Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

It includes major improvements all across the board in features, performance, and usability. The features offered are also a lot more reminiscent of AAA games, such as far more material options and advanced visual effects (including circle DOF , volumetric fog, AMD FSR, etc.). Several features were added to Godot Physics since 3.x,

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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

MARCH 29, 2023

Is it feasible to develop a 3D game in 2 hours with AI tools Try it online: [link] the FULL SOURCE CODE will be availabe on Cocos Store. Many developers say that they can just become a UI Assembler and let GPT-4 write shaders for them. I couldn’t take it anymore after only finishing half of the Vertex Shader.

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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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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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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

The Brew Barons also features aerial combat. “As We turned once more to Porco Rosso which features a band of mischievous but loveable pirates, so we added them to the game to help introduce some combat.” ” Elaborating on the game’s aesthetics, Hartley feels particularly proud of the plane shader. But that’s not all.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 21, 2024

First time game developers Max Nielsen and João Martinez form Grenaa Games , a Sweden based indie game studio. “We Nielsen quit his job as a software engineer two years ago and decided to go all-in on game development. “I I have no background in game development, it was just a hobby”, he says. “I

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Harold Serrano

MAY 26, 2024

The only reason it had one was out of necessity, not because I enjoyed developing one. Thus, I ended up developing a BRDF renderer. Since my goal is to learn more about the interaction between light and surfaces, i.e. BRDF, it became apparent that I needed to add more features to the renderer's UI. And that is what I did.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

This is the second blog post describing enhancements for visual shaders and shader scripts landed in Godot 3.2. Since the previous update, I've (Chaosus) spent much time and effort adding a lot of new things to enhance the overall experience developing shaders. Shader changes. Visual Shader changes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 13, 2022

I have years of random experience in development with my first games made way back for Commodore 64. 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

MAY 22, 2019

release, the Visual Shader editor was recreated from the ashes of its Godot 2.x While usable and packed with visual features, Visual Shaders lacked many features from their Shader (script) big brother. So, let's begin reviewing the new features. For example: Swirl shader code by LKS: [link].

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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. Shaders in Godot. Configuration parameters are sent via uniforms.

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Nvidia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Featuring third-generation Ray Tracing Cores and fourth-generation Tensor Cores, they accelerate games that take advantage of the latest neural graphics and ray tracing technology. The latest suite of technologies multiply performance in games while accelerating how quickly developers can create content.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

All Godot contributors are delighted to release our latest milestone today, Godot 3.4 , after more than 6 months of development! While most development focus is on our upcoming Godot 4.0 x branch to develop and publish their games today , so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience.

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Nvidia

AUGUST 9, 2023

NVIDIA Nsight Developer Tools provide comprehensive access to NVIDIA GPUs and graphics APIs for performance analysis, optimization, and debugging activities. NVIDIA Nsight Developer Tools provide comprehensive access to NVIDIA GPUs and graphics APIs for performance analysis, optimization, and debugging activities.

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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

MARCH 13, 2019

After a bit more than one year of work, the Godot developers and contributors are delighted to get their new release out the door, Godot 3.1 ! It brings much-requested improvements to usability and many important features. now and keep on reading about the great features added in this version. New features. Documentation.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 12, 2023

First time game developers Max Nielsen and João Martinez form Grenaa Games , a Sweden based indie game studio. “We Nielsen quit his job as a software engineer two years ago and decided to go all-in on game development. “I I have no background in game development, it was just a hobby”, he says. “I

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

has been in beta for over three months , and the overall feature completeness, stability and usability have improved a lot during that time. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 3D: Switch Mesh surface indexing to start at 0 so string name matches integer index ( GH-70176 ). Requires.NET SDK 6.0 specifically.

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Nvidia

JULY 19, 2021

Nsight developer tools is a suite of powerful tools and SDKs for profiling, debugging and optimizing applications focused on improving performance for graphics, Nsight developer tools is a suite of powerful tools and SDKs for profiling, debugging and optimizing applications focused on improving performance for graphics, gaming and other use cases.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 25, 2023

The beta snapshots cadence allows us to better measure the overall stability and quickly catch regressions, especially when a lot of features are worked on at the same time. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 2D: Add a method to get global CanvasItem modulate ( GH-70294 ). This fixes a regression in beta 14.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

The beta snapshots cadence allows us to better measure the overall stability and quickly catch regressions, especially when a lot of features are worked on at the same time. 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.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 5, 2023

Technically, you can use shader atomic increments to account for all the rays on each frame if needed. This can be partially achieved using a bindless resource model where all required resources are available directly from the shader code on GPU without explicit CPU-side bindings. Shader table data and updates.

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Nvidia

AUGUST 7, 2023

Used with a graphics API like OpenGL or DirectX, NVIDIA OptiX permits you to create a renderer that enables faster and more cost-effective product development cycles. This release adds support for Shader Execution Reordering (SER). Here are some key benefits and features of NVIDIA OptiX.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

We just announced that we'll enter feature freeze next week to focus on stabilizing the existing functionality in Godot 4.0 Some noteworthy changes in this release: Shader preprocessor support and shader includes. Grouping annotations for shaders ( uniform_group ). Feature build profiles for custom builds.

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Jaunty Bear Games

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Fortunately the Unity 3D platform has a great selection of packages and assets to accelerate the build of tools, models, shaders, sound effects, animations etc. For the development of Math it Right 3D Adventure I’ve used the following Unity packages. Unity Technologies Assets. Addressables by Unity Technologies.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 2023

Such cadence allows us to better measure the overall stability and quickly catch regressions, especially when a lot of features are worked on at the same time. A lot of minor fixes and improvements to TileMap and TileSet, both feature wise and in the editor ( GH-71604 , GH-71615 , GH-71618 , GH-71626 , GH-71630 , GH-71664 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

has been in beta for over three months , and the overall feature completeness, stability and usability have improved a lot during that time. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 3D: Switch Mesh surface indexing to start at 0 so string name matches integer index ( GH-70176 ). Requires.NET SDK 6.0 specifically.

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Fast, Modular and Differentiable Shader Programming. Fast, Modular and Differentiable Shader Programming. Bridging real-time graphics, ML, and computer vision development environments is challenging because of different tools, libraries, programming languages, and programming models. The paper shows how a single language.

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Nvidia

JULY 25, 2022

The practical tips are organized into short, actionable items for developers working on ray tracing today. Flagging instances or geometries as opaque allows uninterrupted hardware intersection search and prevents invocation of the any-hit shader. This feature becomes available in HLSL Shader Model 6.6.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

has been in beta for over two months , and the overall feature completeness, stability and usability have improved a lot during that time. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Add track validator to AnimationPlayerEditor to detect tracks which have error ( GH-68770 ). GH-68870 ). Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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Nvidia

APRIL 20, 2023

The Range Profiler’s pie chart shows instructions executed, per shader stage. GPU Trace can measure total instructions, but a per-shader stage decomposition is only available in the Occupancy chart. What about the Shader Profiler? the Shader Profiler continues to be available through the Frame Debugger activity.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 18, 2021

Welcome to another developer interview following the introduction of the Godot Showcase page ! Hi, I'm John, I'm a (mostly) solo game developer making games that I want to play. Game development is fantastic because it allows me to bring all of that together into a single project. Game development is hard, right?

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 10, 2023

First time game developers Max Nielsen and João Martinez form Grenaa Games , a Sweden based indie game studio. “We Nielsen quit his job as a software engineer two years ago and decided to go all-in on game development. “I I have no background in game development, it was just a hobby”, he says. “I

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Nvidia

MAY 21, 2021

NetEase Thunder Fire Games Uses Mesh Shading To Create Beautiful Game Environments for Justice In December, we interviewed Haiyong Qian , NetEase Game Engine Development Researcher and Manager of NetEase Thunder Fire Games Technical Center, to see what he’s learned as the Justice team added NVIDIA ray-tracing solutions to their development pipeline.

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 5, 2023

First time game developers Max Nielsen and João Martinez form Grenaa Games , a Sweden based indie game studio. “We Nielsen quit his job as a software engineer two years ago and decided to go all-in on game development. “I I have no background in game development, it was just a hobby”, he says. “I

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

After 9 months of development, Godot 3.5 is out and it comes fully packed with features and quality of life improvements! While most development focus is on our upcoming Godot 4.0 x branch to develop and publish their games today, so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience.

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