Feature, Polygon, Scripting and Shaders

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 13

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2023

Such 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. This week we release a new batch of improvements and fixes, as well as some new features. Unfortunately, we also have to rollback one of the core animations features.

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Godot 1.1 beta1 is out!

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 1, 2015

New features include: Rewritten Auto-Completion in the Code-Editor. Supports a lot of scenarios and perform smart-completion of node types if a scene where the script is being used is open. Visual Shader Editor (Edit shaders connecting nodes). Largely rewritten 2D engine, with support for: Shaders (Visual and Code).

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Polygon Shaders Beta Tile

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 2

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. You can move the polygon with the node transform, drag the corners to reshape it, add delete points. The main changes coming in Godot 3.5

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2021

Batching: Fix light pass modulate , a potential crash, polygon rotation from vertex shader, and 2D skinning with unrigged polygons ( GH-48151 , GH-48125 , GH-48457 , GH-48647 )). Core: Expose Shape.get_debug_mesh() to the scripting API ( GH-48316 ). Here are some of the main changes since 3.3-stable:

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Polygon Render Scripting Racing

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.1 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 15, 2021

As there is no new feature and only bug fixes, this RC 2 should be as stable as 3.3-stable Batching: Fix light pass modulate , a potential crash, polygon rotation from vertex shader, and 2D skinning with unrigged polygons ( GH-48151 , GH-48125 , GH-48457 , GH-48647 )). The upcoming Godot 3.3.1, like all future 3.3.x

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Polygon Bug Render Build

Godot 1.1 is out!

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 20, 2015

This release brings a completely new 2D engine and more features (feature list below). this video with the new feature showcase! Full list of features. Supports a lot of scenarios and perform smart-completion of node types if a scene where the script is being used is open. 2D Shadows with Polygonal Occluders.

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Polygon Shaders Tile Editing

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 5

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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Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

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. and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). The upcoming Godot 3.5 stable for all users.

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Render Shaders Mesh Console

Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

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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Shaders Render Mesh Feature

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 4

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 Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Like with 4.0

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Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 6

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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Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 1

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. and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). The upcoming Godot 3.5 stable for all users.

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Render Shaders Console Culling

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 3

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. 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. Like with 4.0

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Beta Dev Shaders Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.1 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 10, 2021

As there is no new feature and only bug fixes, this RC 1 should be as stable as 3.3-stable Batching: Fix light pass modulate , a potential crash, and polygon rotation from vertex shader ( GH-48151 , GH-48125 , GH-48457 )). Core: Expose Shape.get_debug_mesh() to the scripting API ( GH-48316 ). The upcoming Godot 3.3.1,

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Bug Build Polygon Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 3

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. and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). The upcoming Godot 3.5 stable for all users.

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Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 4

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 and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ).

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Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 7

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. and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). The upcoming Godot 3.5 stable for all users.

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Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 5

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. and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). The upcoming Godot 3.5 stable for all users.

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Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 2

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. and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). The upcoming Godot 3.5 stable for all users.

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Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

was released on June 26 with over 3 months' worth of development, including many bugfixes and a handful of features. Script editor: Don't open dominant script in external editor ( GH-40735 ). Shaders: Fix specular render_mode for Visual Shaders ( GH-41536 ). RichTextLabel: Fix center alignment bug ( GH-40892 ).

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Bug Collision Mesh Render

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

support, Bullet as the 3D physics engine, and many other features which are described in depth below. which would have included new multiplayer networking, visual scripting and many other improvements) because we realized that projects using the new features would no longer work in 3.0, New features of Godot 3.0.

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Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.3

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Script editor: Don't open dominant script in external editor ( GH-40735 ). Shaders: Fix specular render_mode for Visual Shaders ( GH-41536 ). TileSet: Fix potential crash when editing polygons ( GH-40560 ). RichTextLabel: Fix RichTextLabel fill alignment regression ( GH-40081 ) [regression fix].

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.0.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

We have added many new features to the editor (and several to GDScript) in this release which we think will make your use of Godot even better. Several new GLSL built-in functions are exposed to the shader language : radians degrees asinh acosh atanh exp2 log2 roundEven. If you were eagerly waiting for 3.0.1, Both the itch.io

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 13

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 2

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.1

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.1 RC 2

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 5

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 4

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 6

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Release candidate: Godot 3.3.1 RC 1

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