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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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2021

just a few days ago with a huge array of bugfixes, but a regression was then found for macOS rendering which could cause flickering. Rendering: GLES2: Fix trunc shader function compilation on Android ( GH-56061 ). It is developed by Pixel-Archipel and scheduled to release in early 2022. We released Godot 3.4.1 Godot 3.4.2

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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. Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 4, 2021

Do you have prior experience with other game engines? We were so excited by the prospect of making a game that he dove headfirst into pixel art and I into programming. We started making Primal Light in Python (using the PyGame module), but when we started getting serious about the project, we decided to shift to a full-fledged engine.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 3, 2021

Windows Mixed Reality headsets are currently only supported through SteamVR as WMR natively only supports DirectX game engines. Godot 4 stereoscopic rendering through Multiview. One of the bigger changes we did to enabled XR support in Godot 4 is implementing multiview support into the rendering engine.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 30, 2019

for release, I'm almost exclusively dedicating myself to porting the engine to Vulkan, as part of the 4.0 What used to be a few lines of OpenGL/GLX code is a large amount of Vulkan extension code to handle initialization and creation of rendering surfaces. this was not possible without modifying Godot's rendering backend.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

Rendering: Octahedral normal/tangent compression ( GH-60309 ). Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. GUI: Add font LCD sub-pixel anti-aliasing support ( GH-64422 ). Rendering: Octahedral normal/tangent compression ( GH-60309 ). for instructions.

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Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

Buckle up, aspiring developers, because the barrier to entry just shrunk to the size of a pixel! Visual Scripting And No-Code Solutions Bolt for Unity: This visual scripting editor within the Unity game engine allows you to build game logic without writing code. Have you ever dreamt of crafting your own epic game?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

David Snopek ( dsnopek ) got WebXR minimally working again ( GH-64514 ) using the WebGL 2 renderer implemented by Clay John ( clayjohn ). Rendering: Split rendering driver project setting into rendering_method and rendering/*/driver ( GH-65541 ). Rendering: Fix/restore BackBufferCopy ( GH-65794 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 30, 2020

It feels great to be back to doing graphics programming after two months refactoring the core engine. While not entirely rendering specific, a lot of nodes are being renamed. A very common complaint when using shadowmaps in Godot is that tweaking shadow bias is extremely difficult compared to other game engines. Node renames.

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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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 17, 2021

macOS: Enable multithreaded OpenGL engine flag when using multithreaded VisualServer ( GH-54526 ). macOS: Fix driver crash when enabling per-pixel transparency on M1 macs ( GH-55464 ). Rendering: Fix vertex attribute specification for octahedral compression ( GH-54768 ). All users are advised to upgrade to Godot 3.4.2

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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. NVIDIA RTX Unreal Engine Branch (NvRTX) NvRTX is a custom UE4 branch for NVIDIA technologies on GitHub. Times Square billboards.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). YSort: Make rendering order more deterministic ( GH-42375 ).

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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 Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. tinyexr 1.0.0,

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

To help during the game development process, NVIDIA has packaged and released a suite of SDKs through our branch of Unreal Engine for all developers, from independent to AAA, to harness the power of RTX. Today, NVIDIA released RTX Technology Showcase – an interactive demo built from NVIDIA’s RTX Unreal Engine 4.26 Branch (NvRTX).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 15, 2021

macOS: Enable multithreaded OpenGL engine flag when using multithreaded VisualServer ( GH-54526 ). macOS: Fix driver crash when enabling per-pixel transparency on M1 macs ( GH-55464 ). Rendering: Fix vertex attribute specification for octahedral compression ( GH-54768 ). TextEdit: Allow toggling bookmark gutter ( GH-55197 ).

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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. Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 8, 2021

macOS: Enable multithreaded OpenGL engine flag when using multithreaded VisualServer ( GH-54526 ). macOS: Fix driver crash when enabling per-pixel transparency on M1 macs ( GH-55464 ). Rendering: Fix vertex attribute specification for octahedral compression ( GH-54768 ). if something that worked fine in 3.4

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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).

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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. Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. Built into the engine core we now have scene, spawn, and property replication over the network. This means the engine can now do a lot of the heavy lifting and get you started on the next multiplayer hit much quicker. So here's Godot 4.0

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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. Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

David Snopek ( dsnopek ) got WebXR minimally working again ( GH-64514 ) using the WebGL 2 renderer implemented by Clay John ( clayjohn ). Rendering: Split rendering driver project setting into rendering_method and rendering/*/driver ( GH-65541 ). Rendering: Fix/restore BackBufferCopy ( GH-65794 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 7, 2021

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). YSort: Make rendering order more deterministic ( GH-42375 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

New option to snap 2D transforms to whole coordinates , helps prevent jitter on pixel art camera motions. Note that the project settings from the rendering/quality/2d section have now been moved to rendering/2d , so if you used any of those, you will need to re-enable them under the new section in 3.2.4. New CPU lightmapper.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 26, 2020

Namely: Python for Godot by Emmanuel Leblond, Benefits of porting Godot Engine to Vulkan by Juan Linietsky, and Reloading Escoria by Julian Murgia. Interior mapping is a technique to render interiors of 3D buildings in outdoor scenes without requiring any additional geometry. Are you tired of 2D pixel art platformers?

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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. GLES2: Improve PCF13 shadow rendering by using a soft PCF filter ( GH-46301 ). Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 23, 2018

compatible rendering backend for Godot 3.1, The first month I spent on getting started and familiar with the rendering in Godot. Because I am still new to the rendering system in Godot, I might not be experienced enough to make good estimates of what can be achieved, but the rough roadmap looks like this. render meshes.

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Cocos

MAY 14, 2023

This article will delve into the principles, implementation details, common issues and solutions, memory overhead, and compatibility of the Deferred Rendering technique. The rendering stages involved in Deferred Rendering. The problems that are solved by Deferred Rendering. Solution for transparent object rendering.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

stable branch in January 2020 as a major update to our free and open source game engine. 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

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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. Additional funding will enable us to hire more core developers to work full-time on the engine, and thus further improve its development pace and stability.

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iXie gaming

MAY 24, 2023

Image Enhancement Engineers in artificial intelligence are at the forefront of picture enhancement technologies, working tirelessly to perfect deep learning algorithms that can make 3D-rendered visuals look as lifelike as possible. A great number of game companies have already begun developing NPCs that are based on AI.

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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.

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Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Taking a different tack from last time , I decided that it would be worth getting really dirty with low-level engine work for the next attempt at map zooming. If we play by the engine rules we get to keep that functionality in its existing simple package, which generally means massive savings on CPU cycles. No crashes, just big tiles.

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DameDev.tv

MARCH 7, 2023

In today's post, I'd like to show you how to retrieve an image provided by The Art Institute of Chicago via its public API , how to create a texture from this image, and how to feed this texture to a material and render it on a plane accompanied by a floating text with title, name of the artist and some other details.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 4, 2017

Modules have access to all the C++ classes available in Godot and can extend engine functionality. You want a different renderer? "A Native script", as in "a script you're writing", is just a script, just like a GDScript file, so it doesn't have access to those classes, it also can't extend engine functionality.

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