Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The illustration picture for this article is a screenshot of Sandfire , an upcoming 3D person action-adventure game by Kmitt. The game was recently ported to Godot 4, see Kmitt’s YouTube channel and Twitter for devlogs and updates. Import: Fix swapped color channels in ETC1/ETC2 textures, etcpak expects BGRA data ( GH-69448 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2021

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. Multiple fixes to one-way collisions , handling many cases where collisions would not work reliably. WebXR support for VR games.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

C#: Fix restore not called when building game projects ( GH-40596 ) [regression fix]. Physics: Trigger broadphase update when changing collision layer/mask ( GH-39895 ). Physics: Fix laxist collision detection on one way shapes ( GH-39880 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

GridMap: Fix "Convert to MeshLibrary" not respecting collision transforms ( GH-56907 ). GUI: Fix TextureButton focus texture logic ( GH-56472 ). Import: Fix glTF scene export crash on null normal texture ( GH-56380 ). XR: Fix external textures being freed by Godot ( GH-56148 ). stable or since 3.4.3

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 25, 2023

Physics: Fix regression in collision detection for uniform scaling ( GH-71707 ). Rendering: Decrement texture_binding count when using screen textures ( GH-71764 ). Networking: Add “dedicated server” export mode which can strip unneeded visual resources ( GH-70377 ). However, we still try to provide a migration path for your projects.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 4, 2021

Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision ( GH-49075 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). C#: Ignore paths with invalid chars in PathWhich ( GH-50918 ). if something that worked fine in 3.3

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Import: Fix texture atlas generation when source sprite is larger than generated atlas ( GH-55094 ). macOS: Enable multithreaded OpenGL engine flag when using multithreaded VisualServer ( GH-54526 ). Physics: Fix test_move reporting collision when touching another body ( GH-54845 ). if something that worked fine in 3.4

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision ( GH-49075 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). C#: Ignore paths with invalid chars in PathWhich ( GH-50918 ). please file an issue on GitHub.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2021

WebXR support for VR games. Multiple fixes to one-way collisions. GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Optional GDNative support for HTML5.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 4, 2021

glTF is a growing 3D format and has received massive adoption in the game industry. Commonly selected as the format for new software and game engines, glTF can also have new functionality added using extensions. The nature of 3D can complicate the import/export process of a game character. bin + textures).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 16, 2021

Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision ( GH-49075 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). C#: Ignore paths with invalid chars in PathWhich ( GH-50918 ). if something that worked fine in 3.3

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2021

WebXR support for VR games. Multiple fixes to one-way collisions. GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Optional GDNative support for HTML5.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 19, 2021

WebXR support for VR games. Multiple fixes to one-way collisions. GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Optional GDNative support for HTML5.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

WebXR support for VR games. Multiple fixes to one-way collisions. GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Optional GDNative support for HTML5.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Import: Fix texture atlas generation when source sprite is larger than generated atlas ( GH-55094 ). Physics: Fix test_move reporting collision when touching another body ( GH-54845 ). Edit 2021-12-22: One regression has been found which causes flickering on macOS (affects both using the editor on macOS, and games exported to macOS).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Import: Fix texture atlas generation when source sprite is larger than generated atlas ( GH-55094 ). Physics: Fix test_move reporting collision when touching another body ( GH-54845 ). Import: Fix incorrect glTF cubic spline interpolation times/values size error ( GH-54805 ). iOS: Capture and display xcodebuild output ( GH-54711 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

WebXR support for VR games. Multiple fixes to one-way collisions. GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Optional GDNative support for HTML5.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Import: Fix texture atlas generation when source sprite is larger than generated atlas ( GH-55094 ). Physics: Fix test_move reporting collision when touching another body ( GH-54845 ). Import: Fix incorrect glTF cubic spline interpolation times/values size error ( GH-54805 ). if something that worked fine in 3.4

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

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. 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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

WebXR support for VR games. Multiple fixes to one-way collisions. GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Optional GDNative support for HTML5.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

Ignore support for S3TC texture compression on Android and iOS devices in GLES3 (already done since 3.4 In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. Fix a regression with file copy performance on Android.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. It is really as simple as that to get started, place them wherever you like in your game level. Full details are available in the updated docs. Two years ago (!),

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

stable branch in January 2020 as a major update to our free and open source game engine. You can join the translation effort on Weblate and help bring high quality localized documentation to game developers all over the world! C#: Allow debugging exported games ( GH-38115 ). Godot contributors released the Godot 3.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Physics: Improved logic for KinematicBody collision recovery depth ( GH-53451 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Physics: Improved logic for KinematicBody collision recovery depth ( GH-53451 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Physics: Improved logic for KinematicBody collision recovery depth ( GH-53451 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Physics: Improved logic for KinematicBody collision recovery depth ( GH-53451 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

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. 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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Additionally, all 2D shadows and light textures use a single atlas, resulting in improved performance. the new CanvasTexture texture type has been introduced. A very requested feature for the 2D engine is the possibility to have 2D directional lights and shadows. More work is also going towards the 2D engine.

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Radiator Blog

APRIL 9, 2021

Warning: this is a fairly technical game developer-y post. For an upcoming project commission, I'm making a 2D game with crowd simulation and simple controls that works well on mobile browsers. Which game engine should I use to maximize ease of learning and compatibility, and manage hundreds of simple objects on-screen?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Import: Respect texture filtering when importing glTF ( GH-59481 ). Particles: Adds amount property to collision sub particles ( GH-66349 ). GUI: Improve ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ). GUI: Fix ScrollContainer touch-scrolling not working ( GH-66559 ). GUI: Add Spritesheet support to RichTextLabel BBCode ( GH-67201 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Import: Respect texture filtering when importing glTF ( GH-59481 ). Particles: Adds amount property to collision sub particles ( GH-66349 ). GUI: Improve ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ). GUI: Fix ScrollContainer touch-scrolling not working ( GH-66559 ). GUI: Add Spritesheet support to RichTextLabel BBCode ( GH-67201 ).

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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. Godot is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing the world with the best possible free and open source game technology. Download Godot 3.2

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