Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

If you downloaded alpha 13 before this update, you can re-download the editor build for your platform. Some noteworthy changes in this release: Shader preprocessor support and shader includes. Grouping annotations for shaders ( uniform_group ). Rendering: Add Variable Rate Shading support ( GH-60901 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. Editor: Bring back the renderer options button on the main editor ( GH-70500 ). Physics: Allow to apply the angular velocity of a moving platform ( GH-63650 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2021

just a few days ago with a huge array of bugfixes, but a regression was then found for macOS rendering which could cause flickering. Rendering: GLES2: Fix trunc shader function compilation on Android ( GH-56061 ). We released Godot 3.4.1 This new Godot 3.4.2 Godot 3.4.2 is a recommended upgrade for all Godot 3.4 release notes.

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Moonmana

APRIL 7, 2023

If you’ve ever wondered what the best game engine is, we invite you to figure it out with us. Let’s discover their pros and cons so it will be easier to decide which engine suits your project better. Unity versus Unreal – this seems to be an ever-lasting battle in the game development world. Unity or Unreal?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

Rendering: Octahedral normal/tangent compression ( GH-60309 ). Rename JavaScript platform to Web ( GH-65023 ). Editor: Improvements to shader editor ( GH-63582 ). Rendering: Octahedral normal/tangent compression ( GH-60309 ). Rendering: Fix viewport sorting being wrong on parent/child relation ( GH-63091 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. Editor: Bring back the renderer options button on the main editor ( GH-70500 ). Physics: Allow to apply the angular velocity of a moving platform ( GH-63650 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). 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 ). In-depth documentation is available.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

This RC 6 has a few notable changes compared to the previous build: In RC 4, async shader compilation and caching was enabled by default on desktop, but several users reported issues with it on some hardware. We switched it back to disabled by default for all platforms. had had multiple maintenance releases. Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

If you use and enjoy Godot, plan to use it, or want support the cause of having a mature, high quality free and open source game engine, then please consider becoming our patron. Godot can render at frame rates independent from the fixed physics tick rate. This ensures your game will run the same on all machines.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). and backported to 3.5.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

In this build, we also built it for 32-bit platforms (armv7 and x86) as there was some demand for it, so you'll find the APK is a bit heavier. 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.

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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 )). Buildsystem: Various compilation fixes for some platforms/compilers, and Linux packaging fixes. Here are some of the main changes since 3.3-stable:

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). and backported to 3.5.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). mbedtls 2.16.11.

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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 )). Buildsystem: Various compilation fixes for some platforms/compilers, and Linux packaging fixes. Here are some of the main changes since 3.3-stable:

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). 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 ). Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ).

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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 )). Buildsystem: Various compilation fixes for some platforms/compilers, and Linux packaging fixes. Rendering: Fix 2D software skinning relative transforms ( GH-48402 ). stable ( GH-48268 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

stable branch in January 2020 as a major update to our free and open source game engine. includes 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform. This nearly completes the platform support for C# projects in Godot (only UWP support is still missing). 2D batching for the GLES2 renderer. But Godot 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

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 ). Shaders: Fix specular render_mode for Visual Shaders ( GH-41536 ). Mono build (C# support + all the above).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Rendering: Prevent shaders from generating code before the constructor finishes ( GH-52475 ). Instead, browse our download repository and fetch the editor binary that matches your platform: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). HTML5: Use browser mix rate by default on the Web ( GH-52723 ). no longer works in 3.3.4

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 14, 2014

is to focus on improving the 2D engine with all the feedback that we have gathered during the past months, improving shader support for 2D, visual shader editing (for 2D and 3D), and more draw options such as per-node z-priority. Help us let the world know this little game engine exists! The plan for 1.1

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 7, 2021

In particular, this build adds WebXR support for VR games! It also adds a much-requested minimap to GraphEdit , and thus to the VisualScript and Visual Shader editors. Font: Load dynamic fonts to memory on all platforms to avoid locked files ( GH-44117 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ).

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

We want to encourage the quick embrace of GDeflate as a data-parallel compression standard, facilitating its adoption across the PC ecosystem and on other platforms. We’re looking forward to next-generation game engines benefiting from GDeflate by dramatically reducing loading times. a modern I/O streaming API from Microsoft.

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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. Godot is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing the world with the best possible free and open source game technology. More rendering improvements.

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Cocos

MAY 14, 2023

This article will delve into the principles, implementation details, common issues and solutions, memory overhead, and compatibility of the Deferred Rendering technique. I hope to help you advance further in 3D game development. The rendering stages involved in Deferred Rendering.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 9, 2016

The most important ones are: New asset sharing platform. comes with our new asset sharing platform, the Asset Library. release, the community has contributed translations on our Weblate platform for an important number of languages. It's still new and far from final, but it will continue evolving to satisfy everyone's needs.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

has an entirely new rendering architecture, which is divided into modern and compatibility backends. The modern one does rendering via RenderingDevice (which is implemented in drivers such as Vulkan, Direct3D 12, and more in the future). Rendering is significantly more efficient in Godot 4.0, Low level rendering access.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 10, 2020

Additionally, many languages require advanced font shaping features to handle diacritics and letter combinations, which are often fundamental for any accurate rendering of these languages (see e.g. Is this Arabic? we want to move our texture compressors to GPU using compute shaders. for a light-hearted crash course).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

GLES3 renderer). Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Highlights.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

GLES3 renderer). Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Highlights.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Notable changes are in-editor class reference translations (so far Chinese (Simplified), Spanish, and some French), some new rendering features (high quality glow mode, 3D point light attenuation option), and a number of C# marshalling fixes. Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). In-depth documentation is available.

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Nvidia

AUGUST 31, 2023

In DirectX Raytracing (DXR) this self-intersection check would be implemented in an any-hit shader. For more information, see Ray Tracing Gems: High-Quality and Real-Time Rendering with DXR and Other APIs. Rendering with self-intersection avoidance (left) and without self-intersection avoidance (right). edge1, mul(barys.y,

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Cocos

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Therefore, dividing the vast universe into scale models and rendering it in layers helps Cocosmos present content logically and facilitates resource management. Surface Rendering Even with just the eight major planets, differences in composition and volume mass can lead to variations in rendering.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Godot uses a considerably different approach to rendering (and rendering abstraction) than other, popular, game engines. This document was written in hopes to find more developers that would like to help us write rendering code, as it explains the overall design. This may change in the future, though.

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Nvidia

MARCH 24, 2022

Today NVIDIA is releasing Streamline, an open-source cross-IHV framework that aims to simplify integration of multiple super-resolution technologies and other graphics effects in games and applications. It sits between the game and render API, and abstracts the SDK-specific API calls into an easy-to-use Streamline framework.

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