Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Editor: Add custom debug shape thickness and color options to RayCast ( GH-49726 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Editor: Add custom debug shape thickness and color options to RayCast ( GH-49726 ).

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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.

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Cocos

AUGUST 16, 2023

Preface In the last article , Kylin shared how to add your own post-effect Shader in the custom render pipeline in Cocos Creator 3.8. However, based on the BlitScreen solution, we can only write the simplest post-effect Shader. Today Kylin will use Gaussian blur to demonstrate how to write a multi-pass post-effect shader.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2021

Batching: Fix light pass modulate , a potential crash, polygon rotation from vertex shader, and 2D skinning with unrigged polygons ( GH-48151 , GH-48125 , GH-48457 , GH-48647 )). Physics: Create CollisionObject debug shapes using VisualServer ( GH-48588 ). Rendering: Fix usage of proxy textures on GLES2 PanoramaSky ( GH-48541 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

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. Thanks to the work of Pedro ( RandomShaper ), debug versions of Godot (e.g. Thanks to the work of Pedro ( RandomShaper ), debug versions of Godot (e.g.

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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 ). Visual Shader: Add few improvements for VisualShaderNodeParticleRandomness ( GH-71123 ).

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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 52

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 10, 2021

Batching: Fix light pass modulate , a potential crash, and polygon rotation from vertex shader ( GH-48151 , GH-48125 , GH-48457 )). Physics: Create CollisionObject debug shapes using VisualServer ( GH-48588 ). Rendering: Fix usage of proxy textures on GLES2 PanoramaSky ( GH-48541 ). stable ( GH-48268 ).

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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 52

Beta Dev Debug Bug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 15, 2021

Batching: Fix light pass modulate , a potential crash, polygon rotation from vertex shader, and 2D skinning with unrigged polygons ( GH-48151 , GH-48125 , GH-48457 , GH-48647 )). Physics: Create CollisionObject debug shapes using VisualServer ( GH-48588 ). Rendering: Fix usage of proxy textures on GLES2 PanoramaSky ( GH-48541 ).

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Polygon Bug Render Build 52

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 52

Beta Dev Bug Debug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

Ignore support for S3TC texture compression on Android and iOS devices in GLES3 (already done since 3.4 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. for GLES2).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 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. Debugger: Add --debug-server command line option to listen for incoming connections ( GH-60819 ). Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 12, 2016

Move export GUI debug toggle to export settings window. Fix shader editor syntax coloring. Fix to avoid video texture scaling. Add preview of the Camera2D's screen boundaries. Allow dragging on only one (global) axis when holding down shift. More precise InputMap Axis descriptions in project settings.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 7, 2021

It also adds a much-requested minimap to GraphEdit , and thus to the VisualScript and Visual Shader editors. 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 ).

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Beta Dev Bug Build 52

Nvidia

APRIL 20, 2023

The Range Profiler’s pie chart shows instructions executed, per shader stage. GPU Trace can measure total instructions, but a per-shader stage decomposition is only available in the Occupancy chart. On modern GPUs, the L1TEX cache is a combined L1 Data Cache that contains a Load/Store Unit + Texture Unit.

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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, HTML5: Threads, GDNative, AudioWorklet. macOS: ARM64 build, code signing. Core: Threading API modernization. Dynamic BVH for rendering and GodotPhysics.

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Example application: Appearance-based BRDF optimization One of the basic building blocks in computer graphics is BRDF texture maps representing multiple properties of materials and describing how the light interacts with the rendered surfaces. For more information and code examples, see the /shader-slang GitHub repo.

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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. New and standard-material will default to Surface Shader.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ).

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Beta Dev Mesh Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ).

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Beta Dev Mesh Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

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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). Dynamic font support. 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. Remote scene inspector.

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Nvidia

MAY 21, 2021

Recently, NetEase introduced Mesh Shader support to Justice. Soon we found we can combine Mesh Shaders with auto-generated LODs to achieve almost only-resolution-relevant rendering complexity, instead of polygon number. With so much potential of Mesh Shader, we conceive that it would be the main stream of future games.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2022

Project: Allow undocking the Script editor and the Shader editor. In this project, I'll focus to make the Script editor and the Shader editor undockable, and keep the undocked windows after editor restarts. Detaching the Script editor and the Shader editor is done for the most part. UV2 Texel Density Debug Draw Mode.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

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. target=template_debug : Debug template, optimized, with debugging code.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

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. target=template_debug : Debug template, optimized, with debugging code.

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Beta Dev Render Debug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: Fix several render issues found while debugging XR ( GH-68102 ). Rendering: Add texture reading code to OpenGL3 renderer for web and mobile ( GH-68138 ). Rendering: Enable mipmaps in cubemap roughness shader ( GH-68511 ). Rendering: Enable mipmaps in cubemap roughness shader ( GH-68511 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Apart from that, the month was mostly spent on implementing more 2D items in the renderer as well as working on getting custom shaders running. start work on shader compiler. implement more shader features. implement more shader features. The fragment shader then calculates the associated UV coordinate for each fragment.

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Fast, Modular and Differentiable Shader Programming. Fast, Modular and Differentiable Shader Programming. Slang generates custom PyTorch plugins from graphics shader code. This is where Slang comes in, as it can automatically generate differentiated shader code for multiple backends. The paper shows how a single language.

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Nvidia

JULY 25, 2022

Flagging instances or geometries as opaque allows uninterrupted hardware intersection search and prevents invocation of the any-hit shader. Enable the use of any-hit shaders only for those geometries that need it; for example, to do alpha testing. This feature becomes available in HLSL Shader Model 6.6.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Shader language features. 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. Shader language features. Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

Visual Shaders overhaul. 2D: Pseudo 3D, Texture atlas, AStar2D. Visual Shaders overhaul. introduced a new graph-based editor to edit shaders visually, reimplemented from the previous version that was included in Godot 2.1. 2D: Pseudo 3D, Texture atlas, AStar2D. Mono/C#: Android and WebAssembly support.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: Fix several render issues found while debugging XR ( GH-68102 ). Rendering: Add texture reading code to OpenGL3 renderer for web and mobile ( GH-68138 ). Rendering: Enable mipmaps in cubemap roughness shader ( GH-68511 ). Rendering: Enable mipmaps in cubemap roughness shader ( GH-68511 ).

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