Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! Navigation: Fix for navmesh baking when parsing StaticBody colliders ( GH-70904 ). Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ). See the list below.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: String and StringName are now mostly cross-compatible throughout the engine API, as well as in various GDScript-specific expressions and statements ( GH-68747 ). The illustration picture for this article is from Raffaele Picca ’s car scene , rendered in Godot 4.0

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Nvidia

JUNE 4, 2021

Developers, engineers, artists and leaders from game studios across the world gathered virtually at this year’s virtual GTC to learn how the latest NVIDIA. Integrating RTX has never been easier – gain access through popular game engines such as Unreal Engine or through standalone SDKs.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 8, 2020

Let's hope this implementation will also be of use to others making their own technology or engines, so they can use it as reference or just copy it. Most scenes bake in seconds instead of minutes or hours. Efficiently packs all texture objects in the lightmap to a texture array, to avoid state or material changes during rendering.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! Navigation: Fix for navmesh baking when parsing StaticBody colliders ( GH-70904 ). Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ). See the list below.

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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]. Rendering: Fix skeleton 2D stale bounding rect ( GH-63071 ). please file an issue on GitHub.

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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 ). please file an issue on GitHub.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 28, 2022

Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. Navigation: Fix NavMesh baking on thread ( GH-59995 ). Rendering: More work on splitting up RendererStorage ( GH-59984 ). Rendering: More work on splitting up RendererStorage ( GH-59984 ). This new 4.0

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

REAL TIME RAY TRACING MADE EASIER RTX Direct Illumination (RTXDI) Imagine adding millions of dynamic lights to your game environments without worrying about performance or resource constraints. RTXDI makes this possible while rendering in real time. Unity has announced that DLSS will be natively supported in Unity Engine version 2021.2

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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

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). YSort: Make rendering order more deterministic ( GH-42375 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! zstd 1.4.5).

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

To help during the game development process, NVIDIA has packaged and released a suite of SDKs through our branch of Unreal Engine for all developers, from independent to AAA, to harness the power of RTX. Today, NVIDIA released RTX Technology Showcase – an interactive demo built from NVIDIA’s RTX Unreal Engine 4.26

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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 13, 2022

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 ). Rendering: Faster editor line drawing - Path2D and draw_line ( GH-54377 ). back in 2020! if something that worked fine in 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

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

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). Rendering: Add option for snapping 2D transforms to whole coordinates, for pixel art motion ( GH-43554 ). YSort: Make rendering order more deterministic ( GH-42375 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). Rendering: Add option for snapping 2D transforms to whole coordinates, for pixel art motion ( GH-43554 ). YSort: Make rendering order more deterministic ( GH-42375 ).

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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

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

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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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

We’re looking forward to next-generation game engines benefiting from GDeflate by dramatically reducing loading times. Resource streaming and data compression Today’s video games feature extremely detailed interactive environments, requiring the management of enormous assets. a modern I/O streaming API from Microsoft.

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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

AUGUST 5, 2022

Donations and corporate grants play a vital role in enabling us to develop Godot at this sustained pace, since they are our only source of income, and are used 100% to pay developers to work on the engine. 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

JANUARY 28, 2021

WebXR support for VR games. 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. Rendering: New dynamic BVH ( GH-44901 ). mbedtls 2.16.9,

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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 !), Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). tinyexr 1.0.0, zstd 1.4.5).

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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. WebXR support for VR games. MP3 loading and playback support.

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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

JANUARY 7, 2021

Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). Rendering: Add option for snapping 2D transforms to whole coordinates, for pixel art motion ( GH-43554 ). YSort: Make rendering order more deterministic ( GH-42375 ).

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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. 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 12, 2021

WebXR support for VR games. 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. Rendering: New dynamic BVH ( GH-44901 ). mbedtls 2.16.9,

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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. 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

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

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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. WebXR support for VR games. New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. Stay tuned for more info!

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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. 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

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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