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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. However, based on the BlitScreen solution, we can only write the simplest post-effect Shader. Today Kylin will use Gaussian blur to demonstrate how to write a multi-pass post-effect shader.

Shaders

Shaders Writing Pixel Render

Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

This version optimizes some rendering and lighting capabilities, fixes a series of key issues recently reported by users, and recommends that all v3.x Engine • Added DebugView at runtime UI control rendering debugging function. Skip rendering when the UI element Opacity is 0. Cocos Creator 3.7.2 was released last week.

Render

Render Baking Lightmap Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 13

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2023

You can now deploy your projects to all desktop platforms over SSH, as well as run a remote debug session similar to what we already offered for Android and Web. As the number of remote debug options is quite big by now, we’ve packed them neatly in a single drop-down menu ( GH-63312 , GH-70701 ). or below ( GH-69851 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Debug Animation

[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.

Render

Render Texture Shaders Pixel

GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2022

Project: Allow undocking the Script editor and the Shader editor. For things like the Script editor, this means you can move it to another screen, move the undocked window to be side-by-side with the main window, or just using Alt+Tab to change between the main window and the undocked one. UV2 Texel Density Debug Draw Mode.

Lightmap

Lightmap UX Shaders Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Multi-caret support in TextEdit and script editors ( GH-61902 ). 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. Lots of rendering changes.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Multi-caret support in TextEdit and script editors ( GH-61902 ). 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. Lots of rendering changes.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: A ton of fixes for all rendering backends, and missing features implemented for the OpenGL3 one. Editor: Fix reload scripts error after saving in external editor ( GH-68203 ). GUI: Add a Font import option to pre-render all glyphs required for the translation ( GH-68448 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Alpha

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

A couple fixes to the text resource loader which could impact notably reloading scripts ( GH-71170 ). As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! Export: Fix missing "debug"/"release" export presets feature tags ( GH-71274 ). Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Collision Render

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.4

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 23, 2022

Edit 2022-03-24 @ 12:15 UTC: There was a slight packaging mistake affecting the macOS editor, and the iOS and macOS export templates, as well as a build issue affecting the iOS debug template. Editor: Fix showing Extend Script option without script attached to the node ( GH-58821 ). " ( GH-58862 ) [regression fix].

Render

Render Alpha Shaders Editing

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). 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 ). Audio: Add Listener2D node ( GH-53429 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

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. C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). Jump to the Downloads section.

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

GLES3 renderer). C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). 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 ). Highlights.

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

GLES3 renderer). C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). 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 ). Highlights.

Mesh

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 4.0 beta 12

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

A couple fixes to the text resource loader which could impact notably reloading scripts ( GH-71170 ). As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! Export: Fix missing “debug”/”release” export presets feature tags ( GH-71274 ). Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). See the list below.

Beta

Beta Dev Collision Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). Rendering: Import option to split vertex buffer stream in positions and attributes ( GH-46574 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2021

Batching: Fix light pass modulate , a potential crash, polygon rotation from vertex shader, and 2D skinning with unrigged polygons ( GH-48151 , GH-48125 , GH-48457 , GH-48647 )). Core: Expose Shape.get_debug_mesh() to the scripting API ( GH-48316 ). Physics: Create CollisionObject debug shapes using VisualServer ( GH-48588 ).

Polygon

Polygon Render Scripting Racing

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. Both features were implemented by our text rendering expert bruvzg in the master branch for Godot 4.0, Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

This RC 6 has a few notable changes compared to the previous build: In RC 4, async shader compilation and caching was enabled by default on desktop, but several users reported issues with it on some hardware. You can enable it in the Project Settings ( rendering/gles3/shaders/shader_compilation_mode ). and backported to 3.5.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2022

and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. Debugger: Add --debug-server command line option to listen for incoming connections ( GH-60819 ). Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

Render

Render Shaders Console Culling

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). Crypto: Add HMACContext ( GH-48869 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

Notably, it fixes some rendering regressions with transparent materials, and crashing iOS templates and Web editor build in RC 2. and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Maintenance release: Godot 3.5.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Animation: Fix AnimationNode has_filter not being called in scripts ( GH-64560 ). GUI: Expose Tabs set / get_tab_button_icon() to scripting ( GH-64707 ). iOS: Workaround WebKit/ANGLE shader compilation bug for WebGL 2.0 ( GH-64811 ). Rendering: Fix skeleton 2D stale bounding rect ( GH-63071 ).

Baking

Baking Render Collision Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.5.1 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Animation: Fix AnimationNode has_filter not being called in scripts ( GH-64560 ). GUI: Expose Tabs set / get_tab_button_icon() to scripting ( GH-64707 ). iOS: Workaround WebKit/ANGLE shader compilation bug for WebGL 2.0 ( GH-64811 ). Rendering: Fix skeleton 2D stale bounding rect ( GH-63071 ).

Render

Render Bug Collision Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. Both features were implemented by our text rendering expert bruvzg in the master branch for Godot 4.0, Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: A ton of fixes for all rendering backends, and missing features implemented for the OpenGL3 one. Editor: Fix reload scripts error after saving in external editor ( GH-68203 ). GUI: Add a Font import option to pre-render all glyphs required for the translation ( GH-68448 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Alpha

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. Both features were implemented by our text rendering expert bruvzg in the master branch for Godot 4.0, Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). Rendering: Import option to split vertex buffer stream in positions and attributes ( GH-46574 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 17, 2022

and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. Both features were implemented by our text rendering expert bruvzg in the master branch for Godot 4.0, Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.1 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 15, 2021

Batching: Fix light pass modulate , a potential crash, polygon rotation from vertex shader, and 2D skinning with unrigged polygons ( GH-48151 , GH-48125 , GH-48457 , GH-48647 )). Core: Expose Shape.get_debug_mesh() to the scripting API ( GH-48316 ). Physics: Create CollisionObject debug shapes using VisualServer ( GH-48588 ).

Polygon

Polygon Bug Render Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. Both features were implemented by our text rendering expert bruvzg in the master branch for Godot 4.0, Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.1 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 10, 2021

Batching: Fix light pass modulate , a potential crash, and polygon rotation from vertex shader ( GH-48151 , GH-48125 , GH-48457 )). Core: Expose Shape.get_debug_mesh() to the scripting API ( GH-48316 ). LSP: Update the filesystem for changed scripts, fixes issues with new named classes ( GH-47891 ). stable ( GH-48268 ).

Bug

Bug Build Polygon Render

Maintenance release: Godot 3.5.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Animation: Fix AnimationNode has_filter not being called in scripts ( GH-64560 ). GUI: Expose Tabs set / get_tab_button_icon() to scripting ( GH-64707 ). iOS: Workaround WebKit/ANGLE shader compilation bug for WebGL 2.0 ( GH-64811 ). Rendering: Fix skeleton 2D stale bounding rect ( GH-63071 ).

Baking

Baking Render Collision Bug

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

Exporting C# projects to iOS should be done from macOS using the classical workflow , and the scripts will be automatically compiled Ahead-of-Time (AOT) for iOS. 2D batching for the GLES2 renderer. While most rendering work was postponed for the 4.0 Thanks to the work of Pedro ( RandomShaper ), debug versions of Godot (e.g.

Debug

Debug Point and Click Bug Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 18, 2020

2D batching for the GLES2 renderer , thanks to lawnjelly and Clay ( clayjohn ). While this is not a feature per se, it fixes a major annoyance that users have had with pointers to freed objects unexpectedly being re-assigned to new objects, causing hard-to-debug issues. 2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ).

Beta

Beta Debug Bug Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2020

2D batching for the GLES2 renderer , thanks to lawnjelly and Clay ( clayjohn ). While this is not a feature per se, it fixes a major annoyance that users have had with pointers to freed objects unexpectedly being re-assigned to new objects, causing hard-to-debug issues. 2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ).

Beta

Beta Debug Bug Point and Click

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 12, 2020

2D batching for the GLES2 renderer , thanks to lawnjelly and Clay ( clayjohn ). While this is not a feature per se, it fixes a major annoyance that users have had with pointers to freed objects unexpectedly being re-assigned to new objects, causing hard-to-debug issues. 2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ).

Beta

Beta Bug Debug Build

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 22, 2020

2D batching for the GLES2 renderer , thanks to lawnjelly and Clay ( clayjohn ). While this is not a feature per se, it fixes a major annoyance that users have had with pointers to freed objects unexpectedly being re-assigned to new objects, causing hard-to-debug issues. As the GLES3 renderer is being deprecated by Vulkan in Godot 4.0,

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2020

2D batching for the GLES2 renderer , thanks to lawnjelly and Clay ( clayjohn ). While this is not a feature per se, it fixes a major annoyance that users have had with pointers to freed objects unexpectedly being re-assigned to new objects, causing hard-to-debug issues. As the GLES3 renderer is being deprecated by Vulkan in Godot 4.0,

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Debug

GSoC 2021 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 30, 2021

Here are the 5 projects/students with links to the relevant sections in this post: Implementing a DAP backend for debugging Godot projects by Ricardo Subtil ( Ev1lbl0w ). Implementing a DAP backend for debugging Godot projects. Project: Implementing a DAP backend for debugging Godot projects. Branch: Ev1lbl0w/gsoc21-dap.

Debug

Debug Simulation Communications Feature

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Portal occlusion culling. Shader language features. More rendering improvements. by calling queue_free() ) but is still accessed somewhere else in a script. release, adding an AESContext to provide a scripting interface to AES-ECB and AES-CBC encryption/decryption methods. Shader language features.

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

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.

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

our lead developer Juan Linietsky moved on to developing the upcoming Vulkan renderer for Godot 4.0 which will bring a new Vulkan-based rendering backend in lieu of the current OpenGL ES 3.0 / OpenGL 3.3 The curious among you may read Juan's progress reports for details on this new architecture and rendering features implemented for 4.0

Render

Render Feature Shaders Bug

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

Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Trending Sources

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 13

[Share] 2D Post-Processing & Lighting Framework

GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.4

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.1

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 1

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 3

Maintenance release: Godot 3.5.1

Release candidate: Godot 3.5.1 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 7

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 5

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 4

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.1 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.1 RC 1

Maintenance release: Godot 3.5.1

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 1

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 4

GSoC 2021 - Progress report #1

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

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

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

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