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Hey, No you can give whatever names you like to variables. However if you are talking about layout qualifiers at 5:44 you have to write "push_constant". I would also encourage you to share the particular error you are facing, any error messages?

Hey, Ok just to be doubly safe, first make sure that "depth texture" option is enabled in your render pipeline asset. Then you could tweak the edge value in the step node to see if it helps mitigate the issue.

Hey, First I will be very honest with you that I never developed any sort of stealth mechanism so I cannot point you to the best approach. However I will tell you how I would approach the problem. I would first define the detection range for NPCs. If my player is within that range only then I would check the complex detection conditions. Obviously the more complex I make the stealth system the more conditions and overhead will be introduced. Once I am satisfied with the mechanic I would perform a stress test on my targeted platform. Sure it will cost me more time and/or money but I have to pay that price for my limited experience. So let's say I have setup the test where my player is within the detection range of 10 NPCs. So the detection logic would run simultaneously and I will monitor how heavy it is. Depending on the result I will move forward. Let's say the results were not so great. Now I have to decide how much time I should invest to optimise my stealth mechanism. Let's say I decide to invest 2 weeks. After that I would perform another stress test. Only to find out 10% improvement. At that point I have to acknowledge that at the given moment this is the best mechanics I can do. Then I will solve the performance issue from the game design perspective. E.g. I will make sure that in my entire game, at max only 4 NPCs could detect the player simultaneously. Therefore my advice is not to fall into "could have been better" trap. Like you could develop the best system on the planet but that too could have been better. So evaluate cost and returns first. As for multiplayer, it depends how complex my stealth mechanism is. Based on that I have to decide where should I run the NPC logic? On the server or client? Server is generally better to fight against potential cheating. But If that requires passing 10 megabytes of data every frame(server tick) to clients then I have to evaluate if I could get away with running the NPC logic client side.

@ Thanks for the honest and thoughtful response

I am glad you found it useful.

😅 on a side note, I have glanced at your channel today. Why did you stop uploading?

@@iDigvijaysinhG I really want to upload videos on game development , but I am stuck in tutorial hell of Vulkan. You can see my last community post on why I want to learn Vulkan.

That may require some engine level knowledge but I think it's definitely doable. (Not for me though 😅)

Thank you for your kind words.

Hey, just to be clear, are the objects in the fog flickering?

@@iDigvijaysinhG No, they aren't flickering. You can see an example in the video at 5:48. I've seen UE uses TAA to hide the flicker, but i don't like the technique.

Ok, I got your point and to reduce that, you can increase "Volume depth" at 4:41 but that's a double edged sword as it comes with massive performance cost.

I see, thanks!

Yes I will definitely continue with Godot but majority of Godot's audience prefers written shaders. I might cover both though, like I will experiment with 2 other engines so one extra approach won't hurt.

@@iDigvijaysinhG thanks

Hey, you should not be getting transparency, but just to make sure I understood it correctly, you are getting a transparent moon when applying the texture??

@@iDigvijaysinhG I have stars on my skybox, and I use half moon texture, so half of the moon is dark/black and another half is bright. And I can see that black/dark parts of my texture are transparent

Ok, I got it. But it is perfectly normal. Essentially what we are doing is just adding the moon color on top of the rest of the skybox. Let's assume I have a dark blue sky (0,0,0.3) and if we add a moon color that is just black (0,0,0). I will simply get the same dark blue color. For more in depth explanation, look up "additive blending mode".

@@iDigvijaysinhG Oh ok. What would you do to prevent it so that the moon texture is always on top and not blending with the rest of the skybox?

First, try blend node instead of add. It might do the trick. If not then you could take "One minus" of the final moon shape (before the texture) and multiply with the skybox colors and then add the moon part on top.

I am glad you liked it.

Yup

Thanks

Hey Robin, first of all thanks for binge watching. Now coming to your question, here we are not dealing with physics calculation whatsoever. Physics shapes (Colliders) are based on geometry. Here we are just faking the geometry with some complicated maths.

All the best Robin!

Glad you liked the tutorial. Now let's deal with your problem, has it happened after you applied the full screen renderer feature? If you just disable the full screen render feature does that fix the flashing material issue? If not then I suspect it is something to do with "Z fighting".

@@iDigvijaysinhG thanx for your answer, it happend after adding fullscreenoutline and i don't believe it z fighting mats not flickering they emmit light like point light and flash

Ok, then I will need some more information. What materials are flashing, built-in or custom ones? Could you tell me the minimal steps to reproduce the issue?

@ they are from synty cyber city dk if they are custom i have not much knowlede about mats 🙄

Ok, if only some materials from synty are flashing, chances are high they are custom ones. Just to be 100% sure, I want you to select the material and in the inspector, there will be a shader drop-down. Could you tell me what is written in that?

Thanks, I just tried something new.

Yup, I think this entire video requires an overhaul.

Sorry about that, I was a noob content creator back then.

Hey, I am back. I doubt that we could use the "calculated normals" to get outlines. However, one could create custom normal maps that might create an illusion of extruded edges or even texture maps to have borders with different colours. The problem with that is, first of all you have to meticulously create the maps in external DCC tools and they will be the local space effects. Outlines won't rotate when you change the camera angles. Apart from that I noticed that you want outlines "in" objects, here the outlines extrude from the shapes, but you could flip the order of subtractions and you could get outlines within the shape.

@ hey ! I see, it seems a bit too advanced for me at the moment unfortunately !😭 I'm about to start your tutorial on Godot outlines to see in which engine I'm getting the best results ! Thanks again for the time you spent to answer mu comments buddy ! And keep up the good work, you make amazing tutorials !!

Yup, that approach will work 100%, I have done that at my Blender journey way back. Works the same on game dev as well. One might feel a little overwhelmed due to programming involved but once everything clicks, it will be a lot smoother. And I strongly believe that things click faster when you mess around on your own. 100% of times. PS: I have read your other comment on outline video, but I will respond a little bit later. Currently I am half asleep and I am sure I will miss some technical details if I respond right now. Thanks for binge watching by the way.

@ don't worry and take your time ! It's already very kind of you to answer !

For my personal projects, in unity most of the time I could get away with the shader graph. I only wrote shaders that were more complex to pull off using shader graph (effects with loops). In Godot however I always wrote them, visual shader is still not good enough for me. In professional projects however, I used to convert graphs(from others) in HLSL to optimise stuff.

You're welcome!

Hey, I have created size as integer vector because pixels won't going to be floats, however to dispatch that to my compute shader, I can only pass it via PackedFloat32[]. There is no extra reasoning behind it, you can use size as "vector2" instead of "vector2i"

I will try my best to create more beginner friendly content, thanks for the kind words 🙏!

Yes, this should guide you through docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/3d/volumetric_fog.html

Are you having an issue applying the material on full screen render feature?

I have plans to cover both if there is an interest in Unreal from audience.

Thanks

Hey, This discrepancy may occur due to different far clip values for your actual game camera and viewport. You can adjust the far clip value of viewport like I did at 2:18, for the game, just adjust the value in the inspector.

​@@iDigvijaysinhG thanks for your response! I've succeeded to found another solution. It appears that the outcome is not dependent on the far/near clip setting. If you'd like, I can send you the shader. there's two options for the shader, one shows only outline shapes, while the other shows the outline and outlines from the textures so it's like in between outlines.

@@ofekdavid1757 I would love to take a look.

No, not with this approach.

Hey, Yes the texture would work nicely. However if you want to control the star size, maybe use Voronoi, plug it into smoothstep and make sure to use a bigger value in Edge1 and samller in Edge2. The obvious drawback of that is you would get just dots as stars. There are also other ways to create procedural stars but it's more complicated and you have to write the shader to tackle that. For inspiration you can check out the "starfield" video, it is using Godot but the logic will remain the same.

Thanks, I am going to try and cover shaders on the big 3, at least that's the plan.

Thank you!

Thank you for your awesome support ❤️

Hey, Sorry to hear that, this was before the Anniversary edition so they might have changed or broke something. It is Bethesda after all.

Hey, You can DM me on Socials, links on my profile page. Reddit as well u/DigvijaysinhG.

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stay off of the computer for a week and use pencil and paper to write and sketch down ideas ;)