Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

Those typically shouldn’t add instability to the engine, but may require doing some changes in your scripts, scenes, and shaders if you were using the affected APIs. Import: Avoid nested skeletons, and handle skinned meshes with children ( GH-72158 ). Shaders: Add derivative functions with precision to shaders ( GH-72109 ).

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Beta Dev Shaders Render 108

CG Spectrum

JANUARY 13, 2023

Read about Aurore's journey from architecture to real-time 3D and see one of the magical worlds she built as part of the Real-time and Virtual Production Course at CG Spectrum, which was featured by Unreal Engine as part of their Community Spotlight! CG Spectrum is an Unreal Engine Authorized Training Center and Academic Partner.

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Cinematics Engine Engineering Art 71

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

are done, I have spent the past two months optimizing the rendering engine, both on the CPU and GPU side. Instancing is used to render similar objects (mesh, material and misc settings), reducing the pressure over the rendering API. There are special versions of meshes to render when doing shadow maps or depth pre-pass.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Rendering: Fix AABB errors on meshes with bones on multiple surfaces ( GH-65035 ). Rendering: Implement CAMERA_VISIBLE_LAYERS as built-in shader variable ( GH-67387 ). Visual Shader: Make custom visual shader nodes automatically updates from script ( GH-69738 ). XR: WebXR is now fully working in Godot 4! ( GH-68870 ).

Beta 95

Beta Dev Render Shaders 95

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 21, 2018

2D engine merged into master branch. mesh loading. basic mesh drawing. implement spatial shaders. While a most of the 2D engine was already working, some bugs kept the editor from being fully usable and also caused problems in regular game projects. 2D engine merged into master branch. Done February 2018.

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Mesh Shaders Render Bug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ).

Beta 52

Beta Dev Mesh Render 52

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. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime.

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Shaders Render Mesh Feature 53

The Knights of Unity

JUNE 5, 2020

Unity Engine introduces an awesome tools to empower your game development process. For shaders, I used Amplify Shader Editor to add some visual effects on top of the render texture. Then I’ve put the recorded render texture to a Standard Shader. And the outcome of the shader looks like this: And that’s it.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ).

Beta 52

Beta Dev Mesh Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Mesh: Fix UV mapping on CSGSphere ( GH-49195 ).

Beta 52

Beta Dev Mesh Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2022

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. This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

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Beta Dev Shaders Console 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. Editor: Improvements to shader editor ( GH-63582 ). Warning: This has the potential to break meshes imported in earlier alphas, we are still working on improving the compatibility code. Editor: Add per-scene UndoRedo ( GH-59564 ).

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Alpha Dev Shaders Beta 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 16, 2022

Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader state caching when blend shapes used ( GH-58808 ) [regression fix]. Rendering: GLES3: Fix broken normals in meshes with blend shapes ( GH-59159 ) [regression fix]. if something that worked fine in earlier 3.4.x

Render 52

Render Shaders Bug Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 23, 2018

generate C++ classes for GLSL shaders at compile time. adapt shader compiler to work with GLSL ES 2.0. adapt shader compiler to work with GLSL ES 2.0. load meshes. render meshes. The first step towards getting the 2D engine working was to have proper texture loading. Done December 2017. and GLSL ES 2.0

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Shaders Render Texture Mesh 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 8, 2017

Optimize any part of your game by rewriting it transparently in C++, or any language that can compiled to native code for the target platform, wihout recompiling the engine or templates. While we offer a default particles material (which is very powerful and customizable), it is possible to write your own particle logic entirely in a shader.

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Mesh Alpha Shaders Asset 52

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. You can enable it in the Project Settings ( rendering/gles3/shaders/shader_compilation_mode ). Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

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Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 23, 2022

Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader state caching when blend shapes used ( GH-58808 ) [regression fix]. Rendering: GLES3: Fix broken normals in meshes with blend shapes ( GH-59159 ) [regression fix]. please file an issue on GitHub.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 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. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime.

Render 52

Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

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. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime.

Render 52

Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 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. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime.

Render 52

Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

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. This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

Beta 52

Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 17, 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. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime.

Render 52

Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2022

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. This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

Beta 52

Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 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. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime.

Render 52

Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). Visual Shader: Add few improvements for VisualShaderNodeParticleRandomness ( GH-71123 ). A couple fixes to the text resource loader which could impact notably reloading scripts ( GH-71170 ). Fix Tab key usage in the inspector ( GH-71271 ).

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Beta Dev Collision Render 110

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 2022

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. This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

Beta 52

Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2022

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. This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

Beta 52

Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

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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Beta Dev Render Animation 105

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. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime.

Render 52

Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Shaders: Fix specular render_mode for Visual Shaders ( GH-41536 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! stb_vorbis 1.20, wslay 1.1.1).

Bug 52

Bug Collision Mesh Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 6, 2018

In order to deform the mesh according to the bone transforms, each vertex (generally "point of a triangle") can be influenced by up to 4 bones. The actual deformation usually happens in the vertex shader , where the bone transforms get looked up from a texture. (In added TIME uniform to all "scriptable" shaders.

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Shaders Texture Render Scripting 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 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. This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. back in 2020!

Render 52

Render Shaders Console Culling 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Rendering: Fix AABB errors on meshes with bones on multiple surfaces ( GH-65035 ). Rendering: Implement CAMERA_VISIBLE_LAYERS as built-in shader variable ( GH-67387 ). Visual Shader: Make custom visual shader nodes automatically updates from script ( GH-69738 ). XR: WebXR is now fully working in Godot 4! ( GH-68870 ).

Beta 40

Beta Dev Render Shaders 40

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This generally works and looks pretty, but it's quite shader intensive, which makes it not work on mobile or low end GPUs. First of all, you need to make sure your meshes have an UV2 layer. Godot lightmapper works with one texture per mesh, so sharing UVs between meshes will not give you more optimization.

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Nvidia

MAY 21, 2021

NetEase Thunder Fire Games Uses Mesh Shading To Create Beautiful Game Environments for Justice In December, we interviewed Haiyong Qian, NetEase Game Engine. Recently, NetEase introduced Mesh Shader support to Justice. His work focuses on the rendering engine in Justice, specifically GPU features enabled by DirectX 12.

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Mesh Culling Ray Tracing Shaders 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Import: Fix crash when exporting meshes to glTF that have no skin ( GH-55246 ). 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 ). Input: Add Input.is_physical_key_pressed() method ( GH-55251 ).

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Tile Render Shaders Editing 52

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. GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Shaders: Fix specular render_mode for Visual Shaders ( GH-41536 ).

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