Nvidia

JANUARY 11, 2021

In this video, NVIDIA’s Alexey Panteleev explains the key details needed to add performant resampling to modern game engines. In this video, NVIDIA’s Alexey Panteleev explains the key details needed to add performant resampling to modern game engines. He also discusses roadmap plans.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: String and StringName are now mostly cross-compatible throughout the engine API, as well as in various GDScript-specific expressions and statements ( GH-68747 ). The illustration picture for this article is from Raffaele Picca ’s car scene , rendered in Godot 4.0

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Nvidia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Leveling up your games with the cutting-edge technologies found in the biggest blockbusters just got a lot simpler. As of today, Unreal Engine 4 (UE4). Leveling up your games with the cutting-edge technologies found in the biggest blockbusters just got a lot simpler. The NVIDIA RTX UE4 4.25 branches have also received updates.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Rendering: Use circular fade instead of linear fade for distance fade ( GH-50294 ). Rendering: Tweak shadow bias defaults for DirectionalLight3D and OmniLight3D ( GH-55757 ). Rendering: Fix AABB errors on meshes with bones on multiple surfaces ( GH-65035 ). XR: WebXR is now fully working in Godot 4!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ). See the list below.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

Flag dirty dependencies when GeometryInstance dependencies change in renderer ( GH-71581 ). 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. Rendering: Fix LCD font AA on OpenGL renderer ( GH-72125 ).

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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

JANUARY 13, 2023

OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ). See the list below.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 16, 2022

Rendering: GLES2: Fix compression on blend shapes ( GH-58838 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix incorrect buffer upload size in draw_gui_primitive ( GH-58150 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader state caching when blend shapes used ( GH-58808 ) [regression fix].

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Render Shaders Bug Build 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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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 23, 2022

Rendering: GLES2: Fix compression on blend shapes ( GH-58838 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix incorrect buffer upload size in draw_gui_primitive ( GH-58150 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader state caching when blend shapes used ( GH-58808 ) [regression fix].

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). mbedtls 2.16.11.

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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: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 4, 2021

Import: glTF: Fix mesh nodes which are also bones ( GH-49119 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Rendering: VisualServer now sorts based on AABB position ( GH-43506 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). no longer works in 3.3.3

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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: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 26, 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 ). Rendering: Fix vertex attribute specification for octahedral compression ( GH-54768 ). Input: Add Input.is_physical_key_pressed() method ( GH-55251 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Import: glTF: Fix mesh nodes which are also bones ( GH-49119 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Rendering: VisualServer now sorts based on AABB position ( GH-43506 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 3, 2021

Finger tracking itself is fully supported both through updating orientation of meshes, for which a sample scene is included in the plugin, and through animating a skeleton and bone deformation. Windows Mixed Reality headsets are currently only supported through SteamVR as WMR natively only supports DirectX game engines.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Physics: Optimized support function for large meshes ( GH-64382 ). Rendering: Add OpenGL timer queries to OpenGL3 backend ( GH-67032 ). Rendering: Improve behaviour of clip_children by clipping to parent alpha value but still retaining parent color ( GH-67043 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 16, 2021

Import: glTF: Fix mesh nodes which are also bones ( GH-49119 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Rendering: VisualServer now sorts based on AABB position ( GH-43506 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). no longer works in 3.3.3

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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. 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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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Rendering: Use circular fade instead of linear fade for distance fade ( GH-50294 ). Rendering: Tweak shadow bias defaults for DirectionalLight3D and OmniLight3D ( GH-55757 ). Rendering: Fix AABB errors on meshes with bones on multiple surfaces ( GH-65035 ). XR: WebXR is now fully working in Godot 4!

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

REAL TIME RAY TRACING MADE EASIER RTX Direct Illumination (RTXDI) Imagine adding millions of dynamic lights to your game environments without worrying about performance or resource constraints. RTXDI makes this possible while rendering in real time. Unity has announced that DLSS will be natively supported in Unity Engine version 2021.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

GUI: Fix RichTextLabel underline prevents strikethrough from rendering ( GH-56686 ). Rendering: Fix blend shapes when octahedral compression is used ( GH-56161 ). Rendering: Fix invalid read when using LightOccluder2D ( GH-56859 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix buffer upload size bugs affecting blendshapes ( GH-58085 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2021

Games exported with a ZIP data package could also trigger a crash on exit. Additionally, this release includes a number of non-regression bug fixes to various areas of the engine. Import: glTF: Improved error handling around invalid images and invalid meshes ( GH-48904 , GH-48912 ). like all future 3.3.x Download Godot 3.3.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

Notably, it fixes some rendering regressions with transparent materials, and crashing iOS templates and Web editor build in RC 2. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Rendering: Add material_overlay property to MeshInstance ( GH-50823 ).

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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 ). Rendering: Fix vertex attribute specification for octahedral compression ( GH-54768 ). Rendering: Fix occasional dangling OmniLight RID ( GH-41360 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 24, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). Thirdparty library updates (mbedtls 2.16.7, Downloads.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

rendering may be slower for a second or two, but the slowdown will not be nearly as bad as the typical hiccup caused by classic synchronous compilation. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. and backported to 3.5.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 2, 2022

Editor: Fix GridMap cursor showing the wrong mesh ( GH-58624 ). Rendering: GLES2: Unpack blend shape arrays when necessary ( GH-60829 ). Rendering: GLES3: Unbind vertex buffer before calculating blend shapes ( GH-60832 ). Rendering: GLES3: Ignore support for S3TC texture compression on Android and iOS devices ( GH-62909 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

You can enable it in the Project Settings ( rendering/gles3/shaders/shader_compilation_mode ). rendering may be slower for a second or two, but the slowdown will not be nearly as bad as the typical hiccup caused by classic synchronous compilation. 3D: Add Label3D node and Sprite3D material render priority ( GH-61276 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 19, 2022

Editor: Fix GridMap cursor showing the wrong mesh ( GH-58624 ). Rendering: GLES2: Unpack blend shape arrays when necessary ( GH-60829 ). Rendering: GLES3: Unbind vertex buffer before calculating blend shapes ( GH-60832 ). Rendering: GLES3: Ignore support for S3TC texture compression on Android and iOS devices ( GH-62909 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 31, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). Rendering: Properly calculate Polygon2D AABB with skeleton ( GH-40869 ). Thirdparty library updates (mbedtls 2.16.7, RC 1 and RC 3.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

rendering may be slower for a second or two, but the slowdown will not be nearly as bad as the typical hiccup caused by classic synchronous compilation. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. and backported to 3.5.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 15, 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 ). Rendering: Fix vertex attribute specification for octahedral compression ( GH-54768 ). Rendering: Fix occasional dangling OmniLight RID ( GH-41360 ).

Tile 52

Tile Render Bug Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 8, 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 ). Rendering: Fix vertex attribute specification for octahedral compression ( GH-54768 ). Input: Add Input.is_physical_key_pressed() method ( GH-55251 ).

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Tile Render Bug Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Physics: Optimized support function for large meshes ( GH-64382 ). Rendering: Add OpenGL timer queries to OpenGL3 backend ( GH-67032 ). Rendering: Improve behaviour of clip_children by clipping to parent alpha value but still retaining parent color ( GH-67043 ).

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