Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Every supported renderer option is now selectable from the project creation screen, which means you can create OpenGL 3 (“Compatibility”) projects without using the command line ( GH-70028 ). The illustration picture for this article is from Raffaele Picca ’s car scene , rendered in Godot 4.0 NET 6 build (C#, GDScript, GDExtension).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. They’ve been building upon Godot 4.0 Buildsystem: Allow building X11 without Vulkan ( GH-70677 ). GDScript: Register enum type names in release build ( GH-64253 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 2023

Physics: Implement analytic collision normals ( GH-71447 ). Rendering: Remove SCREEN_TEXTURE , DEPTH_TEXTURE , and NORMAL_ROUGHNESS_TEXTURE ( GH-70967 ). Rendering: Decompress RA_AS_RG formats on Web platform in GLES3 renderer and disable texture swizzling ( GH-71574 ). NET 6 build (C#, GDScript, GDExtension).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

While this process is ongoing, we'll keep releasing alpha builds so here's 4.0 This alpha doesn't include official builds with.NET 6 support yet, as we still have more work to do to enable this. Rendering: Octahedral normal/tangent compression ( GH-60309 ). alpha builds. for instructions. Core: A plethora of renames!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). Physics: Hack a hot fix for Bullet's collision margin regression ( GH-64875 ). Rendering: Fix skeleton 2D stale bounding rect ( GH-63071 ). Rendering: Fix multiple ubershader bugs ( GH-64096 ). Bug reports. or earlier 3.4.x

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 31, 2022

Now that we’re past the clickbait title, let’s get to the meat of the matter: Designing and building VR applications is hard! It’s even more so if you are not familiar with graphics and game engine-related tools and technologies. Add the following tag to the main Activity's intent-filter : Build and run! That's all!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Edit: Or not, there's a regression for the web editor in this build ( GH-57592 ). This will be fixed in the next build. stable: Android: Fix relative keystore paths on Android exporter with custom build ( GH-56676 ). GridMap: Fix "Convert to MeshLibrary" not respecting collision transforms ( GH-56907 ).

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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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 4, 2021

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 ). Rendering: VisualServer now sorts based on AABB position ( GH-43506 ). Bug reports.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Physics: Fix collision detection for degenerate capsules ( GH-69657 ). Porting: Enable raycast/embree module build for Web and Windows x86_32 ( GH-69169 ). Rendering: Use circular fade instead of linear fade for distance fade ( GH-50294 ). Rendering: Tweak shadow bias defaults for DirectionalLight3D and OmniLight3D ( GH-55757 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

David Snopek ( dsnopek ) got WebXR minimally working again ( GH-64514 ) using the WebGL 2 renderer implemented by Clay John ( clayjohn ). GDScript: Fix preload fails in standalone builds unless files are present in directory ( GH-65152 ). Physics: Turn on recovery as collisions only for floor snapping ( GH-64728 ). Known issues.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 24, 2020

C#: Fix restore not called when building game projects ( GH-40596 ) [regression fix]. Build HTML5 templates with threads_enabled=yes to test it. macOS: Add support for the Apple Silicon (ARM64) build target ( GH-39943 ). Note: ARM64 binaries are not included in macOS editor or template builds yet. Bug reports.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Physics: Fix test_move reporting collision when touching another body ( GH-54845 ). Rendering: Fix vertex attribute specification for octahedral compression ( GH-54768 ). Rendering: Fix vertex attribute specification for octahedral compression ( GH-54768 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix particles emitting at old location ( GH-54733 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

For macOS, both the standard and Mono editor builds are now signed and notarized ! Improved Web editor and AudioWorklet support for multithreaded HTML5 builds. macOS ARM64 support in official binaries for Apple M1 chip (only standard build for now). WebXR support for VR games. Multiple fixes to one-way collisions.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 16, 2021

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 ). Android: Disable resource optimizations for legacy release builds ( GH-50664 ). A notable change in 3.3.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2021

RC builds yet, now would be a great time to do it to help us ensure everything upgrades smoothly from 3.2.3 Improved Web editor and AudioWorklet support for multithreaded HTML5 builds. macOS ARM64 support in official binaries for Apple M1 chip (only standard build for now). WebXR support for VR games. New CPU lightmapper.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 19, 2021

Our last testing build was 3.2.4 We still need a good round of testing on this new build to ensure that everything works as we want it before we make this the new stable branch (which will supersede the current 3.2.3 Improved Web editor and AudioWorklet support for multithreaded HTML5 builds. WebXR support for VR games.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 20, 2020

Build HTML5 templates with threads_enabled=yes to test it. macOS: Add support for the Apple Silicon (ARM64) build target ( GH-39943 ). Note: ARM64 binaries are not included in macOS editor or template builds yet. Physics: Trigger broadphase update when changing collision layer/mask ( GH-39895 ). Bug reports.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

stable: Android: Fix relative keystore paths on Android exporter with custom build ( GH-56676 ). GridMap: Fix "Convert to MeshLibrary" not respecting collision transforms ( GH-56907 ). GUI: Fix RichTextLabel underline prevents strikethrough from rendering ( GH-56686 ). Mono build (C# support + all the above).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

There's still more I want to add over coming days, but there's no reason to delay the publication of the beta 2 builds. macOS: Mono builds are now universal builds with support for both x86_64 and arm64 architectures. Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). And you read correctly, this is 3.4

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 31, 2020

The changes new in this build are thus the ones made between RC 1 and RC 3. C#: Fix restore not called when building game projects ( GH-40596 ) [regression fix]. Build HTML5 templates with threads_enabled=yes to test it. macOS: Add support for the Apple Silicon (ARM64) build target ( GH-39943 ).

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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). WebXR support for VR games.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

At this stage it's really close to stable, we just had a few more regression fixes merged since the previous build that warrant another build for testing: Android: Address remaining scoped storage regressions ( GH-63480 ). In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process().

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

C#: Fix restore not called when building game projects ( GH-40596 ) [regression fix]. Build HTML5 templates with threads_enabled=yes to test it. macOS: Add support for the Apple Silicon (ARM64) build target ( GH-39943 ). Note: ARM64 binaries are not included in macOS editor or template builds yet. Bug reports.

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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. You can enable it in the Project Settings ( rendering/gles3/shaders/shader_compilation_mode ). Give it a try!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 21, 2020

C#: Fix restore not called when building game projects ( GH-40596 ) [regression fix]. Build HTML5 templates with threads_enabled=yes to test it. macOS: Add support for the Apple Silicon (ARM64) build target ( GH-39943 ). Note: ARM64 binaries are not included in macOS editor or template builds yet. Bug reports.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

So it's now time for a RC 2 build to give it another round of testing before the stable release! Note: Only the "standard" build is signed for now.). 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).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Physics: Hack a hot fix for Bullet's collision margin regression ( GH-64875 ). Rendering: Fix skeleton 2D stale bounding rect ( GH-63071 ). Rendering: Fix multiple ubershader bugs ( GH-64096 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 15, 2021

HTML5: Fix files_dropped in exported Mono builds ( GH-55594 ). Physics: Fix test_move reporting collision when touching another body ( GH-54845 ). Rendering: Fix vertex attribute specification for octahedral compression ( GH-54768 ). Rendering: Fix vertex attribute specification for octahedral compression ( GH-54768 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

David Snopek ( dsnopek ) got WebXR minimally working again ( GH-64514 ) using the WebGL 2 renderer implemented by Clay John ( clayjohn ). GDScript: Fix preload fails in standalone builds unless files are present in directory ( GH-65152 ). Physics: Turn on recovery as collisions only for floor snapping ( GH-64728 ). Known issues.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

so we'll need your help to test Android export templates in this build and confirm that they work as expected. 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

JUNE 1, 2022

Notably, it fixes some rendering regressions with transparent materials, and crashing iOS templates and Web editor build in RC 2. 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. Jump to the Downloads section.

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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 This build also fixes a nasty crash on Windows for some projects using dynamic fonts with outlines, triggered by a buildsystem update ( GH-50790 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

A long-standing Bullet regression has finally been fixed ( GH-56801 ), solving issues with KinematicBody collisions on edges (e.g. The fix seems relatively safe but this will require heavy testing to make sure it doesn't regress - if you have 3D games using Bullet physics, please try this RC 2 and report any issue. Give it a try!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

C#: Fix restore not called when building game projects ( GH-40596 ) [regression fix]. Build HTML5 templates with threads_enabled=yes to test it. macOS: Add support for the Apple Silicon (ARM64) build target ( GH-39943 ). Note: ARM64 binaries are not included in macOS editor or template builds yet. Bug reports.

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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. C#: macOS: Mono builds are now universal builds with support for both x86_64 and arm64 architectures ( GH-49248 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

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 ). Rendering: VisualServer now sorts based on AABB position ( GH-43506 ).

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