Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

has been in beta for over three months , and the overall feature completeness, stability and usability have improved a lot during that time. beta in general, have a look at the detailed release notes for 4.0 In this blog post, we will only cover the main changes since the previous beta release. Requires.NET SDK 6.0 specifically.

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Cocos

DECEMBER 7, 2023

GitHub： shader-graph Preview Basic Structure Preparation Phase Cocos Creator 3.8.2 Community Public Beta Portal（ [link] Download Cocos Creator 3.8.2 editor and the shader-graph.zip shader-graph.zip plugin. Click , choose the shader-graph.zip extension file, and import it. Open Cocos Creator 3.8.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

beta releases. We took a bit longer to prepare this beta as there were a number of fairly big GDScript refactoring PRs (needed to fix many bugs), which we wanted to merge all at once. As such we expect that this beta 11 might introduce some new GDScript regressions, which we'll aim to fix for beta 12 next week.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

betas for over three months now, and we are glad to see it get more stable and usable every week. Every beta release so far has included a lot of fixes in one or more key areas, and the next major version of the engine starts to finally look complete. beta, with the process covered in this devlog. Happy holidays! What’s new.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

beta 11 , we found a lot of regressions – as we expected! As the pace intensifies in the lead-up to the first Release Candidate, we decided to make more frequent beta snapshots for testing. when dealing with PackedArrays) which many beta 11 users experienced ( GH-71228 ). A lot more GDScript fixes and improvements! What’s new.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

beta releases. We took a bit longer to prepare this beta as there were a number of fairly big GDScript refactoring PRs (needed to fix many bugs), which we wanted to merge all at once. As such we expect that this beta 11 might introduce some new GDScript regressions, which we’ll aim to fix for beta 12 next week.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2022

So we're starting the beta testing phase with this already significant set of changes, and we'll have frequent beta builds to polish them for the stable release. Some more features are still being worked on and will be included in future beta builds. was released 2 months ago , and some of the major planned features for Godot 3.5

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 2022

beta 2 should be worth the wait! This is a big update with close to 350 commits from 82 contributors since the previous beta! This is a big update with close to 350 commits from 82 contributors since the previous beta! and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2022

stable release with a third beta snapshot! beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. This is a big update with close to 350 commits from 82 contributors since the previous beta! Shaders: Many improvements backported from master ( GH-56794 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 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. We're now at beta 4, slightly delayed as I was on holiday, but all the more interesting to try out. Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

stable release with a fourth beta snapshot! beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. This beta 4 is a small update with just 83 commits excluding merges, focusing on fixing bugs to stabilize the current feature set for 3.5 Like with 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2022

stable release with a fifth beta snapshot! beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). We're getting closer to the Godot 3.5 Like with 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

has been in beta for over two months , and the overall feature completeness, stability and usability have improved a lot during that time. beta in general, have a look at the detailed release notes for 4.0 In this blog post, we will only cover the main changes since the previous beta release. GH-68870 ). Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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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. Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Highlights.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 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. We’re now at beta 4, slightly delayed as I was on holiday, but all the more interesting to try out. Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

We had a beta 2 build ten days ago , and a number of issues have since been found and fixed, so it's time for Godot 3.4 If you already reviewed the changelog for the previous beta, you can skip right to the differences between beta 2 and beta 3. Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ).

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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 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. It also adds a much-requested minimap to GraphEdit , and thus to the VisualScript and Visual Shader editors. You can try it live with the online version of the Godot editor updated for this beta.

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Cocos

JANUARY 9, 2023

beta and the material is OK. Indeed, i tested with CocosCreator 3.7

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Nevertheless, other contributors have kept working in the meantime, and some of the Godot Sprint attendees also did some welcome bugfixing, so we have enough content for a new beta 4 build. beta 3 and 3.1 This beta is built from commit 17809ca. GH-25839 : Visual Shader compile error with CanvasShaderGLES2 (fixed in master ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 22, 2020

We already had two betas , and here's the next round with Godot 3.2.2 stable, which is why we publish this beta build now. Pull Request, so we're now confident to include it in this beta build for further testing. 2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ). beta 3). After refining our Godot 3.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2020

This beta 4 fixes some regressions and adds more bug fixes to make the upcoming release even better. stable, which is why we publish this beta build now. Pull Request, so we're now confident to include it in this beta build for further testing. 2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ). beta 4).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 7, 2020

We published a first beta a few weeks ago, and here's the next round with Godot 3.2.2 stable, which is why we publish this beta build now. Pull Request, so we're now confident to include it in this beta build for further testing. 2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ). beta 2).

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Cocos

JUNE 11, 2023

We also support Compute Shader capabilities. Render Graph The Render Pipeline customization based on Render Graph will be officially available to developers in version 3.8. It will support the implementation of engine builtin Custom Pipeline and the default Deferred Pipeline.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

and prepare the first beta release. But we're not there yet and we'll keep having frequent alpha builds until we're ready to slap the beta label on the engine. Some noteworthy changes in this release: Shader preprocessor support and shader includes. Grouping annotations for shaders ( uniform_group ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

beta, reviewing many PRs which have been opened prior to our roadmap feature freeze announced a month ago. The beta feature freeze will soon lock the API more or less in place, so contributors have been hard at work evaluating and merging or rejecting the last proposals for a more consistent and user-friendly API. for instructions.

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Alpha Dev Shaders Beta 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 11, 2022

beta, reviewing many PRs which have been opened prior to our roadmap feature freeze announced a couple of weeks ago. Add often used built-ins to spatial shaders ( NODE_POSITION_WORLD , CAMERA_POSITION_WORLD , CAMERA_DIRECTION_WORLD , NODE_POSITION_VIEW ) ( GH-63597 ). We're working towards finalizing the feature set for 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2016

After several months of waiting ( obligatory joke ) and more importantly of development, the web frontend to Godot's Asset Library finally reached the beta status ! Category: 2D Tools, 3D Tools, Shaders, Materials, Tools, Scripts, Misc, Templates, Projects, Demos (subject to change as we gather community feedback). What does it mean?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 8, 2022

There will likely be breaking changes between this release and the first beta release. Only the beta will mark the so-called "feature freeze" As such, we do not recommend porting existing projects to this and other upcoming alpha releases unless you are prepared to do it again to fix future incompatibilities.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 2, 2022

There will likely be breaking changes between this release and the first beta release. Only the beta will mark the so-called "feature freeze" As such, we do not recommend porting existing projects to this and other upcoming alpha releases unless you are prepared to do it again to fix future incompatibilities. Downloads.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Reading from SCREEN_TEXTURE and DEPTH_TEXTURE in spatial shaders. beta 9 onward, the OpenGL renderer can be enabled either by selecting the Compatibility renderer when creating a new project or by changing the rendering-method project setting to gl_compatibility. The big missing features that are planned are: 3D shadows. LightmapGI.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Reading from SCREEN_TEXTURE and DEPTH_TEXTURE in spatial shaders. beta 9 onward, the OpenGL renderer can be enabled either by selecting the Compatibility renderer when creating a new project or by changing the rendering-method project setting to gl_compatibility. The big missing features that are planned are: 3D shadows. LightmapGI.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 26, 2021

To enable this, set the ‘Capture Type’ to ‘One-shot [Beta]’ While TraceRays/DispatchRays has been the common way to initiate ray generation, it’s now possible to ray trace directly from your compute shaders using DXR1.1 Tools that generate normal maps or use DirectML for image upscaling can now be properly profiled and optimized.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 1, 2015

This beta prepares the road for the 1.1 Visual Shader Editor (Edit shaders connecting nodes). Largely rewritten 2D engine, with support for: Shaders (Visual and Code). Back-Buffer compositing for shaders that read from screen (allows all sorts of post-processing effects). release, expected sometime in late April.

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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). beta 4 have been renamed in preparation for the addition of GLES3 batching, see this Pull Request ). Pull Request, so we're now confident to include it in this beta build for further testing.

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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. beta 4 have been renamed in preparation for the addition of GLES3 batching, see this Pull Request ). Pull Request, so we're now confident to include it in this beta build for further testing. The upcoming Godot 3.2.2

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Beta Debug Bug Build 52

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. beta 4 have been renamed in preparation for the addition of GLES3 batching, see this Pull Request ). The upcoming Godot 3.2.2 stable build.

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