Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

returns to its own physics engine which, despite not being a high end physics engine like PhysX, aims to offer a lot more flexibility and “just works” capabilities to users. The custom physics engine still has a considerable amount of issues remaining but we are working hard to ensure it is in a decent state for shipping when 4.0

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The Liquid Fire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Like many people, I’ve recently been looking at other engines for ‘reasons’ and have been checking out Godot. For the past couple weeks I’ve been learning some of the ins and outs of the engine, and getting a feel for how it compares to Unity. About Me Who am I? I’m a hobbyist 3d Artist and Programmer.

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Point and Click Mesh Texture Tile 104

Cocos

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

fixes many bugs that were found by the staff and developers when upgrading to 3.7. We appreciate your help and work to improve the engine. Cocos Creator 3.7.1 We also have added a new demo project that will share many of the new upgrades that have come with 3.7 and previous updates. You can download it from the Cocos Store.

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Lightmap Engine Engineering Mesh 52

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 ). Core: Add feature tags to signify engine float precision ( GH-69538 ). Bug reports.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Import: Fix group reimport bug affecting AtlasTexture ( GH-68324 ). Rendering: Fix AABB errors on meshes with bones on multiple surfaces ( GH-65035 ). See the GitHub issue tracker for a list of known bugs in the 4.0 Bug reports. GDScript: Fix LSP crash by keeping GDScriptAnalyzer alive for whole parse() ( GH-69606 ).

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Beta Dev Render Shaders 95

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Over the course of the last four months the engine has seen many changes, making it more stable and feature complete, and it's getting very close to the state that we would be happy with. More engine enums are now bound with BitField, making their usage more type-safe, especially in C# ( GH-71037 , GH-71045 , GH-71116 ). Bug reports.

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Beta Dev Render Animation 105

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). See the GitHub issue tracker for a list of known bugs in the 4.0 Bug reports. As a tester, you are encouraged to open bug reports if you experience issues with this release. Fix Tab key usage in the inspector ( GH-71271 ).

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Beta Dev Collision Render 110

Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

Engine • Added DebugView at runtime UI control rendering debugging function. Fixed an issue where Mesh objects created through MeshUtils.createMesh caused data anomalies. Fixed an issue where the setter for the Mesh:: _ hash attribute was not bound. Fixed bug with import plugin script exceeding 500KB. Cocos Creator 3.7.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

FBX has its own standard for handling animations which has not been fully reverse engineered correctly by any open source importer/exporter, so we had to start from scratch and only keep the FBX file parser from Assimp. Reverse engineering a lot of the functionality required to make FBX work properly was very hard. stable release.

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Mesh Animation Animation Beta 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

Those typically shouldn’t add instability to the engine, but may require doing some changes in your scripts, scenes, and shaders if you were using the affected APIs. Import: Avoid nested skeletons, and handle skinned meshes with children ( GH-72158 ). See the GitHub issue tracker for a list of known bugs in the 4.0

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Beta Dev Shaders Render 107

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 4, 2021

beta 2 available now), we still cherry-pick important bug fixes to the 3.3 As there is no new feature and only bug fixes, this RC 1 should be as stable as 3.3.2-stable Import: glTF: Fix mesh nodes which are also bones ( GH-49119 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

Mesh 52

Mesh Render Bug Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 20, 2020

would focus mainly on fixing those new bugs to ensure that all Godot users can have the most stable experience possible. GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine!

Beta 52

Beta Dev Collision Mesh 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 21, 2018

2D engine merged into master branch. mesh loading. basic mesh drawing. While a most of the 2D engine was already working, some bugs kept the editor from being fully usable and also caused problems in regular game projects. 2D engine merged into master branch. Done February 2018. 2D rendering stabilized.

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Mesh Shaders Render Bug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2021

A few regressions made their way among the many bug fixes of 3.3.1, Additionally, this release includes a number of non-regression bug fixes to various areas of the engine. x releases , focuses purely on bug fixes, and aims to preserve compatibility. so here's another maintenance release to fix them. like all future 3.3.x

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Lightmap Baking Bug Data 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 24, 2020

would focus mainly on fixing those new bugs to ensure that all Godot users can have the most stable experience possible. GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine!

Collision 52

Collision Mesh Bug Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

This beta 5 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4 In-depth documentation is available.

Beta 52

Beta Dev Mesh Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Over the course of the last four months the engine has seen many changes, making it more stable and feature complete, and it’s getting very close to the state that we would be happy with. More engine enums are now bound with BitField, making their usage more type-safe, especially in C# ( GH-71037 , GH-71045 , GH-71116 ). Bug reports.

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Beta Dev Render Animation 80

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

beta 4 available now), we still cherry-pick important bug fixes to the 3.3 in May , there have been a number of bug fixes which are worth including in a new stable release for all Godot users. x releases , focuses purely on bug fixes, and aims to preserve compatibility. While we're busy working on both the upcoming Godot 4.0

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Mesh Render Bug Collision 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 16, 2021

beta 3 available now), we still cherry-pick important bug fixes to the 3.3 As there is no new feature and only bug fixes, this RC 2 should be as stable as 3.3.2-stable Import: glTF: Fix mesh nodes which are also bones ( GH-49119 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

Mesh 52

Mesh Render Bug Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). See the GitHub issue tracker for a list of known bugs in the 4.0 Bug reports. As a tester, you are encouraged to open bug reports if you experience issues with this release. Fix Tab key usage in the inspector ( GH-71271 ).

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Beta Dev Collision Render 84

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

This beta 4 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Mesh: Fix UV mapping on CSGSphere ( GH-49195 ).

Beta 52

Beta Dev Mesh Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This beta 6 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4 In-depth documentation is available.

Beta 52

Beta Dev Mesh Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

would focus mainly on fixing those new bugs to ensure that all Godot users can have the most stable experience possible. GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). RichTextLabel: Fix center alignment bug ( GH-40892 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). Bug reports.

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Bug Collision Mesh Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 21, 2020

would focus mainly on fixing those new bugs to ensure that all Godot users can have the most stable experience possible. GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). RichTextLabel: Fix center alignment bug ( GH-40892 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). Bug reports.

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Bug Collision Mesh Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 31, 2020

would focus mainly on fixing those new bugs to ensure that all Godot users can have the most stable experience possible. GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine!

Collision 52

Collision Bug Mesh Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 16, 2022

Rendering: GLES3: Fix broken normals in meshes with blend shapes ( GH-59159 ) [regression fix]. Bug reports. As a tester, you are encouraged to open bug reports if you experience issues with 3.4.4 Rendering: GLES2: Fix incorrect buffer upload size in draw_gui_primitive ( GH-58150 ). stable builds should be notarized again.

Render 52

Render Shaders Bug Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ).

Beta 52

Beta Dev Mesh Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Mesh: Add a center_offset property to both plane primitive and quad primitive ( GH-48763 ). Mesh: Fix UV mapping on CSGSphere ( GH-49195 ). Bug reports.

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Beta Dev Mesh Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

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, 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.

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Shaders Render Mesh Feature 53

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). GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4

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Mesh Render Shaders Animation 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

would focus mainly on fixing those new bugs to ensure that all Godot users can have the most stable experience possible. GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). RichTextLabel: Fix center alignment bug ( GH-40892 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). Bug reports.

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Bug Collision Mesh Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Import: Fix crash when exporting meshes to glTF that have no skin ( GH-55246 ). macOS: Enable multithreaded OpenGL engine flag when using multithreaded VisualServer ( GH-54526 ). Bug reports. As a tester, you are encouraged to open bug reports if you experience issues with 3.4.1 if something that worked fine in 3.4

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Tile Render Bug Collision 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2020

would focus mainly on fixing those new bugs to ensure that all Godot users can have the most stable experience possible. GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine!

Collision 52

Collision Bug Mesh Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Physics: Optimized support function for large meshes ( GH-64382 ). See the GitHub issue tracker for a list of known bugs in the 4.0 Bug reports. As a tester, you are encouraged to open bug reports if you experience issues with this release. Multiplayer: Add MultiplayerPeer disconnect_peer , close ( GH-67982 ).

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Beta Dev Render Alpha 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The goal between now and the stable release will be to continue polishing the current feature set by fixing bugs and optimizing performance. We ask that everyone join us in that – the sooner we fix the blocking bugs and release 4.0, We ask that everyone join us in that – the sooner we fix the blocking bugs and release 4.0,

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Beta Engine Engineering Animation 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

Mesh 52

Mesh Render Shaders Animation 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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Mesh Render Shaders Animation 52