Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 21, 2020

It focused mostly on fixing bugs and therefore we were somewhat conservative on what could be merged before the release. CSG: Various bug fixes. HTML5: Merged code for web editor prototype ( GH-42790 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

in January 2020, we switched the development focus towards the upcoming Godot 4.0 , which is a major, compatibility-breaking rewrite of the engine's core and rendering. x updates with bug fixes, but also new features as long as they don't require breaking compatibility. macOS: ARM64 build, code signing. For stable branches (e.g.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

rendering may be slower for a second or two, but the slowdown will not be nearly as bad as the typical hiccup caused by classic synchronous compilation. Then smix8 took over the custody of this area, fixing a lot of bugs and improving the feature set greatly, with the help of Pawel Lampe ( Scony ). back in 2020! and backported to 3.5.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

This new beta 3 build comes shortly after last week's beta 2 to fix some of the regressions and bugs reported against that release. CSG: Various bug fixes. HTML5: Merged code for web editor prototype ( GH-42790 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. YSort: Make rendering order more deterministic ( GH-42375 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2022

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Aged like fine wine, Meru Patel ( Janglee123 )'s work from Google Summer of Code 2020 has been continued and updated by GSoC 2019 alumni Twarit Waikar ( ChronicallySerious )! Bug reports. back in 2020! What is it?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

CSG: Various bug fixes. HTML5: Merged code for web editor prototype ( GH-42790 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). Bug reports. tinyexr 1.0.0,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

Most of work was aimed at implementing missing features or fixing bugs which are critical for publishing 2D and 3D games with Godot 3.x, Since then, smix8 has taken over the custody of this area, fixing a lot of bugs and improving the feature set greatly, with the help of Pawel Lampe ( Scony ) and lawnjelly. Label3D and TextMesh.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

You can enable it in the Project Settings ( rendering/gles3/shaders/shader_compilation_mode ). rendering may be slower for a second or two, but the slowdown will not be nearly as bad as the typical hiccup caused by classic synchronous compilation. We switched it back to disabled by default for all platforms. back in 2020! What is it?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

rendering may be slower for a second or two, but the slowdown will not be nearly as bad as the typical hiccup caused by classic synchronous compilation. Then smix8 took over the custody of this area, fixing a lot of bugs and improving the feature set greatly, with the help of Pawel Lampe ( Scony ). back in 2020! and backported to 3.5.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2021

stable release to bring the numerous new features and even more important bug fixes to all Godot users. New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. CSG: Various bug fixes. HTML5: Merged code for web editor prototype ( GH-42790 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. WebXR support for VR games.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 2022

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter. Rendering: Add OccluderShapePolygon ( GH-57361 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

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

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

rendering may be slower for a second or two, but the slowdown will not be nearly as bad as the typical hiccup caused by classic synchronous compilation. Then smix8 took over the custody of this area, fixing a lot of bugs and improving the feature set greatly, with the help of Pawel Lampe ( Scony ). back in 2020! and backported to 3.5.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 11, 2020

see recent devblogs on GDScript typed instructions , Complex Text Layout , Tiles editor , documentation , and 2D rendering improvements !), CSG: Various bug fixes. HTML5: Merged code for web editor prototype ( GH-42790 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. Bug reports. branch for the upcoming Godot 3.2.4.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2021

New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends, which should fix some issues and improve performance significantly in games using a high number of dynamic objects. In this beta, the dynamic BVH is the default option for both physics and rendering. New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends (new in beta 6).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

This RC 3 fixes a number of recent regressions and older bugs. Notably, it fixes some rendering regressions with transparent materials, and crashing iOS templates and Web editor build in RC 2. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2022

beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. This beta adds what should be the last batch of new features (together with a lot of bug fixes, as that's our focus at this stage), with scene unique node names and the new SceneTreeTween backported from Godot 4.0.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2022

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

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 17, 2022

This RC 4 fixes a number of recent regressions and older bugs. Then smix8 took over the custody of this area, fixing a lot of bugs and improving the feature set greatly, with the help of Pawel Lampe ( Scony ). Both features were implemented by our text rendering expert bruvzg in the master branch for Godot 4.0, back in 2020!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 7, 2021

CSG: Various bug fixes. HTML5: Merged code for web editor prototype ( GH-42790 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). Bug reports. mbedtls 2.16.9,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. If you experience a regression in either physics or rendering, you can try these Project Settings to revert back to the previous Octree-based approach and possibly fix the issue. CSG: Various bug fixes. HTML5: Merged code for web editor prototype ( GH-42790 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

Note that the project settings from the rendering/quality/2d section have now been moved to rendering/2d , so if you used any of those, you will need to re-enable them under the new section in 3.2.4. New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. CSG: Various bug fixes. Stay tuned for more info!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2022

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter. Rendering: Add OccluderShapePolygon ( GH-57361 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. If you experience a regression in either physics or rendering, you can try these Project Settings to revert back to the previous Octree-based approach and possibly fix the issue. CSG: Various bug fixes. HTML5: Merged code for web editor prototype ( GH-42790 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2021

New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. If you experience a regression in either physics or rendering, you can try these Project Settings to revert back to the previous Octree-based approach and possibly fix the issue. CSG: Various bug fixes. HTML5: Merged code for web editor prototype ( GH-42790 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter. and backported to 3.5. What is it?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 19, 2021

New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. If you experience a regression in either physics or rendering, you can try these Project Settings to revert back to the previous Octree-based approach and possibly fix the issue. CSG: Various bug fixes. HTML5: Merged code for web editor prototype ( GH-42790 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

GLES3 renderer). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). Highlights.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

GLES3 renderer). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). Highlights.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

With this first Release Candidate , we completely freezes feature development, and comes after a long series of beta builds to fix a number of bugs reported against previous builds (as well as against previous stable branches). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). In-depth documentation is available.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This beta 6 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2022

Like in previous years, Godot is participating again in the Google Summer of Code program for its 2022 edition. Multi window code editors by trollodel. Also, there are some bugs to be fixed. Multi window code editors. Undocking the code editors can be done using shortcuts and command palette too.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

x branch used OpenGL ES 2.0 / OpenGL 2.1 ( GLES2 ) as its rendering API. This worked well, but had many limitations preventing us to use more modern rendering techniques. all rendering code was rewritten to use the more modern OpenGL ES 3.0 / OpenGL 3.3 renderer was removed. renderer was removed.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The goal between now and the stable release will be to continue polishing the current feature set by fixing bugs and optimizing performance. We ask that everyone join us in that – the sooner we fix the blocking bugs and release 4.0, We ask that everyone join us in that – the sooner we fix the blocking bugs and release 4.0,

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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 release, we decided to take the chance to look at our long list of features and bug fixes that could not be implemented because it involved breaking compatibility.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 18, 2019

As mentioned in the first part of this progress report , Godot is taking part in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) programme for the second time, and we have 8 students working on specific projects for Godot Engine. During the first weeks of coding I added caching to UV2 generation. Current progress. Next steps. Introduction.

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