Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 2023

For shaders, we removed the now-redundant SCREEN_TEXTURE , DEPTH_TEXTURE , and NORMAL_ROUGHNESS_TEXTURE ( GH-70967 ). Rendering: Remove SCREEN_TEXTURE , DEPTH_TEXTURE , and NORMAL_ROUGHNESS_TEXTURE ( GH-70967 ). See the PR for details on the rationale and how to adapt your code.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: A lot of bug fixes and improvements in these areas particularly, check out the PRs listed below: Animation, Navigation, GDScript, Rendering. However, many of you still used these properties in code, preferring degrees to radians. GH-59810 ).

Beta 101

Beta Dev Animation Animation 101

Nvidia

MARCH 20, 2023

NVIDIA at GDC 2023: Frame Generation and Path Tracing Tools Now Available Generate frames with the latest breakthrough in AI rendering Announced with the NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture, DLSS 3 raised the bar not just for visuals but also performance and responsiveness. Frame generation is the latest evolution.

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Ray Tracing Technology AI Shaders 87

iXie gaming

JULY 23, 2023

User-Friendly and Easy-to-Use Interface Unity’s user-friendliness and simplicity in terms of the interface help users in addition to requiring only a fundamental grasp of coding. This enhances Unity’s reputation as a fantastic game engine.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! iOS: Check Xcode output and display errors if code signing, project build or.ipa export failed ( GH-71212 ). Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ).

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Beta Dev Collision Render 110

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: A lot of bug fixes and improvements in these areas particularly, check out the PRs listed below: Animation, Navigation, GDScript, Rendering. However, many of you still used these properties in code, preferring degrees to radians. GH-59810 ).

Beta 78

Beta Dev Animation Animation 78

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

Rendering: Octahedral normal/tangent compression ( GH-60309 ). For users of previous alphas, we don't always have compatibility code to ease transition. If you run into upgrade issues that you can't solve easily, please let us know so we can consider how much inter-alpha compatibility code we need to add. for instructions.

Alpha 52

Alpha Dev Shaders Beta 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! iOS: Check Xcode output and display errors if code signing, project build or.ipa export failed ( GH-71212 ). Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ).

Beta 84

Beta Dev Collision Render 84

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Editor: Bring back the renderer options button on the main editor ( GH-70500 ). Editor: Remove compatibility code for MeshInstance3D surface override material ( GH-70466 ). Rendering: Add options for sorting transparent objects ( GH-69998 ). Rendering: Cleanup and improve sky render ( GH-70253 ).

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Beta Dev Render Animation 105

Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

If you’ve ever wondered what the best game engine is, we invite you to figure it out with us. Let’s discover their pros and cons so it will be easier to decide which engine suits your project better. Unity versus Unreal – this seems to be an ever-lasting battle in the game development world. Unity or Unreal?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

If you use and enjoy Godot, plan to use it, or want support the cause of having a mature, high quality free and open source game engine, then please consider becoming our patron. Godot can render at frame rates independent from the fixed physics tick rate. This ensures your game will run the same on all machines.

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Shaders Render Mesh Feature 53

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 2022

and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. Switch on physics/common/physics_interpolation , and Godot will now automatically interpolate objects on rendered frames so they look super smooth.

Beta 52

Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 2, 2022

GUI: Add ALT NUM+ {hex code} character input support for LineEdit, TextEdit and CodeEdit ( GH-55441 ). Rendering: Lots of progress on OpenGL3 with initial 3D support. Rendering: Fix normal and tangent blending in blend shapes ( GH-61217 ). Rendering: Use IGN instead of white noise for sky dithering ( GH-60641 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2022

and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. Rendering: Add material_overlay property to MeshInstance ( GH-50823 ). The main changes coming in Godot 3.5 Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

Beta 52

Beta Dev Shaders Console 52

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. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). and backported to 3.5.

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Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

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 ). and backported to 3.5.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 30, 2020

While not entirely rendering specific, a lot of nodes are being renamed. A very common complaint when using shadowmaps in Godot is that tweaking shadow bias is extremely difficult compared to other game engines. Accurate frame render time. you can only see the frames per second that takes rendering the whole editor.

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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. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). What is it?

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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. 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.

Render 52

Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. Switch on physics/common/physics_interpolation , and Godot will now automatically interpolate objects on rendered frames so they look super smooth.

Beta 52

Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Multiplayer: Move packet relay and peer signaling code to SceneMultiplayer ( GH-67094 ). Rendering: Add OpenGL timer queries to OpenGL3 backend ( GH-67032 ). Rendering: Improve behaviour of clip_children by clipping to parent alpha value but still retaining parent color ( GH-67043 ).

Beta 52

Beta Dev Render Alpha 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2022

and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. Switch on physics/common/physics_interpolation , and Godot will now automatically interpolate objects on rendered frames so they look super smooth.

Beta 52

Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Editor: Bring back the renderer options button on the main editor ( GH-70500 ). Editor: Remove compatibility code for MeshInstance3D surface override material ( GH-70466 ). Rendering: Add options for sorting transparent objects ( GH-69998 ). Rendering: Cleanup and improve sky render ( GH-70253 ).

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Beta Dev Render Animation 81

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 8, 2020

was a very simple voxel-based lightmapper that used the same code as GIProbe. While there are some simple libraries around, there is nothing close to a complete implementation of a lightmapper published with source code and a friendly license. Stay tuned for the next cool updates in rendering tech! The lightmapper in Godot 3.2

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Lightmap Baking Render Shaders 59

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. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). and backported to 3.5.

Render 52

Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2022

and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. Switch on physics/common/physics_interpolation , and Godot will now automatically interpolate objects on rendered frames so they look super smooth.

Beta 52

Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

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(). and backported to 3.5.

Render 52

Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

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. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). and backported to 3.5.

Render 52

Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 1, 2022

Core: Remake ResourceCache thread safety code and API ( GH-62309 ). Editor: Refactored shader editor, now a permanent bottom dock with support to edit multiple files ( GH-61459 ). Rendering: Add support for soft shadows to the GPU lightmapper ( GH-62054 ). Rendering: Fix usage of FSR 1.0 ( GH-62475 ).

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Alpha Dev Render Beta 52

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. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). and backported to 3.5.

Render 52

Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Most notably, users of the GDScript LSP in Visual Studio Code have been experiencing crashes in 3.3.3, Rendering: Prevent shaders from generating code before the constructor finishes ( GH-52475 ). was released a month ago, and a handful of important fixes have been queued in the 3.3 branch since then.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 24, 2022

GDExtension: Unify TextServer built-in module and GDExtension code ( GH-58233 ). Rendering: Add multiview support to the clustered forward renderer ( GH-49092 ). Rendering: Add sky cover texture for ProceduralSkyMaterial ( GH-58018 ). Editor: Make property paths and categories translatable ( GH-58706 ).

Alpha 52

Alpha Dev Bug Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Editor: Change code folding behavior to include terminal indented comments ( GH-63113 ). iOS: Workaround WebKit/ANGLE shader compilation bug for WebGL 2.0 ( GH-64811 ). Rendering: Fix skeleton 2D stale bounding rect ( GH-63071 ). Rendering: Fix multiple ubershader bugs ( GH-64096 ). please file an issue on GitHub.

Baking 52

Baking Render Collision Bug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Editor: Change code folding behavior to include terminal indented comments ( GH-63113 ). iOS: Workaround WebKit/ANGLE shader compilation bug for WebGL 2.0 ( GH-64811 ). Rendering: Fix skeleton 2D stale bounding rect ( GH-63071 ). Rendering: Fix multiple ubershader bugs ( GH-64096 ). if something that worked fine in 3.5

Render 52

Render Bug Collision Animation 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2020

Thanks to the ability to use Compute, the luminance reduction code that is required for auto-exposure was rewritten using parallel reduction. The glow and bloom code was rewritten. Besides now having been rewritten to use Compute, it also supports rendering to half resolution (a very requested feature by users, given SSAO in Goot 3.x

Texture 52

Texture Shaders Feature Engine 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Multiplayer: Move packet relay and peer signaling code to SceneMultiplayer ( GH-67094 ). Rendering: Add OpenGL timer queries to OpenGL3 backend ( GH-67032 ). Rendering: Improve behaviour of clip_children by clipping to parent alpha value but still retaining parent color ( GH-67043 ).

Beta 40

Beta Dev Render Alpha 40

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Most notably, users of the GDScript LSP in Visual Studio Code have been experiencing crashes in 3.3.3, Rendering: Prevent shaders from generating code before the constructor finishes ( GH-52475 ). was released a month ago, and a handful of important fixes have been queued in the 3.3 branch since then.

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