Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Over the course of the last four months the engine has seen many changes, making it more stable and feature complete, and it’s getting very close to the state that we would be happy with. The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha.

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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. The illustration picture for this article is a screenshot of Godot 4 Beginners , an Early Access interactive course for Godot 4, made with Godot 4, developed by Bramwell.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). Follow Kenny Park on Twitter or Mastodon for development updates, and check his website to discover other games and applications. Export: Fix missing “debug”/”release” export presets feature tags ( GH-71274 ). What’s new. Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2022

was released 2 months ago , and some of the major planned features for Godot 3.5 Some more features are still being worked on and will be included in future beta builds. Some more features are still being worked on and will be included in future beta builds. have since been merged and are now ready for wider testing.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 20, 2020

was released on June 26 with over 3 months' worth of development, including many bugfixes and a handful of features. GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 16, 2022

Core: Revert "Fix ProjectSettings has_setting() when used on a overriden setting with feature tags" ( GH-58859 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix broken normals in meshes with blend shapes ( GH-59159 ) [regression fix]. Rendering: Fix alpha scissor support with depth_draw_opaque ( GH-58959 ). API documentation updates.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 24, 2020

was released on June 26 with over 3 months' worth of development, including many bugfixes and a handful of features. GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The 2018 edition of the month-long jam focusing on free and open source game development tools is about to start again on November 1st. Our contributor Calinou maintains a very useful list of FOSS game development tools and resources, awesome-gamedev. currently at the alpha stage. currently at the alpha stage.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 31, 2020

was released on June 26 with over 3 months' worth of development, including many bugfixes and a handful of features. GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ).

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The Knights of Unity

JUNE 5, 2020

Unity Engine introduces an awesome tools to empower your game development process. And even before an era of SRPs (Scriptable Render Pipelines), there was a good amount of solid features like today’s topic: Render textures. using legacy rendering, but the features I used work in SRPs too. Project Setup.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

was released on June 26 with over 3 months' worth of development, including many bugfixes and a handful of features. GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 21, 2020

was released on June 26 with over 3 months' worth of development, including many bugfixes and a handful of features. GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 26, 2019

version includes all the new features (and subsequent bugs!) The features. Documentation writers are hard at work to catch up with the new features, and the latest branch should already include details on many of the new 3.1 features this month ( 2D meshes , 2D skeletons and AnimationTree docs). development build.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2020

was released on June 26 with over 3 months' worth of development, including many bugfixes and a handful of features. GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ).

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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 Core: Fix ProjectSettings.has_setting() to handle feature overrides like get_setting() ( GH-57972 ). branch for use in production. Known incompatibilities.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

was released on June 26 with over 3 months' worth of development, including many bugfixes and a handful of features. GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ).

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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. This beta 4 is a small update with just 83 commits excluding merges, focusing on fixing bugs to stabilize the current feature set for 3.5 Like with 4.0

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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. This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. We're getting closer to the Godot 3.5

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 19, 2021

We needed a test framework because physics features have many different use cases, and it's easy to break something while fixing or improving something else. Godot Physics features. The transition requires adding missing features that were supported only with Bullet. Test framework. release in the announcement blog post.

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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. This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. We're getting closer to the Godot 3.5

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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 new system uses an "ubershader" (big shader supporting all features, slow but compiled on startup) to fill in for all shaders initially while the more efficient and material-specific shaders get compiled asynchronously, and cached for future runs.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 30, 2017

The main feature of Game Off is its focus on free and open source tools for game development, and this is obviously something that we consider highly in the Godot Engine community, as a fully libre 2D and 3D game engine. s upcoming features, and be eager to test it, but it is not yet released officially. Official documentation.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The main development focus for this version was to fix regressions reported against the fairly big 3.2.2 GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

We have added many new features to the editor (and several to GDScript) in this release which we think will make your use of Godot even better. It is now possible to scale an.obj mesh when importing. and 3.0), and the feature development happens on the master branch which will become the 3.1 Both the itch.io

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 9, 2016

We have listened to and worked with our awesome community to make Godot one of the easiest game development environments to use. There are countless new features in this version (see the full changelog, chronological or listed by contributor ). One of the most requested features is finally here! As of the 2.1

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 6, 2018

In order to deform the mesh according to the bone transforms, each vertex (generally "point of a triangle") can be influenced by up to 4 bones. this was solved by having copies of the meshdata, then modifying the mesh itself with the bone transform information. made separate alpha pass use custom blending modes.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 5, 2023

This starts from mesh instance selection and their data. This starts from mesh instance selection and their data processing towards optimized tracing and shading of every hit that you encounter. Parallel mesh processing for instance data generation. Better GPU utilization using batched vertex data processing for dynamic meshes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2018

Heyyy, this pretty much looks like the sky projected onto the meshes, that's better! At that point of development, the sky reflection didn't respond to the camera position, so it basically looked like the sky was painted ontop of the mesh. alpha is planned to be soon, so those features will hopefully be ready to test by then.

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Nvidia

MARCH 1, 2023

It enables developers to create, export, and stream one model into multiple platforms simultaneously–and in multiple levels of detail–with the model topology generated automatically. Digital sculpting software, however, uses an extremely high-resolution polygon mesh (or a voxel grid).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

with 17 alpha builds distributed in 2022, and continuous development effort since 2019. Like in previous release cycles, a beta release means that we are happy with the features that have been included and we don’t plan on adding any major new features before release (except for a few that have been discussed and planned in advance).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 28, 2021

If you are following me on Twitter (where I post my progress on different Godot features I work on), you might have noticed that I took a two month break from rendering to work on many long standing editor improvements and features. While not entirely an editor feature, Godot 4.0 Improved Process/Pause mode. Preview Sun and Sky.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

After more than 18 months of development, all Godot Engine contributors are proud to present our biggest release so far, Godot 3.0! support, Bullet as the 3D physics engine, and many other features which are described in depth below. has an almost entirely new core as well as several top notch brand new features.

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Nvidia

JULY 25, 2022

The practical tips are organized into short, actionable items for developers working on ray tracing today. Enable the use of any-hit shaders only for those geometries that need it; for example, to do alpha testing. Consider alpha testing instead of blending. Consider representing mesh particles as instances in TLAS.

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Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 12, 2022

They are an important aspect of game development and play a crucial role in creating visually stunning environments and objects in Unreal Engine. Inside the main material editor, Right Click and search for lerp and select Linear Interpolate: As you can see the Lerp node has 3 pins: The Alpha pin controls the output of the Lerp node.

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Sirlin

DECEMBER 30, 2014

But 3D games are usually stuck with a certain 3D model for a character and deforming the mesh is a pain to do. The Potemkin model on the left is a development shot of what he looks like without any shaders. YRCs The biggest new feature of the fighting system is the YRC, or yellow roman cancel. It just works.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 6, 2022

alpha 1 and later. This post provides a technical overview for a feature that is already available in the current 4.0 For example, here is a view of Crytek's popular Sponza scene (well, popular among graphics developers). Note: FogVolumes are available in 4.0 On top of the existing non-volumetric fog, Godot 4.0

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