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Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Technical Director - Engineering lead. All engineers report to her. Architects the game’s major technical features and framework, then gradually shifts to managing the engineers that join the team and keeping them tasked out and productive. Writes shaders, writes scripts, works with code. Rigger : [ The skeleton master ].

Cinematics

Cinematics Writing Animation Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

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 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

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 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

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 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Godot core budget meeting report #1

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 a generalist contributor for editor UX and web dev. Hiring Matias Goldberg to help him create GPU-based texture compressors.

Texture

Texture Engine Engineering UX

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2020

2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ). Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). GLES2/GLES3: Add support for OpenGL external textures ( GH-36342 ). GLES2/GLES3: Reset texture flags after radiance map generation ( GH-37815 ). Shaders: Add shader time scaling ( GH-38995 ).

Beta

Beta Debug Bug Point and Click

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 18, 2020

2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ). Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). GLES2/GLES3: Add support for OpenGL external textures ( GH-36342 ). GLES2/GLES3: Reset texture flags after radiance map generation ( GH-37815 ). Shaders: Add shader time scaling ( GH-38995 ).

Beta

Beta Debug Bug Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 12, 2020

2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ). Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). GLES2/GLES3: Add support for OpenGL external textures ( GH-36342 ). GLES2/GLES3: Reset texture flags after radiance map generation ( GH-37815 ). Shaders: Add shader time scaling ( GH-38995 ).

Beta

Beta Bug Debug Build

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

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 ). Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). GLES2/GLES3: Add support for OpenGL external textures ( GH-36342 ). Shaders: Add shader time scaling ( GH-38995 ).

Debug

Debug Point and Click Bug Render

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

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. Shader language features. Shader language features. Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 7, 2020

2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ). Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). GLES2/GLES3: Add support for OpenGL external textures ( GH-36342 ). GLES2/GLES3: Reset texture flags after radiance map generation ( GH-37815 ). 2D: Implement skew in Node2D ( GH-38394 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Debug Bug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 22, 2020

2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ). Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). GLES2/GLES3: Add support for OpenGL external textures ( GH-36342 ). GLES2/GLES3: Reset texture flags after radiance map generation ( GH-37815 ). 2D: Implement skew in Node2D ( GH-38394 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2020

2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ). Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). GLES2/GLES3: Add support for OpenGL external textures ( GH-36342 ). GLES2/GLES3: Reset texture flags after radiance map generation ( GH-37815 ). 2D: Implement skew in Node2D ( GH-38394 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Debug

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

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. Additional funding will enable us to hire more core developers to work full-time on the engine, and thus further improve its development pace and stability.

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2022

Here are the 3 projects/students with links to the relevant sections in this post: Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker by Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ). They've all been doing outstanding work so far, and we're looking forward to integrating all those changes in the engine! Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker. UX updates.

Lightmap

Lightmap UX Shaders Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 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 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 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 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 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 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Our script editor maintainer, Paul Batty ( Paulb23 ), implemented initial support for multi-caret editing in TextEdit, which is therefore usable in the GDScript and shader editors, as well as any other multi-line text field in the editor. See this demonstration made by MewPurPur : Improved ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Our script editor maintainer, Paul Batty ( Paulb23 ), implemented initial support for multi-caret editing in TextEdit, which is therefore usable in the GDScript and shader editors, as well as any other multi-line text field in the editor. See this demonstration made by MewPurPur : Improved ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Debug

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

But the rest of us engine contributors did not stay idle in the meantime, and a strong focus was put on fixing as many issues as we could to make Godot 3.2 Almost every area of the engine has seen some degree of enhancement, and we encourage users to move their active projects to Godot 3.2 Visual Shaders overhaul. Compatibility.

Render

Render Feature Shaders Bug

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Godot core budget meeting report #1

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 1

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 4

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

GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

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