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Godot Tactics RPG – 01. Intro & Setup

The Liquid Fire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

I’ll be writing most code in Godot’s Gdscript, so familiarity with that or Python will help. x version(at the time of writing that is 4.1.3) For Renderer, I chose Forward+ because I think it is somewhere between URP and HDRP. Type in mesh in the search and select MeshInstance3D. x for this tutorial.

Point and Click

Point and Click Mesh Texture Tile

Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Godot can render at frame rates independent from the fixed physics tick rate. Enable this setting and Godot will automatically interpolate objects, smoothing out rendered frames.

Shaders

Shaders Render Mesh Feature

Godot 3.0, new progress report and GDC

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 11, 2017

This was a necessary change for many reasons: It's much, much simpler to write import/export code this way. Multiple editing of imported files is possible, so settings for several files can be changed at once by selecting them on the filesystem dock. Reimports will overwrite those meshes, though. Beginning with Godot 3.0,

Mesh

Mesh Texture Demo Code

Unity Bolt Tutorial: How to Add Triggers & Switches

SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Oftentimes you’ll want your trigger to be invisible, and if you want your trigger to be invisible, you can just turn off the mesh renderer of the object here, and that will remove the mesh of the cube. We can hit the “edit bounding volume” button here and then just scale our invisible trigger up.

Code

Code Clipping Point and Click Dev

Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

has an entirely new rendering architecture, which is divided into modern and compatibility backends. The modern one does rendering via RenderingDevice (which is implemented in drivers such as Vulkan, Direct3D 12, and more in the future). Rendering is significantly more efficient in Godot 4.0, Low level rendering access.

AAA

AAA Game Developer Game Development Development

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

GLES3 renderer). GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Add high quality glow mode ( GH-51491 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

GLES3 renderer). GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Add high quality glow mode ( GH-51491 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

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. GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Portal occlusion culling. More rendering improvements. Up till now a significant missing feature in the renderer has been the ability to cull (prevent rendering) objects that are within the camera view, but occluded by another object (for instance a wall). More rendering improvements.

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

x branch used OpenGL ES 2.0 / OpenGL 2.1 ( GLES2 ) as its rendering API. This worked well, but had many limitations preventing us to use more modern rendering techniques. all rendering code was rewritten to use the more modern OpenGL ES 3.0 / OpenGL 3.3 renderer was removed. renderer was removed. 2D skeletons.

Feature

Feature Render Editing Shaders

Godot's new renderer, progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2016

As many of you have probably heard, a new rendering backend is being worked on for Godot. Our goal is to have a modern, clustered renderer that supports everything mainstream engines support, including PBR, global illumination and flexible shader editing. Write a more flexible, GLES 3 GLSL compatible shader language.

Render

Render Shaders Texture Mesh

Coherent Creature Design

Mnenad

APRIL 9, 2018

He writes about how players must be able to determine if a creature is a friend or enemy just by its shape and from long distance. On the third image, I tried to programed a draw mode option to directly edit the shapes in the generation process. The upper image is a rapidly made rendering in Cinema4D.

Terrain

Terrain Concepts Art Mesh

Creating a See-Through | X-Ray Effect In Unity – Shader Tutorial

Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 24, 2022

A shader is a script where you write code that determines how the colors will be rendered based on various scenarios like lighting and material configuration. The ZWrite Off and ZTest Greater are responsible for making the shader render the material behind other objects. What Is a Shader?

Shaders

Shaders Pixel Scripting Render

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

our lead developer Juan Linietsky moved on to developing the upcoming Vulkan renderer for Godot 4.0 which will bring a new Vulkan-based rendering backend in lieu of the current OpenGL ES 3.0 / OpenGL 3.3 The curious among you may read Juan's progress reports for details on this new architecture and rendering features implemented for 4.0

Render

Render Feature Shaders Bug

Learn How To Get Data From API in Unreal Engine 5 by Building a Virtual Art Gallery

DameDev.tv

MARCH 7, 2023

In today's post, I'd like to show you how to retrieve an image provided by The Art Institute of Chicago via its public API , how to create a texture from this image, and how to feed this texture to a material and render it on a plane accompanied by a floating text with title, name of the artist and some other details.

Data

Data Engine Engineering Art

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

It brings a brand new rendering engine with state-of-the-art PBR workflow for 3D, an improved assets pipeline, GDNative to load native code as plugins, C# 7.0 After meeting the initial goal, we hired karroffel to continue her work on GDNative (more about this below) and work on a new rendering backend. New physically based 3D renderer.

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

We know many users are excited about the coming improvements to 2D and 3D rendering in 4.0. Over the last few years we have completely overhauled the Godot renders. They now target Vulkan by default and we have created them with future support for Direct3D 12 and other rendering APIs in mind. has been added by Je06jm.

Beta

Beta Engine Engineering Animation

Moving to Vulkan (and ES 2.0) instead of OpenGL ES 3.0

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Edit: Changed post title for clarity (previously Abandoning OpenGL ES 3.0 Edit 2: This article is now outdated. See About Godot 4, Vulkan, GLES3 and GLES2 for up-to-date information about the planned rendering backends transition. Single codebase for everything is like a dream come true for writing an engine. OpenGL ES 3.0

Render

Render Mobile Mobile Writing

GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2022

Like in previous years, Godot is participating again in the Google Summer of Code program for its 2022 edition. We asked them to write a progress report to present what they're working on and the current status. The idea is to overlay a checkerboard pattern with the same square size (in texels) on the textures of all the meshes.

Lightmap

Lightmap UX Shaders Debug

How to Use Unity Cinemachine Virtual Cameras

Game Designing

APRIL 21, 2022

When using Cinemachine, you don’t need to know how to write code, though coding is still essential for some components, such as scripting how a user zooms using a mouse wheel, for example. Yes, in the past, Unity has come up a little short when it came to interior renderings. Who Would Be Interested in Unity Cinemachine?

Animation

Animation Animation Code Software

GSoC 2018 progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 25, 2018

I've asked all students to write a short progress report about their projects, which are all in the last stages of development for the GSoC internship. s EEVEE render engine. The change here is that with the new interface, the selection is taken care of automatically without us having to write a new system. Documentation.

Communications

Communications Code Engine Engineering

GSoC 2021 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 30, 2021

Like in previous years, Godot is participating again in the Google Summer of Code program for its 2021 edition. A lot of developers prefer to use their familiar tools when it comes to writing and debugging code. Fake Bidi : Some writing systems like the Arabic script use a Right-To-Left system. Branch: Ev1lbl0w/gsoc21-dap.

Debug

Debug Simulation Communications Feature

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

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Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

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Godot's new renderer, progress report #1

Coherent Creature Design

Creating a See-Through | X-Ray Effect In Unity – Shader Tutorial

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

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Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Moving to Vulkan (and ES 2.0) instead of OpenGL ES 3.0

GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

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GSoC 2018 progress report #1

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