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: Portals: Show RayCast debug helper ( GH-65686 ). We encourage all users to upgrade to 3.5.1.

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) Leveraging the power of ray tracing, the RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) SDK provides scalable solutions to compute multi-bounce indirect lighting without bake times, light leaks, or expensive per-frame costs. Unity has announced that DLSS will be natively supported in Unity Engine version 2021.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! C#: Official builds now use Mono 6.12.0.102. C#: Re-work solution build output panel ( GH-42547 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). Rendering: Portals: Show RayCast debug helper ( GH-65686 ). Networking: Prevent HTTPRequest from polling invalid client ( GH-64472 ). Physics: Hack a hot fix for Bullet's collision margin regression ( GH-64875 ). or earlier 3.4.x

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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. Additional funding will enable us to hire more core developers to work full-time on the engine, and thus further improve its development pace and stability.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! C#: Official builds now use Mono 6.12.0.111. C#: Re-work solution build output panel ( GH-42547 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! C#: Official builds now use Mono 6.12.0.111. C#: Re-work solution build output panel ( GH-42547 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 7, 2021

Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! C#: Godot.NET.Sdk/3.2.4 - Fix targeting.NETFramework with.NET 5 ( GH-44135 ). CSG: Various bug fixes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! C#: Godot.NET.Sdk/3.2.4 - Fix targeting.NETFramework with.NET 5 ( GH-44135 ). CSG: Various bug fixes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2021

Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! C#: Fix System.Collections.Generic.List marshalling ( GH-45029 ). mbedtls 2.16.9, zstd 1.4.8).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2021

Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! C#: Godot.NET.Sdk/3.2.4 - Fix targeting.NETFramework with.NET 5 ( GH-44135 ). mbedtls 2.16.9,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

Thanks to all pre-release testers who help us find and debug regressions! Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! stable soon™.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! C#: Fix System.Collections.Generic.List marshalling ( GH-45029 ). mbedtls 2.16.9, zstd 1.4.8).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Debugger: Add --debug-server command line option to listen for incoming connections ( GH-60819 ). Rendering: CPU lightmapper: Account for ambient light settings when baking lights ( GH-62260 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Debugger: Add --debug-server command line option to listen for incoming connections ( GH-60819 ). Rendering: CPU lightmapper: Account for ambient light settings when baking lights ( GH-62260 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Debugger: Add --debug-server command line option to listen for incoming connections ( GH-60819 ). Rendering: CPU lightmapper: Account for ambient light settings when baking lights ( GH-62260 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! This was a late addition in 3.2.4 Core: More fixes to Variant and Reference pointers ( GH-43049 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2021

Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Camera2D: Fix frame delay and smoothing processing issues ( GH-46697 , GH-46717 ). zstd 1.4.8).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 19, 2021

Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Camera2D: Fix frame delay and smoothing processing issues ( GH-46697 , GH-46717 ). zstd 1.4.8).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Debugger: Add --debug-server command line option to listen for incoming connections ( GH-60819 ). Rendering: CPU lightmapper: Account for ambient light settings when baking lights ( GH-62260 ).

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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. Debugger: Add --debug-server command line option to listen for incoming connections ( GH-60819 ). back in 2020! Core: Add search methods for pool arrays ( GH-60856 ). Editor: Improve ColorPicker presets ( GH-54439 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Debugger: Add --debug-server command line option to listen for incoming connections ( GH-60819 ). And then a lot of old and new navigation issues have been fixed by smix8 and Pawel Lampe ( Scony ).

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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. Debugger: Add --debug-server command line option to listen for incoming connections ( GH-60819 ). The whole API is now a lot more flexible than it used to be. if something that worked fine in 3.4.x

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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. Debugger: Add --debug-server command line option to listen for incoming connections ( GH-60819 ). And then a lot of old and new navigation issues have been fixed by smix8 and Pawel Lampe ( Scony ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Core: Add detailed error messages to release builds (used to be debug-only) ( GH-53405 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Editor: Add custom debug shape thickness and color options to RayCast ( GH-49726 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Core: Add detailed error messages to release builds (used to be debug-only) ( GH-53405 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Editor: Add custom debug shape thickness and color options to RayCast ( GH-49726 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Core: Add detailed error messages to release builds (used to be debug-only) ( GH-53405 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Editor: Add custom debug shape thickness and color options to RayCast ( GH-49726 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Core: Add detailed error messages to release builds (used to be debug-only) ( GH-53405 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Editor: Add custom debug shape thickness and color options to RayCast ( GH-49726 ).

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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. Rendering engineers are rare to find, so this can be a starting point. As for DirectX12, it's only relevant for Windows/UWP, so there is no strong incentive for us to support it as a cross-platform engine.

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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. While making medium to large scale games in Godot, many small bugs start to creep in that cannot be caught by the compiler.

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