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D2 log 074 – New level format

Catnip Games

JUNE 20, 2023

I export the rendered terrain from Blender as a RGBA image but with alpha value set to depth. The custom terrain shader uses the z-channel to draw water in lower areas of the level. This gives me freedom in level design and saves work making tiles… tileable. Interactive elements will be placed using the in-game editor.

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Terrain Render Tile Alpha

Cocos Creator 3.7.3 comes with an update to Cocos Effect

Cocos

MAY 9, 2023

Fixed Toon shader data issue on iOS Wechat. Fixed the terrain as too dark, caused by the lighting calculation issue in the builtin-terrain material. Fixed crash issue when baking high-precision Lightmap for the terrain. . ● Fixed error caused by removeSpotLight on native platforms. Fixed pre-backed AO calculation issue.

Terrain

Terrain Render Simulation 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. Terrain Tools. The Terrain Tools package adds additonal terrain sculpting brushes and tools to your project to help create stunning terrain assets and ease the workflows. .

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Asset Game Design Game Designer Build

New improvements for GPUParticles in Godot 4.0

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 7, 2020

GPUParticles : Processes particles on GPU, allows very large amount of particles at little cost, and with ability to write custom particle shaders. x and the shader used is almost identical (should be easy to port). It can also be done from within a particle shader itself by chaining another particle system as a sub-emitter.

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Collision Shaders Terrain Baking

Godot Showcase - Lumencraft developer talks about his experience

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 13, 2022

We knew that we needed custom modifications for destructible terrain, dynamic lightning, and support for thousands of swarm monsters. Another thing that was quite useful is the option to quickly test shaders. Being able to see the results of a shader the moment you change some code makes development so much better.

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Development Shaders Terrain Engine

Simplex noise lands in Godot 3.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

If you want to learn more about how fractal noise works and some other terrain generation techniques I strongly recommend this article by Red Blob Games. But the true power of noise textures becomes available when used in combination with text shaders: Getting started. The examples below have been updated accordingly.

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Texture Terrain Prototyping Shaders

Optimize Vegetation Generation

Mnenad

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Since the last post I’ve been working on the terrain’s vegetation. Doing it before starting the actual game would mean to already generate all the content that needs to be batched at the beginning, which is no solution for a theoretically “endless procedurally generated” terrain. That’s it. When

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Mesh Shaders FPS Polygon

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

2D: Make TileMap terrain painting not change neighbors centers bits ( GH-67390 ). Visual Shader: Add math operators to node names for easier and simpler searching ( GH-67905 ). See the changelog on GitHub , or the list of merged PRs , for an overview of all changes since 4.0 Core: Make some Image methods static ( GH-63332 ).

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Beta Dev Render Alpha

Warzone 2 Stuttering: Why and How to Fix Lag Issues

Game Errors

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

It’s the shader cache from last game but different wording and no longer just a toggle. Click on Quality 4. Scroll down, locate Spot Cache and change it to High or Ultra If you’re experiencing stuttering on PC, change “spot cache” in graphics settings to high or ultra. Assume many just threw it on low.

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FPS Graphics Internet Texture

Object Placement on Terrain (Mesh)

Mnenad

JANUARY 25, 2018

This chapter is all about how I solved it (so far) to be able to place all kinds of assets like 3D-meshes or self-growing fractal seeds on the terrain. What Sebastian Lague did to work-around it when generating new terrain chunks on runtime is to use multithreading. Before we start. Freezing is simply annoying and kills the flow.

Terrain

Terrain Mesh Asset Shaders

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

2D: Make TileMap terrain painting not change neighbors centers bits ( GH-67390 ). Visual Shader: Add math operators to node names for easier and simpler searching ( GH-67905 ). See the changelog on GitHub , or the list of merged PRs , for an overview of all changes since 4.0 Core: Make some Image methods static ( GH-63332 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Alpha

Develop a 3D game in 2 hours with AI? Is it possible?

Cocos

MARCH 29, 2023

Many developers say that they can just become a UI Assembler and let GPT-4 write shaders for them. All aspects of the project, including programming, shader development, art, and music, are generated by AIGC. The game will be a 3D Snake, with innovative gameplay and a complex terrain. I am both skeptical and anxious about this.

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AI Shaders Terrain Development

Unity Environment Design Tutorial: How I Built This World in 24 Hours

SOVEREIGN MOON

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

For example here, notice if I drag in this new material on my rock the rock doesn’t match my terrain texture at all. In order to bring those colors closer together, I can just open my object shaders color tab and bring those colors closer together. This will help a bit. But in my world I expect to have a lot of rough edges.

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Asset Indy Art Code

Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

. • New and standard-material will default to Surface Shader. See the documentation “Built-in shaders”: [link] • Tooltip that supplements common material parameters. Fixed an issue where the main light source still acted on the terrain after baking. Optimize the experience of the Roaming Scene Editor scroll wheel/touchpad.

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Render Baking Lightmap Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 13

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2023

Editor: Keep terrain choice when changing layer in TileMap editor ( GH-70601 ). Editor: Fix node preview crashes after updating visual shader node ( GH-71385 ). Rendering: Properly initialize directional_light_count in RD sky shaders ( GH-71526 ). Editor: Move remote debug buttons to a single menu ( GH-70701 ).

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Beta Dev Debug Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Our script editor maintainer, Paul Batty ( Paulb23 ), implemented initial support for multi-caret editing in TextEdit, which is therefore usable in the GDScript and shader editors, as well as any other multi-line text field in the editor. Editor: Add multi-caret support to TextEdit (and the script/shader editors) ( GH-61902 ).

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Beta Dev Render Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Our script editor maintainer, Paul Batty ( Paulb23 ), implemented initial support for multi-caret editing in TextEdit, which is therefore usable in the GDScript and shader editors, as well as any other multi-line text field in the editor. Editor: Add multi-caret support to TextEdit (and the script/shader editors) ( GH-61902 ).

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Beta Dev Render Debug

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).

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Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

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!!).

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Communications Code Engine Engineering

GSoC 2020 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 29, 2020

One of the most common uses for IK in 3D is to place a character's feet on uneven ground without clipping through the geometry, where the legs realistically adjust to the terrain. Because the motions that IK creates is completely done in real-time, animations created via IK can be changed at any time. That's it for this progress report!

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