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Simple ParticleSystem shader unlit

Cocos

JANUARY 8, 2023

fix 2d particle effect bug. github.com/cocos/cocos-engine. cocos:develop ← zxx43:v3.6.2_2dparticle. opened 03:13AM - 15 Nov 22 UTC. Re: # ### Changelog * - ### Continuous Integration This pul … l request: * [ ] needs automatic test cases check. >

Shaders

Shaders Code Platformer Build

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 15

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 25, 2023

Editor: Fix various gradient editor bugs ( GH-70548 ). Given the scope of this change for all platforms, we expect some regressions, which will be fixed for beta 16. Shaders: Fix code generation for ProximityRange node in visual shader ( GH-71760 ). Shaders: Clean up shader parameter remap ( GH-71797 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Shaders

How to get started with Unity Game Development – Tips & Tricks from iXie Experts

iXie gaming

AUGUST 17, 2023

Custom shaders Gain control over your game’s visual style and performance by creating custom shaders. Shader programming allows you to manipulate lighting, textures, and visual effects, resulting in unique and optimized visuals. Be mindful of memory usage, especially on mobile platforms.

Game Developer

Game Developer Game Development Development Shaders

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 14

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 2023

For shaders, we removed the now-redundant SCREEN_TEXTURE , DEPTH_TEXTURE , and NORMAL_ROUGHNESS_TEXTURE ( GH-70967 ). Note that there’s a helpful error in the shader editor telling you how to port code, but there’s a typo: filter_linear_mipmaps should be filter_linear_mipmap (no ‘s’).

Beta

Beta Dev Animation Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 13

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

If you downloaded alpha 13 before this update, you can re-download the editor build for your platform. Some noteworthy changes in this release: Shader preprocessor support and shader includes. Grouping annotations for shaders ( uniform_group ). Rendering: Force regenerating shader cache when updating Godot ( GH-62848 ).

Alpha

Alpha Dev Shaders Beta

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 15

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

Same deal as usual, lots of bugs fixed and more refactoring and feature work. Rename JavaScript platform to Web ( GH-65023 ). Editor: Improvements to shader editor ( GH-63582 ). Shaders: Quality of life Visual Shaders updates ( GH-63999 ). Shaders: Implement custom non-trivial Visual Shader nodes ( GH-64248 ).

Alpha

Alpha Dev Shaders Beta

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

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. The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. Bug reports.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Animation

Godot Showcase - Lumencraft developer talks about his experience

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 13, 2022

Introduce your project in a few sentences: description, supported platforms, release date, etc. Lumencraft is a top-down shooter with base-building elements where you're a lonely little digger sent into bug infested underground caves. Another thing that was quite useful is the option to quickly test shaders. That one was tricky.

Development

Development Shaders Terrain Engine

Kerbal Space Program 2 Crashing PC: Easily Fix This Problem

Game Errors

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Corrupted cache: To increase performance, games, or the platform you are using, cache some data. Clear shader cache Press Win + I on the keyboard to open Windows settings. Tick DirectX Shader Cache , and untick all other options. A corrupted shader cache can cause crashing problems during KSP 2 gameplay.

PC

PC Shaders Graphics Data

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.1 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 10, 2021

But like with any major milestone, there are some bugs which are worth addressing with low-risk maintenance releases to further improve the experience for all Godot users. x releases , focuses purely on bug fixes, and aims to preserve compatibility. As there is no new feature and only bug fixes, this RC 1 should be as stable as 3.3-stable

Bug

Bug Build Polygon Render

Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

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, Since then, smix8 has taken over the custody of this area, fixing a lot of bugs and improving the feature set greatly, with the help of Pawel Lampe ( Scony ) and lawnjelly. courtesy of Pedro J.

Shaders

Shaders Render Mesh Feature

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.1 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 15, 2021

But like with any major milestone, there are some bugs which are worth addressing with low-risk maintenance releases to further improve the experience for all Godot users. x releases , focuses purely on bug fixes, and aims to preserve compatibility. As there is no new feature and only bug fixes, this RC 2 should be as stable as 3.3-stable

Polygon

Polygon Bug Render Build

Cocos Creator 3.7.1 Released

Cocos

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

fixes many bugs that were found by the staff and developers when upgrading to 3.7. Cocos Creator 3.7.1 We appreciate your help and work to improve the engine. 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.

Lightmap

Lightmap Engine Engineering Mesh

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

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 Shaders: Many improvements backported from master ( GH-56794 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Status of the OpenGL 3 renderer

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 20, 2022

As a reminder, an OpenGL-based renderer is still crucial so we can support older platforms, and Web export. We expect it will have more bugs for the time being. Reading from SCREEN_TEXTURE and DEPTH_TEXTURE in spatial shaders. For now, the focus remains on bug fixing and ensuring that we can release 4.0 ReflectionProbes.

Render

Render Beta Feature Bug

Status of the OpenGL 3 renderer

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 20, 2022

As a reminder, an OpenGL-based renderer is still crucial so we can support older platforms, and Web export. We expect it will have more bugs for the time being. Reading from SCREEN_TEXTURE and DEPTH_TEXTURE in spatial shaders. For now, the focus remains on bug fixing and ensuring that we can release 4.0 ReflectionProbes.

Render

Render Beta Feature Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

beta 5 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 3.3.3-stable HTML5: Fix bug in AudioWorklet when reading output buffer ( GH-52696 ). Bug reports. While we're busy working on both the upcoming Godot 4.0

Bug

Bug Scripting Texture Build

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

This beta 4 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

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. The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. Bug reports.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 18, 2020

is going to add 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform , courtesy of Ignacio ( neikeq ). Fix for the dangling Variant bug , kudos to Pedro ( RandomShaper ). Note: If using C#, the.csproj file will be converted with some bug fixes which makes it incompatible with earlier Godot 3.2 Fix for the dangling Variant bug.

Beta

Beta Debug Bug Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 12, 2020

is going to add 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform , courtesy of Ignacio ( neikeq ). Fix for the dangling Variant bug , kudos to Pedro ( RandomShaper ). Note: If using C#, the.csproj file will be converted with some bug fixes which makes it incompatible with earlier Godot 3.2 Fix for the dangling Variant bug.

Beta

Beta Bug Debug Build

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #3

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 21, 2018

implement spatial shaders. 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. The main bug that was keeping me busy for weeks was related to a shader bind that was not descriptive enough when blitting a viewport to the screen.

Mesh

Mesh Shaders Render Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2020

is going to add 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform , courtesy of Ignacio ( neikeq ). Fix for the dangling Variant bug , kudos to Pedro ( RandomShaper ). Note: If using C#, the.csproj file will be converted with some bug fixes which makes it incompatible with earlier Godot 3.2 Fix for the dangling Variant bug.

Beta

Beta Debug Bug Point and Click

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.1 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

x maintenance releases , which include only thoroughly reviewed and backwards-compatible bug fixes, the 3.1 version includes all the new features (and subsequent bugs!) There will still be many fixes made before the final release, and we will need your detailed bug reports to debug issues and fix them. Bug reports.

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.2 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2020

Notable changes since RC 3: Editor: Fixed Inspector update when a node is renamed, which made shader editor disappear on errors ( GH-35526 ). There will still be various fixes made before the final release, and we will need your detailed bug reports to debug issues and fix them. Bug reports. version to a very good standard.

Bug

Bug Build Debug Shaders

Overcoming Challenges in Game Test Automation

iXie gaming

AUGUST 31, 2023

Games often incorporate advanced visual effects, complex shaders, and intricate animations. Bugs and issues may only manifest under specific conditions, making it difficult to identify and isolate them. Each platform may have its own hardware specifications, operating system versions, and compatibility requirements.

Simulation

Simulation Scripting Games Content

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

This RC 6 has a few notable changes compared to the previous build: In RC 4, async shader compilation and caching was enabled by default on desktop, but several users reported issues with it on some hardware. We switched it back to disabled by default for all platforms. Shaders: Many improvements backported from master ( GH-56794 ).

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.2 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 24, 2020

Mono: Various bug fixes ( GH-35372 , GH-35407 , GH-35472 , GH-35478 ). Rendering: Fix shadow culling with orthogonal camera and wrong VIEWPORT_SIZE shader builtin ( GH-35406 ). There will still be various fixes made before the final release, and we will need your detailed bug reports to debug issues and fix them. Bug reports.

Bug

Bug Culling Build Pixel

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 6

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. RichTextLabel: Fix center alignment bug ( GH-40892 ). Shaders: Fix specular render_mode for Visual Shaders ( GH-41536 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine!

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Render

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

branch is worked on in parallel and receives minor updates to fix bugs, improve usability and occasionally add some compatible features. includes 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform. This nearly completes the platform support for C# projects in Godot (only UWP support is still missing). But Godot 4.0 is released).

Debug

Debug Point and Click Bug Render

Why I still use Unity

Radiator Blog

APRIL 18, 2022

Being able to pinpoint bugs in the core Unreal Engine code, fix them, and submit patches to Epic is how modern software development works. Comparatively, Unity is closed source, and even if you go to the trouble of filing a bug report you'll still have to wait a year for an official bug fix if you're lucky.

Engine

Engine Engineering Rigging Bug

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2021

But like with any major milestone, there are some bugs which are worth addressing with low-risk maintenance releases to further improve the experience for all Godot users. x releases , focuses purely on bug fixes, and aims to preserve compatibility. We released Godot 3.3 a few weeks ago , and feedback so far has been pretty good!

Polygon

Polygon Render Scripting Racing

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. Core: Fix platform-specific issues with OS.set_current_screen() ( GH-63192 ). The main changes coming in Godot 3.5 back in 2020!

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ). Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). Bug reports. Thirdparty library updates: embree 3.13.0,

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ). Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). Shaders: Add support for global const arrays ( GH-50889 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 22, 2020

release with bug fixes in 3.2.1 , we're now looking at integrating some new features that didn't make it into the 3.2 is going to add 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform , courtesy of Ignacio ( neikeq ). is going to add 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform , courtesy of Ignacio ( neikeq ). and 3.2.1.

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2020

This beta 4 fixes some regressions and adds more bug fixes to make the upcoming release even better. is going to add 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform , courtesy of Ignacio ( neikeq ). is going to add 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform , courtesy of Ignacio ( neikeq ). Notably, Godot 3.2.2

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Debug

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. Core: Fix platform-specific issues with OS.set_current_screen() ( GH-63192 ). The main changes coming in Godot 3.5 back in 2020!

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 7, 2020

release with bug fixes in 3.2.1 , we're now looking at integrating some new features that didn't make it into the 3.2 is going to add 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform , courtesy of Ignacio ( neikeq ). is going to add 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform , courtesy of Ignacio ( neikeq ). and 3.2.1.

Beta

Beta Dev Debug Bug

Godot 3.0 progress report #6

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 8, 2017

Here's a small platformer demo you can try! Optimize any part of your game by rewriting it transparently in C++, or any language that can compiled to native code for the target platform, wihout recompiling the engine or templates. We will be releasing an alpha build soon for everyone to start playing with them and finding bugs.

Mesh

Mesh Alpha Shaders Asset

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 7, 2021

It also adds a much-requested minimap to GraphEdit , and thus to the VisualScript and Visual Shader editors. CSG: Various bug fixes. Font: Load dynamic fonts to memory on all platforms to avoid locked files ( GH-44117 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. Bug reports. mbedtls 2.16.9, tinyexr 1.0.0,

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Build

Godot Showcase - Human Diaspora developer interview

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 11, 2021

Introduce your project in a few sentences: description, supported platforms, release date, etc. How do you find Godot’s multi-platform support, both for the editor and your final project? Debugging: some errors pop here and there, and it is really hard for me to trace its roots or if it is an engine bug.

Development

Development Game Engine Engine Engineering

Get ready for the GitHub Game Off with Godot

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Kudos to the first Godot user publishing an open source shader to achieve such an effect on our Asset Library :). Community communication platforms. We have many community platforms where you can discuss with other users and learn from them. Finally, if you think that you hit a bug in the engine, please report it on GitHub.

Concepts

Concepts Demo Engine Engineering

Release candidate: Godot 3.1.2 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

release is both long overdue and accordingly packed with important bug fixes and enhancements. already had, but less bugs and some usability and documentation enhancements. As mentioned, this release includes close to 400 new commits, with many bug fixes, usability enhancements and documentation improvements. The upcoming 3.1.2

Bug

Bug Beta Localization Shaders

Simple ParticleSystem shader unlit

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 15

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How to get started with Unity Game Development – Tips & Tricks from iXie Experts

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 14

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 13

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 15

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Godot Showcase - Lumencraft developer talks about his experience

Kerbal Space Program 2 Crashing PC: Easily Fix This Problem

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.1 RC 1

Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.1 RC 2

Cocos Creator 3.7.1 Released

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 4

Status of the OpenGL 3 renderer

Status of the OpenGL 3 renderer

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.4 RC 1

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 1

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #3

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.1 beta 4

Release candidate: Godot 3.2 RC 4

Overcoming Challenges in Game Test Automation

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.2 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 6

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Why I still use Unity

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.1

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 4

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 7

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 2

Godot 3.0 progress report #6

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 5

Godot Showcase - Human Diaspora developer interview

Get ready for the GitHub Game Off with Godot

Release candidate: Godot 3.1.2 RC 1

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