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Cocos Shader Tutorial 1.0 - about UV

Cocos

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The vertical axes of textures and picture pixels is shown above, when sampling textures in shaders, that is from top to bottom, which is top-right corner. If your previous development experience is based on OpenGL, you may find that the texture on your grid is vertically flipped. to make the color in bottom darker.

Shaders

Shaders Mesh Sprite Point and Click

Creating a See-Through | X-Ray Effect In Unity – Shader Tutorial

Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 24, 2022

What Is a Shader? Since the main premise of this effect is going to be a shader, we’ll start with explaining what a shader is. A shader is a script where you write code that determines how the colors will be rendered based on various scenarios like lighting and material configuration.

Shaders

Shaders Pixel Scripting Render

Identifying Shader Limiters with the Shader Profiler in NVIDIA Nsight Graphics

Nvidia

APRIL 25, 2022

and later feature the new Real-Time Shader Profiler, the first temporal sampling profiler for GPU shaders. and later feature the new Real-Time Shader Profiler, the first temporal sampling profiler for GPU shaders. This profiler enables you to examine the most expensive shaders at each moment in your frame.

Shaders

Shaders Graphics Localization Code

Shader Help required (UV distortion with cc_time[0])

Cocos

MAY 13, 2023

Hello, so my issue is such, I have made a shader that causes a UV distortion in the fragment shader, to simulate “flame-like” effects at the edges. There are two variants of these shaders, one where the distortion is dependent on cc_time[0] i.e the time elapsed in seconds when a game is running. 1.0 - newUV.x), min(newUV.y,

Shaders

Shaders Alpha Texture Simulation

Major update for Visual Shaders in Godot 3.2 (part 2)

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. First, let's have a look at shader scripts.

Shaders

Shaders Texture Scripting Code

Improve Shader Performance and In-Game Frame Rates with Shader Execution Reordering

Nvidia

OCTOBER 12, 2022

NVIDIA recently introduced a new feature available in the next generation of GPUs: Shader execution reordering (SER). NVIDIA recently introduced a new feature available in the next generation of GPUs: Shader execution reordering (SER). For more information, see the Shader Execution Reordering whitepaper.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Shaders Engine Engineering

Practical Tips for Optimizing Ray Tracing

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.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Mesh Shaders Data

Godot 4.0 gets global and per-instance shader uniforms

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 16, 2020

Godot shader language is one of the easiest ones to use of any engine. Letting visual shaders aside, the shading language is a very tidy and self-contained version of GLSL ES 3.0, Shaders can take take inputs, modify them and produce outputs. Shaders can take take inputs, modify them and produce outputs. Simple, right?

Shaders

Shaders Mesh Texture Editing

Enticing mix of genres in Ghibli-inspired The Brew Barons by Lifetap Studios

PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

Special plane shader With Porco Rosso being such a great source of inspiration it feels only natural to have the game also look like a Ghibli film. ” Elaborating on the game’s aesthetics, Hartley feels particularly proud of the plane shader. Most indie studios don’t survive long after their first release.

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Studios Prototyping Visual Scripting Art

How to get started with Unity Game Development – Tips & Tricks from iXie Experts

iXie gaming

AUGUST 17, 2023

Use asset stores wisely Unity Asset Store offers a wide range of free and paid assets, such as 3D models, textures, sound effects, and plugins. Custom shaders Gain control over your game’s visual style and performance by creating custom shaders. Be mindful of memory usage, especially on mobile platforms.

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Game Developer Game Development Development Shaders

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 15

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 25, 2023

Cleanup and unify keyboard input, adds new Key Label property for localized key mappings ( GH-70052 ). Input: Cleanup and unify keyboard input, adds new Key Label property for localized key mappings ( GH-70052 ). Rendering: Decrement texture_binding count when using screen textures ( GH-71764 ). emojis) ( GH-71909 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Shaders

[Share] 2D Post-Processing & Lighting Framework

Cocos

DECEMBER 25, 2023

You just need the following resources and code: A post-processing shader A material with the shader bound to it A post-processing extension TypeScript file for passing parameters to the material Let’s use an example of creating a screen grayscale effect: 1. After all, light is just a localized brightening of the image.

Render

Render Texture Shaders Pixel

Realistic Lighting in Justice with Mesh Shading

Nvidia

MAY 21, 2021

Their results were nothing short of stunning with local 8K DLSS support and global illumination through RTXGI. Recently, NetEase introduced Mesh Shader support to Justice. Soon we found we can combine Mesh Shaders with auto-generated LODs to achieve almost only-resolution-relevant rendering complexity, instead of polygon number.

Mesh

Mesh Culling Ray Tracing Shaders

Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

Fixed native side LOD screen share calculation using local coordinates, causing calculation error. New and standard-material will default to Surface Shader. See the documentation “Built-in shaders”: [link] • Tooltip that supplements common material parameters. . • Fixed Mat4.getRotation getRotation issue.

Render

Render Baking Lightmap Debug

Clash: Artifacts of Chaos Low FPS: Fix Performance Issues

Game Errors

MARCH 10, 2023

The painting-styled texture of the models and environment may make you think that it’s not a GPU-demanding game. Right-click on Clash: Artifacts of Chaos , go to Manage , and then click on Browse local files. Clear shader cache Open the Windows Settings. Tick DirectX Shader Cache , and untick all other options.

FPS

FPS Shaders Graphics PC

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #5

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 6, 2018

The actual deformation usually happens in the vertex shader , where the bone transforms get looked up from a texture. (In In rendering, textures are used for sooo many things. Everything is a texture if you're brave enough). added TIME uniform to all "scriptable" shaders. Because the new OpenGL ES 2.0

Shaders

Shaders Texture Render Scripting

Custom Post Processing in Unity URP

Febucci

MAY 14, 2022

We will do this too (kind of) - and jokes aside - things are not documented yet AND shaders are obscure anyways, so I’ll explain stuff as easily as I have understood them. They can be applied globally or locally (where weight is also affected by the camera’s distance from the volume bounds). Post Processing Overlay Shader.

Render

Render Shaders Texture Feature

RDR2 Error FFFF: What Is It & How to Fix It

Game Errors

AUGUST 3, 2023

Disable game modifications: This includes any shaders, textures, and other third-party mods you installed for Red Dead Redemption 2. Head to the Local folder and manually delete all folders from there. Click on the one labeled Shader Pre-Caching. You’ll see a checkbox next to Allow Background processing of Vulkan Shaders.

Shaders

Shaders PC Graphics Texture

Accelerate your Game Design, Development and Build with Unity Asset Store

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. Wherever the asset resides (local or remote), the system will locate it and its dependencies, then return it. . Unity Technologies Assets. Addressables by Unity Technologies.

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Asset Game Design Game Designer Build

Fog Volumes arrive in Godot 4.0

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 6, 2022

These allow users to dynamically place fog and control complex fog effects with shaders. Perhaps the most exciting part about FogVolumes is the introduction of the fog shader type. FogVolumes can be controlled with custom Fog shaders to add detail or to shape them however you want. write back that data to density.

Shaders

Shaders Render Alpha Engine

Vulkan progress report #7

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 30, 2020

It supported roughness, but it did so in a way where the texture reads appeared rough, but not the reflected image (the edges of the reflected objects remained intact). They are very easy to use, just select the right texture channels and blending options and they work without much hassle. New screen-space reflection. Light projectors.

Render

Render Shaders Simulation Texture

Boosting Unreal Engine Performance with Amazon FSx for OpenZFS as a Shared Derived Data Cache

AWS Games

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

DDC stores processed derived asset data such as texture compressions, shader compilations, and geometry conversions that can be quickly accessed by the engine during load times. DDC can be local to a single user or shared across a team via a network to improve the efficiency of the development pipeline.

Data

Data Engine Engineering Asset

GTA 5 Keeps Crashing: How to Fix It Permanently

Game Errors

MARCH 29, 2023

Adjust the following settings : Texture Quality : Normal Shader Quality : Normal Shadow Quality : Normal Reflection Quality : Normal Grass Quality : High Scroll down to find the settings that you have to adjust. Click on the Local Files section in the menu on the left. Launch GTA 5. Click the Verify button.

Graphics

Graphics PC Software Shaders

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #6

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2018

A mipmap is a smaller version of the original texture, usually filtered in a special way to make them look nicer when they are viewed from an angle or far away. This is why for pixel-art games you often either change the filtering mode of textures or need to disable mipmaps to make the game look nice and sharp. ). implement BRDF.

Pixel

Pixel Texture Render Shaders

GTA 5 Stuttering: Quick Ways to Improve Performance

Game Errors

MARCH 24, 2023

Scroll down to find and adjust the following settings : Texture Quality : Normal Shader Quality : Normal Shadow Quality : Normal Reflection Quality : Normal Grass Quality : High Find VSync and turn it Off. Click on the Local Files section in the menu on the left. Launch GTA 5. Click the Verify integrity of game files… button.

Graphics

Graphics PC Shaders Balance

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

Updated and localized documentation. Additionally, translators have been hard at work to localize the online documentation , and we now have 100% complete documentation in French , as well as near complete versions in Chinese (Simplified) , Japanese , and Spanish. A big thankyou to all the documentation and localization contributors!

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Debug Point and Click Bug Render

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Shader language features. Localized class reference. Shader language features. Our shader language maintainer Yuri Roubinsky ( Chaosus ) is busy doing magic on the development branch for Godot 4.0, Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Large files support (> 2.0

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

Latest NVIDIA OptiX Renders Ray Tracing Faster Than Ever Before

Nvidia

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The limited size of the payload forced many to use local or even global memory buffers for passing ray data around, which can have a negative impact on performance. Open-ended curves can be desirable for avoiding shader divergence having to do with special-case handling of endcap normals. Image Courtesy © 2021 Paul Esteves.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Render Feature Animation

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

Visual Shaders overhaul. 2D: Pseudo 3D, Texture atlas, AStar2D. Visual Shaders overhaul. introduced a new graph-based editor to edit shaders visually, reimplemented from the previous version that was included in Godot 2.1. 2D: Pseudo 3D, Texture atlas, AStar2D. Mono/C#: Android and WebAssembly support.

Render

Render Feature Shaders Bug

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

Materials and shaders. Materials and shaders. makes up for it by providing an extremely powerful default material (which supports detail textures, triplanar mapping and other nice features) and an extremely easy-to-use shader language. writing shaders is very easy! Full principled BSDF. Global illumination (GI).

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

You can even create complex dynamic effects by writing custom shaders that operate on FogVolume nodes. is introducing sky shaders which allow users to create dynamic skies that update in real time (including reflections). For more information see the article introducing sky shaders. For other atmospheric effects, Godot 4.0

Beta

Beta Engine Engineering Animation

The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #32

Astral Clock Tower Studios

AUGUST 31, 2021

This sprint, Fede was able to continue working on the soldiers and armor he'd started, polishing up details and working on intricate textures. Soon, Fede will be experimenting with our custom fur shader and working with hair cards to create realistic fur for these toothy baddies. Here are some shots of Fede's WIP. Take a look.

Dev

Dev Demo Concepts Animation

Godot reaches 2.1 stable!

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 9, 2016

Godot is used all around the world and, while it always supported Unicode, its reliance on font textures made it pretty difficult to support some languages (especially Asian). Dynamic font support. This new version allows you to drop any TTF or OTF file in the project and use it directly in your games, at any size. Our goal with 3.0

Asset

Asset Scripting Engine Engineering

GSoC 2018 progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 25, 2018

reduz is always quick to respond on IRC, although he is busy developing new features for Godot (during that time, he finished the new Animation editor, the new AnimationTree and visual shader editor. Textures, normal maps and some of the BSDF shaders are already well supported. I am mentored by sdfgeoff and reduz. Amazing!!).

Communications

Communications Code Engine Engineering

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Cocos Shader Tutorial 1.0 - about UV

Creating a See-Through | X-Ray Effect In Unity – Shader Tutorial

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Identifying Shader Limiters with the Shader Profiler in NVIDIA Nsight Graphics

Shader Help required (UV distortion with cc_time[0])

Major update for Visual Shaders in Godot 3.2 (part 2)

Improve Shader Performance and In-Game Frame Rates with Shader Execution Reordering

Practical Tips for Optimizing Ray Tracing

Godot 4.0 gets global and per-instance shader uniforms

Enticing mix of genres in Ghibli-inspired The Brew Barons by Lifetap Studios

How to get started with Unity Game Development – Tips & Tricks from iXie Experts

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 15

[Share] 2D Post-Processing & Lighting Framework

Realistic Lighting in Justice with Mesh Shading

Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Clash: Artifacts of Chaos Low FPS: Fix Performance Issues

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #5

Custom Post Processing in Unity URP

RDR2 Error FFFF: What Is It & How to Fix It

Accelerate your Game Design, Development and Build with Unity Asset Store

Fog Volumes arrive in Godot 4.0

Vulkan progress report #7

Boosting Unreal Engine Performance with Amazon FSx for OpenZFS as a Shared Derived Data Cache

GTA 5 Keeps Crashing: How to Fix It Permanently

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #6

GTA 5 Stuttering: Quick Ways to Improve Performance

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Latest NVIDIA OptiX Renders Ray Tracing Faster Than Ever Before

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #32

Godot reaches 2.1 stable!

GSoC 2018 progress report #1

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