Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 7, 2021

This new beta 5 comes with 4 weeks' worth of bugfixes and enhancements over the previous dev snapshots, as well as some nice new features. Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). see recent devblogs on glTF 2.0

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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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). Navigation: Fix TileMaps placing baked NavigationPolygons with wrong offset without a Navigation2D node ( GH-66262 ) [regression fix]. Rendering: Fix skeleton 2D stale bounding rect ( GH-63071 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). Rendering: Fix skeleton 2D stale bounding rect ( GH-63071 ). Rendering: Fix multiple ubershader bugs ( GH-64096 ). Rendering: Portals: Show RayCast debug helper ( GH-65686 ). Windows: Fix list dir handle leak ( GH-64461 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2021

Notably, Windows users could experience crashes when baking lightmaps. Physics: Fix crash on debug shapes update if CollisionObject is not in tree ( GH-48974 ). Rendering: Batching: Fix item_batch_flags stale state causing glitches ( GH-48992 ). was thus subject to this crash when baking lightmaps.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). Navigation: Fix TileMaps placing baked NavigationPolygons with wrong offset without a Navigation2D node ( GH-66262 ) [regression fix]. Rendering: Fix skeleton 2D stale bounding rect ( GH-63071 ).

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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. Dynamic BVH for rendering and GodotPhysics. Raise errors when accessing deleted objects in debug. Rendering: Unified 2D batching. New CPU lightmapper.

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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. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. and backported to 3.5.

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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. 3D: Add Label3D node and Sprite3D material render priority ( GH-61276 ).

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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. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. and backported to 3.5.

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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. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. and backported to 3.5.

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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

MARCH 9, 2021

Thanks to all pre-release testers who help us find and debug regressions! 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. Rendering: New dynamic BVH ( GH-44901 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 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. Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

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. This RC 3 fixes a number of recent regressions and older bugs.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2020

Ensure your meshes are marked as "Static Bake", then enable SDFGI in the Environment settings. Occlusion generally works well, but you must ensure that walls are thicker than a voxel at the cascade they are rendering to in order to avoid light leaks. How do you use it? It has a small cost when enabled.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 17, 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.

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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. Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ).

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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.

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Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

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. Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ).

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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. Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ).

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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. Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ).

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Render Collision Build Bug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

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 ). In-depth documentation is available.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Notable changes are in-editor class reference translations (so far Chinese (Simplified), Spanish, and some French), some new rendering features (high quality glow mode, 3D point light attenuation option), and a number of C# marshalling fixes. Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

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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

AUGUST 10, 2022

UV2 Texel Density Debug Draw Mode. x CPU lightmapper and adding a new debug draw mode for visualizing the texel density of lightmaps. This meant that the larger scenes might refuse to bake because they don't fit within the size limits of an image. Debug draw mode for texel density. Soft Shadows (merged). Introduction.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Godot uses a considerably different approach to rendering (and rendering abstraction) than other, popular, game engines. This document was written in hopes to find more developers that would like to help us write rendering code, as it explains the overall design. Running the whole graphics rendering in a separate thread.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 18, 2019

This means having lots of lights no longer creates a performance hit on the rendering pipeline, since all we need to do is sample a single texture and we get the amount of light coming from all light sources. These can only be dealt with manually while debugging. light mapper is based on the same approach used in global illumination.

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