Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 18, 2020

While this is not a feature per se, it fixes a major annoyance that users have had with pointers to freed objects unexpectedly being re-assigned to new objects, causing hard-to-debug issues. this bug was fixed with a more comprehensive approach which prevents dangling Variant pointers in both release and debug builds. Other changes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

Exporting C# projects to iOS should be done from macOS using the classical workflow , and the scripts will be automatically compiled Ahead-of-Time (AOT) for iOS. Such pointer could be reported as valid even though the memory it points to was not, or worse, that memory could now hold a different object, leading to hard to debug situations.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 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. Debugger: Add --debug-server command line option to listen for incoming connections ( GH-60819 ). Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

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Cocos

AUGUST 16, 2023

Preface In the last article , Kylin shared how to add your own post-effect Shader in the custom render pipeline in Cocos Creator 3.8. However, based on the BlitScreen solution, we can only write the simplest post-effect Shader. Today Kylin will use Gaussian blur to demonstrate how to write a multi-pass post-effect shader.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Animation: Fix AnimationNode has_filter not being called in scripts ( GH-64560 ). Editor: Change code folding behavior to include terminal indented comments ( GH-63113 ). GUI: Expose Tabs set / get_tab_button_icon() to scripting ( GH-64707 ). iOS: Workaround WebKit/ANGLE shader compilation bug for WebGL 2.0 ( GH-64811 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 12, 2020

While this is not a feature per se, it fixes a major annoyance that users have had with pointers to freed objects unexpectedly being re-assigned to new objects, causing hard-to-debug issues. this bug was fixed with a more comprehensive approach which prevents dangling Variant pointers in both release and debug builds. Other changes.

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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 ). Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 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. Debugger: Add --debug-server command line option to listen for incoming connections ( GH-60819 ). Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

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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. Debugger: Add --debug-server command line option to listen for incoming connections ( GH-60819 ). Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 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. Debugger: Add --debug-server command line option to listen for incoming connections ( GH-60819 ). Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

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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. Debugger: Add --debug-server command line option to listen for incoming connections ( GH-60819 ). Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

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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. Debugger: Add --debug-server command line option to listen for incoming connections ( GH-60819 ). Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

macOS: ARM64 build, code signing. Raise errors when accessing deleted objects in debug. Fabio Alessandrelli ( Faless ) has done a lot of work to enable running the Godot editor on the Web, using the same export code as for Godot-made games (since the Godot editor is developed 100% with the Godot API). iOS: New plugin API.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2020

While this is not a feature per se, it fixes a major annoyance that users have had with pointers to freed objects unexpectedly being re-assigned to new objects, causing hard-to-debug issues. this bug was fixed with a more comprehensive approach which prevents dangling Variant pointers in both release and debug builds. Other changes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 12, 2016

Move export GUI debug toggle to export settings window. Script editor usability improvements: Autocomplete no longer shows duplicates. Fixed code completion after opening bracket. Fix shader editor syntax coloring. Allow dragging on only one (global) axis when holding down shift. New Dictionary.has_all(Array).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 9, 2016

The idea is that users can post assets, scripts, addons, etc. Live script reloading. Tired of having to reload your game for each small little code change or fix? Godot now supports live script reloading! Simply save your script and it will be updated in the running game. Script editor usability improvements.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2022

Like in previous years, Godot is participating again in the Google Summer of Code program for its 2022 edition. Multi window code editors by trollodel. Multi window code editors. Project: Allow undocking the Script editor and the Shader editor. GPU lightmapper enhancements by Priyansh Rathi ( techiepriyansh ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Multi-caret support in TextEdit and script editors ( GH-61902 ). 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. GH-67128 , GH-67131 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Multi-caret support in TextEdit and script editors ( GH-61902 ). 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. GH-67128 , GH-67131 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Audio: Add Listener2D node ( GH-53429 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Audio: Add Listener2D node ( GH-53429 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Audio: Add Listener2D node ( GH-53429 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Audio: Add Listener2D node ( GH-53429 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Editor: Add custom debug shape thickness and color options to RayCast ( GH-49726 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Editor: Fix reload scripts error after saving in external editor ( GH-68203 ). Editor: Disable code font ligatures by default in the editor ( GH-68571 ). Rendering: Fix several render issues found while debugging XR ( GH-68102 ). Rendering: Add texture reading code to OpenGL3 renderer for web and mobile ( GH-68138 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 30, 2021

Like in previous years, Godot is participating again in the Google Summer of Code program for its 2021 edition. Here are the 5 projects/students with links to the relevant sections in this post: Implementing a DAP backend for debugging Godot projects by Ricardo Subtil ( Ev1lbl0w ). Student: Ricardo Subtil ( Ev1lbl0w ). PR: #50454.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

Visual Shaders overhaul. Coding tools. as default target, and the rewrite of the Mono-specific editor code in C# (ported from C++). Visual Shaders overhaul. introduced a new graph-based editor to edit shaders visually, reimplemented from the previous version that was included in Godot 2.1. New editor features.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Shader language features. by calling queue_free() ) but is still accessed somewhere else in a script. Such use-after-free access needs to be guarded with is_instance_valid(obj) , but this has been surprisingly difficult to get right due to a number of bugs and inconsistencies between debug and release builds. and Godot 3.3.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Editor: Fix reload scripts error after saving in external editor ( GH-68203 ). Editor: Disable code font ligatures by default in the editor ( GH-68571 ). Rendering: Fix several render issues found while debugging XR ( GH-68102 ). Rendering: Add texture reading code to OpenGL3 renderer for web and mobile ( GH-68138 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 25, 2018

For the first time this year, Godot participates in the Google Summer of Code ( GSoC ). sdfgeoff is so responsible, he carefully reviews all my commits down to every line of code. Textures, normal maps and some of the BSDF shaders are already well supported. Here is a link to my branch and the code I’ve written so far: [link].

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Radiator Blog

APRIL 9, 2021

The engine should be able to render and simulate 200+ lightweight game objects -- frame-animated sprites with simple collision, no fancy physics or shaders. Construct : seems ok, and I think I could've gotten used to the visual block scripting, but overall the pricing and licensing feels weirdly restrictive. and no WASM.)

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 29, 2020

As we announced a few months ago , Godot is participating again in the Google Summer of Code program for its 2020 edition. You can find some example code in the PR and check the docs of the Performance class (not updated at the time of writing). So they either have to read the source code or to search help through the Internet.

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