Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2022

Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). Extensive documentation will be available soon. mbedtls 2.16.11.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2022

Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

using data oriented algorithms to process the culling of objects and both secondary command buffers and automatic batching to efficiently submit the draw primitives. returns to its own physics engine which, despite not being a high end physics engine like PhysX, aims to offer a lot more flexibility and “just works” capabilities to users.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). In-depth documentation is available. mbedtls 2.16.11.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2022

Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

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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. Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Godot contributors released the Godot 3.2 But Godot 4.0 CSG: Various bug fixes ( GH-38011 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). In-depth documentation is available.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2021

Rendering: Various fixes to light culling ( GH-46694 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Godot is a non-profit, open source game engine developed by hundreds of contributors on their free time, and a handful of part or full-time developers, hired thanks to donations from the Godot community.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 19, 2021

Rendering: Various fixes to light culling ( GH-46694 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Godot is a non-profit, open source game engine developed by hundreds of contributors on their free time, and a handful of part or full-time developers, hired thanks to donations from the Godot community.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

Rendering: Various fixes to light culling ( GH-46694 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Godot is a non-profit, open source game engine developed by hundreds of contributors on their free time, and a handful of part or full-time developers, hired thanks to donations from the Godot community.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

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Nvidia

MAY 21, 2021

NetEase Thunder Fire Games Uses Mesh Shading To Create Beautiful Game Environments for Justice In December, we interviewed Haiyong Qian, NetEase Game Engine. Not only are the updated environments breathtaking, the game supports 1.8 With MeshShaders, the culling algorithms we use can be of great flexibility.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 17, 2022

Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

in January 2020, we switched the development focus towards the upcoming Godot 4.0 , which is a major, compatibility-breaking rewrite of the engine's core and rendering. Additional funding will enable us to hire more core developers to work full-time on the engine, and thus further improve its development pace and stability.

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Many articles and papers have been written on the topic, and a variety of different depth buffer formats and setups are found across different games, engines, and devices. Depth precision is a pain that every graphics programmer has to struggle with sooner or later. Graphing depth maps Equations are hard; here are some pictures!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Donations and corporate grants play a vital role in enabling us to develop Godot at this sustained pace, since they are our only source of income, and are used 100% to pay developers to work on the engine. Rendering: Portal occlusion culling. Portal occlusion culling. Thanks to all of you patrons from the bottom of our hearts!

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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! 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 New audio engine. GPU particles.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

beta just yet as we expect the engine to be unstable until we have more testing done. Throughout the last two years the core of the engine has seen a lot of improvements and refactoring to bring it to the next level in terms of maintainability, reliability, and performance. We don’t recommend migrating large projects to the Godot 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: Added Viewport canvas cull mask feature ( GH-52350 ). Godot is a non-profit, open source game engine developed by hundreds of contributors on their free time, and a handful of part or full-time developers, hired thanks to donations from the Godot community.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

And for people doing engine development, there’s a new dev_build option which can be used together with target to enable dev-specific code and also affects a few presets. Rendering: Vulkan: Fix culling of negatively-scaled objects ( GH-67176 ). target=template_debug : Debug template, optimized, with debugging code.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

And for people doing engine development, there's a new dev_build option which can be used together with target to enable dev-specific code and also affects a few presets. Rendering: Vulkan: Fix culling of negatively-scaled objects ( GH-67176 ). target=template_debug : Debug template, optimized, with debugging code.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: Added Viewport canvas cull mask feature ( GH-52350 ). Godot is a non-profit, open source game engine developed by hundreds of contributors on their free time, and a handful of part or full-time developers, hired thanks to donations from the Godot community.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). In-depth documentation is available.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Previous engines we have developed (we as in Juan Linietsky and Ariel Manzur) did not really use this architecture and everything was provided via simple classes with inheritance and polymorphism. This was fine, as our engine ran in a single thread (which was common, as most CPU architectures were single-core back then).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 3, 2016

Improve Culling: Portals (rewrite as polygon-based) and Rooms. In Godot, unlike in other engines, probes are also implemented as dual paraboloid. Other popular game engines present hard edges between one probe and the next. TODO for Milestone #3 (December 2016). Add Clustered lighting (before this all is forward).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Physics: Various fixes to 2D and 3D KinematicBody move_and_slide and move_and_collide ( GH-50495 ). beta 5 and beta 6.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Physics: Various fixes to 2D and 3D KinematicBody move_and_slide and move_and_collide ( GH-50495 ). beta 6 and RC 1.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Physics: Various fixes to 2D and 3D KinematicBody move_and_slide and move_and_collide ( GH-50495 ). RC 2 and RC 3.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Physics: Various fixes to 2D and 3D KinematicBody move_and_slide and move_and_collide ( GH-50495 ). RC 1 and RC 2.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Godot uses a considerably different approach to rendering (and rendering abstraction) than other, popular, game engines. Rendering engineers are rare to find, so this can be a starting point. As for DirectX12, it's only relevant for Windows/UWP, so there is no strong incentive for us to support it as a cross-platform engine.

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