Game Engine, Games, Polygon and Scripting

A comprehensive guide to in-demand roles in film and games

CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

There are many reasons why people pursue a career in film and video games—it’s a creative, dynamic, challenging, and rewarding industry that gives artists opportunities to work on world-class projects while earning a regular income. How would you like to contribute, creatively and technically, to a film or game?

Film

Film Animation Animation Concepts

Creating Your First 3D Character Animation in Unity

iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In this multimedia era, games are such an intertwined part of people’s lives that they want them to be realistic and charismatic. Unity is one of the most popular cross-platform tools that help deploy games on multiple platforms like Windows, Mac, Android, and others. fbx), Collada.dae, Interchange.obj, Drawing Exchange Format (.dxf),

Animation

Animation Animation Clipping Asset

Using Unreal Engine for AR and VR Development

Logic Simplified

AUGUST 24, 2023

The introduction of AR and VR in the gaming industry is taking user engagement and revenue generation forward in leaps and bounds, all thanks to the minimized gap between the physical and digital environments that are refining the gaming experience of the users. The gaming industry is brewing with innovation and new technology trends.

Engine

Engine Engineering Development Visual Scripting

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:

Polygon

Polygon Render Scripting Racing

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 13

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2023

The list of all global script classes (and their icons) is no longer stored in the project.godot file. The illustration picture for this article is from Lone Knight by Jean Makes Games. Follow Jean Makes Games on Twitter for updates. Core: Move global script class cache to separate file ( GH-70557 ). What’s new.

Beta

Beta Dev Debug Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.1 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 15, 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: no longer works in 3.3.1

Polygon

Polygon Bug Render Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.1 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 10, 2021

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 ). LSP: Update the filesystem for changed scripts, fixes issues with new named classes ( GH-47891 ). no longer works in 3.3.1

Bug

Bug Build Polygon Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 2022

In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. You can move the polygon with the node transform, drag the corners to reshape it, add delete points. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view.

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 31, 2020

C#: Fix restore not called when building game projects ( GH-40596 ) [regression fix]. Script editor: Don't open dominant script in external editor ( GH-40735 ). TileSet: Fix potential crash when editing polygons ( GH-40560 ). Android: Add option to enable high precision float in GLES2 ( GH-33646 ).

Collision

Collision Bug Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2022

In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. You can move the polygon with the node transform, drag the corners to reshape it, add delete points. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view.

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

C#: Fix restore not called when building game projects ( GH-40596 ) [regression fix]. Script editor: Don't open dominant script in external editor ( GH-40735 ). TileSet: Fix potential crash when editing polygons ( GH-40560 ). Backup your project files before upgrading. C#: Add Visual Studio support ( GH-39784 ).

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 21, 2020

C#: Fix restore not called when building game projects ( GH-40596 ) [regression fix]. Script editor: Don't open dominant script in external editor ( GH-40735 ). TileSet: Fix potential crash when editing polygons ( GH-40560 ). Backup your project files before upgrading. C#: Add Visual Studio support ( GH-39784 ).

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2020

C#: Fix restore not called when building game projects ( GH-40596 ) [regression fix]. Script editor: Don't open dominant script in external editor ( GH-40735 ). TileSet: Fix potential crash when editing polygons ( GH-40560 ). Android: Virtual keyboard size adjustment fixes ( GH-40672 ). stb_vorbis 1.20, wslay 1.1.1).

Collision

Collision Bug Mesh Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

C#: Fix restore not called when building game projects ( GH-40596 ) [regression fix]. Script editor: Don't open dominant script in external editor ( GH-40735 ). TileSet: Fix potential crash when editing polygons ( GH-40560 ). Backup your project files before upgrading. C#: Add Visual Studio support ( GH-39784 ).

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. You can move the polygon with the node transform, drag the corners to reshape it, add delete points. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. You can move the polygon with the node transform, drag the corners to reshape it, add delete points. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view.

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2022

In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. You can move the polygon with the node transform, drag the corners to reshape it, add delete points. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view.

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2022

In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. You can move the polygon with the node transform, drag the corners to reshape it, add delete points. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view.

Render

Render Shaders Console Culling

Godot Engine reaches 2.0 stable

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

This version worked well but we felt it was still far from the usability and features of a modern game engine. The more urgent issue was to improve the 2D engine so we worked hard again and released Godot 1.1, To compensate, the new code editor now works more similar to an IDE, where scripts are just opened all the time.

Engine

Engine Engineering Editing Debug

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.3

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

C#: Fix restore not called when building game projects ( GH-40596 ) [regression fix]. Script editor: Don't open dominant script in external editor ( GH-40735 ). TileSet: Fix potential crash when editing polygons ( GH-40560 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine!

Bug

Bug Collision Build Texture

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. You can move the polygon with the node transform, drag the corners to reshape it, add delete points. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. You can move the polygon with the node transform, drag the corners to reshape it, add delete points. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. You can move the polygon with the node transform, drag the corners to reshape it, add delete points. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

The fix seems relatively safe but this will require heavy testing to make sure it doesn't regress - if you have 3D games using Bullet physics, please try this RC 2 and report any issue. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This should show up initially as a quad.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. You can move the polygon with the node transform, drag the corners to reshape it, add delete points. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 17, 2022

In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). This ensures your game will run the same on all machines. You can move the polygon with the node transform, drag the corners to reshape it, add delete points. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

x branch to develop and publish their games today, so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience. 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, This ensures your game will run the same on all machines.

Shaders

Shaders Render Mesh Feature

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

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, Visual Scripting. New audio engine. is the ability to export games coded in C#, as such it's not fully usable in production yet.

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.1

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 13

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.1 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.1 RC 1

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 5

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 5

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Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 4

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 1

Godot Engine reaches 2.0 stable

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.3

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 3

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Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 6

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Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

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