Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

Flag dirty dependencies when GeometryInstance dependencies change in renderer ( GH-71581 ). The illustration picture for this article is from Halls of Torment , a roguelite action RPG with retro late-90s pre-rendered 2D graphics. Android: Fix Android editor crash when returning from the launched and running game ( GH-72106 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. Editor: Bring back the renderer options button on the main editor ( GH-70500 ). Rendering: Add options for sorting transparent objects ( GH-69998 ). What's new. specifically.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Rendering: Fix Variable Rate Shading issues ( GH-68710 ). Rendering: Finish implementing Canvas Background mode ( GH-68805 ). Rendering: Fix drawing of 2D skeletons in the RD renderer ( GH-68863 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The illustration picture for this article is a screenshot of Disinfection , a space horror game by indie duo Evil Turtle Productions which is currently being ported to Godot 4.0 You can follow the developers on Twitter and Mastodon , and wishlist the game on Steam. Rendering: OpenGL: Fix drawing of Mesh2D ( GH-69135 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 2023

Rendering: Remove SCREEN_TEXTURE , DEPTH_TEXTURE , and NORMAL_ROUGHNESS_TEXTURE ( GH-70967 ). Rendering: Decompress RA_AS_RG formats on Web platform in GLES3 renderer and disable texture swizzling ( GH-71574 ). Rendering: Decompress RA_AS_RG formats on Web platform in GLES3 renderer and disable texture swizzling ( GH-71574 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Every beta release so far has included a lot of fixes in one or more key areas, and the next major version of the engine starts to finally look complete. Beta 10 will be the last dev snapshot of the year 2022, as a lot of our contributors will no doubt be slowing down for the end of year celebrations and some quality family time.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! The game is currently being ported to Godot 4.0 Follow Kenny Park on Twitter or Mastodon for development updates, and check his website to discover other games and applications. Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). See the list below.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Every supported renderer option is now selectable from the project creation screen, which means you can create OpenGL 3 (“Compatibility”) projects without using the command line ( GH-70028 ). The illustration picture for this article is from Raffaele Picca ’s car scene , rendered in Godot 4.0 What’s new. Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. Editor: Bring back the renderer options button on the main editor ( GH-70500 ). Rendering: Add options for sorting transparent objects ( GH-69998 ). What’s new. specifically.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

ECS is a design pattern commonly used in video games (although not very often used in the rest of the software industry) which consists of having a base Entity (a container object) and Components that can be added upon it. This design became common in game engines and libraries in the early 2010s. Game logic. What is ECS?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

Rendering: Add Variable Rate Shading support ( GH-60901 ). Rendering: Force regenerating shader cache when updating Godot ( GH-62848 ). Rendering: Use full size mipmaps for reflections when in high-quality mode ( GH-62362 ). Rendering: Vulkan: Fix DirectionalLight2D and PointLight2D shadows not rendering correctly ( GH-63057 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Some noteworthy changes in this release: Re-enable support for Web exports using the OpenGL 3 / WebGL 2 renderer. Implement physical light units in Vulkan renderers. Rendering: Implement MSAA for 2D with Vulkan ( GH-63003 ). Rendering: Implement physical light units in Vulkan renderers ( GH-63751 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Rendering: Add OpenGL timer queries to OpenGL3 backend ( GH-67032 ). Rendering: Improve behaviour of clip_children by clipping to parent alpha value but still retaining parent color ( GH-67043 ). Rendering: Fix drawing of 2D primitives in OpenGL3 renderer ( GH-67416 ). XR: Add multiview to the OpenGL3 driver ( GH-65334 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Rendering: Ensure sibling SubViewports are renderer from top to bottom ( GH-65579 ). Rendering: Properly scale SSR reflection based on metallic value for dielectric materials ( GH-65594 ). Rendering: Fix MSAA initialization in clustered forward renderer ( GH-65676 ). Physics: Implement Area[2D/3D].has_overlapping_[bodies/areas]

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 1, 2022

Movie Maker run mode to record in-game footage for trailers/movies. Rendering: Add support for soft shadows to the GPU lightmapper ( GH-62054 ). Rendering: Use the Static global illumination mode in GeometryInstance3D by default ( GH-60935 ). Rendering: Fix usage of FSR 1.0 ( GH-62475 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 8, 2022

macOS: Disable window redraw during resize, when rendering in the separate thread ( GH-58738 ). Rendering: Use Filament specular model and parametrization ( GH-51716 ). Rendering: Use properly use non-perceptual roughness when filtering radiance ( GH-58418 ). Rendering: Fix shader compilation error with anisotropy ( GH-58419 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 15, 2022

is a huge release that requires a lot of work, and because we're committed to providing dev snapshots frequently so that pre-release testers can quickly access the new features and bug fixes. Rendering: Initial TAA (Temporal Anti-Aliasing) implementation ( GH-61319 ). We're getting in 2-digit territory, both because 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The illustration picture for this article is a screenshot of Sandfire , an upcoming 3D person action-adventure game by Kmitt. The game was recently ported to Godot 4, see Kmitt’s YouTube channel and Twitter for devlogs and updates. Rendering: Use circular fade instead of linear fade for distance fade ( GH-50294 ). What’s new.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Godot is a community developed game engine. In fact, our development process and code quality are, already, arguably in many senses better than commercial game engine counterparts. In fact, our development process and code quality are, already, arguably in many senses better than commercial game engine counterparts.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The illustration picture for this article is a screenshot of devmar 's game Penitent , which is being developed with Godot 4.0. David Snopek ( dsnopek ) got WebXR minimally working again ( GH-64514 ) using the WebGL 2 renderer implemented by Clay John ( clayjohn ). Rendering: Fix/restore BackBufferCopy ( GH-65794 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 2, 2022

Rendering: Lots of progress on OpenGL3 with initial 3D support. Rendering: Fix normal and tangent blending in blend shapes ( GH-61217 ). Rendering: Use IGN instead of white noise for sky dithering ( GH-60641 ). GUI: Add ALT NUM+ {hex code} character input support for LineEdit, TextEdit and CodeEdit ( GH-55441 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 6, 2022

Rendering: Add color pass flags to Forward Clustered renderer ( GH-59205 ). Rendering: Ongoing refactoring work ( GH-59385 ). ( The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension, VisualScript). GH-59807 ). XR: Add action map editor for OpenXR ( GH-59513 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 24, 2022

Rendering: Add multiview support to the clustered forward renderer ( GH-49092 ). Rendering: Add sky cover texture for ProceduralSkyMaterial ( GH-58018 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension, VisualScript).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 12, 2022

It includes notably Text-to-Speech support on all platforms (as a feature for games/applications, the Godot editor itself doesn't make use of it for now), and a refactoring of the module/extension initialization levels to allow more flexibility for third-party code. Linux: Read and store joypad events in a separate thread ( GH-56125 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 28, 2022

Rendering: More work on splitting up RendererStorage ( GH-59984 ). Rendering: Restore antialiasing for draw_line ( GH-60171 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension, VisualScript). Noise: Restructure and refine the noise module ( GH-60312 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Rendering: Fix Variable Rate Shading issues ( GH-68710 ). Rendering: Finish implementing Canvas Background mode ( GH-68805 ). Rendering: Fix drawing of 2D skeletons in the RD renderer ( GH-68863 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 2022

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. Switch on physics/common/physics_interpolation , and Godot will now automatically interpolate objects on rendered frames so they look super smooth. x no longer works in 3.5

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Rendering: Add OpenGL timer queries to OpenGL3 backend ( GH-67032 ). Rendering: Improve behaviour of clip_children by clipping to parent alpha value but still retaining parent color ( GH-67043 ). Rendering: Fix drawing of 2D primitives in OpenGL3 renderer ( GH-67416 ). XR: Add multiview to the OpenGL3 driver ( GH-65334 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The illustration picture for this article is a screenshot of Disinfection , a space horror game by indie duo Evil Turtle Productions which is currently being ported to Godot 4.0 You can follow the developers on Twitter and Mastodon , and wishlist the game on Steam. Rendering: OpenGL: Fix drawing of Mesh2D ( GH-69135 ).

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Beta Dev Bug Render 40

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

Rendering: Octahedral normal/tangent compression ( GH-60309 ). Rendering: Octahedral normal/tangent compression ( GH-60309 ). Rendering: Fix viewport sorting being wrong on parent/child relation ( GH-63091 ). Rendering: Add font LCD sub-pixel anti-aliasing support ( GH-64422 ). for instructions.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

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. Switch on physics/common/physics_interpolation , and Godot will now automatically interpolate objects on rendered frames so they look super smooth. Two years ago (!),

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Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2022

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. Switch on physics/common/physics_interpolation , and Godot will now automatically interpolate objects on rendered frames so they look super smooth. Two years ago (!),

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Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2022

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. Switch on physics/common/physics_interpolation , and Godot will now automatically interpolate objects on rendered frames so they look super smooth. Two years ago (!),

Beta 52

Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The illustration picture for this article is a screenshot of devmar ’s game Penitent , which is being developed with Godot 4.0. David Snopek ( dsnopek ) got WebXR minimally working again ( GH-64514 ) using the WebGL 2 renderer implemented by Clay John ( clayjohn ). Rendering: Fix/restore BackBufferCopy ( GH-65794 ).

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Beta Dev Render Bug 40

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2022

Rendering: Add material_overlay property to MeshInstance ( GH-50823 ). Rendering: Faster editor line drawing - Path2D and draw_line ( GH-54377 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). For now, you can check the full changelog since 3.4-stable

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Input: Add mouse event pass-through support for the game window ( GH-40205 ). Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). YSort: Make rendering order more deterministic ( GH-42375 ). zstd 1.4.5).

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Beta Dev Bug Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

This means the engine can now do a lot of the heavy lifting and get you started on the next multiplayer hit much quicker. You don't have to worry about manually keeping your scenes in sync across connected devices, even for players connecting mid-game. Rendering: Add support for glow maps ( GH-54574 ).

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