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. 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.

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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 ). and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ).

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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

JUNE 27, 2022

so we'll need your help to test Android export templates in this build and confirm that they work as expected. and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

x branch to develop and publish their games today, so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience. 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, This ensures your game will run the same on all machines.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 17, 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. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). Two years ago (!),

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

This RC 7 has a few notable changes compared to the previous build: Fix accumulated input handling on iOS. 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. for GLES2).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

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. and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). The main changes coming in Godot 3.5

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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

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

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

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

JUNE 18, 2020

This new RC 2 build should be quite stable and we hope that many Godot 3.2.x stable build. If all goes well, the next build should be 3.2.2-stable. It should be safe to test this build directly with pre-existing projects made with Godot 3.2.x. GLES2 batching is enabled by default both in-game and in the editor.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 12, 2020

This new RC 1 build should be quite stable and we hope that many Godot 3.2.x stable build. If you find any new issue with this build, especially related to one of the listed big changes, please report it on GitHub , ideally including a minimal project that can be used to reproduce the issue. The upcoming Godot 3.2.2 How to test.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2020

This new RC 3 build fixes a couple recent regressions. If you find any new issue with this build, especially related to one of the listed big changes, please report it on GitHub , ideally including a minimal project that can be used to reproduce the issue. GLES2 batching is enabled by default both in-game and in the editor.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 7, 2020

stable, which is why we publish this beta build now. If you find any new issue with this build, especially related to one of the listed big changes, please report it on GitHub , ideally including a minimal project that can be used to reproduce the issue. GLES2 batching is enabled by default both in-game and in the editor.

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Mnenad

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

  I have to admit it was frustrating to work with a machine that cannot handle much heavy calculations at once (my Macbook from 2011) from time to time, but on the other hand this forced me to get into optimizing the game very soon, what might become a good base for expanding the complexity in near future. Draw call batching.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 22, 2020

stable, which is why we publish this beta build now. If you find any new issue with this build, especially related to one of the listed big changes, please report it on GitHub , ideally including a minimal project that can be used to reproduce the issue. GLES2 batching is enabled by default both in-game and in the editor.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

stable branch in January 2020 as a major update to our free and open source game engine. iOS export templates are now included in the Mono build. came with a brand new Android plugin system, and notably the possibility to build custom APKs from your project folder with any additional plugins/modules that your project needs.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Catmull-Rom curves are a popular choice in the film and games industries for hair and fur and other uses of curves. Open-ended curves can be desirable for avoiding shader divergence having to do with special-case handling of endcap normals. Open-ended curves are common and desirable and also better for performance.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2020

stable, which is why we publish this beta build now. If you find any new issue with this build, especially related to one of the listed big changes, please report it on GitHub , ideally including a minimal project that can be used to reproduce the issue. GLES2 batching is enabled by default both in-game and in the editor.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

x branch to develop and publish their games today , so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience. As such, most of the focus was on implementing missing features or bugfixes which are critical for publishing 2D and 3D games with Godot 3, and on making the existing features more optimized and reliable.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

using data oriented algorithms to process the culling of objects and both secondary command buffers and automatic batching to efficiently submit the draw primitives. The traditional way to make games longer since the beginning of times is to divide them in stages. Creating games this way is, as a result, more challenging.

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Nvidia

MAY 21, 2021

NetEase Thunder Fire Games Uses Mesh Shading To Create Beautiful Game Environments for Justice In December, we interviewed Haiyong Qian, NetEase Game Engine. Recently, NetEase introduced Mesh Shader support to Justice. Not only are the updated environments breathtaking, the game supports 1.8

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Many articles and papers have been written on the topic, and a variety of different depth buffer formats and setups are found across different games, engines, and devices. It was more recently re-popularized in posts by Matt Pettineo and Brano Kemen , and by Emil Persson’s Creating Vast Game Worlds SIGGRAPH 2012 talk.

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Nvidia

JULY 25, 2022

This post gathers best practices based on our experiences so far using NVIDIA RTX ray tracing in games. Especially in hybrid rendering, where G-buffer or shadow maps are rasterized, it’s potentially beneficial to execute AS building on async compute. Consider worker threads for generating AS building command lists.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

x branch to develop and publish their games today , so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience. As such, most of the focus was on implementing missing features or bugfixes which are critical for publishing 2D and 3D games with Godot 3, and on making the existing features more optimized and reliable.

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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. C#: macOS: Mono builds are now universal builds with support for both x86_64 and arm64 architectures ( GH-49248 ). Core: Promote object validity checks to release builds ( GH-51796 ).

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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. C#: macOS: Mono builds are now universal builds with support for both x86_64 and arm64 architectures ( GH-49248 ). Core: Promote object validity checks to release builds ( GH-51796 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4

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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 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

C#: macOS: Mono builds are now universal builds with support for both x86_64 and arm64 architectures ( GH-49248 ). Core: Promote object validity checks to release builds ( GH-51796 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

C#: macOS: Mono builds are now universal builds with support for both x86_64 and arm64 architectures ( GH-49248 ). Core: Promote object validity checks to release builds ( GH-51796 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The game is developed by Vedg Studio / NoirosL and was recently ported to Godot 4.0 Rendering: Added Viewport canvas cull mask feature ( GH-52350 ). Rendering: Enable mipmaps in cubemap roughness shader ( GH-68511 ). Rendering: Properly set TIME shader uniform when rendering shadows ( GH-68574 ). Wishlist it on Steam!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Our script editor maintainer, Paul Batty ( Paulb23 ), implemented initial support for multi-caret editing in TextEdit, which is therefore usable in the GDScript and shader editors, as well as any other multi-line text field in the editor. Buildsystem: Unify tools / target build type configuration ( GH-66242 ). GH-67128 , GH-67131 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Our script editor maintainer, Paul Batty ( Paulb23 ), implemented initial support for multi-caret editing in TextEdit, which is therefore usable in the GDScript and shader editors, as well as any other multi-line text field in the editor. Buildsystem: Unify tools / target build type configuration ( GH-66242 ). GH-67128 , GH-67131 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The game is developed by Vedg Studio / NoirosL and was recently ported to Godot 4.0 Rendering: Added Viewport canvas cull mask feature ( GH-52350 ). Rendering: Enable mipmaps in cubemap roughness shader ( GH-68511 ). Rendering: Properly set TIME shader uniform when rendering shadows ( GH-68574 ). Wishlist it on Steam!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

with 17 alpha builds distributed in 2022, and continuous development effort since 2019. The ugly reality of software development is that legacy code builds up really quick and keeping it up to date, ready for new challenges that arise several years down the line takes a lot of effort. It has been a long road to Godot 4.0

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