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. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. back in 2020! if something that worked fine in 3.4.x

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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. In particular, this build adds WebXR support for VR games! WebXR support for VR games (new in beta 5). Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ).

Beta 52

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. HTML5: Merged code for web editor prototype ( GH-42790 ).

Beta 52

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 11, 2020

This new beta 4 adds a new round of bugfixes and enhancements over the previous dev snapshots, as well as some nice new features. Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). a lot of work is also being done on the 3.2

Beta 52

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! HTML5: Merged code for web editor prototype ( GH-42790 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D.

Beta 52

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. back in 2020! Android editor port ( GH-57747 ).

Beta 52

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2022

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. back in 2020! Android editor port ( GH-57747 ).

Beta 52

Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2022

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. back in 2020! Android editor port ( GH-57747 ).

Beta 52

Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

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. WebXR support for VR games. Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Optional GDNative support for HTML5.

Beta 52

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 8, 2020

Most scenes bake in seconds instead of minutes or hours. branch uses state of the art algorithms to ensure the maximum possible quality: Bakes geometry to lightmap coordinates using the actual rendering code, so any existing shader or material works. Allows baking dynamic and static lights. Features of the new Godot 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2021

Notably, Windows users could experience crashes when baking lightmaps. Games exported with a ZIP data package could also trigger a crash on exit. Additionally, this release includes a number of non-regression bug fixes to various areas of the engine. 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]. Navigation: Fix NavigationObstacle nodes not registering to default navigation map ( GH-64372 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). Navigation: Fix wrong method called when setting NavigationRegion travel_cost ( GH-64068 ). or earlier 3.4.x

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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]. Navigation: Fix NavigationObstacle nodes not registering to default navigation map ( GH-64372 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2020

I would like to thank hugely Matias Goldberg for his enormous help on this, our patrons for their continued support, and Tim Sweeney and Epic Games for their confidence in helping us finance our research via Epic Megagrant. Ensure your meshes are marked as "Static Bake", then enable SDFGI in the Environment settings.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2021

WebXR support for VR games. Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). VR: Add WebXR support for VR games ( GH-42397 ). Configurable amount of lights per object , now defaulting to 32 instead of 8.

Render 52

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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. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. Two years ago (!),

Render 52

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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. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. Two years ago (!),

Render 52

Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

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. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. Two years ago (!),

Render 52

Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

x branch to develop and publish their games today , so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience. As such, most of the focus was on implementing missing features or bugfixes which are critical for publishing 2D and 3D games with Godot 3, and on making the existing features more optimized and reliable.

Collision 52

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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. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. Two years ago (!),

Render 52

Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

WebXR support for VR games. Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). VR: Add WebXR support for VR games ( GH-42397 ). Configurable amount of lights per object , now defaulting to 32 instead of 8. mbedtls 2.16.9,

Render 52

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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. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. back in 2020! Read the updated docs for details.

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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. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. Two years ago (!),

Render 52

Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

WebXR support for VR games. Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). VR: Add WebXR support for VR games ( GH-42397 ). Configurable amount of lights per object , now defaulting to 32 instead of 8. mbedtls 2.16.9,

Render 52

Render Build Bug Editing 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2021

WebXR support for VR games. Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). VR: Add WebXR support for VR games ( GH-42397 ). Configurable amount of lights per object , now defaulting to 32 instead of 8. zstd 1.4.8).

Render 52

Render Collision Build Bug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 19, 2021

WebXR support for VR games. Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). VR: Add WebXR support for VR games ( GH-42397 ). Configurable amount of lights per object , now defaulting to 32 instead of 8. zstd 1.4.8).

Render 52

Render Collision Build Bug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

WebXR support for VR games. Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). VR: Add WebXR support for VR games ( GH-42397 ). Configurable amount of lights per object , now defaulting to 32 instead of 8. mbedtls 2.16.9,

Render 52

Render Collision Build Bug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

The fix seems relatively safe but this will require heavy testing to make sure it doesn't regress - if you have 3D games using Bullet physics, please try this RC 2 and report any issue. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime.

Render 52

Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

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. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. Two years ago (!),

Render 52

Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

x branch to develop and publish their games today, so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience. 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, This ensures your game will run the same on all machines.

Shaders 53

Shaders Render Mesh Feature 53

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). beta 5 and beta 6.

Beta 52

Beta Dev Mesh Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2021

In game engines (or even when exported from the 3D modelling application), animation data is baked to a simpler representation because, for games, processing beziers and IKs is way too expensive for real-time. Just decoding the animation, however, is not enough.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

As always, please remember that we are a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing the world with the best possible free and open source game technology. If you use and enjoy Godot, plan to use it, or want support the cause of having a mature, high quality free and open source game engine, then please consider becoming our patron.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

The new 3D engine is outstanding, with many features out-of-the-box that are still not common in other mainstream engines. The new 3D renderer is state-of-the-art, with features rarely see in game engines today, such as: Full principled BSDF. Just set up the probe bounds and do a fast pre-bake of static objects.

Render 52

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). beta 6 and RC 1.

Mesh 52

Mesh Render Shaders Animation 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). RC 2 and RC 3.

Mesh 52

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