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. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Android: Use proper types for converting Java float/double arrays ( GH-67581 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

As most of the rendering features for the upcoming Godot 4.0 are done, I have spent the past two months optimizing the rendering engine, both on the CPU and GPU side. All this work has resulted in significantly faster rendering times. A lot of the render state is now better cached, so less is done at render time.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Split pause() from AnimationPlayer’s stop() ( GH-71218 ). Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ).

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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: GLES2: Fix compression on blend shapes ( GH-58838 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). API documentation updates. See the full changelog since 3.4.3-stable

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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. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Android: Use proper types for converting Java float/double arrays ( GH-67581 ).

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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

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. Rendering: Add material_overlay property to MeshInstance ( GH-50823 ).

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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

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

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 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). beta 1 and RC 1.

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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 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). RC 1 and RC 3.

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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

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 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). RC 4 and RC 5.

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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 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). RC 3 and RC 4.

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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 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). wslay 1.1.1).

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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 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). RC 5 and RC 6.

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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 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). A new 3.2.3

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 11, 2017

February was spent mostly rewriting the import and export workflow of Godot, so not many pretty visual features were added. If you care about using meshes separately, it is also possible to tell Godot to save them as files. Reimports will overwrite those meshes, though. Import workflow. The import workflow is mostly complete.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). GLES3: Fix OpenGL error when generating radiance ( GH-40558 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 6, 2018

The progress of last month was largely defined by stabilizing the 3D renderer with many smaller fixes, but work on the PRB side of things has begun and the GDNative system also saw some quality-of-life changes again, with improvements to the GDNativeLibrary resource as well as an API to provide safe type-casting in NativeScript. Introduction.

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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

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. The GLES2 backend is a forward renderer, that means each gets shaded once.

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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 Type icons are back!

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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. Parallel mesh processing for instance data generation.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 9, 2016

There are countless new features in this version (see the full changelog, chronological or listed by contributor ). release, the asset library features only a handful of assets, which have been used to test the upcoming open source web frontend for submitting and managing assets. One of the most requested features is finally here!

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Nvidia

MARCH 1, 2023

Digital sculpting software, however, uses an extremely high-resolution polygon mesh (or a voxel grid). This mesh can be modeled like traditional clay with a vast array of tools, giving modelers more freedom and flexibility in their work. This is similar to the limitations of physical sculptures.

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Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 24, 2022

A shader is a script where you write code that determines how the colors will be rendered based on various scenarios like lighting and material configuration. The ZWrite Off and ZTest Greater are responsible for making the shader render the material behind other objects.

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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

JANUARY 29, 2018

It brings a brand new rendering engine with state-of-the-art PBR workflow for 3D, an improved assets pipeline, GDNative to load native code as plugins, C# 7.0 support, Bullet as the 3D physics engine, and many other features which are described in depth below. New features of Godot 3.0. and that we'd better focus fully on 3.0

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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. In Godot 3.x,

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Nvidia

JULY 25, 2022

Especially in hybrid rendering, where G-buffer or shadow maps are rasterized, it’s potentially beneficial to execute AS building on async compute. In hybrid rendering, using the same LOD for rasterization and ray tracing can be considered. Consider alpha testing instead of blending. Instances should share the base mesh BLAS.

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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 This post starts off with a high-level description of what FogVolumes are and how to use them, and then includes some technical details about what is going on under the hood and how we get them to render so fast.

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Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The point of the instance material is to save the rendering power and thus the performance of the game. This is how we can use instance materials to apply them to multiple objects in the game and when the instances share one parent material we save rendering power and thus optimize our game. Texture Materials.

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