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. Bug reports.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

While this process is ongoing, we'll keep releasing alpha builds so here's 4.0 This alpha doesn't include official builds with.NET 6 support yet, as we still have more work to do to enable this. Rendering: Octahedral normal/tangent compression ( GH-60309 ). alpha builds. Core: A plethora of renames!

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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. Bug reports.

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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

MAY 12, 2022

Another fortnight, 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 ). Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds. This release is built from commit 917fd657.

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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 We're getting in 2-digit territory, both because 4.0

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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 Bug reports.

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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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Cocos

APRIL 18, 2024

Remember the previous article, where we used the image’s Alpha to find edges, determining whether there were pixels with Alpha of 0 around the image. Consider the characteristics of this rt; apart from the tree where Alpha is greater than 0, the rest of the Alpha is 0. aExtend is the expanded Alpha.

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The Knights of Unity

JUNE 5, 2020

And even before an era of SRPs (Scriptable Render Pipelines), there was a good amount of solid features like today’s topic: Render textures. In this post I’m going to explain to you how to use render textures in your game. using legacy rendering, but the features I used work in SRPs too. What is a Render Texture.

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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 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

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Cocos

MARCH 24, 2024

Hi, I’m trying to use a simple 3d model (with a cube-mesh & material of effect “bultin-standard”) as basic object to be emitted in particleSystem My approach was to set “Render>RenderMode” to “Mesh” and fill the “Mesh” & “CPU Material” as I wanted The problem is the material won’t let me replace it if new material doesn’t use effect as (..)

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Catnip Games

JUNE 20, 2023

I export the rendered terrain from Blender as a RGBA image but with alpha value set to depth. The graphics backend rewrite took a while. However, the situation is now good. This gives me freedom in level design and saves work making tiles… tileable. Interactive elements will be placed using the in-game editor. So it’s RGBZ.

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Cocos

MAY 18, 2023

Now the effects look correct, but I don’t want to solidify everything rendered before this camera. Using SOLID_COLOR (click for more details) Using 0 alpha doesnt look good (click for more details)

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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. since early alpha releases; follow them on Twitter for updates. Editor: Bring back the renderer options button on the main editor ( GH-70500 ). They've been building upon Godot 4.0

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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. since early alpha releases; follow them on Twitter for updates. Editor: Bring back the renderer options button on the main editor ( GH-70500 ). They’ve been building upon Godot 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Add support for FORMAT_{ETC2,DXT5}_RA_AS_RG ( GH-71248 ). See the list below.

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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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Cocos

AUGUST 29, 2023

I created a game in which I added a shader; it works fine in web mobile and Android, but in iOS it gives an error during rendering. CocosCreator.app/Contents/Resources/resources/3d/engine/native/cocos/renderer/gfx-metal/MTLCommandBuffer.mm: line 902 17:39:35 [ERROR]: Sampler binding at set 2 binding 2 is not bounded. t[i] += 1.0;

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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

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

JANUARY 13, 2023

As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Add support for FORMAT_{ETC2,DXT5}_RA_AS_RG ( GH-71248 ). See the list below.

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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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Nvidia

JUNE 21, 2023

Instead of manually integrating the DLSS Frame Generation libraries, you identify which resources (motion vectors, depth, and so on) are required for the desired plug-in and then trigger when to execute the plug-ins in the rendering pipeline. SDK: To add Streamline to your application, follow the Streamline Manual Hooking guide.

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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. Design: Working with the artist, the design team renders character models, iterates on the interfaces, designs dynamic and interactive level designs and environments, and so on. The steps involved are: 2.

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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

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

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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Game Development

JANUARY 23, 2019

Full Unity 2D Game Tutorial 2019 – Mini Map Render Texture. Our Camera is still working like a normal camera, we want it to render its view to an image instead of to us the player. In order to do that we first need to make a render texture. To display our new mini map render texture we will be using the canvas UI.

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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 GUI: Fix RichTextLabel underline prevents strikethrough from rendering ( GH-56686 ). Rendering: Fix blend shapes when octahedral compression is used ( GH-56161 ).

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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 GUI: Fix RichTextLabel underline prevents strikethrough from rendering ( GH-56686 ). Rendering: Fix blend shapes when octahedral compression is used ( GH-56161 ).

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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

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

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 GUI: Fix RichTextLabel underline prevents strikethrough from rendering ( GH-56686 ). Rendering: Fix blend shapes when octahedral compression is used ( GH-56161 ). branch for use in production.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

First, Godot’s lead developer Juan Linietsky (reduz) worked alone in a branch where he modernized the renderer (making a switch from OpenGL 2.1 shipped with the higher-end GLES3 renderer with no option for older/lower-end devices. The process of creating version 3.0 to OpenGL 3.3). Then, once it was nearing completion, we merged his 3.0

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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 renderer of this build was already a huge refactor. game in the alpha? Disclaimer.

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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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