Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2020

This beta 4 fixes some regressions and adds more bug fixes to make the upcoming release even better. 2D batching for the GLES2 renderer , thanks to lawnjelly and Clay ( clayjohn ). stable, which is why we publish this beta build now. As the GLES3 renderer is being deprecated by Vulkan in Godot 4.0, How to test.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

beta 2 , even though we never had a formal beta 1 announcement on this blog. beta 1 is available for download for comparison purposes, but since it had a major regression on C# support on Windows , I skipped its blog post. and included in this beta are: Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2021

With this beta 6 build, there are several recently merged changes that will require heavy testing to be stabilized before 3.2.4-stable: 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. Highlights.

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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. The only big change is that the classical build for macOS is now a universal binary, with both x86_64 and arm64 architectures included (to support the new ARM-based Apple M1 chip natively).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

This beta 4 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. If you already reviewed the changelog for the previous beta, you can skip right to the differences between beta 3 and beta 4. Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

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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 !), This new beta 4 adds a new round of bugfixes and enhancements over the previous dev snapshots, as well as some nice new features. Additionally, beta 4 adds support for MP3 loading and playback !

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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! You can try it live with the online version of the Godot editor updated for this beta. WebXR support for VR games (new in beta 5).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Adding to the first beta version from last month ago, we now have even more great features coming in 3.2.4: Improved Web editor prototype and AudioWorklet support for multithreaded HTML5 builds (new in 3.2.4 And there's even more in the works that will be included in future beta builds.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 21, 2020

This first beta build already includes a number of them which have been worked on by core contributors, with notable mentions to: Android App Bundle and subview embedding support. And this is just a first beta, there's more in the works that will be included in future beta builds. Now that we're confident that 3.2.3

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Again close to two weeks since beta 2 , time runs fast! Many fixes have been made in the master branch since then, so it's time for a new build with Godot 3.2 With beta 2, we upgraded Mono to version 6.6.0 beta 1 , or wait for 3.2 beta 4 which should have fixed Mono 6.x development build. x binaries.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

beta, reviewing many PRs which have been opened prior to our roadmap feature freeze announced a month ago. While this process is ongoing, we'll keep releasing alpha builds so here's 4.0 Some noteworthy changes in this release: Re-enable support for Web exports using the OpenGL 3 / WebGL 2 renderer. alpha builds.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 18, 2020

is turning out to be quite feature-packed and we've been taking the time to iterate with four beta snapshots. This new RC 2 build should be quite stable and we hope that many Godot 3.2.x stable build. This new RC 2 build should be quite stable and we hope that many Godot 3.2.x stable build. Notably, Godot 3.2.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2020

is turning out to be quite feature-packed and we've been taking the time to iterate with four beta snapshots and two release candidates (RC). This new RC 3 build fixes a couple recent regressions. 2D batching for the GLES2 renderer , thanks to lawnjelly and Clay ( clayjohn ). The upcoming Godot 3.2.2 stable in a day or two.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 12, 2020

is turning out to be quite feature-packed and we've been taking the time to iterate with four beta snapshots before reaching a state that we're confident enough to label as release candidate. This new RC 1 build should be quite stable and we hope that many Godot 3.2.x stable build. The upcoming Godot 3.2.2 Notably, Godot 3.2.2

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Nvidia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

New tools New debugging tools like the BVH viewer and Ray Timing Visualization allows developers to get a handle on ray tracing cost in their scene and get it tuned for speed. Hybrid Translucency Another way to do ray traced translucency, with greater compatibility, speed and rendering options. An updated build of NVIDIA RTX UE4.25

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Nvidia

AUGUST 31, 2021

Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) added softening capability to the sharpness slider, and provided a workaround for packaged builds not initializing DLSS on d3d11 devices. In NvRTX 4.27, RTX Direct Illumination (RTXDI) and NVIDIA Real-Time Denoisers (NRD) improved support for Metahuman hair. NVIDIA Reflex is now mainlined within UE4.27

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 4, 2021

beta 2 available now), we still cherry-pick important bug fixes to the 3.3 stable: Android: Add GDNative libraries to Android custom Gradle builds ( GH-49912 ). Android: Disable resource optimizations for legacy release builds ( GH-50664 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision ( GH-49075 ). Bug reports.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 23, 2022

In parallel to our work on the upcoming feature releases Godot 3.5 ( with a second beta ) and 4.0 ( now at alpha 4! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 Rendering: GLES2: Fix compression on blend shapes ( GH-58838 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Last month's 3.4.3

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2021

So here's a first Release Candidate to get broader testing of everything that has been iterated upon in the past 6 beta builds. Improved Web editor and AudioWorklet support for multithreaded HTML5 builds. macOS ARM64 support in official binaries for Apple M1 chip (only classical build for now). Highlights.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 16, 2021

beta 3 available now), we still cherry-pick important bug fixes to the 3.3 RC 2 is that the Android builds now target API level 30 as required by Google Play , and have partial support for Android scoped storage. Android: Add GDNative libraries to Android custom Gradle builds ( GH-49912 ). releases (with a dev snapshot for 3.4

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 11, 2019

We released a first alpha build last week, and we want to keep a relatively short iteration cycle on future alpha and beta builds until the final 3.2 The new official buildsystem that our contributor Hein-Pieter van Braam-Stewart ( hpvb ) set up for us is now quite efficient, so we can roll out builds fast and easily.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2020

with Vulkan support and many new rendering features and refactoring was already in the pipeline. beta 6 last week. IMPORTANT: This is a release candidate build, which means that it is not suitable yet for use in production, nor for press reviews of what Godot 3.2 For changes since the last beta build, see the list of commits.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

beta 4 available now), we still cherry-pick important bug fixes to the 3.3 Android: Add GDNative libraries to Android custom Gradle builds ( GH-49912 ). Android: Disable resource optimizations for legacy release builds ( GH-50664 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision ( GH-49075 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2022

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. Switch on physics/common/physics_interpolation , and Godot will now automatically interpolate objects on rendered frames so they look super smooth. Give it a try!

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Nvidia

JULY 23, 2021

Omniverse is a powerful collaboration tool that enables seamless communication and so much more — providing engines for simulation, ray traced rendering, and AI development to name a few. Explore how Nsight and other NVIDIA Developer Tools allow for optimizing and debugging GPU performance in the Nsight: Developer Tools GDC session.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

beta 1 one month ago! But the “1” in beta 1 means that it’s only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we’re going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. We’re now at beta 3, making good progress on fixing the issues that testers are reporting. Lots of rendering changes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

beta 1 one month ago! But the "1" in beta 1 means that it's only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we're going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. We're now at beta 3, making good progress on fixing the issues that testers are reporting. Lots of rendering changes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

beta 1 in September, and that was a big milestone on our journey to finalize our next major release – be sure to check out that blog post if you haven't yet, for an overview of some of the main highlight of Godot 4.0. Since then, we've been releasing new beta snapshots every other week, and this is now the 5th beta. What's new.

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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 releases, now that we have a fairly mature base to build upon. macOS: ARM64 build, code signing. Dynamic BVH for rendering and GodotPhysics.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2023

Release Candidate on the horizon we continue to release beta snapshots frequently and relentlessly! This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: SkeletonModificationStack3D has been removed, with the 3D inverse kinematic API being more or less reset to the state of Godot 3.x. With the first Godot 4.0

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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. If you already reviewed the changelog for the previous beta, you can skip right to the differences between beta 5 and beta 6. Core: Promote object validity checks to release builds ( GH-51796 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

This beta 5 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. If you already reviewed the changelog for the previous beta, you can skip right to the differences between beta 4 and beta 5 ( part 1 , part 2 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

beta 1 in September, and that was a big milestone on our journey to finalize our next major release – be sure to check out that blog post if you haven’t yet, for an overview of some of the main highlight of Godot 4.0. Since then, we’ve been releasing new beta snapshots every other week, and this is now the 5th beta. What’s new.

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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). Core: Promote object validity checks to release builds ( GH-51796 ). Highlights.

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Nvidia

JUNE 21, 2023

Frame Generation uses AI rendering to generate entirely new frames with best-in-class quality and responsiveness. Powered by these three technologies, DLSS 3 enables upwards of 4x performance boosts, providing headroom for next-generation, path-traced rendering. Toggle the Load Debug Overlay option. DLSS 3 for Unreal Engine 5.2

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