Shaders Case Study: Pokémon Battle Transitions

1 · Guilherme Simoes · Oct. 19, 2020, noon
Remember the Pokémon games? I sure do! Just by looking at the gif above I can hear the sound a trainer makes when he spots you, and hear the battle chiptune beginning. A while ago I watched a video that explained how to use shaders to recreate the battle transitions seen in Pokémon and other RPGs and I was hooked! I know next to nothing about game development but I knew I wanted to play with shaders and see what I could do. Last time I wrote about WebGL I explained how to render a texture using ...