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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: Animated sprites, both 2D and 3D, now support options for more precise timing of individual frames ( GH-65609 ). More engine enums are now bound with BitField, making their usage more type-safe, especially in C# ( GH-71037 , GH-71045 , GH-71116 ). What's new.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: Animated sprites, both 2D and 3D, now support options for more precise timing of individual frames ( GH-65609 ). More engine enums are now bound with BitField, making their usage more type-safe, especially in C# ( GH-71037 , GH-71045 , GH-71116 ). What’s new.

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Making shaders more accessible

Mircosoft Game Dev

To explain the idea of how shaders work, let's consider a very simple shader for drawing a sprite to the screen. Our sprite is 32x32 pixels in size, and it must be drawn at some position. The following OpenGL code sends the sprite to the shader for drawing: OpenGL Commands. Multiply by 2. Substract (1, 1). 1 range for drawing).

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Godot's 2D engine gets several improvements for upcoming 4.0

Mircosoft Game Dev

The main one was performance due to every light being rendered in a separate draw pass. A very requested feature for the 2D engine is the possibility to have 2D directional lights and shadows. x is that, several times, sprites are separated in many nodes in order to be animated or assembled. Improved 2D lighting. CanvasGroup.

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