Shaders
6 devlog posts tagged Shaders. All posts
- Lighting a Pixel Art City at Night How Philadelphia Fiefdom lights its streets after dark in Godot 4 - no flat ambient light, the moon as the only fill, and a real light behind every lamp, shop front, sign and lit window.
- Rain and Snow That Build Up in a Pixel Art City How Philadelphia Fiefdom's weather builds over time on the game clock - streets that soak, puddles that fill, snow that settles, gets trodden into slush and grows icicles - drawn in pixel art in Godot 4.
- Pixel Art Street Trees That Change With the Seasons How Philadelphia Fiefdom's street trees went from a scatter of single leaves to crowns of a few soft clumps, and how each one turns, drops its leaves and thins its shadow through the year.
- Making a 3D Pixel Art City Run at 60 fps on Steam Deck How I got Philadelphia Fiefdom's city from a 13 ms GPU frame toward a steady 60 fps on Steam Deck - measuring every render pass on the Deck itself, finding that the vertex shader was the real lever, indexing the city's meshes, and running pixel shaders in waves of 32.
- One Toon Shader for a Whole Pixel Art City How Philadelphia Fiefdom draws every brick wall, street and rooftop with one toon shader in Godot 4, reading a table of surfaces, with patterns made from the world itself and wear set by neighborhood.
- 3D Pixel Art in Godot 4: How a City Stays on the Grid Philadelphia Fiefdom is real 3D drawn as crisp pixel art: a 640x360 canvas, a camera snapped to whole pixels, and the leftover fraction slid back at full resolution.
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