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Godot Visual Shader: Cloudy Sky (GLES2)

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Godot Visual Shader: Cloudy Sky (GLES2)

Introduction One evening I was tinkering with my shaders. I was trying to make a tornado like effect. Then I changed the blending effect to add. Unfortunately I was having the camera pointed to the sky and sun. What I saw was an opportunity for a nice "clouds". This is

Godot Visual Shader: Simple Fire

Godot Visual Shader: Simple Fire

Fire is very complicated and can be made by many techniques. I usually use particles but there is even simpler way using visual shader. For some small detail in the background it's perfect. Also it's super fast. It's the same idea I took with flag shader [https://bits.krzysztofjankowski.com/

Godot Visual Shader: Flag

Godot Visual Shader: Flag

The Problem I needed a simple animated flag material. It doesn't need to be a physic based. Just a simple "cartoon" like movement. It's easy to do and fast to calculate. Plain flat on left, shader applied on rightMaking a simple shader with a sin-wave and gradient to control it.

Godot Visual Shaders: Rock

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Godot Visual Shaders: Rock

A start of a series Visual Shaders in Godot is kind a new thing. There are very few tutorials and articles about. I wanted to learn it as it's a very important peace of engine. But there is just not enough materials on line. I'm learning it the hard way

Make Godot Camera Better with Vignetting and Chromatic Aberrations

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Make Godot Camera Better with Vignetting and Chromatic Aberrations

During my not-so-secret project [https://github.com/w84death/p1x-01-efate] to make a visual demo in GodotEngine I'm trying to make most of the graphics engine. But as in most production most magic is made by faking it. This time it's about the camera. The Problem with Camera This screen shows

Noise Based Single Terrain Shader

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Noise Based Single Terrain Shader

I learn a lot doing my shader experiments in Islands of Shaders [https://github.com/w84death/the-islands-of-shaders], then Mystic Treasure Hunt [https://github.com/w84death/mystic-treasure-hunt] and now in Valley of Shaders [https://github.com/w84death/valley-of-shaders]. Over this course I made lot of awesome game worlds. But I lost

How I Grow with Grass Shader

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How I Grow with Grass Shader

Introduction The pixel-art, 2D guy try to make a 3D environment. Scary Shader There were a days when I was scared of shaders. I tried them once and decided that this is not something for me. And don't get me wrong, It's still not something I like it's just another