Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

If you’ve ever wondered what the best game engine is, we invite you to figure it out with us. Let’s discover their pros and cons so it will be easier to decide which engine suits your project better. Unity versus Unreal – this seems to be an ever-lasting battle in the game development world. Unity or Unreal?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 22, 2022

To be clear, this refers to the VisualScript scripting language, and not to visual shaders. Visual shaders are working well and appreciated by many users, so they're not going anywhere. One of the most requested features when Godot 2.1 At the time it seemed like just another feature request. Unable to meet expectations.

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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. A very common complaint when using shadowmaps in Godot is that tweaking shadow bias is extremely difficult compared to other game engines. A very long-since requested feature has finally made it to Godot.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

We’re looking forward to next-generation game engines benefiting from GDeflate by dramatically reducing loading times. Resource streaming and data compression Today’s video games feature extremely detailed interactive environments, requiring the management of enormous assets. a modern I/O streaming API from Microsoft.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 8, 2020

Let's hope this implementation will also be of use to others making their own technology or engines, so they can use it as reference or just copy it. Features of the new Godot 4.0 The new lightmapper is GPU based written mostly on Compute shaders (meaning it does most of the heavy lifting using the GPU, via Vulkan). lightmapper.

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Depth precision is a pain that every graphics programmer has to struggle with sooner or later. Depth precision is a pain that every graphics programmer has to struggle with sooner or later. This post was originally published on the Developer Zone. This post was originally published on the Developer Zone.

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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. Recently, NetEase introduced Mesh Shader support to Justice. Not only are the updated environments breathtaking, the game supports 1.8

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 2, 2017

The reasoning behind this late feature addition is that, now that we released 3.0 alpha1, users need more content to test with the new 3D engine. Sites like Sketchfab provide plenty of PBR-ready assets for downloading, and plugins that export scenes from other popular game engines to this format. Khronos, with glTF 2.0,

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Nvidia

MARCH 24, 2022

To support these various technologies, game developers have had to integrate multiple SDKs, often with varying integration points and compatibility. It sits between the game and render API, and abstracts the SDK-specific API calls into an easy-to-use Streamline framework. Learn more about Kickstart RT. Today, Reflex 1.6

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

installment, bringing dozens of major features and hundreds of bugfixes and enhancements to bring our game developers an ever-improving feature set with a strong focus on usability. now and read on to learn more about its history , our support plans and the many new features in this update. Download Godot 3.2 March 2019).

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Cocos

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Now, without further ado, let me show you some features and technical points in this project. Texture Channel Separation Rendering based on real data inevitably involves the use of a large number of textures, leading to constraints on both graphics memory and performance. It allows for quick sharing with a broader audience.

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Cocos

MAY 14, 2023

Next, let’s take a look at the common 3D rendering processes in a 3D game engine: Shadow Map Rendering → 3D Objects Rendering → Screen Space Post-Processing → 2D Elements & UI Rendering. In Vertex Shader, process vertex transformations, UVs, etc. In Fragment Shader, perform lighting calculations with the 7 lights.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

It brings a brand new rendering engine with state-of-the-art PBR workflow for 3D, an improved assets pipeline, GDNative to load native code as plugins, C# 7.0 support, Bullet as the 3D physics engine, and many other features which are described in depth below. New features of Godot 3.0. Materials and shaders.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The solution should be easy, let’s just use doubles in all of our shaders! Doubles in Shaders. The rest of the shader is in camera space, so we don’t need the extra precision. The MODELVIEW_MATRIX is assembled in the vertex shader by combining the object’s MODEL_MATRIX and the camera’s VIEW_MATRIX. So how does it work?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 6, 2022

This post provides a technical overview for a feature that is already available in the current 4.0 These allow users to dynamically place fog and control complex fog effects with shaders. For example, here is a view of Crytek's popular Sponza scene (well, popular among graphics developers). Note: FogVolumes are available in 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

A very requested feature for the 2D engine is the possibility to have 2D directional lights and shadows. If a shader is applied to them, or if transparency is changed, the effect is applied to every node individually, given they each do it in their own draw call. More work is also going towards the 2D engine. CanvasGroup.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The solution should be easy, let’s just use doubles in all of our shaders! Doubles in Shaders. The rest of the shader is in camera space, so we don’t need the extra precision. The MODELVIEW_MATRIX is assembled in the vertex shader by combining the object’s MODEL_MATRIX and the camera’s VIEW_MATRIX. So how does it work?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Godot uses a considerably different approach to rendering (and rendering abstraction) than other, popular, game engines. Running the whole graphics rendering in a separate thread. Ability to completely reimplement all rendering code if desired, without changing the underlying game. Shader abstraction.

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