Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2022

and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. Switch on physics/common/physics_interpolation , and Godot will now automatically interpolate objects on rendered frames so they look super smooth.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

Notably, it fixes some rendering regressions with transparent materials, and crashing iOS templates and Web editor build in RC 2. 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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. Switch on physics/common/physics_interpolation , and Godot will now automatically interpolate objects on rendered frames so they look super smooth.

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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. The main changes coming in Godot 3.5 Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2022

and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. Switch on physics/common/physics_interpolation , and Godot will now automatically interpolate objects on rendered frames so they look super smooth.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). Rendering: Import option to split vertex buffer stream in positions and attributes ( GH-46574 ).

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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. The main changes coming in Godot 3.5 Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

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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. The main changes coming in Godot 3.5 Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

Godot can render at frame rates independent from the fixed physics tick rate. This can lead to problems where the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, causing unsightly jitter. Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader). Physics interpolation in 3D.

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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. The main changes coming in Godot 3.5 Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). Rendering: Import option to split vertex buffer stream in positions and attributes ( GH-46574 ).

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Mnenad

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Static batching : combines static (not moving) GameObjects into big Meshes, and renders them in a faster way.   96.   Nevertheless, I also spent some money on the Advanced Foliage Shaders v.5.  When batched, the animations from the Advanced Foliage Shader go a bit crazy and make the grass float around.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

Exporting C# projects to iOS should be done from macOS using the classical workflow , and the scripts will be automatically compiled Ahead-of-Time (AOT) for iOS. 2D batching for the GLES2 renderer. While most rendering work was postponed for the 4.0 2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2020

2D batching for the GLES2 renderer , thanks to lawnjelly and Clay ( clayjohn ). The new 2D batching is only implemented for the GLES2 renderer, so if you use GLES3 you will not be able to benefit from it in this build. Note that currently, only rects are batched (TileMaps, draw_rect , text rendering, etc.), Notably, Godot 3.2.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 18, 2020

2D batching for the GLES2 renderer , thanks to lawnjelly and Clay ( clayjohn ). The new 2D batching is only implemented for the GLES2 renderer, so if you use GLES3 you will not be able to benefit from it in this build. Note that currently, only rects are batched (TileMaps, draw_rect , text rendering, etc.), Notably, Godot 3.2.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 12, 2020

2D batching for the GLES2 renderer , thanks to lawnjelly and Clay ( clayjohn ). The new 2D batching is only implemented for the GLES2 renderer, so if you use GLES3 you will not be able to benefit from it in this build. Note that currently, only rects are batched (TileMaps, draw_rect , text rendering, etc.), stable build.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 22, 2020

2D batching for the GLES2 renderer , thanks to lawnjelly and Clay ( clayjohn ). The new 2D batching is only implemented for the GLES2 renderer, so if you use GLES3 you will not be able to benefit from it. As the GLES3 renderer is being deprecated by Vulkan in Godot 4.0, GLES2: Add 2D batch rendering across items ( GH-37349 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2020

2D batching for the GLES2 renderer , thanks to lawnjelly and Clay ( clayjohn ). The new 2D batching is only implemented for the GLES2 renderer, so if you use GLES3 you will not be able to benefit from it. As the GLES3 renderer is being deprecated by Vulkan in Godot 4.0, GLES2: Add 2D batch rendering across items ( GH-37349 ).

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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. Dynamic BVH for rendering and GodotPhysics. Rendering: Unified 2D batching. More rendering improvements. Dynamic BVH for rendering and GodotPhysics.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

has an entirely new rendering architecture, which is divided into modern and compatibility backends. The modern one does rendering via RenderingDevice (which is implemented in drivers such as Vulkan, Direct3D 12, and more in the future). Rendering is significantly more efficient in Godot 4.0, Low level rendering access.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Notable changes are in-editor class reference translations (so far Chinese (Simplified), Spanish, and some French), some new rendering features (high quality glow mode, 3D point light attenuation option), and a number of C# marshalling fixes. C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). Jump to the Downloads section.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

GLES3 renderer). C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Highlights.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

GLES3 renderer). C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Highlights.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). In-depth documentation is available.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: A ton of fixes for all rendering backends, and missing features implemented for the OpenGL3 one. Editor: Fix reload scripts error after saving in external editor ( GH-68203 ). GUI: Add a Font import option to pre-render all glyphs required for the translation ( GH-68448 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Multi-caret support in TextEdit and script editors ( GH-61902 ). 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. Lots of rendering changes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Multi-caret support in TextEdit and script editors ( GH-61902 ). 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. Lots of rendering changes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Portal occlusion culling. Shader language features. More rendering improvements. by calling queue_free() ) but is still accessed somewhere else in a script. release, adding an AESContext to provide a scripting interface to AES-ECB and AES-CBC encryption/decryption methods. Frame delta smoothing.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: A ton of fixes for all rendering backends, and missing features implemented for the OpenGL3 one. Editor: Fix reload scripts error after saving in external editor ( GH-68203 ). GUI: Add a Font import option to pre-render all glyphs required for the translation ( GH-68448 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

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 After meeting the initial goal, we hired karroffel to continue her work on GDNative (more about this below) and work on a new rendering backend. Materials and shaders.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

We know many users are excited about the coming improvements to 2D and 3D rendering in 4.0. Over the last few years we have completely overhauled the Godot renders. They now target Vulkan by default and we have created them with future support for Direct3D 12 and other rendering APIs in mind.

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