (new in beta 6).

Beta

Beta Dev Collision Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

GLES3 renderer). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). Highlights.

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

GLES3 renderer). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). Highlights.

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

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. New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ).

Render

Render Build Bug Collision

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 fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). YSort: Make rendering order more deterministic ( GH-42375 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Build

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]

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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. New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). GLES2: Improve PCF13 shadow rendering by using a soft PCF filter ( GH-46301 ).

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Render Build Bug Editing

Release candidate: Godot 3.2 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 24, 2020

Editor: Fix import of AtlasTextures with semi-transparent pixels ( GH-35363 ). Rendering: Fix shadow culling with orthogonal camera and wrong VIEWPORT_SIZE shader builtin ( GH-35406 ). 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.

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

in January 2020, we switched the development focus towards the upcoming Godot 4.0 , which is a major, compatibility-breaking rewrite of the engine's core and rendering. Dynamic BVH for rendering and GodotPhysics. Raise errors when accessing deleted objects in debug. Rendering: Unified 2D batching. New CPU lightmapper.

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Collision Lightmap Baking Render

Best Practices for Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing (Updated)

Nvidia

JULY 25, 2022

Especially in hybrid rendering, where G-buffer or shadow maps are rasterized, it’s potentially beneficial to execute AS building on async compute. In hybrid rendering, using the same LOD for rasterization and ray tracing can be considered. Use them only when it is required to get the correct rendering result.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Shaders Culling Render

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Portal occlusion culling. More rendering improvements. 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. More rendering improvements. and Godot 3.3.

UX

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Getting started with HaxeFlixel in 2021

Radiator Blog

APRIL 9, 2021

The engine should be able to render and simulate 200+ lightweight game objects -- frame-animated sprites with simple collision, no fancy physics or shaders. However, it has been designed for a fairly specific use case: tile-based pixel art platformers. Reminder: for iOS, that means WebGL 1.0 and no WASM.)

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Sprite Simulation Build Animation

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

[Share] 2D Post-Processing & Lighting Framework

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Godot 3's renderer design explained

The Best Tools to Improve Gameplay Performance

Cocos Shader Tutorial 1.0 - about UV

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #7

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 16

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

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

NVIDIA DLSS Plugin and Reflex Now Available for Unreal Engine

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 4

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 1

Cyberpunk 2077 Has Flatlined: Fixed

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

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

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 4

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 5

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

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.2 RC 3

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

Best Practices for Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing (Updated)

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Getting started with HaxeFlixel in 2021

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