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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 14

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 11, 2022

While this process is ongoing, we'll keep releasing alpha builds so here's 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 alpha 13 (288 commits – excluding merge commits ― from 93 contributors).

Alpha

Alpha Dev Shaders Beta

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 16

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

While this process is ongoing, we'll keep releasing alpha builds so here's 4.0 This is the first alpha to include export templates for the Web platform again. Lots of fixes to theme propagation issues, both regressions in the previous alpha 15 and pre-existing bugs that it helped uncover. alpha builds.

Alpha

Alpha Dev Render Beta

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2 alpha 2

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 alpha 2 as a second snapshot, fixing various issues from the last build. alpha 2 as a second snapshot, fixing various issues from the last build. We thus publish Godot 3.2

Alpha

Alpha Dev Bug Beta

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2 alpha 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 24, 2019

alpha 3 as our next iteration, fixing various issues from the last build. As a reminder, the alpha stage corresponds for us to a feature freeze, as announced on GitHub at the end of August , which means that we will no longer consider pull requests with new features for merge in the master branch, and that until Godot 3.2 is released.

Alpha

Alpha Dev Bug Build

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2 alpha 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2019

alpha 1 , our first milestone towards the next stable installment of our free and open source game engine. This first alpha build comes relatively late in our planned release schedule, mostly because of work done on our official build infrastructure to adapt to 3.2 release, we are now happy to release Godot 3.2 is released. Disclaimer.

Alpha

Alpha Dev Bug Build

Does Spine work with USE_INSTANCING?

Cocos

JANUARY 10, 2024

Cocos version: 3.8.1 Spine version: 3.8.99 v_instancedCol1; col2 = v_instancedCol1; col3 = v_instancedCol1; #else col1 = u_col1; col2 = u_col2; col3 = u_col3; #endif o *= texture(cc_spriteTexture, uv0); vec4 mask = vec4(texture(maskTex, uv0).rgb, rgb, 1); o.rgb = mix(o.rgb, col1.rgb, Spine version: 3.8.99 rgb, 1); o.rgb = mix(o.rgb, col1.rgb,

Texture

Texture Mesh Alpha Sprite

Godot Web progress report #8: Progressive Web Apps

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 16, 2021

and the first alpha of Godot 4.0 A while ago we introduced an HTTP debug server to the editor be able to run your game in the browser, or on a device on your local network. Time for another update on the status of Godot on the web. It's been a while since the last web report as we were busy releasing Godot 3.3

Debug

Debug Technology Alpha Localization

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

After three well-tested and quite stable alpha builds, we're now ready to enter the beta stage for the upcoming Godot 3.2 There will still be various fixes made before the final release, and we will need your detailed bug reports to debug issues and fix them. For changes since the last alpha build, see the list of commits.

Beta

Beta Dev Alpha Bug

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.4

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: Fix alpha scissor support with depth_draw_opaque ( GH-58959 ). branch for use in production. Last month's 3.4.3

Render

Render Alpha Shaders Editing

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: Use opaque rendering pipeline for alpha hash materials ( GH-61884 ). Rendering: Fix several render issues found while debugging XR ( GH-68102 ). Rendering: Fix alpha hash by correcting typos and doing calculations in object space ( GH-68673 ). Rendering: Added Viewport canvas cull mask feature ( GH-52350 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Alpha

Ultra-Realism Made Accessible with NVIDIA AI and Path Tracing Technologies

Nvidia

MARCH 20, 2023

Opacity Micro-Map (OMM) for improving RT performance in scenes with heavy alpha effects. An upcoming Nsight Graphics update will give you the ability to inspect and debug OMM’s performance gain. RTX Direct Illumination (RTXDI) for efficient sampling of a high number of shadow casting and dynamic lights.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Technology AI Shaders

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 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. The “debug” term in that setup was quite ambiguous however and the source of a lot of confusion, as described in godot-proposals#3371.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 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. The "debug" term in that setup was quite ambiguous however and the source of a lot of confusion, as described in godot-proposals#3371.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

Export: Fix missing "debug"/"release" export presets feature tags ( GH-71274 ). Rendering: Take alpha antialising options into account when setting up materials ( GH-71261 ). Editor: Fix Tab key usage in EditorSpinSlider (and hence inpector) ( GH-71271 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Collision Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.0 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

beta 1 , just one month after the previous alpha 2. But more importantly, it also brings tons of bug fixes compared to alpha 2, and we will continue to hunt down the remaining issues to guarantee a nice experience with Godot 3.0 Don't worry though, Godot 3.1 will arrive soon after the 3.0 would be on its release.

Beta

Beta Dev Alpha Bug

Maintenance release: Godot 2.1.3

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 12, 2017

A big thankyou to all the contributors who worked on this release by implementing bug fixes or features, or testing the changes to spot potential regressions and help debug issues. alpha format. Windows: Fix debugging when offline. alpha currently has no support for OpenGL 2.x Nodes: Add modulate (color) to TileSet tiles.

Tile

Tile Alpha Bug Debug

Godot 4.0 optimization progress report

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Numbers are using debug (numbers on release are lower, but when I started optimizing, Godot had problems running on release, so it's difficult to compare). As we are approaching an Alpha release, Godot 4.0 A set of benchmarks was created at : [link]. For now, only culling benchmarks, which were used to profile the new optimizations.

Culling

Culling Render Shaders Mesh

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

Export: Fix missing “debug”/”release” export presets feature tags ( GH-71274 ). Rendering: Take alpha antialising options into account when setting up materials ( GH-71261 ). Editor: Fix Tab key usage in EditorSpinSlider (and hence inpector) ( GH-71271 ). GDScript: Fix getting type from PropertyInfo for Variant arguments ( GH-70644 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Collision Render

Maintenance release: Godot 2.1.4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2017

which should soon see a new alpha build. A big thankyou to all the contributors who worked on this release by implementing bug fixes or features, or testing the changes to spot potential regressions and help debug issues. Debugging: Many improvements to the editor's debugger and display of complex types. Highlights.

Tile

Tile Point and Click Bug Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: Use opaque rendering pipeline for alpha hash materials ( GH-61884 ). Rendering: Fix several render issues found while debugging XR ( GH-68102 ). Rendering: Fix alpha hash by correcting typos and doing calculations in object space ( GH-68673 ). Rendering: Added Viewport canvas cull mask feature ( GH-52350 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Alpha

Release candidate: Godot 3.1 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 8, 2019

After over one year of work, 5 alpha releases, 11 betas and 7000 commits by close to 500 contributors, we're finally ready to wrap up the 3.1 There will still be various fixes made before the final release, and we will need your detailed bug reports to debug issues and fix them. would be on its release. The features.

Bug

Bug Beta Build Alpha

Introducing C# in Godot

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 21, 2017

Renaming will be finished for the next alpha or beta release). Debugging extensions. Debugging extensions allow developers to debug their games from their editor. Like always, keep in mind this is an alpha and there may be bugs and crashes. Static typing. Android will be the first one we will focus on.

Scripting

Scripting Debug Alpha Studios

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

There will still be various fixes made before the final release, and we will need your detailed bug reports to debug issues and fix them. For changes since the last alpha build, see the list of commits. IMPORTANT: This is a beta build, which means that it is not suitable for use in production, nor for press reviews of what Godot 3.2

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Build

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.1 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 26, 2019

There will still be many fixes made before the final release, and we will need your detailed bug reports to debug issues and fix them. The illustration picture is a screenshot from John Watson's upcoming game, Gravity Ace , a gorgeous arcade twin-stick shooter currently in public alpha on itch.io. would be on its release. The features.

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Feature

Guest post - “Small Team, Big Project”: Building Moonwards

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

I’ve been a developer at Moonwards for 2 years now and though I’ve had many roles and done many things, from debugging, refactoring code, networking, fixing materials and more, lately I’m the NPCs and tools guy. Having detailed log messages helps when you are trying to test or debug. A more complete explanation can be found here.

Build

Build NPC Sandbox Console

Godot 3.0, new progress report and GDC

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 11, 2017

debug settings, different bit depth, demo version of a game with less files, etc.). All that remains now is to complete and fix the remaining and existing features and we will be releasing an alpha of 3.0. Many presets per same platform can be created with different export options. This allows exporting different versions (e.g.

Mesh

Mesh Texture Demo Code

Best Practices for Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing (Updated)

Nvidia

JULY 25, 2022

Enable the use of any-hit shaders only for those geometries that need it; for example, to do alpha testing. Invoking any-hit shader, typically for performing alpha testing, for non-opaque triangles interrupts hardware intersection search. Consider alpha testing instead of blending. Do this whenever possible.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Shaders Culling Render

Godot 3's renderer design explained

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Added to that fact, Vulkan still has years to go until it's properly supported in most desktop and mobile platforms, which makes it unattractive to implement for us (as it means considerably more effort to write, debug and maintain). Great alpha blending support. I'm not trying to say that these APIs are useless, though. Light setup.

Render

Render Shaders Texture Engine

Godot reaches 2.1 stable!

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 9, 2016

Thanks to the development work done by Alket Rexhepi and Bojidar Marinov , this frontend will soon reach the alpha status and be announced officially, so that all community members can start submitting assets to the library. As of the 2.1 New plugin API. Together with the Asset Library, we have introduced an EditorPlugin API for Godot.

Asset

Asset Scripting Engine Engineering

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 14

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Does Spine work with USE_INSTANCING?

Godot Web progress report #8: Progressive Web Apps

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2 beta 1

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.4

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Ultra-Realism Made Accessible with NVIDIA AI and Path Tracing Technologies

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.0 beta 1

Maintenance release: Godot 2.1.3

Godot 4.0 optimization progress report

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Maintenance release: Godot 2.1.4

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Release candidate: Godot 3.1 RC 1

Introducing C# in Godot

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2 beta 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.1 beta 3

Guest post - “Small Team, Big Project”: Building Moonwards

Godot 3.0, new progress report and GDC

Best Practices for Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing (Updated)

Godot 3's renderer design explained

Godot reaches 2.1 stable!

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