Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2016

As many of you have probably heard, a new rendering backend is being worked on for Godot. Our goal is to have a modern, clustered renderer that supports everything mainstream engines support, including PBR, global illumination and flexible shader editing. Refactor the rendering API to make it easier to understand (and contribute to!).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 25, 2023

The beta snapshots cadence allows us to better measure the overall stability and quickly catch regressions, especially when a lot of features are worked on at the same time. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 2D: Add a method to get global CanvasItem modulate ( GH-70294 ). renderer support ( GH-71848 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Over the course of the last four months the engine has seen many changes, making it more stable and feature complete, and it's getting very close to the state that we would be happy with. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: One Copyright Update to rule them all ( GH-70885 ). beta releases.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 2023

Such cadence allows us to better measure the overall stability and quickly catch regressions, especially when a lot of features are worked on at the same time. A lot of minor fixes and improvements to TileMap and TileSet, both feature wise and in the editor ( GH-71604 , GH-71615 , GH-71618 , GH-71626 , GH-71630 , GH-71664 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 30, 2016

It's been a month since the second progress report , and progress continues towards the new Godot renderer. Implement Particle Shaders, with support for: Sorting, Collision and Soft Particles. Add Layered/Stencil rendering. renderer works entirely in linear space (Gamma is no longer supported). Introduction.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 3, 2016

It's been a month since the first progress report , and progress continues towards the new Godot renderer. Little by little every system falls into place, and rendering starts feeling a lot more mature. Implement Particle Shaders, with support for: Sorting, Collision and Soft Particles. Add Layered/Stencil rendering.

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Cocos

JUNE 11, 2023

In this version, we have integrated several core post-processing features and basic post-processing effects into the Custom Pipeline listing below: Anti-Aliasing: FXAA & TAA Disable TAA Enable TAA Super Resolution: FSR Disable FSR Enable FSR Ambient Occlusion: HBAO Bloom Custom Color Grading Disabled Enabled Starting from 3.8,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

We're working towards finalizing the feature set for 4.0 beta, reviewing many PRs which have been opened prior to our roadmap feature freeze announced a month ago. Same deal as usual, lots of bugs fixed and more refactoring and feature work. Rendering: Octahedral normal/tangent compression ( GH-60309 ). for instructions.

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Big Games

JANUARY 30, 2024

To ensure compatibility, you should identify the features and tools essential for your chosen genre. The software should have features that match the goals of your project, regardless of how big or little your production is. The visual aspects of the game significantly impact player engagement and enjoyment.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Over the course of the last four months the engine has seen many changes, making it more stable and feature complete, and it’s getting very close to the state that we would be happy with. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: One Copyright Update to rule them all ( GH-70885 ). beta releases.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The reception of beta 1 was surprisingly good – we're happy to see the community tinker with the beta, report bugs and provide feedback on the new features. There were a few very important features that we didn't manage to review in time for beta 1, and which have now been implemented in beta 2. So here's beta 2!

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Game Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Don’t bite off more than you can chew Once you have the base gameplay sorted, your next job is to decide what other features to add. That’s interesting and new gameplay for Among Us” There were plenty more features and mechanics the team considered adding. Double the screens, double the render.

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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. rendering may be slower for a second or two, but the slowdown will not be nearly as bad as the typical hiccup caused by classic synchronous compilation.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Such maintenance releases focus on fixing bugs and not on integrating new features. Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). Physics: Hack a hot fix for Bullet's collision margin regression ( GH-64875 ) [regression fix]. Rendering: Fix multiple ubershader bugs ( GH-64096 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

There were a few very important features that we didn’t manage to review in time for previous betas, and which have now been implemented in beta 3. Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ) reworked the features and user experience of Godot’s ColorPicker during Google Summer of Code 2022. Lots of rendering changes. Major changes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

There were a few very important features that we didn't manage to review in time for previous betas, and which have now been implemented in beta 3. Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ) reworked the features and user experience of Godot's ColorPicker during Google Summer of Code 2022. Lots of rendering changes. Major changes.

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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. You can enable it in the Project Settings ( rendering/gles3/shaders/shader_compilation_mode ). The upcoming Godot 3.5 stable for all users. back in 2020!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The reception of beta 1 was surprisingly good – we’re happy to see the community tinker with the beta, report bugs and provide feedback on the new features. There were a few very important features that we didn’t manage to review in time for beta 1, and which have now been implemented in beta 2. So here’s beta 2!

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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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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

branch, but it grew to become a feature-packed update well worth of opening a new stable branch. As such, most of the focus was on implementing missing features or bugfixes which are critical for publishing 2D and 3D games with Godot 3, and on making the existing features more optimized and reliable. update to the 3.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2021

release is going to be packed with many new features. New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends, which should fix some issues and improve performance significantly in games using a high number of dynamic objects. In this beta, the dynamic BVH is the default option for both physics and rendering. mbedtls 2.16.9,

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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. rendering may be slower for a second or two, but the slowdown will not be nearly as bad as the typical hiccup caused by classic synchronous compilation.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

is going to be incredibly feature-packed, and we're taking the time necessary to ensure that it will also be stable. After a lot of testing and additional work, we decided that the new 2D snapping features weren't working as we want them to yet, so they has been reverted in 3.2.4 Multiple fixes to one-way collisions.

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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. and provide the missing features that 3.5 The upcoming Godot 3.5 We are now at the Release Candidate stage, finalizing everything so that we can release 3.5-stable

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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. Notably, it fixes some rendering regressions with transparent materials, and crashing iOS templates and Web editor build in RC 2. The upcoming Godot 3.5

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

release, which is already quite feature-packed a mere 3 months after the 3.3 and included in this beta are: Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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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. rendering may be slower for a second or two, but the slowdown will not be nearly as bad as the typical hiccup caused by classic synchronous compilation.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

has been in beta for over two months , and the overall feature completeness, stability and usability have improved a lot during that time. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Add track validator to AnimationPlayerEditor to detect tracks which have error ( GH-68770 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 19, 2021

We needed a test framework because physics features have many different use cases, and it's easy to break something while fixing or improving something else. Godot Physics features. The transition requires adding missing features that were supported only with Bullet. Cylinder collision shape. Heightmap collision shape.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 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). The upcoming Godot 3.4

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 12, 2021

A significant part of my work those past two months has mostly been about reimplementing most of the already existing TileSet features, while introducing more flexibility to it. Most of TileSet's systems (rendering, collisions, physics, navigation, …) are now using a concept of "layers" (this might be renamed).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In parallel to our work on the upcoming feature releases Godot 3.5 ( with a first beta ) and 4.0 ( now at alpha 3! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 Core: Fix ProjectSettings.has_setting() to handle feature overrides like get_setting() ( GH-57972 ). Rendering: Fix invalid read when using LightOccluder2D ( GH-56859 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 This beta 6 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 24, 2020

was released on June 26 with over 3 months' worth of development, including many bugfixes and a handful of features. Physics: Trigger broadphase update when changing collision layer/mask ( GH-39895 ). Physics: Fix laxist collision detection on one way shapes ( GH-39880 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 With this third Release Candidate , we have frozen feature development and are nearly ready to release the stable version. GLES3 renderer). Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 With this second Release Candidate , we have frozen feature development and are nearly ready to release the stable version. GLES3 renderer). Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 19, 2021

The version change doesn't mean that we're reopening the branch for new features, and so Godot 3.3 New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. Multiple fixes to one-way collisions. The main new features are highlighted in bold. GLES2: Improve PCF13 shadow rendering by using a soft PCF filter ( GH-46301 ).

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