Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. Physics: Allow to apply the angular velocity of a moving platform ( GH-63650 ). Rendering: Visual instance layers are regarded during shadow culling ( GH-70638 ). What’s new.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 24, 2020

Rendering: Fix shadow culling with orthogonal camera and wrong VIEWPORT_SIZE shader builtin ( GH-35406 ). Instead, browse one of our download repository and fetch the editor binary that matches your platform: Classical build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). Mono: Various bug fixes ( GH-35372 , GH-35407 , GH-35472 , GH-35478 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Particles: Add ring emitter for 3D particles ( GH-47801 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

In this build, we also built it for 32-bit platforms (armv7 and x86) as there was some demand for it, so you'll find the APK is a bit heavier. 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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Windows: Fix platform file access to allow file sharing with external programs ( GH-51430 ). Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Particles: Add ring emitter for 3D particles ( GH-47801 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 22, 2020

is going to add 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform , courtesy of Ignacio ( neikeq ). Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). GDNative: Fix Variant size on 32-bit platforms ( GH-38799 ). After refining our Godot 3.2 merge window but have been further developed and backported since.

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Grumpy Gamer

MAY 25, 2020

Delores had/has two full-time paid testers and before any build was uploaded to a store, it got a good deal of testing around the fix, plus a complete play through of 30 photos was required on each platform. Each of the stores uses the same "bits", but we still had to download each platform from each store and do a run through.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

includes 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform. This nearly completes the platform support for C# projects in Godot (only UWP support is still missing). Our networking maintainer Fabio has been working for over a year on networking features and the HTML5 platform thanks to an award from Mozilla.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2020

is going to add 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform , courtesy of Ignacio ( neikeq ). Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). GDNative: Fix Variant size on 32-bit platforms ( GH-38799 ). This beta 4 fixes some regressions and adds more bug fixes to make the upcoming release even better.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 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 7, 2020

is going to add 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform , courtesy of Ignacio ( neikeq ). Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). Instead, browse our download repository and fetch the editor binary that matches your platform: Classical build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript).

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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. Core: Fix platform-specific issues with OS.set_current_screen() ( GH-63192 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

We switched it back to disabled by default for all platforms. 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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2020

is going to add 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform , courtesy of Ignacio ( neikeq ). Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). GDNative: Fix Variant size on 32-bit platforms ( GH-38799 ). stable in a day or two. Notably, Godot 3.2.2 Core: Fix dangling Variants ( GH-38119 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 18, 2020

is going to add 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform , courtesy of Ignacio ( neikeq ). Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). GDNative: Fix Variant size on 32-bit platforms ( GH-38799 ). This new RC 2 build should be quite stable and we hope that many Godot 3.2.x stable build.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 12, 2020

is going to add 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform , courtesy of Ignacio ( neikeq ). Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). GDNative: Fix Variant size on 32-bit platforms ( GH-38799 ). This new RC 1 build should be quite stable and we hope that many Godot 3.2.x stable build.

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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. Core: Fix platform-specific issues with OS.set_current_screen() ( GH-63192 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2021

Font: Load dynamic fonts to memory on all platforms to avoid locked files ( GH-44117 ). Rendering: Various fixes to light culling ( GH-46694 ). Instead, browse our download repository and fetch the editor binary that matches your platform: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 19, 2021

Font: Load dynamic fonts to memory on all platforms to avoid locked files ( GH-44117 ). Rendering: Various fixes to light culling ( GH-46694 ). Instead, browse our download repository and fetch the editor binary that matches your platform: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

Font: Load dynamic fonts to memory on all platforms to avoid locked files ( GH-44117 ). Rendering: Various fixes to light culling ( GH-46694 ). Instead, browse our download repository and fetch the editor binary that matches your platform: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

This will enable us to publish maintenance updates at a faster pace as soon as we identify a need (critical regressions to fix, security issues, necessary platform updates, etc.). Platforms: Godot editor on the Web! One notable change is that there is now support for both threads and GDNative in the HTML5 platform port.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Portal occlusion culling. Platforms: Android: Scoped storage, Play Asset Delivery, input responsiveness. Portal occlusion culling. Although raster (pixel based) occlusion culling will not be available until Godot 4, some geometrical occlusion methods are being added to Godot 3. Large files support (> 2.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Windows: Fix platform file access to allow file sharing with external programs ( GH-51430 ). Core: Harmonize output of OS.get_locale() between platforms ( GH-40708 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Windows: Fix platform file access to allow file sharing with external programs ( GH-51430 ). Core: Harmonize output of OS.get_locale() between platforms ( GH-40708 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Windows: Fix platform file access to allow file sharing with external programs ( GH-51430 ). Core: Harmonize output of OS.get_locale() between platforms ( GH-40708 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Windows: Fix platform file access to allow file sharing with external programs ( GH-51430 ). Core: Harmonize output of OS.get_locale() between platforms ( GH-40708 ).

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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. Godot, on the other hand, serves as an excellent platform to build upon, as it solves the vast majority of problems already.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Windows: Fix platform file access to allow file sharing with external programs ( GH-51430 ). Core: Harmonize output of OS.get_locale() between platforms ( GH-40708 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

Using GDNative, it's possible to easily extend Godot in C/C++ without recompiling the engine, and that for any platform. Here is an example using the older 3D platformer demo: VR support. Pre-compiled binaries for Windows are provided via the Asset Library , with other platforms coming soon. as pluggable libraries.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2016

As always, honoring the Godot tradition, this renderer will be super easy to use and run on as many platforms as possible. Improve Culling: Portals (rewrite as polygon-based) and Rooms. As such, ports for different platforms must be kept separate as they share little code. TODO for Milestone #3 (December 2016). and OpenGL ES 3.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Several new optimization techniques are also at your disposal, such as occlusion culling , automatic mesh LOD , and manual HLOD using visibility ranges , made possible by Joan Fons ( JFonS ), and Juan. Currently, mobile and web platforms are not available, with support likely coming in Godot 4.1. Web platform. GDExtension.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Added to that fact, Vulkan still has years to go until it's properly supported in most desktop and mobile platforms, which makes it unattractive to implement for us (as it means considerably more effort to write, debug and maintain). I'm not trying to say that these APIs are useless, though.

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