Collision, Culling, Development and Mobile

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

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. Physics: Bind methods related to disabling collision between joint bodies ( GH-70477 ). Physics: Implement collision impulse in Godot Physics 3D ( GH-70281 ). What's new.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

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. Physics: Bind methods related to disabling collision between joint bodies ( GH-70477 ). Physics: Implement collision impulse in Godot Physics 3D ( GH-70281 ). What’s new.

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The 7 deadliest game dev sins. Are you guilty of any of them?

Awesome Tuts

APRIL 8, 2022

It makes no sense whatsoever, and it will add at least 2-3 months, if not more development time to your work. #4 It means you type a string manually every time you need it e.g. when checking collisions, getting a game object in the scene, getting a child object from a parent, etc. 5 Overusing cameras, especially on mobile devices.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. A long-standing Bullet regression has finally been fixed ( GH-56801 ), solving issues with KinematicBody collisions on edges (e.g. The upcoming Godot 3.5

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Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Physics: Bullet: KinematicBody compound shape collision fix ( GH-56801 ). stable for all users.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Physics: Bullet: KinematicBody compound shape collision fix ( GH-56801 ). stable for all users.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Physics: Bullet: KinematicBody compound shape collision fix ( GH-56801 ). stable for all users.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Physics: Bullet: KinematicBody compound shape collision fix ( GH-56801 ). stable for all users.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Physics: Bullet: KinematicBody compound shape collision fix ( GH-56801 ). stable for all users.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 17, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Physics: Bullet: KinematicBody compound shape collision fix ( GH-56801 ). stable for all users.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2021

A new software skinning for MeshInstance to replace the slow GPU skinning on devices that don't support the fast GPU skinning (especially mobile). Multiple fixes to one-way collisions. Physics: Fix multiple issues with one-way collisions ( GH-42574 ). Physics: Allow CollisionObject to show collision shape meshes ( GH-45783 ).

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Render Collision Build Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 19, 2021

A new software skinning for MeshInstance to replace the slow GPU skinning on devices that don't support the fast GPU skinning (especially mobile). Multiple fixes to one-way collisions. Physics: Fix multiple issues with one-way collisions ( GH-42574 ). Physics: Allow CollisionObject to show collision shape meshes ( GH-45783 ).

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Render Collision Build Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

A new software skinning for MeshInstance to replace the slow GPU skinning on devices that don't support the fast GPU skinning (especially mobile). Multiple fixes to one-way collisions. Physics: Fix multiple issues with one-way collisions ( GH-42574 ). Physics: Allow CollisionObject to show collision shape meshes ( GH-45783 ).

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Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

All Godot contributors are delighted to release our latest milestone today, Godot 3.3 , after more than 7 months of development! While most development focus is on our upcoming Godot 4.0 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.

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Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

All Godot contributors are delighted to release our latest milestone today, Godot 3.4 , after more than 6 months of development! While most development focus is on our upcoming Godot 4.0 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.

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The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

with 17 alpha builds distributed in 2022, and continuous development effort since 2019. the sooner we can start the next feature development cycle for 4.1! with a new project to test out exciting new features and provide valuable feedback to the development team before 4.0 It has been a long road to Godot 4.0 is set in stone.

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Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

After more than 18 months of development, all Godot Engine contributors are proud to present our biggest release so far, Godot 3.0! For low-end systems or mobile devices, we provide a more classical lightmapping workflow. Godot will pick the right compression for textures when importing for mobile, and supply them over the network.

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Godot's new renderer, progress report #2

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 3, 2016

Implement Particle Shaders, with support for: Sorting, Collision and Soft Particles. Improve Culling: Portals (rewrite as polygon-based) and Rooms. This means: Cubemap arrays are not supported in older hardware, mobile and WebGL2, and reflections need to be put into an atlas (for single-pass forward or clustered). uses GLES 3.0

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

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