Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 25, 2023

Given the scope of this change for all platforms, we expect some regressions, which will be fixed for beta 16. Shaders: Fix code generation for ProximityRange node in visual shader ( GH-71760 ). Note that you need to force recompiling your affected visual shaders by doing any change in their graph.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

But we're not there yet and we'll keep having frequent alpha builds until we're ready to slap the beta label on the engine. If you downloaded alpha 13 before this update, you can re-download the editor build for your platform. Some noteworthy changes in this release: Shader preprocessor support and shader includes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 11, 2021

My name is Leonardo Veloso and I am a 3D artist working on TV broadcasting in Brazil, in my spare time I am a hobbyist game developer. Introduce your project in a few sentences: description, supported platforms, release date, etc. Do you have prior experience with other game engines? Of course, I’ll stick with it!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 14, 2014

is to focus on improving the 2D engine with all the feedback that we have gathered during the past months, improving shader support for 2D, visual shader editing (for 2D and 3D), and more draw options such as per-node z-priority. Help us let the world know this little game engine exists! The plan for 1.1

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 20, 2022

As a reminder, an OpenGL-based renderer is still crucial so we can support older platforms, and Web export. There is a Vulkan-like web API called WebGPU in development, but it currently isn't widely supported yet, so WebGL remains the best option for targetting web games. However, we are now confident that we will be shipping 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 20, 2022

As a reminder, an OpenGL-based renderer is still crucial so we can support older platforms, and Web export. There is a Vulkan-like web API called WebGPU in development, but it currently isn’t widely supported yet, so WebGL remains the best option for targetting web games. However, we are now confident that we will be shipping 4.0

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Render Beta Feature Bug 55

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 2023

For shaders, we removed the now-redundant SCREEN_TEXTURE , DEPTH_TEXTURE , and NORMAL_ROUGHNESS_TEXTURE ( GH-70967 ). Note that there’s a helpful error in the shader editor telling you how to port code, but there’s a typo: filter_linear_mipmaps should be filter_linear_mipmap (no ‘s’).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Rendering: GLES2: Fix trunc shader function compilation on Android ( GH-56061 ). Godot is a non-profit, open source game engine developed by hundreds of contributors on their free time, and a handful of part or full-time developers, hired thanks to donations from the Godot community. This reverts a change introduced in 3.4.1

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iXie gaming

MAY 8, 2023

WebGL Game Development Tools A plethora of tools are available for creating WebGL games, such as game engines, development environments, and tutorials. Advanced 3D games can be effortlessly developed using the robust tools and capabilities offered by game engines such as Unity, Unreal Engine, and PlayCanvas.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. Rename JavaScript platform to Web ( GH-65023 ). Editor: Improvements to shader editor ( GH-63582 ). Shaders: Quality of life Visual Shaders updates ( GH-63999 ). Rename hint_tooltip to tooltip_text ( GH-64885 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Over the course of the last four months the engine has seen many changes, making it more stable and feature complete, and it's getting very close to the state that we would be happy with. More engine enums are now bound with BitField, making their usage more type-safe, especially in C# ( GH-71037 , GH-71045 , GH-71116 ). beta releases.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 30, 2017

The main feature of Game Off is its focus on free and open source tools for game development, and this is obviously something that we consider highly in the Godot Engine community, as a fully libre 2D and 3D game engine. or any of the hundreds of libre tools listed on awesome-gamedev. Getting started with Godot.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

We want to encourage the quick embrace of GDeflate as a data-parallel compression standard, facilitating its adoption across the PC ecosystem and on other platforms. We’re looking forward to next-generation game engines benefiting from GDeflate by dramatically reducing loading times. a modern I/O streaming API from Microsoft.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

Donations and corporate grants play a vital role in enabling us to develop Godot at this sustained pace, since they are our only source of income, and are used 100% to pay developers to work on the engine. Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader). Thanks to all of you patrons from the bottom of our hearts!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Over the course of the last four months the engine has seen many changes, making it more stable and feature complete, and it’s getting very close to the state that we would be happy with. More engine enums are now bound with BitField, making their usage more type-safe, especially in C# ( GH-71037 , GH-71045 , GH-71116 ). beta releases.

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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 )). Buildsystem: Various compilation fixes for some platforms/compilers, and Linux packaging fixes. Core: Expose Shape.get_debug_mesh() to the scripting API ( GH-48316 ). if something that worked fine in 3.3

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 29, 2018

This is a great opportunity to discover Godot if you're not familiar with it yet, get some more experience if you know it already, or get to know some of the other awesome free and open source game engines or frameworks out there such as Phaser , LÖVE or LibGDX. Installing the engine. Community communication platforms.

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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 )). Buildsystem: Various compilation fixes for some platforms/compilers, and Linux packaging fixes. Here are some of the main changes since 3.3-stable:

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Windows: Fix platform file access to allow file sharing with external programs ( GH-51430 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ).

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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 )). Buildsystem: Various compilation fixes for some platforms/compilers, and Linux packaging fixes. Here are some of the main changes since 3.3-stable:

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Rendering: Prevent shaders from generating code before the constructor finishes ( GH-52475 ). Instead, browse our download repository and fetch the editor binary that matches your platform: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). HTML5: Use browser mix rate by default on the Web ( GH-52723 ). API documentation updates.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

In this build, we also built it for 32-bit platforms (armv7 and x86) as there was some demand for it, so you'll find the APK is a bit heavier. and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Shaders: Fix specular render_mode for Visual Shaders ( GH-41536 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Instead, browse our download repository and fetch the editor binary that matches your platform: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). stb_vorbis 1.20, wslay 1.1.1).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

stable branch in January 2020 as a major update to our free and open source game engine. includes 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform. This nearly completes the platform support for C# projects in Godot (only UWP support is still missing). 2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ). Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). Particles: Add ring emitter for 3D particles ( GH-47801 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

This RC 6 has a few notable changes compared to the previous build: In RC 4, async shader compilation and caching was enabled by default on desktop, but several users reported issues with it on some hardware. We switched it back to disabled by default for all platforms. Shaders: Many improvements backported from master ( GH-56794 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ). Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). Shaders: Add support for global const arrays ( GH-50889 ).

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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. Core: Fix platform-specific issues with OS.set_current_screen() ( GH-63192 ). The main changes coming in Godot 3.5

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 9, 2016

After almost six months of hard work, we are proudly presenting you the marvellous Godot Engine 2.1. We have listened to and worked with our awesome community to make Godot one of the easiest game development environments to use. The most important ones are: New asset sharing platform. stable is here! As of the 2.1

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 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. Core: Fix platform-specific issues with OS.set_current_screen() ( GH-63192 ). The main changes coming in Godot 3.5

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Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 7, 2021

In particular, this build adds WebXR support for VR games! It also adds a much-requested minimap to GraphEdit , and thus to the VisualScript and Visual Shader editors. Font: Load dynamic fonts to memory on all platforms to avoid locked files ( GH-44117 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 10, 2020

We discussed with the core developers about hiring GDQuest (who have plenty of experience working with the engine documentation, with Nathan being one of our main docs contributors) to work on this task. we want to move our texture compressors to GPU using compute shaders. To work around this, for Godot 4.0,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

in January 2020, we switched the development focus towards the upcoming Godot 4.0 , which is a major, compatibility-breaking rewrite of the engine's core and rendering. Godot is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing the world with the best possible free and open source game technology. Platforms: Godot editor on the Web!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

returns to its own physics engine which, despite not being a high end physics engine like PhysX, aims to offer a lot more flexibility and “just works” capabilities to users. The custom physics engine still has a considerable amount of issues remaining but we are working hard to ensure it is in a decent state for shipping when 4.0

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Nvidia

MARCH 24, 2022

Simplify integration with the new NVIDIA Streamline Since NVIDIA Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) launched in 2019, a variety of super-resolution technologies have shipped from both hardware vendors and engine providers. Traditionally, game engines must bind all active materials in a scene. The NVIDIA GeForce NOW platform.

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Nvidia

AUGUST 31, 2023

In DirectX Raytracing (DXR) this self-intersection check would be implemented in an any-hit shader. Finally, the method does not rely on self-intersection rejection using an any-hit shader and has a fixed overhead per shading point. In the user shader, the object-space hit point is reconstructed and transformed into world-space.

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Cocos

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

I have been working on game and front-end interactive development projects for many years, and I also consider myself a part-time astronomy enthusiast. I have extensive experience using the Cocos engine for many years as well. This becomes particularly evident in crashes on platforms such as mini-games and low-end devices.

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