Game Developer

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

How Block City Wars developers use shaders and fog effects to fake distant objects, optimizing draw distance for better performance.

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Cocos

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Good evening, I just finished writing my own custom shader to create 2D shadows on sprites, but I can’t find a way to increase the render area of ​​the sprite. The problem is that the shader does not render outside these limits, even though the original area was 450x450. Is there a way to increase the render bounds?

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Unity Blog

MAY 28, 2024

A deep dive into shader variants, plus some practical tips on how to reduce them to improve project build time and memory footprint.

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The GameDev Guru

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Not handling shader prewarming? Then yo are not helping your players pay you money.

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Shaders 130

The GameDev Guru

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Discover the true cost you're paying for the sneaky "shader variants" that Unity creates by default and how to stop paying for it.

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Shaders 130

Cocos

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Good evening, I just finished writing my own custom shader to create 2D shadows on sprites, but I can’t find a way to increase the render area of ​​the sprite. The problem is that the shader does not render outside these limits, even though the original area was 450x450.

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Cocos

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Shaders are virtually missing from the documentation. I am posting this as a request for Cocos to have somebody on the team, a technical artist preferably, to write up the shaders documentation, with sample codes important. The section on shaders is incomplete, therefore its unusable. However there is a major issue.

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The GameDev Guru

JUNE 15, 2020

In this post, you will learn how to analyze your unity shader complexity in numbers so your game can finally stop being fragment bound.

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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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That One Game Dev

MAY 30, 2023

In this article you will learn on the basic level what shaders are and how they are used in graphics programming. The post What are Shaders? appeared first on That One Game Dev.

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Shaders Graphics Dev Games 98

Game From Scratch

DECEMBER 18, 2022

NodeToy – Online Shader Editor. NodeToy is a new online tool for creating GLSL shaders. Using a visual node based approach and designed specifically for (and using) Three.JS, NodeToy provides all the tools you need to create, preview and export shaders visually. GameFromScratch.com.

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Cocos

JANUARY 9, 2025

Shader Graph Background In order to lower the threshold for Shader development and expand the capabilities of procedural generation, and to encourage artists/technical artists to directly produce materials in Cocos Creator instead of third-party Digital Content Creation (DCC) tools, avoiding additional development work when importing materials, we (..)

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The GameDev Guru

JULY 14, 2020

When choosing your next shader, you need to strike the balance between your dream visuals and the performance you take away. But how much performance do your shaders steal? Today, I'll give you handy tables so you can see the performance cost of the commonly used Unity shaders.

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Game Developer

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

"We had to figure out how we could make those assets work for us while not tanking everything."

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Unity Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

The new Shader Graph Feature Examples sample set is now available to import now from the Package Manager to help you create a wide range of effects and techniques using Shader Graph.

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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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GameDev.Net

JUNE 17, 2025

For example, in my little game engine project, I have various asset types: Mesh, Texture, Shader, etc., I am very bad at creating abstractions, and as I read more into the topic, I think my problem is that I create abstractions based on the identity or concept, which I don't think is the correct thought process?

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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

DECEMBER 5, 2024

One of the great pastimes of graphics developers and enthusiasts is comparing specifications of GPUs and marveling at the ever-increasing counts of shader. Achieving the maximum theoretical performance represented by those numbers is a major focus in the world of graphics programming.

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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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Nvidia

JUNE 2, 2025

At CES 2025, NVIDIA introduced RTX Neural Shaders. They enable developers to train and deploy tiny neural networks directly within shaders to better compress large texture files Source It is evolving traditional graphics programming and giving developers new ways to realize their creative visions.

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Cocos

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

x, I using this code but it not bring Property affect to shader Ok, this work if turn of Packable in main Sprite inspector Blockquote const sprite = this.getComponent(Sprite); const mat = sprite.customMaterial; mat.setProperty(‘dissolveThreshold’, 0.5); Version 3.6.x,

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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

MARCH 14, 2025

Rendering: Use separate WorkThreadPool for shader compiler ( GH-103506 ). Shaders: Fix 2D instance params crashing using outside of main() ( GH-103348 ). Shaders: Fix 2D instance params crashing using outside of main() ( GH-103348 ). Shaders: Fix unused varying incorrect warning in shaders ( GH-103434 ).

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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 ended up making it into 4.4

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 26, 2025

Rendering: Use separate WorkThreadPool for shader compiler ( GH-103506 ). Shaders: Fix 2D instance params crashing using outside of main() ( GH-103348 ). Shaders: 2D: Fix light shader accessing TEXTURE_PIXEL_SIZE ( GH-103617 ). Rendering: Fix 2D quad primitive missing lighting data in GLES3 renderer ( GH-102908 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2025

However, scripts and shaders are not imported resources and they are plain text formats, without any Godot-specific information stored within. In practice, this meant that UIDs could be used for scenes and most resources, but not scripts and shaders. Whats changing with UIDs in Godot 4.4 For example, if you have some_file.gd

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That One Game Dev

MAY 30, 2023

In this article you will learn on the basic level what shaders are and how they are used in graphics programming. The post What are Shaders? appeared first on That One Game Dev.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 29, 2024

We are breaking compatibility for some custom shaders. Here is why.

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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.

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iXie gaming

JUNE 7, 2023

Among these, Shader Graph and VFX Graph stand out as the most important additions as they empower developers to craft complex shaders and breath-taking visual effects with relative ease. Shader Graph Shader Graph is a node-based visual interface that allows artists and developers to create shaders without writing complex code.

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Cocos

AUGUST 14, 2023

When working with shaders in the “Scene” and the “Camera” window, I get one image, and when placed in a browser or player, it’s completely different. Please tell me what am I doing wrong?

Shaders 52

Shaders 52

Cocos

AUGUST 13, 2023

When working with shaders in the “Scene” and the “Camera” window, I get one image, and when placed in a browser or player, it’s completely different. Please tell me what am I doing wrong?

Shaders 52

Shaders 52

Cocos

AUGUST 7, 2023

When working with shaders in the “Scene” and the “Camera” window, I get one image, and when placed in a browser or player, it’s completely different. Please tell me what am I doing wrong?

Shaders 52

Shaders 52

Cocos

AUGUST 8, 2023

When working with shaders in the “Scene” and the “Camera” window, I get one image, and when placed in a browser or player, it’s completely different. Please tell me what am I doing wrong?

Shaders 52

Shaders 52

Game From Scratch

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In this rerun of the earlier bundle there is now only one $25 USD tier: Godot 4 Shader Course: Craft Stunning Visuals Master Mobile Game Development with Godot 4 […] The post Learn To Make Games in Godot 4 Humble Bundle appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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