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GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2022

Here are the 3 projects/students with links to the relevant sections in this post: Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker by Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ). Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker. Project: Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker. Project: Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker. UX updates. apply_theme().

Lightmap

Lightmap UX Shaders Debug

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

by calling queue_free() ) but is still accessed somewhere else in a script. Such use-after-free access needs to be guarded with is_instance_valid(obj) , but this has been surprisingly difficult to get right due to a number of bugs and inconsistencies between debug and release builds. and Godot 3.3. and Godot 3.3. console.log("test").

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

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. GH-67128 , GH-67131 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

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. GH-67128 , GH-67131 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Debug

Guest post - “Small Team, Big Project”: Building Moonwards

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Construct your scenes however, and they’ll work – it’s the definition of a “scripted game”. I’ve been a developer at Moonwards for 2 years now and though I’ve had many roles and done many things, from debugging, refactoring code, networking, fixing materials and more, lately I’m the NPCs and tools guy. For a networked sandbox?

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Build NPC Sandbox Console

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Core: Add detailed error messages to release builds (used to be debug-only) ( GH-53405 ). Audio: Add Listener2D node ( GH-53429 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Core: Add detailed error messages to release builds (used to be debug-only) ( GH-53405 ). Audio: Add Listener2D node ( GH-53429 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Editor: Add custom debug shape thickness and color options to RayCast ( GH-49726 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Core: Add detailed error messages to release builds (used to be debug-only) ( GH-53405 ). Audio: Add Listener2D node ( GH-53429 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Core: Add detailed error messages to release builds (used to be debug-only) ( GH-53405 ). Audio: Add Listener2D node ( GH-53429 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Editor: Add custom debug shape thickness and color options to RayCast ( GH-49726 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Editor: Add custom debug shape thickness and color options to RayCast ( GH-49726 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

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

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 Debug Bug

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 3.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Editor: Add custom debug shape thickness and color options to RayCast ( GH-49726 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

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. 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.

Debug

Debug Point and Click Bug Render

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 3.2.2 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 Point and Click

GSoC 2019 progress report #3

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Improvements to the Visual Scripting System by Swarnim Arun. Improvements to the Visual Scripting System – Swarnim Arun. Project: Improvements To Visual Scripting System. Visual Script graph unification. The graph for the Visual Script has been unified , that is, all the functions are shown in the graph simultaneously.

Visual Scripting

Visual Scripting Clipping Scripting Point and Click

GSoC 2019 progress report #1 (part 1)

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 17, 2019

Improvements to the Visual Scripting System by Swarnim Arun. I aim to have transitioner functional by the beginning of August which will give me time to debug any potential issues and come up with a fix for the memory leak. The integrated script editor in Godot lacks features found in editors like VS Code, Sublime, Emacs, etc.

Visual Scripting

Visual Scripting Clipping Code Scripting

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

Raise errors when accessing deleted objects in debug. Raise errors when accessing deleted objects in debug. but going one step too far: in debug builds in 3.2.3, This is particularly useful for files which you intend to process yourself from scripts based on their raw contents (e.g. HTML5: Threads, GDNative, AudioWorklet.

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

our contributor Yuri Roubinsky did a huge rework of the new visual shader's UX , and eventually assumed full maintainership of the feature. Yuri did not stop there, as he also implemented many additional features for the classical script shaders , such as support for constants, arrays and varyings. For Godot 3.2,

Render

Render Feature Shaders Bug

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GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

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