Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Often writes the least code overall among the engineers, but the code she writes is also the most mission critical because she has the best understanding of how everything fits together. Writes shaders, writes scripts, works with code. She writes that stuff.

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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. Shader Graph and VFX Graph are two such tools that empower developers to craft complex shaders and breath-taking visual effects with relative ease.

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The Liquid Fire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

From there I used Sphere, an open source 2d Engine that scripted in javascript. link] [link] [link] [link] [link] Prerequisites Some knowledge of code is definitely going to help here. I’ll be writing most code in Godot’s Gdscript, so familiarity with that or Python will help. x for this tutorial.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

We recommend using the Time singleton as much as possible so that your code will be forward compatible with 4.0. adds the concept of "scene unique names" for nodes to help with the common task of accessing specific nodes from scripts. Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader). Label3D and TextMesh.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

A couple fixes to the text resource loader which could impact notably reloading scripts ( GH-71170 ). 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 ). Add expand modes to TextureRect ( GH-58517 ).

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Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 24, 2022

If you’re a complete beginner who never coded a single game in Unity, start with the tutorial in the link below: Getting Started With Unity And C# If however, you know how to create basic games in Unity on your own, then you can follow this tutorial to implement this effect in your game. What Is a Shader?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 20, 2015

Rewritten Auto-Completion in the Code-Editor. Supports a lot of scenarios and perform smart-completion of node types if a scene where the script is being used is open. Visual Shader Editor (Edit shaders connecting nodes). Largely rewritten 2D engine, with support for: Shaders (Visual and Code). 2D Materials.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 8, 2017

Optimize any part of your game by rewriting it transparently in C++, or any language that can compiled to native code for the target platform, wihout recompiling the engine or templates. Add external scripting languages, such as Lua, Python, etc. Seeing the code. Bind to any external libraries (e.g. SQLite, Steam, etc.)

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

A couple fixes to the text resource loader which could impact notably reloading scripts ( GH-71170 ). 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 ). Add expand modes to TextureRect ( GH-58517 ).

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

The easy-to-learn language code is another aspect that makes the engine a top choice among developers worldwide. Coding The very first thing you need to know is that both engines have a visual code editor – Blueprint in Unreal Engine and Prefab in Unity. The program in Unity will inform you about issues or incorrect code.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 10, 2019

It's much faster and we can instantly see the effects as we modify the shader. Talk: GDScript coding guidelines at GDQuest | Răzvan Cosmin Rădulescu ( razcore-art ). He splits his work time between writing code himself, and helping other contributors make good changes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

macOS: ARM64 build, code signing. 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). macOS: ARM64 build, code signing. Platforms: Godot editor on the Web!

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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. The Android plugin documentation has been updated with instructions on how to write plugins for this new system. 2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

release (there is just too much new code that needs to be tested throughly). This will allow creating custom renderers or plugging custom code during the rendering steps, which is very useful for custom rendering techniques or post processes. in large amounts of those objects and the user only has to fill in the code logic.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 10, 2020

There is a high demand from Godot users in countries and cultures where right-to-left writing systems are used to have proper support for it in Godot (such as Arabic, Hebrew, etc.). we want to move our texture compressors to GPU using compute shaders. To work around this, for Godot 4.0, Other many smaller usability issues.

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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. We asked them to write a progress report to present what they're working on and the current status. Multi window code editors by trollodel. Multi window code editors. PRs: #62075 , #62910. Project description.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 22, 2019

release, the Visual Shader editor was recreated from the ashes of its Godot 2.x While usable and packed with visual features, Visual Shaders lacked many features from their Shader (script) big brother. All the added nodes are compatible with pre-existing visual shaders. With the Godot 3.1 x ancestor. Members menu.

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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: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). 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: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). Audio: Add Listener2D node ( GH-53429 ).

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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: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). Audio: Add Listener2D node ( GH-53429 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

It brings a brand new rendering engine with state-of-the-art PBR workflow for 3D, an improved assets pipeline, GDNative to load native code as plugins, C# 7.0 Materials and shaders. Visual Scripting. Materials and shaders. writing shaders is very easy! A year ago, we decided to skip the release of Godot 2.2

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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: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). Audio: Add Listener2D node ( GH-53429 ).

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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. Coding tools.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Editor: Allow dropping property path into script editor ( GH-51629 ). Editor: Auto-reload scripts with external editor ( GH-51828 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

As users, please report all bugs that you encounter and provide as much detail as you can (including screenshots, code, and where possible, a minimal reproduction project). While our existing integration testing can highlight critical issues preventing the code from compiling or running, it does little to ensure the stability of the engine.

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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. To simplify some of the most common constructs in input handling code for character movement, Aaron Franke ( aaronfranke ) added two new helper methods : Input.get_axis() and Input.get_vector(). Shader language features.

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Mnenad

JANUARY 25, 2018

The code calculates Instantiations (spawning assets with the given parameters), which is quite heavy for the system to calculate.   So, first off let’s find the part of the script where the chunks are being generated.   And unfortunately compute shaders are not supported on Apple machines… argh.

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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. A lot of developers prefer to use their familiar tools when it comes to writing and debugging code. Stepping the code, and stepping in function calls ( next/stepIn ). Setting breakpoints ( setBreakpoints ).

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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 ). I've asked all students to write a short progress report about their projects, which are all in the last stages of development for the GSoC internship. sdfgeoff is so responsible, he carefully reviews all my commits down to every line of code.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 18, 2021

At the time I was looking for an engine with a built-in visual editor because I was tired of moving things around by typing coordinates in code. Just drop some images in and drag them onto the canvas, attach a script, write a few lines of GDScript and you've got the beginning of a game. I'd be much less productive for sure.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Nonetheless Betsy implemented compute-shader versions for BC1,3,4,5,6, ETC1,2 and EAC algorithms. More importantly, Betsy was developed with integration to Godot in mind, which is why its code has been isolated and abstracted from API details, written in GLSL shaders since Godot uses Vulkan. encode A.png into A.etc1.ktx

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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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