Shader – Indie Dev

GoDot – Shader – 2D – Outline

Published by Thomas Christof on 24. December 2020

GoDot – Visual Shader – 2D – Weapon Slash

Published by Thomas Christof on 8. December 2020

In order to make a 2D weapon attack more immerse, a slash shader might come in pretty handy. The used weapon image can be found on itch.io; and the haze has been made in Aseprite within 10 seconds. Feel free to use it as well within your project. Spoiler alert: If you aren’t interested in …

GoDot – Shader – 2D – Donut Shockwave

Published by Thomas Christof on 5. December 2020

This shader features a simple “donut shockwave”, based on the following Youtube tutorial. While the tutorial shows and explains a centric based shockwave, this shader implementation has been extended to enable arbitrary shockwave positions. Parameters force: The distortion amount within the donut circle center: The center of the shockwave size: The size of the outer …

GoDot – Visual Shader – 2D – Disolve

Published by Thomas Christof on 4. December 2020

This visual shader features a disolve/resolve functionality, based on this Unity video. The reference shader hasn’t been converted 1 by 1, since GoDot does lack a lot of visual shader components. Parameters Border-Size: Defines how thick the desolve/resolve border should be Border-Color: The color of the desolve/resolve border GravityFactor: A factor multiplied by the Gravity …

Outline Shader

Published by Thomas Christof on 4. May 2019

Actually I think the outline shader for a 2D game is kinda unnecessary. The loaded sprite can already be shipped with an outline. (Or, one sprite with and one sprite without an outline; if both are required) However, I kinda find it neat to dynamically apply an outline to whatever object I want to. Fundamental …