Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

UE5’s features and functionality have further expanded to include experimental new features for rendering, animation and simulation. Design: Working with the artist, the design team renders character models, iterates on the interfaces, designs dynamic and interactive level designs and environments, and so on.

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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! Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Split pause() from AnimationPlayer's stop() ( GH-71218 ). Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

The beta snapshots cadence allows us to better measure the overall stability and quickly catch regressions, especially when a lot of features are worked on at the same time. Flag dirty dependencies when GeometryInstance dependencies change in renderer ( GH-71581 ). Rendering: Fix LCD font AA on OpenGL renderer ( GH-72125 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

release, which is already quite feature-packed a mere 3 months after the 3.3 and included in this beta are: Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 This beta 4 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 and included in this beta are: Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ).

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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. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: One Copyright Update to rule them all ( GH-70885 ). beta releases.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. 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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. You can enable it in the Project Settings ( rendering/gles3/shaders/shader_compilation_mode ). The upcoming Godot 3.5 stable for all users. back in 2020!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

is out and it comes fully packed with features and quality of life improvements! Most of work was aimed at implementing missing features or fixing bugs which are critical for publishing 2D and 3D games with Godot 3.x, x, and at making the existing features more optimized and reliable. After 9 months of development, Godot 3.5

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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! Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Split pause() from AnimationPlayer’s stop() ( GH-71218 ). Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

As most of the rendering features for the upcoming Godot 4.0 are done, I have spent the past two months optimizing the rendering engine, both on the CPU and GPU side. All this work has resulted in significantly faster rendering times. A lot of the render state is now better cached, so less is done at render time.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. 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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. Notably, it fixes some rendering regressions with transparent materials, and crashing iOS templates and Web editor build in RC 2. The upcoming Godot 3.5

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 17, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. and provide the missing features that 3.5 The upcoming Godot 3.5 We are now at the Release Candidate stage, finalizing everything so that we can release 3.5-stable

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. 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.

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Nvidia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Branch offers all of the benefits of mainline UE4.26, while providing some additional features: Faster ray tracing NVRTX includes a number of improvements to ray tracing performance. Hybrid Translucency Another way to do ray traced translucency, with greater compatibility, speed and rendering options. Selectable per instance type.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. stable for all users.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 23, 2022

In parallel to our work on the upcoming feature releases Godot 3.5 ( with a second beta ) and 4.0 ( now at alpha 4! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 Core: Revert "Fix ProjectSettings has_setting() when used on a overriden setting with feature tags" ( GH-58859 ). branch for use in production. Last month's 3.4.3

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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. Feature wise it is a great replacement for both the OpenVR and Oculus Desktop plugins including using the Oculus Quest over (air) link.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 4, 2021

As there is no new feature and only bug fixes, this RC 1 should be as stable as 3.3.2-stable Import: glTF: Fix mesh nodes which are also bones ( GH-49119 ). 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

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

It adds less new features than previous beta snapshots did, but instead has more focus on bugfixing and stabilization, which should make it a much nicer experience than previous betas. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Android: Use proper types for converting Java float/double arrays ( GH-67581 ).

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Cocos

MAY 14, 2023

Just make sure the game runs smoothly on those devices, and any unnecessary feature can be turned off. Performance Scaling Strategy Performance Scaling vs. Performance Optimization Performance scaling only does one thing: turning off some features until the frame rate meets the requirements.

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The Liquid Fire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

I was on edge though, and it didn’t help that when they send out an email talking about new exciting features, its for the gambling side. For Renderer, I chose Forward+ because I think it is somewhere between URP and HDRP. Type in mesh in the search and select MeshInstance3D.

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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. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: One Copyright Update to rule them all ( GH-70885 ). beta releases.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 16, 2022

Core: Revert "Fix ProjectSettings has_setting() when used on a overriden setting with feature tags" ( GH-58859 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix compression on blend shapes ( GH-58838 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). API documentation updates. See the full changelog since 3.4.3-stable

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Nvidia

APRIL 5, 2022

DLSS uses advanced AI rendering to produce image quality comparable to native resolution, and in some cases even better quality, while only conventionally rendering a fraction of the pixels. Balancing quality and performance is done by controlling the game’s internal rendering resolution. Reflex Stats and Latency Markers.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 16, 2021

As there is no new feature and only bug fixes, this RC 2 should be as stable as 3.3.2-stable Import: glTF: Fix mesh nodes which are also bones ( GH-49119 ). 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

DECEMBER 9, 2022

has been in beta for over two months , and the overall feature completeness, stability and usability have improved a lot during that time. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Add track validator to AnimationPlayerEditor to detect tracks which have error ( GH-68770 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. The upcoming Godot 3.5 What is it?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. This beta 4 is a small update with just 83 commits excluding merges, focusing on fixing bugs to stabilize the current feature set for 3.5 Rendering: Add material_overlay property to MeshInstance ( GH-50823 ).

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Nvidia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Additionally, NVIDIA Reflex is now available as a feature in Unreal Engine. NVIDIA DLSS Plugin for UE4 DLSS is a deep learning super resolution network that boosts frame rates by rendering fewer pixels and then using AI to construct sharp, higher resolution images. The NVIDIA RTX UE4 4.25 branches have also received updates.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2022

beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. This beta adds what should be the last batch of new features (together with a lot of bug fixes, as that's our focus at this stage), with scene unique node names and the new SceneTreeTween backported from Godot 4.0.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

We're working towards finalizing the feature set for 4.0 beta, reviewing many PRs which have been opened prior to our roadmap feature freeze announced a month ago. Same deal as usual, lots of bugs fixed and more refactoring and feature work. Rendering: Octahedral normal/tangent compression ( GH-60309 ). for instructions.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In parallel to our work on the upcoming feature releases Godot 3.5 ( with a first beta ) and 4.0 ( now at alpha 3! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 Core: Fix ProjectSettings.has_setting() to handle feature overrides like get_setting() ( GH-57972 ). Rendering: Fix invalid read when using LightOccluder2D ( GH-56859 ).

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Nvidia

JANUARY 11, 2021

With RTXDI, lighting artists can render scenes with millions of dynamic area lights in real-time without complex computational overheads or disruptive changes to the artist’s workflow. This is a segment from a two-part video available on GTC on Demand, entitled “ Rendering Game With Millions of Ray Traced Lights ”.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2022

beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. All these features have been implemented in the official Git integration plugin.

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