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. More engine enums are now bound with BitField, making their usage more type-safe, especially in C# ( GH-71037 , GH-71045 , GH-71116 ). beta releases.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

This RC 6 has a few notable changes compared to the previous build: In RC 4, async shader compilation and caching was enabled by default on desktop, but several users reported issues with it on some hardware. You can enable it in the Project Settings ( rendering/gles3/shaders/shader_compilation_mode ). Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Shaders: Many improvements backported from master ( GH-56794 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Shaders: Many improvements backported from master ( GH-56794 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). In-depth documentation is available.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Shaders: Many improvements backported from master ( GH-56794 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 17, 2022

and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Shaders: Many improvements backported from master ( GH-56794 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Shaders: Many improvements backported from master ( GH-56794 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Thirdparty library updates: embree 3.13.0,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). In-depth documentation is available.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Shaders: Many improvements backported from master ( GH-56794 ).

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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. 2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ). Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). Shaders: Add shader time scaling ( GH-38995 ). Godot contributors released the Godot 3.2

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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. Recently, NetEase introduced Mesh Shader support to Justice. Not only are the updated environments breathtaking, the game supports 1.8

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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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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. Keep the projection matrix separate from other matrices, and apply it in a separate operation in the vertex shader, rather than composing it into the view matrix.

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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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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. Shader language features. Portal occlusion culling. Shader language features.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: Added Viewport canvas cull mask feature ( GH-52350 ). Rendering: Enable mipmaps in cubemap roughness shader ( GH-68511 ). Rendering: Properly set TIME shader uniform when rendering shadows ( GH-68574 ). Multiplayer: Add peer authentication support to the default MultiplayerAPI( GH-67917 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). In-depth documentation is available.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). In-depth documentation is available.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). In-depth documentation is available.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). In-depth documentation is available.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). In-depth documentation is available.

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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 Materials and shaders. GPU particles.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Our script editor maintainer, Paul Batty ( Paulb23 ), implemented initial support for multi-caret editing in TextEdit, which is therefore usable in the GDScript and shader editors, as well as any other multi-line text field in the editor. Editor: Add multi-caret support to TextEdit (and the script/shader editors) ( GH-61902 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Our script editor maintainer, Paul Batty ( Paulb23 ), implemented initial support for multi-caret editing in TextEdit, which is therefore usable in the GDScript and shader editors, as well as any other multi-line text field in the editor. Editor: Add multi-caret support to TextEdit (and the script/shader editors) ( GH-61902 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: Added Viewport canvas cull mask feature ( GH-52350 ). Rendering: Enable mipmaps in cubemap roughness shader ( GH-68511 ). Rendering: Properly set TIME shader uniform when rendering shadows ( GH-68574 ). Multiplayer: Add peer authentication support to the default MultiplayerAPI( GH-67917 ).

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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. For more information see the article introducing sky shaders.

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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. For example: On GLES3+ we can use UBOs to optimize shader parameters. Shader abstraction. in only 4k lines of code!)

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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. 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.

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