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Value Noise Derivatives - Procedural GPU Patterns

Catlike Coding Godot adds a variant smooth01() helper for value-noise sampling in Godot shaders, letting developers choose linear, smooth, or smoother blending. The practical win is control: use...

Catlike Coding Godot ·
godot shader ai value-noise normals
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Animating Octaves - Procedural GPU Patterns

Catlike Coding Godot shows how folding time into a GPU hash makes procedural octaves animate in lockstep, but not smoothly. With temporal lacunarity set to 2, the second octave updates …

Catlike Coding Godot ·
ai shader noise animation godot
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Stride cli/1.0.0 Released

Stride CLI 1.0.0 lands with a few practical workflow upgrades for engine users, especially teams maintaining older 4.0–4.3 projects. The release adds legacy shader-code generation, improves upgrade...

stride3d/stride ·
stride tooling compatibility upgrade shader
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Fractal Waves - Procedural GPU Patterns

Fractal wave shaders are getting a practical tuning knob: octave count. The setup uses a uniform int with a minimum of 1 and a default of 1, while allowing up …

Catlike Coding Godot ·
godot shader ai fractal-noise graphics-programming
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2D Waves - Procedural GPU Patterns

A configurable GPU pattern shader is being pushed further with per-vertex vs per-fragment color sampling, per-vertex derivative evaluation, and a switch to disable vertex displacement entirely. For...

Catlike Coding Godot ·
godot ai graphics shader vertex-shader
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Defold Newsletter May 2026

Defold’s May 2026 newsletter is mostly a practical roundup: a new foundation partner, two upcoming community meetups in Europe, several fresh games and extensions, and a notable engine release. The...

Defold ·
defold web graphics wasm gltf
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Light Masks

Kenney.nl has released a new 2D VFX pack featuring 150 light masks, which can significantly enhance visual effects in games. This resource is particularly valuable for artists and designers looking...

Kenney.nl ·
light shader cookie
News

Ogre 14.5 released

Ogre 14.5 introduces significant enhancements for graphics programmers, particularly with its support for automated linear workflows and unified shader precision. These updates streamline the...

Pavel Rojtberg ·
ogre graphics shader
Blog

Designing a Dynamic Equipment System in Unity

We want to have exchangeable equipment on our character The goal is to give our players various items to choose from. For this example, our players will choose a weapon, …

klg71 ·
Equipment Shader Unity

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