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Cocos Creator 3.8.4 has been released, faster, more stable, and easier to use!

Cocos

OCTOBER 14, 2024

In later versions, the engine team will continue to improve the engine’s rendering performance, not only for the mini-game platform but also synchronize performance optimization for other platforms. All WASM module packaging options are now located under Engine Settings → Native Code Packaging Mode. Please look forward to it.

Render

Render Texture Platformer Build

Why 70% of Developers Prefer Unity for Mobile Game Development

iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Several mobile game engines are used to create mobile games. However, Unity has stood out as one of the most preferred and trusted mobile game engines. So, game developers must seek mobile game engines that support cross-platform development. Seamless Debugging Debugging is a crucial part of mobile game development.

Mobile Gaming

Mobile Gaming Mobile Mobile Game Developer

Launching Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord – How nDreams scale tested with AWS Fargate

AWS Games

AUGUST 27, 2024

AWS Fargate The headless game test client used a stripped-down version of the game built using Unreal Engine. Setting up a headless game client with Unreal Engine To create a headless game client, nDreams built a Docker container of the game client running on Linux with some bespoke commands to let the game play by itself.

Engine

Engine Engineering Render Scripting

[Share] 2D Post-Processing & Lighting Framework

Cocos

DECEMBER 25, 2023

const vec3 weight = vec3(0.2126, 0.7152, 0.0722); vec3 Grayscale(in vec3 o, float value){ float lumin = dot(o, weight); vec3 final = mix(o, vec3(lumin), value); return final; } vec4 frag() { vec4 pixel = texture(mainTexture, v_uv); pixel.rgb = Grayscale(pixel.rgb, intensity); return pixel; } 2. I tested it with an image.

Render

Render Texture Shaders Pixel

Godot 4.0 optimization progress report

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

are done, I have spent the past two months optimizing the rendering engine, both on the CPU and GPU side. Numbers are using debug (numbers on release are lower, but when I started optimizing, Godot had problems running on release, so it's difficult to compare). Optimized texture formats. CPU Optimization.

Culling

Culling Render Shaders Mesh

Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2020

This new technique was developed entirely in the open and implemented under our MIT license, so anyone is welcome to use it in their own engines and games. SDFGI is something akin to a dynamic real-time lightmap (but it does not requiere unwrapping, nor does it use textures). What can it do? Will write an article about this soon.

Lightmap

Lightmap Texture Baking Mesh

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2021

Additionally, this release includes a number of non-regression bug fixes to various areas of the engine. Import: Print a warning when importing a repeating NPOT texture in a GLES2 project ( GH-48817 ). Physics: Fix crash on debug shapes update if CollisionObject is not in tree ( GH-48974 ). like all future 3.3.x

Lightmap

Lightmap Baking Bug Data

Leveling Up Graphics and Performance with RTX, DLSS and Reflex at NVIDIA GTC

Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

NVIDIA RTX Unreal Engine Branch (NvRTX) NvRTX is a custom UE4 branch for NVIDIA technologies on GitHub. It is now available as a plugin for Unreal Engine 4.26; the latest version can be found at NVIDIA Developer or Unreal Marketplace. Unity has announced that DLSS will be natively supported in Unity Engine version 2021.2

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Graphics Render Technology

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! CSG: Various bug fixes. zstd 1.4.5).

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

Export: Fix missing "debug"/"release" export presets feature tags ( GH-71274 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ). Editor: Fix Tab key usage in EditorSpinSlider (and hence inpector) ( GH-71271 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Collision Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 7, 2020

While this is not a feature per se, it fixes a major annoyance that users have had with pointers to freed objects unexpectedly being re-assigned to new objects, causing hard-to-debug issues. this bug was fixed with a more comprehensive approach which prevents dangling Variant pointers in both release and debug builds. Other changes.

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Debug

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 18, 2020

While this is not a feature per se, it fixes a major annoyance that users have had with pointers to freed objects unexpectedly being re-assigned to new objects, causing hard-to-debug issues. this bug was fixed with a more comprehensive approach which prevents dangling Variant pointers in both release and debug builds. Other changes.

Beta

Beta Debug Bug Build

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

stable branch in January 2020 as a major update to our free and open source game engine. Such pointer could be reported as valid even though the memory it points to was not, or worse, that memory could now hold a different object, leading to hard to debug situations. C#: Allow debugging exported games ( GH-38115 ).

Debug

Debug Point and Click Bug Render

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2021

Physics: Create CollisionObject debug shapes using VisualServer ( GH-48588 ). Rendering: Fix usage of proxy textures on GLES2 PanoramaSky ( GH-48541 ). Networking: Fix socket poll timeout on Windows ( GH-48203 ). SkeletonIK: Fix root bones being twisted incorrectly when rotated ( GH-48251 ). please file an issue on GitHub.

Polygon

Polygon Render Scripting Bug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 22, 2020

While this is not a feature per se, it fixes a major annoyance that users have had with pointers to freed objects unexpectedly being re-assigned to new objects, causing hard-to-debug issues. this bug was fixed with a more comprehensive approach which prevents dangling Variant pointers in both release and debug builds. Other changes.

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Debug

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2020

While this is not a feature per se, it fixes a major annoyance that users have had with pointers to freed objects unexpectedly being re-assigned to new objects, causing hard-to-debug issues. C#: Allow debugging exported games ( GH-38115 ). Debug: Add a suffix to the window title when running from a debug build ( GH-33148 ).

Beta

Beta Debug Bug Point and Click

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2020

While this is not a feature per se, it fixes a major annoyance that users have had with pointers to freed objects unexpectedly being re-assigned to new objects, causing hard-to-debug issues. this bug was fixed with a more comprehensive approach which prevents dangling Variant pointers in both release and debug builds. Other changes.

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Debug

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.1 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 10, 2021

Physics: Create CollisionObject debug shapes using VisualServer ( GH-48588 ). Rendering: Fix usage of proxy textures on GLES2 PanoramaSky ( GH-48541 ). Networking: Fix socket poll timeout on Windows ( GH-48203 ). SkeletonIK: Fix root bones being twisted incorrectly when rotated ( GH-48251 ). stable ( GH-48268 ).

Bug

Bug Build Polygon Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

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 ). Editor: Add custom debug shape thickness and color options to RayCast ( GH-49726 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! CSG: Various bug fixes. tinyexr 1.0.0,

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Build

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

Export: Fix missing “debug”/”release” export presets feature tags ( GH-71274 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ). Editor: Fix Tab key usage in EditorSpinSlider (and hence inpector) ( GH-71271 ). GDScript: Fix getting type from PropertyInfo for Variant arguments ( GH-70644 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Collision Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! CSG: Various bug fixes. tinyexr 1.0.0,

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 12, 2020

While this is not a feature per se, it fixes a major annoyance that users have had with pointers to freed objects unexpectedly being re-assigned to new objects, causing hard-to-debug issues. this bug was fixed with a more comprehensive approach which prevents dangling Variant pointers in both release and debug builds. Other changes.

Beta

Beta Bug Debug Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.3 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 4, 2021

Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision ( GH-49075 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). C#: Ignore paths with invalid chars in PathWhich ( GH-50918 ). Editor: Fix slow load/save of scenes with many instances of the same script ( GH-49570 ). no longer works in 3.3.3

Bug

Bug Mesh Render Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.1 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 15, 2021

Physics: Create CollisionObject debug shapes using VisualServer ( GH-48588 ). Rendering: Fix usage of proxy textures on GLES2 PanoramaSky ( GH-48541 ). Networking: Fix socket poll timeout on Windows ( GH-48203 ). SkeletonIK: Fix root bones being twisted incorrectly when rotated ( GH-48251 ). if something that worked fine in 3.3

Polygon

Polygon Bug Render Build

Maintenance release: Godot 2.1.4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2017

A big thankyou to all the contributors who worked on this release by implementing bug fixes or features, or testing the changes to spot potential regressions and help debug issues. Debugging: Many improvements to the editor's debugger and display of complex types. Core: Use libsquish to decompress DXT textures. Highlights.

Tile

Tile Bug Point and Click Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

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 ). Editor: Add custom debug shape thickness and color options to RayCast ( GH-49726 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.3

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision ( GH-49075 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). C#: Ignore paths with invalid chars in PathWhich ( GH-50918 ). Editor: Fix slow load/save of scenes with many instances of the same script ( GH-49570 ). please file an issue on GitHub.

Render

Render Mesh Bug Collision

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.3 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 16, 2021

Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision ( GH-49075 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). C#: Ignore paths with invalid chars in PathWhich ( GH-50918 ). Editor: Fix slow load/save of scenes with many instances of the same script ( GH-49570 ). no longer works in 3.3.3

Bug

Bug Render Mesh Build

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 7, 2021

Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! CSG: Various bug fixes. mbedtls 2.16.9,

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Build

Maintenance release: Godot 2.0.3

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 12, 2016

Engine changes. Move export GUI debug toggle to export settings window. Fix to avoid video texture scaling. The screenshot used for this article comes from the awesome Mouse Boat game by @CowThing that won the Godot Engine Jam 03/2016 ! Thanks to all those that got involved after our call for contributors !

Debug

Debug Shaders Engine Engineering

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! CSG: Various bug fixes. tinyexr 1.0.0,

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

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 ). Editor: Add custom debug shape thickness and color options to RayCast ( GH-49726 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2021

Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! mbedtls 2.16.9, zstd 1.4.8).

Render

Render Bug Build Beta

Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

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.

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2021

Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! mbedtls 2.16.9, zstd 1.4.8).

Beta

Beta Dev Collision Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

Thanks to all pre-release testers who help us find and debug regressions! Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). stable soon™. mbedtls 2.16.9,

Render

Render Collision Build Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! mbedtls 2.16.9, zstd 1.4.8).

Render

Render Build Bug Collision

Godot reaches 2.1 stable!

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 9, 2016

After almost six months of hard work, we are proudly presenting you the marvellous Godot Engine 2.1. Godot is used all around the world and, while it always supported Unicode, its reliance on font textures made it pretty difficult to support some languages (especially Asian). stable is here! Dynamic font support.

Asset

Asset Scripting Engine Engineering

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! This was a late addition in 3.2.4

Render

Render Build Bug Editing

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2021

Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! mbedtls 2.16.10, miniupnpc 2.2.2,

Render

Render Collision Build Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 19, 2021

Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! mbedtls 2.16.10, miniupnpc 2.2.2,

Render

Render Collision Build Bug

GSoC 2019 progress report #1 (part 1)

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 17, 2019

In 2018 we had 5 students working on various features for Godot Engine, and you can read about their work in last year's progress report. This is to detect all the different VCS API implementations available with the engine. Project: Interactive Music for Godot Engine. Final (PR candidate): [link]. Introduction.

Visual Scripting

Visual Scripting Clipping Code Scripting

Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

Engine • Added DebugView at runtime UI control rendering debugging function. See the documentation “Render Debugging - Run Time Using Render debugging”: [link] • When the node animates, add the tween ‘destroySelf’ method to destroy the front nodal point. x users upgrade. Skip rendering when the UI element Opacity is 0.

Render

Render Baking Lightmap Debug

Cocos Creator 3.8.4 has been released, faster, more stable, and easier to use!

Why 70% of Developers Prefer Unity for Mobile Game Development

Trending Sources

Launching Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord – How nDreams scale tested with AWS Fargate

[Share] 2D Post-Processing & Lighting Framework

Godot 4.0 optimization progress report

Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.2

Leveling Up Graphics and Performance with RTX, DLSS and Reflex at NVIDIA GTC

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 1

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 2

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.1

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 4

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.1 RC 1

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.3 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.1 RC 2

Maintenance release: Godot 2.1.4

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.3

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.3 RC 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 5

Maintenance release: Godot 2.0.3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 4

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 1

Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 4

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 2

Godot reaches 2.1 stable!

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 7

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 6

GSoC 2019 progress report #1 (part 1)

Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

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