Collision, Feature, Scripting and Shaders

Creating a See-Through | X-Ray Effect In Unity – Shader Tutorial

Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 24, 2022

What Is a Shader? Since the main premise of this effect is going to be a shader, we’ll start with explaining what a shader is. A shader is a script where you write code that determines how the colors will be rendered based on various scenarios like lighting and material configuration.

Shaders

Shaders Pixel Scripting Render

New improvements for GPUParticles in Godot 4.0

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 7, 2020

This was the final feature that had to be ported over. Like all the rest of the features ported, it managed to get massive improvements. GPUParticles : Processes particles on GPU, allows very large amount of particles at little cost, and with ability to write custom particle shaders. Allows collisions against the physics world.

Collision

Collision Shaders Terrain Baking

How to get started with Unity Game Development – Tips & Tricks from iXie Experts

iXie gaming

AUGUST 17, 2023

Start small Begin by creating small, achievable projects to gain a solid understanding of Unity’s features and workflows. Learn C# Unity uses C# as its primary scripting language. Make the most of Unity documentation and tutorials Unity provides extensive documentation and tutorials that cover various topics and features.

Game Developer

Game Developer Game Development Development Shaders

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 15

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. Support script global resource name in EditorFileSystem, making Quick Open work with custom resources ( GH-71683 , GH-71687 ). This fixes a regression in beta 14.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Shaders

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

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. now and read on to learn more about the many new features in this update. Shader language features.

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

A couple fixes to the text resource loader which could impact notably reloading scripts ( GH-71170 ). Physics fixes and improvements for sphere-capsule, sphere-box, sphere-cylinder, and capsule-cylinder collisions ( GH-70660 , GH-70787 ). Physics: Fix sphere-capsule collision logic ( GH-70660 ). See the list below.

Beta

Beta Dev Collision Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 15

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. Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable.

Alpha

Alpha Dev Shaders Beta

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 14

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 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Animation Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 8

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 ). GH-68870 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Shaders

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

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. Be sure to report anything that stops working as expected in your scripts. Editor: Fix error when dropping script into script editor ( GH-70580 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

A couple fixes to the text resource loader which could impact notably reloading scripts ( GH-71170 ). Physics fixes and improvements for sphere-capsule, sphere-box, sphere-cylinder, and capsule-cylinder collisions ( GH-70660 , GH-70787 ). Export: Fix missing “debug”/”release” export presets feature tags ( GH-71274 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Collision Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

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. Be sure to report anything that stops working as expected in your scripts. Editor: Fix error when dropping script into script editor ( GH-70580 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

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 ). C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

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. and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). The upcoming Godot 3.5 stable for all users.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

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

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Like in previous release cycles, a beta release means that we are happy with the features that have been included and we don’t plan on adding any major new features before release (except for a few that have been discussed and planned in advance). the sooner we can start the next feature development cycle for 4.1! beta 1 now!

Beta

Beta Engine Engineering Animation

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. 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!

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

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. Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4 Please report any issue.

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

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. Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4 Please report any issue.

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

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

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 This beta 4 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

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. and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). The upcoming Godot 3.5 stable for all users.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

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. and provide the missing features that 3.5 and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ).

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

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. and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). The upcoming Godot 3.5 stable for all users.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 This beta 5 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Maintenance release: Godot 3.5.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Such maintenance releases focus on fixing bugs and not on integrating new features. Animation: Fix AnimationNode has_filter not being called in scripts ( GH-64560 ). 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 ).

Baking

Baking Render Collision Bug

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. and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). The upcoming Godot 3.5 stable for all users.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

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. Multi-caret support in TextEdit and script editors ( GH-61902 ). Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ) reworked the features and user experience of Godot’s ColorPicker during Google Summer of Code 2022.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

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. Multi-caret support in TextEdit and script editors ( GH-61902 ). Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ) reworked the features and user experience of Godot's ColorPicker during Google Summer of Code 2022.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Debug

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 9, 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 ). or earlier (see GH-42051 ). RC 5 and RC 6.

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 8

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 ). GH-68870 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Shaders

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

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 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.3

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 C#: Fix getting properties state when reloading scripts ( GH-56300 ). Core: Fix ProjectSettings.has_setting() to handle feature overrides like get_setting() ( GH-57972 ).

Render

Render Texture Scripting Agent

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 and included in this beta are: Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Maintenance release: Godot 3.5.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Such maintenance releases focus on fixing bugs and not on integrating new features. Animation: Fix AnimationNode has_filter not being called in scripts ( GH-64560 ). 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 ).

Baking

Baking Render Collision Bug

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

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

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.3 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

C#: Fix getting properties state when reloading scripts ( GH-56300 ). C#: Attach mono thread before getting nativeName field, fixing potential tool script crash ( GH-57739 ). Core: Fix ProjectSettings.has_setting() to handle feature overrides like get_setting() ( GH-57972 ). C#: Fix KeyValuePairAt memory leak ( GH-56183 ).

Render

Render Texture Bug Scripting

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.3

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Physics: Trigger broadphase update when changing collision layer/mask ( GH-39895 ). Physics: Fix laxist collision detection on one way shapes ( GH-39880 ). Script editor: Don't open dominant script in external editor ( GH-40735 ). Shaders: Fix specular render_mode for Visual Shaders ( GH-41536 ).

Bug

Bug Collision Build Texture

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

installment, bringing dozens of major features and hundreds of bugfixes and enhancements to bring our game developers an ever-improving feature set with a strong focus on usability. now and read on to learn more about its history , our support plans and the many new features in this update. Download Godot 3.2 March 2019).

Render

Render Feature Shaders Bug

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

support, Bullet as the 3D physics engine, and many other features which are described in depth below. which would have included new multiplayer networking, visual scripting and many other improvements) because we realized that projects using the new features would no longer work in 3.0, New features of Godot 3.0.

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

Getting started with HaxeFlixel in 2021

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.)

Sprite

Sprite Simulation Build Animation

GSoC 2021 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 30, 2021

Implementation-wise, building the backend was sometimes simple, sometimes challenging, but overall a very rewarding experience, as this is my first time contributing features to the Godot Engine, and not just occasional bugfixing. Fake Bidi : Some writing systems like the Arabic script use a Right-To-Left system. The demo project.

Debug

Debug Simulation Communications Feature

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

branch is worked on in parallel and receives minor updates to fix bugs, improve usability and occasionally add some compatible features. we could take the time to add some new features to the 3.2 we could take the time to add some new features to the 3.2 Some of those features had already been partially implemented before the 3.2

Debug

Debug Point and Click Bug Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2020

is turning out to be quite feature-packed and we've been taking the time to iterate with four beta snapshots and two release candidates (RC). is going to add 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform , courtesy of Ignacio ( neikeq ). 2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ). The upcoming Godot 3.2.2

Beta

Beta Debug Bug Point and Click

Creating a See-Through | X-Ray Effect In Unity – Shader Tutorial

New improvements for GPUParticles in Godot 4.0

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 15

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 15

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 14

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 8

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 4

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 7

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Maintenance release: Godot 3.5.1

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 5

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 6

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 8

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Maintenance release: Godot 3.5.1

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

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.3 RC 2

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.3

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Getting started with HaxeFlixel in 2021

GSoC 2021 - Progress report #1

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

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