Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 25, 2023

Rendering: Decrement texture_binding count when using screen textures ( GH-71764 ). 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. This fixes a regression in beta 14.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

If you’ve ever wondered what the best game engine is, we invite you to figure it out with us. Let’s discover their pros and cons so it will be easier to decide which engine suits your project better. Unity versus Unreal – this seems to be an ever-lasting battle in the game development world. Unity or Unreal?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2020

and December I had a lot of other engine related tasks that piled up that I had to solve. It still lacks a few minor details (like colorspace adjustment via 3D textures) but it's mostly there. Godot auto-detects the use of both textures in a shader and it automatically fixes the roughness texture (although it can be done manually too).

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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

APRIL 30, 2020

It feels great to be back to doing graphics programming after two months refactoring the core engine. It supported roughness, but it did so in a way where the texture reads appeared rough, but not the reflected image (the edges of the reflected objects remained intact). Decals are now supported in the engine. Light projectors.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

To show the benefits of GDeflate, we measured system performance without compression, with standard CPU-side decompression, and with GPU-accelerated GDeflate decompression on a representative game-focused dataset, containing texture and geometry data. GDeflate is available as a standard GPU decompression option in DirectStorage 1.1—a

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Editor: Fix preview grid and preserve source texture margins in SpriteFrames editor ( GH-52910 ). GLES3: Properly clear cubemap filter state when texture array environment disabled ( GH-51938 ). Rendering: Prevent shaders from generating code before the constructor finishes ( GH-52475 ). API documentation updates.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Import: Fix swapped color channels in ETC1/ETC2 textures, etcpak expects BGRA data ( GH-69448 ). Rendering: Implement CAMERA_VISIBLE_LAYERS as built-in shader variable ( GH-67387 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Use internal texture name when setting texture uniform location ( GH-69633 ). GH-68870 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 8, 2022

Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. Note: You might need to delete your.godot/imported folder to force reimporting all your textures with the new class name. Rendering: Fix shader compilation error with anisotropy ( GH-58419 ). Visual Shader: Add varying support ( GH-58750 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Editor: Fix preview grid and preserve source texture margins in SpriteFrames editor ( GH-52910 ). GLES3: Properly clear cubemap filter state when texture array environment disabled ( GH-51938 ). Rendering: Prevent shaders from generating code before the constructor finishes ( GH-52475 ). API documentation updates.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ). Visual Shader: Add few improvements for VisualShaderNodeParticleRandomness ( GH-71123 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Add support for FORMAT_{ETC2,DXT5}_RA_AS_RG ( GH-71248 ). However, we still try to provide a migration path for your projects.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

GUI: Fix TextureButton focus texture logic ( GH-56472 ). Import: Fix glTF scene export crash on null normal texture ( GH-56380 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader compile error with Oren Nayar + Vertex Lighting ( GH-56802 ). XR: Fix external textures being freed by Godot ( GH-56148 ). See the full changelog since 3.4.2-stable

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 8, 2020

Let's hope this implementation will also be of use to others making their own technology or engines, so they can use it as reference or just copy it. The new lightmapper is GPU based written mostly on Compute shaders (meaning it does most of the heavy lifting using the GPU, via Vulkan). Features of the new Godot 4.0 lightmapper.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 24, 2022

Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. Rendering: Add sky cover texture for ProceduralSkyMaterial ( GH-58018 ). Visual Shader: Add _get_func_code / _is_available virtual functions to custom nodes ( GH-57769 ). See past alpha releases for details ( alpha 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

There were fixes all around the engine to address regressions, backport new fixes from the master branch, as well as a wide array of usability enhancements and documentation improvements. Shaders: Fix specular render_mode for Visual Shaders ( GH-41536 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 4, 2021

glTF is a growing 3D format and has received massive adoption in the game industry. Commonly selected as the format for new software and game engines, glTF can also have new functionality added using extensions. glTF in Godot Engine allows for a combination of in-engine and out-of-engine tooling to work together seamlessly.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

GUI: Fix TextureButton focus texture logic ( GH-56472 ). Import: Fix glTF scene export crash on null normal texture ( GH-56380 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader compile error with Oren Nayar + Vertex Lighting ( GH-56802 ). XR: Fix external textures being freed by Godot ( GH-56148 ). Known incompatibilities.

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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

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 )). Rendering: Fix usage of proxy textures on GLES2 PanoramaSky ( GH-48541 ). Here are some of the main changes since 3.3-stable: please file an issue on GitHub.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

GUI: Fix TextureButton focus texture logic ( GH-56472 ). Import: Fix glTF scene export crash on null normal texture ( GH-56380 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader compile error with Oren Nayar + Vertex Lighting ( GH-56802 ). XR: Fix external textures being freed by Godot ( GH-56148 ). See the full GitHub changelog since 3.4.2-stable

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ). Visual Shader: Add few improvements for VisualShaderNodeParticleRandomness ( GH-71123 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Add support for FORMAT_{ETC2,DXT5}_RA_AS_RG ( GH-71248 ). However, we still try to provide a migration path for your projects.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Import: Fix texture atlas generation when source sprite is larger than generated atlas ( GH-55094 ). macOS: Enable multithreaded OpenGL engine flag when using multithreaded VisualServer ( GH-54526 ). Particles: Fix for double use of seed in random shader variables ( GH-55607 ). All users are advised to upgrade to Godot 3.4.2

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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 )). Rendering: Fix usage of proxy textures on GLES2 PanoramaSky ( GH-48541 ). Buildsystem: Various compilation fixes for some platforms/compilers, and Linux packaging fixes. stable ( GH-48268 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Editor: Make texture preview filter setting content aware ( GH-67426 ). Visual Shader: Add math operators to node names for easier and simpler searching ( GH-67905 ). Editor: Add "Scene" and "Visibility" buttons in Remote Scene Tree ( GH-65118 ). Editor: Added custom Node export ( GH-67055 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 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 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ). API documentation updates.

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Game Errors

MARCH 24, 2023

GTA 5 stuttering is often caused by an outdated GPU driver, lack of hardware resources due to an old PC or apps running in the background, lack of memory space, bugs with wireless controllers, and faulty game files. The game engine used by GTA 5 doesn’t even favor players with high-end gaming setups. Launch GTA 5.

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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 )). Rendering: Fix usage of proxy textures on GLES2 PanoramaSky ( GH-48541 ). Here are some of the main changes since 3.3-stable: stable ( GH-48268 ).

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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 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ). mbedtls 2.16.11.

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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 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ). mbedtls 2.16.11.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Import: Fix texture atlas generation when source sprite is larger than generated atlas ( GH-55094 ). macOS: Enable multithreaded OpenGL engine flag when using multithreaded VisualServer ( GH-54526 ). Particles: Fix for double use of seed in random shader variables ( GH-55607 ). if something that worked fine in 3.4

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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. Hiring Matias Goldberg to help him create GPU-based texture compressors. To work around this, for Godot 4.0,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Import: Fix texture atlas generation when source sprite is larger than generated atlas ( GH-55094 ). macOS: Enable multithreaded OpenGL engine flag when using multithreaded VisualServer ( GH-54526 ). Particles: Fix for double use of seed in random shader variables ( GH-55607 ). if something that worked fine in 3.4

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Tile Render Bug Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Editor: Make texture preview filter setting content aware ( GH-67426 ). Visual Shader: Add math operators to node names for easier and simpler searching ( GH-67905 ). Editor: Add “Scene” and “Visibility” buttons in Remote Scene Tree ( GH-65118 ). Editor: Added custom Node export ( GH-67055 ).

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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

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. GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). mbedtls 2.16.9,

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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. Rendering: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). The main changes coming in Godot 3.5

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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. 2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ). GLES2/GLES3: Add support for OpenGL external textures ( GH-36342 ). GLES2/GLES3: Reset texture flags after radiance map generation ( GH-37815 ). But Godot 4.0

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