Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 14, 2025

Rendering: Add ASTC HDR format variants ( GH-102777 ). Rendering: Fix voxelizer normals ( GH-102893 ). Rendering: Fix 2D quad primitive missing lighting data in GLES3 renderer ( GH-102908 ). Rendering: Fix uninitialized value in Tonemap ( GH-103092 ). Rendering: Fix incorrect parameters passed to VMA ( GH-103730 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 18, 2025

Breaking changes Animation Audio / Video C# Core Documentation Editor GDScript GUI Import Input Internationalization Navigation Physics Platforms Rendering and shaders XR Breaking changes We try to minimize breaking changes, but sometimes they are necessary in order to fix high priority issues. Rendering and shaders Stencils!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

Breaking changes Animation Audio C# Core Editor GDScript Import Input Physics Platforms Rendering and shaders XR New in Beta 1! Add 2D shader instance uniforms Previously, Godot only supported shader instance uniforms in Spatial shaders. Highlights Many features originally intended for 4.3 meaning that Godot 4.4

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Nvidia

MARCH 14, 2024

As ray tracing becomes the predominant rendering technique in modern game engines, a single GPU RayGen shader can now perform most of the light simulation of a. As ray tracing becomes the predominant rendering technique in modern game engines, a single GPU RayGen shader can now perform most of the light simulation of a frame.

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Nvidia

MAY 15, 2025

The first post in this series, Path Tracing Optimization in Indiana Jones: Shader Execution Reordering and Live State Reductions, covered ray-gen shader.

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Unity Blog

JULY 28, 2023

Shader Graph is a node-based shader editor that can be used with URP, HDRP, and Built-In Render Pipeline. Here’s how to can use Shader Graph to create natural elements in 2022 LTS.

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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.

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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. Use UV in Shader Both 2D and 3D shaders in Cocos are obtained in the vertex shader (VS) and passed to the pixel shader (FS). to make the color in bottom darker.

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Harold Serrano

MAY 16, 2024

The author experimented with the properties of various metals and demonstrated how to create them in a Physically-Based Renderer through renderings. They looked so cool that made me wonder if I could build a Physically-Based Renderer myself and render these metals. For starters, I was using non-physically-based shaders.

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Cocos

JUNE 26, 2025

x version Polygon sprite, arbitrary polygon texture rendering that can be batched RiveAnimation, load Rive format animation, supports WeChat and Douyin mini games SpriterAnimation, load animation exported by Spriter, supports all platforms Supported engine versions Engine version: Cocos Creator 3.6.0 opengles2.0) can run, webgl2.0(opengles3.0)

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 4, 2025

The Unity Profiler provides tools for detecting issues that affect CPU, GPU, rendering, and memory performance. Rendering Analysis: Monitors draw calls, overdraw, and other performance metrics. Rendering Analysis: Monitors draw calls, overdraw, and other performance metrics.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 20, 2025

Rendering: Clean up more dynamic allocations in the RD renderers with a focus on 2D ( GH-103889 ). Rendering: Optimize _fill_instance_data function in Forward+ renderer ( GH-103547 ). Rendering: Significantly reduce per-frame memory allocations from the heap in the Mobile renderer ( GH-103794 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 8, 2025

Reorganized shader editor UI The editor experience for shaders and visual shaders got some TLC in GH-100287. Godot already supports using the Vulkan Fragment Shading Rate extension to render the outside of the viewport at a lower resolution, leading to performance improvements with little noticeable decrease in quality.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Export: Disable Metal and Vulkan renderers in simulator builds. Rendering: 2D: Fix clip children and rendering artefacts ( GH-102161 ). Rendering: Add loop annotations to ubershaders to prevent loop unrolling ( GH-102480 ). Rendering: Fix shadow peter-panning with default spotlight ( GH-101952 ).

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The Knights of Unity

JUNE 5, 2020

And even before an era of SRPs (Scriptable Render Pipelines), there was a good amount of solid features like today’s topic: Render textures. In this post I’m going to explain to you how to use render textures in your game. using legacy rendering, but the features I used work in SRPs too. What is a Render Texture.

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Cocos

JUNE 29, 2023

The issue for most developers is knowing how to use SDF with shaders to achieve these effects. One developer has built an excellent extension that allows you to not worry about this and develop more font styles, saving the shaders for you. Thanks to Signed Distance Fields or SDF, you can do this and so much more with them.

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Harold Serrano

MAY 26, 2024

Thus, I ended up developing a BRDF renderer. If you didn't get a chance to read the article, here are some screenshots of what I accomplished with my renderer. The UI in my renderer is simple. For about two weeks I dropped my Renderer Engineer hat and worked as a UI designer. And that is what I did. Thanks for reading.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Last year we announced that we were planning on creating an OpenGL-based renderer to complement the current Vulkan-based renderers. with an OpenGL-based renderer; it just won't be feature complete. As a reminder, an OpenGL-based renderer is still crucial so we can support older platforms, and Web export. LightmapGI.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 25, 2025

We tracked this down to the introduction of the fade_start property, which made some changes to the shader. Rendering: Ameliorate performance regression due to directional shadow fade_start ( GH-99536 ). Rendering Ameliorate performance regression due to directional shadow fade_start ( GH-99536 ). compared to 3.5.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 5, 2023

Some ray-traced effects, like reflections or shadows, require support for out-of-frustum objects for rendering accuracy. Technically, you can use shader atomic increments to account for all the rays on each frame if needed. This way, you can process many dynamic meshes sharing the same shader using a single Dispatch call.

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Unity Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

The Universal Render Pipeline (URP) 3D Sample features four environments for developers to explore how to best use the latest URP features, such as Forward+ rendering, Decals, Lens Flares, Physically Based Rendering materials, Shader Graph, Volumes, and Post-processing.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 25, 2023

renderer support ( GH-71848 ). Rendering: Fix Vulkan validation errors related to enabling extensions ( GH-70429 ). Rendering: Fix DirectionalLight3D shadow opacity on Forward Mobile rendering backend ( GH-71690 ). Rendering: Use proper space for forward GI reflections ( GH-71694 ). iOS: Restore OpenGL ES 3.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Last year we announced that we were planning on creating an OpenGL-based renderer to complement the current Vulkan-based renderers. with an OpenGL-based renderer; it just won’t be feature complete. As a reminder, an OpenGL-based renderer is still crucial so we can support older platforms, and Web export. LightmapGI.

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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. This document was written in hopes to find more developers that would like to help us write rendering code, as it explains the overall design. Running the whole graphics rendering in a separate thread.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 14, 2024

At Unite 2024, Unity’s development team introduced a series of advanced GPU optimization techniques aimed at improving rendering performance across various platforms. One of the fundamental challenges in real-time rendering is reducing GPU latency to improve frame rate. Another important consideration is transparency.

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Nvidia

JULY 10, 2023

One factor to consider is whether background driver optimizations were engaged and when their resulting optimized shaders were deployed. The observations are then used to compile a shader asynchronously. Understandably, this can cause a great deal of confusion in timing your shaders.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

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

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 22, 2020

Update (2021-10-28): You can find a documentation page about Sky shaders in the Godot documentation. We aim to change that by introducing sky shaders. It is easy to tweak and update and uses a lightweight shader to avoid consuming GPU resources. Sky Shaders. Sky Shaders draw to the background and to the radiance cubemap.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

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 ). The illustration picture for this article is from Raffaele Picca 's car scene , rendered in Godot 4.0 Jump to the Downloads section.

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Fast, Modular and Differentiable Shader Programming. Fast, Modular and Differentiable Shader Programming. The paper shows how a single language can serve as a unified platform for real-time, inverse, and differentiable rendering. Build differentiable renderers from existing graphics code.

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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.

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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.

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Catnip Games

JULY 17, 2022

Spent some time tinkering with shaders. Ended up with a subtle effect which is blended on top of the pre-rendered water surface. It was fun but also hard to come up with something actually usable in the game. It doesn’t tile properly but the seam is hard to notice so I’m fine with it.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Rendering: Shaders: Only convert default value to linear color if type hint is source_color ( GH-103201 ). Rendering: Metal: Fix SPIR-V MSL compilation on iOS targets ( GH-103337 ). GDScript: Add bound checks to Array / Packed*Array variant call get and set methods ( GH-103362 ). Input: Change default deadzone back to 0.5

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Rendering: Use circular fade instead of linear fade for distance fade ( GH-50294 ). Rendering: Tweak shadow bias defaults for DirectionalLight3D and OmniLight3D ( GH-55757 ). Rendering: Fix AABB errors on meshes with bones on multiple surfaces ( GH-65035 ). Rendering: Allow black metallic materials to reflect IBL ( GH-69522 ).

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Febucci

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Shaders are used to create many effects, like “water”, “fire” and more. Shaders Theory. Now that we’ve scratched the topic of meshes, we can finally talk about shader. Shaders are programs that describe the traits of vertices and pixels. is read from the computer and is passed to the Vertex Shader. Shader Example.

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Cocos

JULY 18, 2024

Hello all, I have a shader that takes the alpha value of one texture and applies to a sprite frame. Do render Textures not support alpha in cocos? Basic masking functionality without using the mask component.

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