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Cocos Creator 3.8 Community Beta is now available

Cocos

JUNE 11, 2023

we have completed the transformation of the engine-builtin Custom Pipeline using RenderGraph. It will support the implementation of engine builtin Custom Pipeline and the default Deferred Pipeline. We also support Compute Shader capabilities. There are already many well-known Cocos games published on the platform on their own.

Beta

Beta Lightmap Render Animation

Godot 4.0 will get a new, modernized lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 8, 2020

Lightmaps offer significant advantages over any other technique when the following requirements are met: Performance above anything else (for mobile, lightmaps are still a must-have). If these requirements are met, then lightmapping is probably the best for you. Lighting will not change (lights won't move). lightmapper.

Lightmap

Lightmap Baking Render Shaders

Cocos Creator 3.7.3 comes with an update to Cocos Effect

Cocos

MAY 9, 2023

ENGINE Features ● Custom Render Pipeline based on Render Graph supports for GLES backend ● Deprecated interfaces, such as addRasterView, addComputeView, etc., Fixed Toon shader data issue on iOS Wechat. Fixed darker convolution image issue for the reflection probe on the OPPO Mini Game platform. Cocos Creator 3.7.3

Terrain

Terrain Render Simulation Texture

Project Structure - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos

APRIL 14, 2023

For someone who didn’t know Cocos Cyberpunk, it is an open source 3D TPS (Third-person Shooter) game, developed by the Cocos Engine team, which can be published to iOS, Android and Web. Open the scene named scene-game-start and click on the preview button to run the game, you will see the following screen. Stay tuned.

Code

Code Culling Lightmap Render

Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

x branch to develop and publish their games today , so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience. As such, most of the focus was on implementing missing features or bugfixes which are critical for publishing 2D and 3D games with Godot 3, and on making the existing features more optimized and reliable.

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

The features offered are also a lot more reminiscent of AAA games, such as far more material options and advanced visual effects (including circle DOF , volumetric fog, AMD FSR, etc.). 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

AAA

AAA Game Developer Game Development Development

Maintenance release: Godot 3.0.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Another new CLI option is --quit which will quit the engine after the first main loop iteration. Several new GLSL built-in functions are exposed to the shader language : radians degrees asinh acosh atanh exp2 log2 roundEven. It is now possible to center your game window with OS.center_window(). Type icons are back! Fixed issues.

Beta

Beta Bug Lightmap Build

Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

Engine • Added DebugView at runtime UI control rendering debugging function. Reduced GFX Buffer memory consumption for WeChat games in iOS 14 high-performance mode. . Reduced GFX Buffer memory consumption for WeChat games in iOS 14 high-performance mode. Fixed an issue with Facebook instant games not starting.

Render

Render Baking Lightmap Debug

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

After more than 18 months of development, all Godot Engine contributors are proud to present our biggest release so far, Godot 3.0! 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 Materials and shaders. GPU particles.

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The game is developed by Vedg Studio / NoirosL and was recently ported to Godot 4.0 Rendering: Add optional UV2 logic for lightmapping to primitive shapes ( GH-67975 ). Rendering: Enable mipmaps in cubemap roughness shader ( GH-68511 ). Rendering: Properly set TIME shader uniform when rendering shadows ( GH-68574 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Alpha

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

beta just yet as we expect the engine to be unstable until we have more testing done. Throughout the last two years the core of the engine has seen a lot of improvements and refactoring to bring it to the next level in terms of maintainability, reliability, and performance. We don’t recommend migrating large projects to the Godot 4.0

Beta

Beta Engine Engineering Animation

Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

was a massive release, which required large rewrites of the engine codebase and breaking backwards compatibility significantly. As always, please remember that we are a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing the world with the best possible free and open source game technology. Visual shader editor. Documentation.

Feature

Feature Render Editing Shaders

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The game is developed by Vedg Studio / NoirosL and was recently ported to Godot 4.0 Rendering: Add optional UV2 logic for lightmapping to primitive shapes ( GH-67975 ). Rendering: Enable mipmaps in cubemap roughness shader ( GH-68511 ). Rendering: Properly set TIME shader uniform when rendering shadows ( GH-68574 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Alpha

Godot's new renderer, progress report #3

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Implement Particle Shaders, with support for: Sorting, Collision and Soft Particles. The new GI probe implementation in Godot is a game changer, and gives Godot 3.0 an edge in quality over existing mainstream engines. Implement the new version of the Godot SVO-based Light Baker. TODO for Milestone #4 (January 2017).

Render

Render Baking Lightmap Shaders

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Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

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

Maintenance release: Godot 3.0.1

Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

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