Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

REAL TIME RAY TRACING MADE EASIER RTX Direct Illumination (RTXDI) Imagine adding millions of dynamic lights to your game environments without worrying about performance or resource constraints. RTXDI makes this possible while rendering in real time. Texture Tools Exporter Version 2021.1.1 Texture Tools Exporter Version 2021.1.1

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision ( GH-49075 ). Rendering: VisualServer now sorts based on AABB position ( GH-43506 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Fix CanvasItem bounding rect calculation in some cases ( GH-49160 ).

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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 ). Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). CSG: Various bug fixes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 15, 2021

Physics: Create CollisionObject debug shapes using VisualServer ( GH-48588 ). Rendering: Fix 2D software skinning relative transforms ( GH-48402 ). Rendering: Fix usage of proxy textures on GLES2 PanoramaSky ( GH-48541 ). Rendering: Fix refraction offset by manually unpacking normal mappings ( GH-48478 ).

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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? It has a small cost when enabled.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2021

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 ). Rendering: Batching: Fix item_batch_flags stale state causing glitches ( GH-48992 ). We encourage all users to upgrade to 3.3.2.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 10, 2021

Physics: Create CollisionObject debug shapes using VisualServer ( GH-48588 ). Rendering: Fix 2D software skinning relative transforms ( GH-48402 ). Rendering: Fix usage of proxy textures on GLES2 PanoramaSky ( GH-48541 ). Networking: Fix socket poll timeout on Windows ( GH-48203 ). stable ( GH-48268 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 16, 2021

Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision ( GH-49075 ). Rendering: VisualServer now sorts based on AABB position ( GH-43506 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Fix CanvasItem bounding rect calculation in some cases ( GH-49160 ).

Mesh 52

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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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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

stable branch in January 2020 as a major update to our free and open source game engine. 2D batching for the GLES2 renderer. While most rendering work was postponed for the 4.0 release with its new Vulkan-based renderer, our contributors lawnjelly and Clay ( clayjohn ) decided to give some more attention to the 3.2

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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

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 ). Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). CSG: Various bug fixes.

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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 ). Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). CSG: Various bug fixes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

Thanks to all pre-release testers who help us find and debug regressions! Note that the project settings from the rendering/quality/2d section have now been moved to rendering/2d , so if you used any of those, you will need to re-enable them under the new section in 3.2.4. WebXR support for VR games. stable soon™.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2021

WebXR support for VR games. New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. If you experience a regression in either physics or rendering, you can try these Project Settings to revert back to the previous Octree-based approach and possibly fix the issue. Rendering: New dynamic BVH ( GH-44901 ). mbedtls 2.16.9,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 11, 2020

see recent devblogs on GDScript typed instructions , Complex Text Layout , Tiles editor , documentation , and 2D rendering improvements !), 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 ). a lot of work is also being done on the 3.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2021

New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends, which should fix some issues and improve performance significantly in games using a high number of dynamic objects. In this beta, the dynamic BVH is the default option for both physics and rendering. WebXR support for VR games. MP3 loading and playback support.

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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 ). Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). CSG: Various bug fixes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

Ignore support for S3TC texture compression on Android and iOS devices in GLES3 (already done since 3.4 rendering may be slower for a second or two, but the slowdown will not be nearly as bad as the typical hiccup caused by classic synchronous compilation. 3D: Add Label3D node and Sprite3D material render priority ( GH-61276 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

WebXR support for VR games. New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. If you experience a regression in either physics or rendering, you can try these Project Settings to revert back to the previous Octree-based approach and possibly fix the issue. Rendering: New dynamic BVH ( GH-44901 ). mbedtls 2.16.9,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

rendering may be slower for a second or two, but the slowdown will not be nearly as bad as the typical hiccup caused by classic synchronous compilation. This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

WebXR support for VR games. New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. If you experience a regression in either physics or rendering, you can try these Project Settings to revert back to the previous Octree-based approach and possibly fix the issue. Rendering: New dynamic BVH ( GH-44901 ). mbedtls 2.16.9,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2021

WebXR support for VR games. New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. If you experience a regression in either physics or rendering, you can try these Project Settings to revert back to the previous Octree-based approach and possibly fix the issue. Rendering: New dynamic BVH ( GH-44901 ). zstd 1.4.8).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 19, 2021

WebXR support for VR games. New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. If you experience a regression in either physics or rendering, you can try these Project Settings to revert back to the previous Octree-based approach and possibly fix the issue. Rendering: New dynamic BVH ( GH-44901 ). zstd 1.4.8).

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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. Raise errors when accessing deleted objects in debug. Rendering: Unified 2D batching.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 9, 2016

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). This new version allows you to drop any TTF or OTF file in the project and use it directly in your games, at any size. Dynamic font support. Our goal with 3.0

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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. GUI: Add a Font import option to pre-render all glyphs required for the translation ( GH-68448 ). Physics: Implement adjusting the maximum number of physics steps per rendered frame ( GH-65836 ).

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Beta Dev Render Alpha 92

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Lots of rendering changes. Our rendering contributors keep working on finalizing the implementation of all expected features for Godot 4.0, notably with the following major changes by Clay John ( clayjohn ) and Bastiaan Olij ( BastiaanOlij ): Emulate double precision for regular rendering operation when REAL_T_IS_DOUBLE ( GH-66178 ).

Beta 52

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Lots of rendering changes. Our rendering contributors keep working on finalizing the implementation of all expected features for Godot 4.0, notably with the following major changes by Clay John ( clayjohn ) and Bastiaan Olij ( BastiaanOlij ): Emulate double precision for regular rendering operation when REAL_T_IS_DOUBLE ( GH-66178 ).

Beta 52

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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. Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

Mesh 52

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

GLES3 renderer). 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 ).

Mesh 52

Mesh Render Shaders Animation 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

GLES3 renderer). 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 ).

Mesh 52

Mesh Render Shaders Animation 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 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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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. To learn more about the implementation and results, we sat down with Yuheng Zou, game engine developer at NetEase. And we decided to try it out.

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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 ).

Beta 52

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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. This document was written in hopes to find more developers that would like to help us write rendering code, as it explains the overall design. This may change in the future, though.

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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. GUI: Add a Font import option to pre-render all glyphs required for the translation ( GH-68448 ). Physics: Implement adjusting the maximum number of physics steps per rendered frame ( GH-65836 ).

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