Nvidia

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

comes with a new feature to support the parallel compilation of OptixModule objects containing multiple functions. Deserted house in the night, rendered In RedShift. Blue car on the street with sunlight , rendered In RedShift. Red fabric with golden texture rendered with Houdini XPU. Faster compile times NVIDIA OptiX 7.4

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Cocos

MAY 6, 2023

So they came and asked: How do I add a new Shader for the CRP? pipeline/passes ：Related scripts pipeline/resources/effects ：Related shaders pipeline/resources/materials ：Related materials Pass Code Next, we’ll ignore all principles and details for now, quickly implement a grayscale effect, and grasp the workflow.

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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. Flag dirty dependencies when GeometryInstance dependencies change in renderer ( GH-71581 ). Rendering: Fix LCD font AA on OpenGL renderer ( GH-72125 ).

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Cocos

MAY 6, 2023

So they came and asked: How do I add a new Shader for the CRP? pipeline/passes ：Related scripts pipeline/resources/effects ：Related shaders pipeline/resources/materials ：Related materials Pass Code Next, we’ll ignore all principles and details for now, quickly implement a grayscale effect, and grasp the workflow.

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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 ).

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Nvidia

MARCH 20, 2023

NVIDIA at GDC 2023: Frame Generation and Path Tracing Tools Now Available Generate frames with the latest breakthrough in AI rendering Announced with the NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture, DLSS 3 raised the bar not just for visuals but also performance and responsiveness. Frame generation is the latest evolution.

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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. Every supported renderer option is now selectable from the project creation screen, which means you can create OpenGL 3 (“Compatibility”) projects without using the command line ( GH-70028 ).

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Cocos

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Post-processing effects, are used for further processing of rendered results to achieve various advanced and special effects. In simple terms, it involves applying after-effects to game visuals and is an essential feature in game development, often utilized to enhance the visual quality and presentation of games.

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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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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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Nvidia

AUGUST 9, 2023

When using advanced rendering techniques like ray tracing or path tracing, Nsight tools are your companion for creating a smooth and polished experience. With this information, you can determine the workload executing on the GPU and view what shaders were in use at the time of the crash. Make sure it’s enabled first.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

For example, a shader can use warp shuffle instructions to exchange data between threads in a warp without going through shared memory, which is especially valuable in pixel shaders where there is no shared memory. Or a shader can perform atomic additions on half-precision floating-point numbers in global memory. x, u1 mov r3.yz,

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Febucci

MAY 14, 2022

The URP Roadmap says that it’s “in progress”, but even if this has been the case for a while now, we do have some features that can help us manually achieve the same result anyways (similar to the previous Post Processing Stack V2). Render the components that are present in the Volume Manager stack. ??? Post Processing Overlay Shader.

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Nvidia

MAY 17, 2023

Resource allocation and destruction Creating and destroying buffers, textures, and shaders is fundamental to efficient computer graphics. Recommended Use a dedicated thread for resource creation to avoid hidden OS costs and blocking frame rendering, as this can result in costly OS paging work.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

is out and it comes fully packed with features and quality of life improvements! Most of work was aimed at implementing missing features or fixing bugs which are critical for publishing 2D and 3D games with Godot 3.x, x, and at making the existing features more optimized and reliable. After 9 months of development, Godot 3.5

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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. 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

JULY 8, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. You can enable it in the Project Settings ( rendering/gles3/shaders/shader_compilation_mode ). The upcoming Godot 3.5 stable for all users.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

However, with the ever-increasing visual fidelity of their rendering engines, game engines have grown in popularity for situations that demand high-end visuals. These use cases include architecture visualization, cinema, animation and cutscene rendering. This feature has been available since Godot 3.0, Example output.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

However, with the ever-increasing visual fidelity of their rendering engines, game engines have grown in popularity for situations that demand high-end visuals. These use cases include architecture visualization, cinema, animation and cutscene rendering. This feature has been available since Godot 3.0, Example output.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Split pause() from AnimationPlayer's stop() ( GH-71218 ). Export: Fix missing "debug"/"release" export presets feature tags ( GH-71274 ). New NavigationServer performance monitor ( GH-70731 ).

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Game Errors

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

If you continue to experience stuttering after conducting initial checks, take the following steps: Adjust system performance Update your GPU driver Disable fullscreen optimizations Delete DirectX shader cache 1. This feature enhances the quality of games and apps in full-screen mode by making necessary adjustments to optimize performance.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

We're working towards finalizing the feature set for 4.0 beta, reviewing many PRs which have been opened prior to our roadmap feature freeze announced a month ago. Same deal as usual, lots of bugs fixed and more refactoring and feature work. Rendering: Octahedral normal/tangent compression ( GH-60309 ). for instructions.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 8, 2022

Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. Only the beta will mark the so-called "feature freeze" As such, we do not recommend porting existing projects to this and other upcoming alpha releases unless you are prepared to do it again to fix future incompatibilities.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). The upcoming Godot 3.5 stable for all users.

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 4, 2022

At that time, we immediately integrated RTX features into Justice and quickly pushed it online. The rendering pipeline of Justice is built on physically based rendering (PBR). Path tracing can help game visuals reach cinematic realism, bringing the real-time rendering experience to the film production level.

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Game Designing

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Usually, Japanese anime films and video games feature this distinct look. Cel shading can be described as a technique that gives any 3D or 2D rendering a cartoonish or hand-drawn effect. A cell shader gives the appearance of a traditional drawing with a flatter surface and hard, unfinished edges. What Is Cel Shading?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: A lot of bug fixes and improvements in these areas particularly, check out the PRs listed below: Animation, Navigation, GDScript, Rendering. Rendering: Implement basic ASTC support ( GH-65376 ). Rendering: Added options for sorting transparent objects ( GH-69998 ).

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Game Errors

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

If you still encounter Eternights black screen issue, try these tips: Update GPU driver Clear game cache Clear DirectX shader cache Disable in-game overlay 1. Clear DirectX shader cache DirectX Shader Cache stores shaders to improve app, game, and program performance. Clear the shader cache using the method below: 1.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). The upcoming Godot 3.5 stable for all users.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 17, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. and provide the missing features that 3.5 and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. Notably, it fixes some rendering regressions with transparent materials, and crashing iOS templates and Web editor build in RC 2. The upcoming Godot 3.5

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). The upcoming Godot 3.5 stable for all users.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). The upcoming Godot 3.5 stable for all users.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 2022

and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. Switch on physics/common/physics_interpolation , and Godot will now automatically interpolate objects on rendered frames so they look super smooth.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

As most of the rendering features for the upcoming Godot 4.0 are done, I have spent the past two months optimizing the rendering engine, both on the CPU and GPU side. All this work has resulted in significantly faster rendering times. A lot of the render state is now better cached, so less is done at render time.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 23, 2022

In parallel to our work on the upcoming feature releases Godot 3.5 ( with a second beta ) and 4.0 ( now at alpha 4! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 Core: Revert "Fix ProjectSettings has_setting() when used on a overriden setting with feature tags" ( GH-58859 ). branch for use in production. Last month's 3.4.3

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2022

was released 2 months ago , and some of the major planned features for Godot 3.5 Some more features are still being worked on and will be included in future beta builds. and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). have since been merged and are now ready for wider testing.

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