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

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

JANUARY 10, 2023

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 ). Import: Fix usages of mesh simplification functions in float=64 builds ( GH-67853 ). NET 6 build (C#, GDScript, GDExtension). What's new.

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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. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. GDScript: Enable method type information on release builds ( GH-59793 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader). A long awaited improvement to reduce shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL is coming to Godot 3.5, Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. From now on you'll find APK builds of the Android editor on our Download page ! courtesy of Pedro J.

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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 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

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. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. GDScript: Enable method type information on release builds ( GH-59793 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 24, 2020

The second RC build on Monday fared fairly well and had no new regression. Rendering: Fix shadow culling with orthogonal camera and wrong VIEWPORT_SIZE shader builtin ( GH-35406 ). IMPORTANT: This is a release candidate build, which means that it is not suitable yet for use in production, nor for press reviews of what Godot 3.2

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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

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 ). Import: Fix usages of mesh simplification functions in float=64 builds ( GH-67853 ). NET 6 build (C#, GDScript, GDExtension). What’s new.

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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. Notably, Godot 3.2.2 How to test. GLES2 2D batching. The fix made in the 3.2

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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. The upcoming Godot 3.2.2 stable in a day or two. How to test. GLES2 2D batching.

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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. 2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ). How to test.

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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. 2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ). How to test.

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Mnenad

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

First off: I learned a lot about Unity’s build in batching system. The whole point here is that it reduces the amount of draw calls.   Nevertheless, I also spent some money on the Advanced Foliage Shaders v.5. I just toggled the “Baked Pivots” option in the shader to ON. Draw call batching.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

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. build per se , the online documentation for Godot 3.2 2D batching for the GLES2 renderer.

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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. 2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ). How to test.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Open-ended curves can be desirable for avoiding shader divergence having to do with special-case handling of endcap normals. NVIDIA OptiX curves are currently back-face culled, so rays that enter through the open end of a curve will miss the curve completely. Open-ended curves are common and desirable and also better for performance.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

x releases, now that we have a fairly mature base to build upon. macOS: ARM64 build, code signing. Building upon the initial prototype , we've now reached a state where we're happy to release the Web editor in sync with the native version, so you can find the latest stable version on editor.godotengine.org. iOS: New plugin API.

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Nvidia

MAY 21, 2021

Recently, NetEase introduced Mesh Shader support to Justice. Soon we found we can combine Mesh Shaders with auto-generated LODs to achieve almost only-resolution-relevant rendering complexity, instead of polygon number. With so much potential of Mesh Shader, we conceive that it would be the main stream of future games.

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Nvidia

JULY 25, 2022

Topics include: General tips Maximizing GPU utilization when building Memory allocations Organizing geometries into BLASes Build preference flags Dynamic BLASes Non-opaque geometries Particles General tips Consider async compute for AS building. Consider worker threads for generating AS building command lists.

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 21, 2021

So it’s easy to interpolate d across a triangle while rasterizing, and things like hierarchical Z-buffers, early Z-culling, and depth buffer compression are all a lot easier to do. Keep the projection matrix separate from other matrices, and apply it in a separate operation in the vertex shader, rather than composing it into the view matrix.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Core: Promote object validity checks to release builds. Rendering: Portal occlusion culling. Shader language features. macOS: Mono universal build, GDNative Framework, notarization. Promote object validity checks to release builds. Portal occlusion culling. Large files support (> 2.0 and Godot 3.3.

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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

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 goal for Godot is to provide a great set of building blocks that can be used and combined to create more specialized game functions and tools. Specialized artist UIs.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

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 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET

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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

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 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET

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