Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 6, 2022

We're continuing on our fortnightly release schedule for alpha snapshots of Godot 4.0 - this time with 4.0 See past alpha releases for details ( alpha 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ). Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds. GH-59807 ). Known issues.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 24, 2022

We're continuing on our fortnightly release schedule for alpha snapshots of Godot 4.0 - this time with 4.0 See past alpha releases for details ( alpha 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ). Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds. Known issues. Bug reports.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 2, 2022

Straight out of the Godot Sprint in Barcelona, here's another alpha snapshot of the development branch, this time with 4.0 See past alpha releases for details ( alpha 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 ). Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 28, 2022

alpha 7 comes with one week delay on our every-other-week release schedule, since I was taking some time off :) But that means it got time for even more features and bug fixes to be finalized, reviewed and merged. See past alpha releases for details ( alpha 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ). alpha builds. This new 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 15, 2022

Another couple of weeks, another alpha snapshot from the development branch, this time with 4.0 Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds. alpha in general, have a look at the detailed release notes for 4.0 Jump to the Downloads section. What's new.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

alpha 1 ― the first official alpha build of our upcoming major milestone, enabling all interested users to try it out and report bugs, as well as provide feedback on the new features. branch, we're going to release new alpha builds every other week, so that testers can always have a recent version to test the latest changes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 11, 2019

We released a first alpha build last week, and we want to keep a relatively short iteration cycle on future alpha and beta builds until the final 3.2 The new official buildsystem that our contributor Hein-Pieter van Braam-Stewart ( hpvb ) set up for us is now quite efficient, so we can roll out builds fast and easily.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. They've been building upon Godot 4.0 since early alpha releases; follow them on Twitter for updates. Buildsystem: Allow building X11 without Vulkan ( GH-70677 ). What's new.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. They’ve been building upon Godot 4.0 since early alpha releases; follow them on Twitter for updates. Buildsystem: Allow building X11 without Vulkan ( GH-70677 ). What’s new.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! iOS: Check Xcode output and display errors if code signing, project build or.ipa export failed ( GH-71212 ). Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 16, 2022

Rendering: GLES2: Fix compression on blend shapes ( GH-58838 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix incorrect buffer upload size in draw_gui_primitive ( GH-58150 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader state caching when blend shapes used ( GH-58808 ) [regression fix].

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! iOS: Check Xcode output and display errors if code signing, project build or.ipa export failed ( GH-71212 ). Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ).

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

UE5’s features and functionality have further expanded to include experimental new features for rendering, animation and simulation. The potential for building epic games on Unreal by game app developers and creators across industries has increased. Each block may depict a cliff or a building, for instance. of each level.

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Nvidia

MARCH 20, 2023

NVIDIA at GDC 2023: Frame Generation and Path Tracing Tools Now Available Generate frames with the latest breakthrough in AI rendering Announced with the NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture, DLSS 3 raised the bar not just for visuals but also performance and responsiveness. Frame generation is the latest evolution.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

But the "1" in beta 1 means that it's only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we're going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. Rendering: Add OpenGL timer queries to OpenGL3 backend ( GH-67032 ). Rendering: Fix drawing of 2D primitives in OpenGL3 renderer ( GH-67416 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 23, 2022

In parallel to our work on the upcoming feature releases Godot 3.5 ( with a second beta ) and 4.0 ( now at alpha 4! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 Rendering: GLES2: Fix compression on blend shapes ( GH-58838 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Last month's 3.4.3

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 17, 2021

As the alpha of Godot 4.0 comes closer and closer, we wanted to spend some words to clarify the direction that Godot 4 has taken in regard of rendering back-ends. The renderer design and all resulting code had to be re-implemented entirely from scratch in order to support Vulkan and modern rendering techniques.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In parallel to our work on Godot 3.5 ( with a first beta ) and 4.0 ( and finally alpha 1! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 Edit: Or not, there's a regression for the web editor in this build ( GH-57592 ). This will be fixed in the next build. Will be fixed in the next build ( GH-57405 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

But the “1” in beta 1 means that it’s only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we’re going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. Rendering: Add OpenGL timer queries to OpenGL3 backend ( GH-67032 ). Rendering: Fix drawing of 2D primitives in OpenGL3 renderer ( GH-67416 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In parallel to our work on Godot 3.5 ( with a first beta ) and 4.0 ( now at alpha 2! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 stable: Android: Fix relative keystore paths on Android exporter with custom build ( GH-56676 ). GUI: Fix RichTextLabel underline prevents strikethrough from rendering ( GH-56686 ). Bug reports.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

But the "1" in beta 1 means that it's only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we're going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. David Snopek ( dsnopek ) got WebXR minimally working again ( GH-64514 ) using the WebGL 2 renderer implemented by Clay John ( clayjohn ). So here's beta 2!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 2022

alpha builds and maintenance releases for the stable branch ( 3.4.3 , 3.4.4 This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter. Rendering: Add material_overlay property to MeshInstance ( GH-50823 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 26, 2017

We are therefore releasing a first alpha snapshot for existing users to play with and report bugs. IMPORTANT: This is an alpha build, which means that it is not suitable for use in production, nor for press reviews of what Godot 3.0 Note: New Godot users should not use this build to start their learning. Disclaimer.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

alpha builds , we're trying to release 3.5 beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. In this build, we also built it for 32-bit platforms (armv7 and x86) as there was some demand for it, so you'll find the APK is a bit heavier. Like with 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2022

So we're starting the beta testing phase with this already significant set of changes, and we'll have frequent beta builds to polish them for the stable release. Some more features are still being worked on and will be included in future beta builds. alpha (see our release policy for details on the various Godot versions).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2022

alpha builds , we're trying to release 3.5 beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. Switch on physics/common/physics_interpolation , and Godot will now automatically interpolate objects on rendered frames so they look super smooth.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

While normal maps have been a staple of the Godot render engine for years, new capabilities of the render engine introduced in Godot 3.1 also require the generation of tangents and bi-tangents (often refered to as binormals in engines' documentation) to function correctly.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2022

alpha builds , we're trying to release 3.5 beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. Switch on physics/common/physics_interpolation , and Godot will now automatically interpolate objects on rendered frames so they look super smooth.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In parallel to our work on the upcoming feature releases Godot 3.5 ( with a first beta ) and 4.0 ( now at alpha 3! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 stable: Android: Fix relative keystore paths on Android exporter with custom build ( GH-56676 ). Rendering: Fix invalid read when using LightOccluder2D ( GH-56859 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

But the “1” in beta 1 means that it’s only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we’re going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. David Snopek ( dsnopek ) got WebXR minimally working again ( GH-64514 ) using the WebGL 2 renderer implemented by Clay John ( clayjohn ). So here’s beta 2!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 31, 2020

The changes new in this build are thus the ones made between RC 1 and RC 3. C#: Fix restore not called when building game projects ( GH-40596 ) [regression fix]. GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). Build HTML5 templates with threads_enabled=yes to test it. Note: The previous 3.2.3

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 24, 2020

C#: Fix restore not called when building game projects ( GH-40596 ) [regression fix]. GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). Build HTML5 templates with threads_enabled=yes to test it. macOS: Add support for the Apple Silicon (ARM64) build target ( GH-39943 ). Bug reports.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

C#: Fix restore not called when building game projects ( GH-40596 ) [regression fix]. GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). Build HTML5 templates with threads_enabled=yes to test it. macOS: Add support for the Apple Silicon (ARM64) build target ( GH-39943 ). Bug reports.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 21, 2020

C#: Fix restore not called when building game projects ( GH-40596 ) [regression fix]. GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). Build HTML5 templates with threads_enabled=yes to test it. macOS: Add support for the Apple Silicon (ARM64) build target ( GH-39943 ). Bug reports.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

C#: Fix restore not called when building game projects ( GH-40596 ) [regression fix]. GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). Build HTML5 templates with threads_enabled=yes to test it. macOS: Add support for the Apple Silicon (ARM64) build target ( GH-39943 ). Bug reports.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 14, 2017

Usually we let our lead developer Juan (reduz) do progress reports on his impressive work on rendering features, but since he was in holidays for more than a month, we'll showcase the work of some key contributors this time. compatible renderer can be used optimally. and WebAssembly support. 3D freelook navigation mode.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2020

RC 2 build: changelog between 3.2.3 C#: Fix restore not called when building game projects ( GH-40596 ) [regression fix]. GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). Build HTML5 templates with threads_enabled=yes to test it. macOS: Add support for the Apple Silicon (ARM64) build target ( GH-39943 ).

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