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Shader Debugging Made Easy with NVIDIA Nsight Graphics

Nvidia

With shaders, you can add creative expression and realism to the rendered image. We love shaders, but they can be hard to debug. Shaders are specialized programs that run on the GPU that manipulate rays, pixels, vertices, and textures to achieve unique visual effects. Shader calculations are complex… Source

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Breaking changes Animation Audio C# Core Editor GDScript Import Input Physics Platforms Rendering and shaders XR New in Beta 1! This integration ensures developers targeting macOS or iOS can achieve excellent rendering quality and performance on supported Apple hardware. Highlights Many features originally intended for 4.3

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Powerful Shader Insights: Using Shader Debug Info with NVIDIA Nsight Graphics

Nvidia

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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Release candidate: Godot 4.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Editor: Always allow selecting any rendering driver in the settings, add auto option ( GH-103026 ). Rendering: Fix debug CanvasItem redraw rects in RD renderer ( GH-103017 ). Editor: Remove non-existent IPUnix conversion ( GH-102922 ). Export: Fix modified_time on Android ( GH-103080 ). Changelog As we released 4.4

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The Top 10 Popular VR Game Development Tools

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Looking for stunning 3D product renders for your ecommerce website? This powerful software allows developers to build their 3D assets and sciences with tools for 3D animation , modeling, rendering, shading, simulation, and more. Get 20-min free consultation on how Unreal can change your game idea.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 dev 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

Stack traces are now available in projects exported in release mode as well if the Debug > Settings > GDScript > Always Track Call Stacks project setting is enabled. Rendering: Detect more pipeline settings at load time to avoid pipeline stutters ( GH-105175 ).

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 dev 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

Fragment density map support When rendering for VR headsets, the pixels around the outside of the viewport are less important, because they will be somewhat distorted by the lens, and players will tend to turn their head rather than move their eyes too far from the center. 3D: Allow customizing debug color of Path3D ( GH-82321 ).

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