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 91

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. Rendering: Flag dirty dependencies when GeometryInstance dependencies change in renderer ( GH-71581 ).

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Beta Dev Shaders Render 107

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

Beta 97

Beta Dev Animation Animation 97

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Editor: Bring back the renderer options button on the main editor ( GH-70500 ). Rendering: Add options for sorting transparent objects ( GH-69998 ). Rendering: Cleanup and improve sky render ( GH-70253 ). Rendering: Ignore depth draw optimization when using depth draw alpha prepass ( GH-70884 ). Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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Beta Dev Render Animation 105

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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Beta Dev Animation Animation 104

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Rendering: Vulkan: Improve logic for detecting and tracking extensions ( GH-68833 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Fix drawing of Mesh2D ( GH-69135 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET XR: Add partial support for Pico 4 ( GH-68023 ).

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Beta Dev Bug Render 98

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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Beta Dev Animation Animation 78

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Add support for FORMAT_{ETC2,DXT5}_RA_AS_RG ( GH-71248 ). See the list below. specifically.

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Beta Dev Collision Render 84

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2023

Rendering: Fix polyline not supporting closed polygons and not having a uniform width ( GH-62236 ). Rendering: Fix scaling issue in draw_line and similar methods ( GH-69851 ). Rendering: Fix GPUParticles2D not recomputing transforms each frame ( GH-71520 ). Plugins: Retry loading addons after filesystem scan ( GH-70668 ).

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Beta Dev Debug Animation 99

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 Jump to the Downloads section.

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Beta Dev Render Shaders 75

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Editor: Bring back the renderer options button on the main editor ( GH-70500 ). Rendering: Add options for sorting transparent objects ( GH-69998 ). Rendering: Cleanup and improve sky render ( GH-70253 ). Rendering: Ignore depth draw optimization when using depth draw alpha prepass ( GH-70884 ). Requires.NET SDK 6.0

Beta 80

Beta Dev Render Animation 80

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

Beta Dev Render Debug 52

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

Beta Dev Render Debug 52

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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Alpha Dev Shaders Beta 52

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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Alpha Dev Render Beta 52

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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Alpha Dev Beta Render 52

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 ).

Beta 52

Beta Dev Render Alpha 52

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 ).

Alpha 52

Alpha Dev Render Shaders 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 1, 2022

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 ). Rendering: Assorted fixes to the implementation of Vulkan RenderingDevice ( GH-55954 ).

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Alpha Dev Render Bug 52

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

Alpha 52

Alpha Dev Terrain Bug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Rendering: Various bug fixes to both shaders and the Vulkan setup (including updating to Vulkan SDK 1.3.204 ). Rendering: Various tweaks to default environment and lighting config to balance quality and performance. Rendering: Use prefiltered radiance for Sky high quality update mode ( GH-58177 ).

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Alpha Dev Bug Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

David Snopek ( dsnopek ) got WebXR minimally working again ( GH-64514 ) using the WebGL 2 renderer implemented by Clay John ( clayjohn ). Rendering: Split rendering driver project setting into rendering_method and rendering/*/driver ( GH-65541 ). Rendering: Fix/restore BackBufferCopy ( GH-65794 ).

Beta 52

Beta Dev Render Bug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Rendering: Use circular fade instead of linear fade for distance fade ( GH-50294 ). Rendering: Tweak shadow bias defaults for DirectionalLight3D and OmniLight3D ( GH-55757 ). Rendering: Fix AABB errors on meshes with bones on multiple surfaces ( GH-65035 ). Rendering: Allow black metallic materials to reflect IBL ( GH-69522 ).

Beta 40

Beta Dev Render Shaders 40

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 ).

Alpha 52

Alpha Dev Bug Render 52

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 ).

Beta 40

Beta Dev Render Alpha 40

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 ).

Alpha 52

Alpha Dev Bug Render 52

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).

Alpha 52

Alpha Dev Bug Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 12, 2022

Rendering: Add dithering to ProceduralSkyMaterial to combat banding ( GH-60070 ). Rendering: A lot of refactoring work behind the scenes, and work in progress on OpenGL 3 (not usable yet). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension, VisualScript).

Alpha 52

Alpha Dev Bug Beta 52

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 ).

Alpha 52

Alpha Dev Bug Animation 52

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

Beta 40

Beta Dev Animation Animation 40

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 ).

Beta 40

Beta Dev Render Alpha 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.

Alpha 52

Alpha Dev Shaders Beta 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

This design became common in game engines and libraries in the early 2010s. Godot uses plenty of data-oriented optimizations for physics, rendering, audio, etc. Game logic. Still (while, by far, not the majority) some types of games will see a performance benefit when using ECS in the game logic side.

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Game Engine Engine Engineering Sprite 57

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

Beta 52

Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Rendering: Vulkan: Improve logic for detecting and tracking extensions ( GH-68833 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Fix drawing of Mesh2D ( GH-69135 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET XR: Add partial support for Pico 4 ( GH-68023 ).

Beta 40

Beta Dev Bug Render 40

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 17, 2022

What is happening here is that the positions are being downcast into single-precision floats before being sent to the GPU for rendering. So on the GPU we are still using single-precision and the end result as far as rendering goes is the same as if we were using single-precision.

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Render Shaders Engine Engineering 53

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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