Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Import: Fix swapped color channels in ETC1/ETC2 textures, etcpak expects BGRA data ( GH-69448 ). Rendering: Use circular fade instead of linear fade for distance fade ( GH-50294 ). Rendering: Tweak shadow bias defaults for DirectionalLight3D and OmniLight3D ( GH-55757 ). GUI: Use system fonts as fallback ( GH-68995 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 8, 2022

Note: You might need to delete your.godot/imported folder to force reimporting all your textures with the new class name. macOS: Disable window redraw during resize, when rendering in the separate thread ( GH-58738 ). Rendering: Use Filament specular model and parametrization ( GH-51716 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Add support for FORMAT_{ETC2,DXT5}_RA_AS_RG ( GH-71248 ). See the list below.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

GUI: Fix RichTextLabel underline prevents strikethrough from rendering ( GH-56686 ). GUI: Fix TextureButton focus texture logic ( GH-56472 ). Import: Fix glTF scene export crash on null normal texture ( GH-56380 ). Rendering: Fix blend shapes when octahedral compression is used ( GH-56161 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 30, 2020

While not entirely rendering specific, a lot of nodes are being renamed. It supported roughness, but it did so in a way where the texture reads appeared rough, but not the reflected image (the edges of the reflected objects remained intact). Accurate frame render time. Decals are now supported in the engine. Node renames.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

GUI: Fix RichTextLabel underline prevents strikethrough from rendering ( GH-56686 ). GUI: Fix TextureButton focus texture logic ( GH-56472 ). Import: Fix glTF scene export crash on null normal texture ( GH-56380 ). Rendering: Fix blend shapes when octahedral compression is used ( GH-56161 ). Known incompatibilities.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2020

It still lacks a few minor details (like colorspace adjustment via 3D textures) but it's mostly there. Besides now having been rewritten to use Compute, it also supports rendering to half resolution (a very requested feature by users, given SSAO in Goot 3.x While it more or less retains the functionality from Godot 3.x,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

GUI: Fix RichTextLabel underline prevents strikethrough from rendering ( GH-56686 ). GUI: Fix TextureButton focus texture logic ( GH-56472 ). Import: Fix glTF scene export crash on null normal texture ( GH-56380 ). Rendering: Fix blend shapes when octahedral compression is used ( GH-56161 ). stable or since 3.4.3

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Editor: Make texture preview filter setting content aware ( GH-67426 ). Rendering: Add OpenGL timer queries to OpenGL3 backend ( GH-67032 ). Rendering: Improve behaviour of clip_children by clipping to parent alpha value but still retaining parent color ( GH-67043 ). Editor: Added custom Node export ( GH-67055 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

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 ). Rendering: Import option to split vertex buffer stream in positions and attributes ( GH-46574 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Editor: Fix preview grid and preserve source texture margins in SpriteFrames editor ( GH-52910 ). GLES3: Properly clear cubemap filter state when texture array environment disabled ( GH-51938 ). Rendering: Prevent shaders from generating code before the constructor finishes ( GH-52475 ). API documentation updates.

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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 )). Rendering: Fix 2D software skinning relative transforms ( GH-48402 ). Rendering: Fix usage of proxy textures on GLES2 PanoramaSky ( GH-48541 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

Ignore support for S3TC texture compression on Android and iOS devices in GLES3 (already done since 3.4 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. for GLES2).

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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

MAY 8, 2020

Let's hope this implementation will also be of use to others making their own technology or engines, so they can use it as reference or just copy it. The new lightmapper is GPU based written mostly on Compute shaders (meaning it does most of the heavy lifting using the GPU, via Vulkan). Features of the new Godot 4.0 lightmapper.

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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

JULY 27, 2021

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 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ).

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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

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Import: Fix texture atlas generation when source sprite is larger than generated atlas ( GH-55094 ). Particles: Fix for double use of seed in random shader variables ( GH-55607 ). Rendering: Fix vertex attribute specification for octahedral compression ( GH-54768 ). Rendering: Fix occasional dangling OmniLight RID ( GH-41360 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 24, 2022

Rendering: Add multiview support to the clustered forward renderer ( GH-49092 ). Rendering: Add sky cover texture for ProceduralSkyMaterial ( GH-58018 ). Visual Shader: Add _get_func_code / _is_available virtual functions to custom nodes ( GH-57769 ). macOS: Add missing global menu features ( GH-59410 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

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 ). Rendering: Import option to split vertex buffer stream in positions and attributes ( GH-46574 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Editor: Fix preview grid and preserve source texture margins in SpriteFrames editor ( GH-52910 ). GLES3: Properly clear cubemap filter state when texture array environment disabled ( GH-51938 ). Rendering: Prevent shaders from generating code before the constructor finishes ( GH-52475 ). API documentation updates.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Editor: Make texture preview filter setting content aware ( GH-67426 ). Rendering: Add OpenGL timer queries to OpenGL3 backend ( GH-67032 ). Rendering: Improve behaviour of clip_children by clipping to parent alpha value but still retaining parent color ( GH-67043 ). Editor: Added custom Node export ( GH-67055 ).

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Beta Dev Render Alpha 40

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 )). Rendering: Fix 2D software skinning relative transforms ( GH-48402 ). Rendering: Fix usage of proxy textures on GLES2 PanoramaSky ( GH-48541 ).

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Polygon Bug Render Build 52

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 )). Rendering: Fix 2D software skinning relative transforms ( GH-48402 ). Rendering: Fix usage of proxy textures on GLES2 PanoramaSky ( GH-48541 ). stable ( GH-48268 ). no longer works in 3.3.1

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 17, 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 ). Known incompatibilities.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Import: Fix texture atlas generation when source sprite is larger than generated atlas ( GH-55094 ). Particles: Fix for double use of seed in random shader variables ( GH-55607 ). Rendering: Fix vertex attribute specification for octahedral compression ( GH-54768 ). Rendering: Fix occasional dangling OmniLight RID ( GH-41360 ).

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Tile Render Bug Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Import: Fix texture atlas generation when source sprite is larger than generated atlas ( GH-55094 ). Particles: Fix for double use of seed in random shader variables ( GH-55607 ). Rendering: Fix vertex attribute specification for octahedral compression ( GH-54768 ). Input: Add Input.is_physical_key_pressed() method ( GH-55251 ).

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Tile Render Bug Build 52

Nvidia

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

To show the benefits of GDeflate, we measured system performance without compression, with standard CPU-side decompression, and with GPU-accelerated GDeflate decompression on a representative game-focused dataset, containing texture and geometry data. GDeflate is available as a standard GPU decompression option in DirectStorage 1.1—a

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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. GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). mbedtls 2.16.9,

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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. 2D batching for the GLES2 renderer. While most rendering work was postponed for the 4.0 release with its new Vulkan-based renderer, our contributors lawnjelly and Clay ( clayjohn ) decided to give some more attention to the 3.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 4, 2021

glTF 2.0 ( GL Transmission Format ) is a fully open-source, widely implemented interchange format with built-in support for physically-based rendering standards. glTF is a growing 3D format and has received massive adoption in the game industry. bin + textures). Animation skinning and blend shapes are using compute shaders.

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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

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? Hiring Matias Goldberg to help him create GPU-based texture compressors. for a light-hearted crash course).

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 12, 2022

NVIDIA recently introduced a new feature available in the next generation of GPUs: Shader execution reordering (SER). NVIDIA recently introduced a new feature available in the next generation of GPUs: Shader execution reordering (SER). For more information, see the Shader Execution Reordering whitepaper.

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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

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. Dynamic BVH for rendering and GodotPhysics. Rendering: Unified 2D batching. More rendering improvements. When we released Godot 3.2

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