Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Rendering: OpenGL: Fix scene shader error when using Omni or Spot but not both ( GH-69901 ). Shaders: Fix the sorting of shader uniforms ( GH-70016 ). Shaders: Optimize code generation of visual shader particles ( GH-69900 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Implement missing boot image feature ( GH-70169 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

Those typically shouldn’t add instability to the engine, but may require doing some changes in your scripts, scenes, and shaders if you were using the affected APIs. Rendering: Properly append global uniform buffer name in gl_compatibility shaders ( GH-72138 ). Rendering: Fix LCD font AA on OpenGL renderer ( GH-72125 ).

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 17, 2023

Video games have become a prominent form of entertainment, deeply ingrained in pop culture, and have shed the previous stigma of being a time-wasting activity. Nowadays, gaming surpasses mainstream movies in terms of audience engagement, and popular game titles consistently generate substantial revenue.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 13, 2022

Do you have prior experience with other game engines? I have years of random experience in development with my first games made way back for Commodore 64. I used the most known game engines there were, and some of my obscure games were made in Pascal, and even Matlab. and Global Game Jam.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

Some noteworthy changes in this release: Shader preprocessor support and shader includes. Grouping annotations for shaders ( uniform_group ). Rendering: Force regenerating shader cache when updating Godot ( GH-62848 ). Shaders: Add shader preprocessor and includes support ( GH-62513 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The idea of using a game engine for projects other than creating video games is not new. For decades, game engines have been used to create applications, simulations and more. Comparing the visual output of graphics settings, shaders, or rendering techniques in an animated scene. References.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The idea of using a game engine for projects other than creating video games is not new. For decades, game engines have been used to create applications, simulations and more. Comparing the visual output of graphics settings, shaders, or rendering techniques in an animated scene. References.

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iXie gaming

JULY 23, 2023

This enhances Unity’s reputation as a fantastic game engine. Support for Several Different Platforms Unity was first made available for Mac OS X, but it currently supports over 25 other platforms, which increases the number of people who can play video games.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Rendering: Implement CAMERA_VISIBLE_LAYERS as built-in shader variable ( GH-67387 ). Visual Shader: Make custom visual shader nodes automatically updates from script ( GH-69738 ). Rendering: Tweak shadow bias defaults for DirectionalLight3D and OmniLight3D ( GH-55757 ). XR: WebXR is now fully working in Godot 4! ( GH-68870 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Rendering: OpenGL: Fix scene shader error when using Omni or Spot but not both ( GH-69901 ). Shaders: Fix the sorting of shader uniforms ( GH-70016 ). Shaders: Optimize code generation of visual shader particles ( GH-69900 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Implement missing boot image feature ( GH-70169 ).

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iXie gaming

JUNE 28, 2024

Particle Systems Within Game Engines Unity’s Shuriken and Unreal Engine’s Cascade/Niagara particle systems are powerful tools for creating 2D effects in your games. These tools work smoothly with your game engine, making it easy to use and improve your effects.

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Nvidia

MARCH 17, 2023

In particular, shaders are complex and developing a new environment for previewing and editing shaders in Houdini is expensive and difficult to implement quickly. To be able to use the renderer in a game engine, you must either prepare a conversion pipeline instead of a renderer or use a game engine.

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Nvidia

MARCH 20, 2023

Portal’s next-generation lighting rebuilt with path-traced direct and indirect illumination and shader execution re-ordering The RTX Path Tracing SDK accurately re-creates the physics of all light sources in a scene to reproduce what the eye sees in real life. Watch the demo video to learn more. Video 2.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 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. The main changes coming in Godot 3.5 Estébanez ( RandomShaper )! Please test this thoroughly and let us know how it performs on your projects.

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Cocos

JUNE 11, 2023

It will support the implementation of engine builtin Custom Pipeline and the default Deferred Pipeline. We also support Compute Shader capabilities. Google has recognized Cocos as the recommended game engine for adapting to the Google Play Games on PC platform and the recommended game engine for the large-screen experience.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 2023

For shaders, we removed the now-redundant SCREEN_TEXTURE , DEPTH_TEXTURE , and NORMAL_ROUGHNESS_TEXTURE ( GH-70967 ). Note that there’s a helpful error in the shader editor telling you how to port code, but there’s a typo: filter_linear_mipmaps should be filter_linear_mipmap (no ‘s’).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 8, 2022

Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader state caching when blend shapes used ( GH-58808 ) [regression fix]. Portals: Fix duplication of instanced scenes during conversion ( GH-58650 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix compression on blend shapes ( GH-58838 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 11, 2022

Add often used built-ins to spatial shaders ( NODE_POSITION_WORLD , CAMERA_POSITION_WORLD , CAMERA_DIRECTION_WORLD , NODE_POSITION_VIEW ) ( GH-63597 ). Shaders: Add often used built-ins to spatial shaders ( NODE_POSITION_WORLD , CAMERA_POSITION_WORLD , CAMERA_DIRECTION_WORLD , NODE_POSITION_VIEW ) ( GH-63597 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

Editor: Improvements to shader editor ( GH-63582 ). Shaders: Quality of life Visual Shaders updates ( GH-63999 ). Shaders: Implement custom non-trivial Visual Shader nodes ( GH-64248 ). Editor: Add per-scene UndoRedo ( GH-59564 ). Editor: Disable editing properties in foreign resources ( GH-63282 ).

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Cocos

DECEMBER 25, 2023

You just need the following resources and code: A post-processing shader A material with the shader bound to it A post-processing extension TypeScript file for passing parameters to the material Let’s use an example of creating a screen grayscale effect: 1. I’ve traversed various game engines, and currently, my primary choice is Cocos.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Shaders: Fix shader crash when using boolean type for vertex->fragment varyings ( GH-70460 ). Godot is a non-profit, open source game engine developed by hundreds of contributors on their free time, and a handful of part or full-time developers, hired thanks to donations from the Godot community.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 16, 2022

Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader state caching when blend shapes used ( GH-58808 ) [regression fix]. Rendering: GLES2: Fix compression on blend shapes ( GH-58838 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix incorrect buffer upload size in draw_gui_primitive ( GH-58150 ).

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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. Shaders: Many improvements backported from master ( GH-56794 ). The main changes coming in Godot 3.5 Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 11, 2021

Do you have prior experience with other game engines? I began making games with Game Maker 8, then switched to Unity to create my first 3D game and kept using it until I tried Godot. Now I use Godot as my only Game Engine tool. I am staring at you shader compilation and parenting errors.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Rendering: GLES2: Fix trunc shader function compilation on Android ( GH-56061 ). Godot is a non-profit, open source game engine developed by hundreds of contributors on their free time, and a handful of part or full-time developers, hired thanks to donations from the Godot community. This reverts a change introduced in 3.4.1

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 8, 2022

Rendering: Fix shader compilation error with anisotropy ( GH-58419 ). Visual Shader: Add few more input/output built-ins ( GH-58719 ). Visual Shader: Add varying support ( GH-58750 ). Rendering: Use properly use non-perceptual roughness when filtering radiance ( GH-58418 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 23, 2022

Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader state caching when blend shapes used ( GH-58808 ) [regression fix]. Rendering: GLES2: Fix compression on blend shapes ( GH-58838 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix incorrect buffer upload size in draw_gui_primitive ( GH-58150 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 2, 2022

Shaders: Rename hint_albedo , hint_white / black in shaders ( GH-60803 ). Godot is a non-profit, open source game engine developed by hundreds of contributors on their free time, and a handful of part or full-time developers, hired thanks to donations from the Godot community. This release is built from commit d9daf3869.

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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. Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader). As always, many improvements and fixes to shader editing have been backported from 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 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. Shaders: Many improvements backported from master ( GH-56794 ). The main changes coming in Godot 3.5 Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

Beta 52

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 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. Shaders: Many improvements backported from master ( GH-56794 ). The main changes coming in Godot 3.5 Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

Beta 52

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Shaders: Fix shader crash when using boolean type for vertex->fragment varyings ( GH-70460 ). Godot is a non-profit, open source game engine developed by hundreds of contributors on their free time, and a handful of part or full-time developers, hired thanks to donations from the Godot community.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Rendering: Implement CAMERA_VISIBLE_LAYERS as built-in shader variable ( GH-67387 ). Visual Shader: Make custom visual shader nodes automatically updates from script ( GH-69738 ). Rendering: Tweak shadow bias defaults for DirectionalLight3D and OmniLight3D ( GH-55757 ). XR: WebXR is now fully working in Godot 4! ( GH-68870 ).

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iXie gaming

APRIL 24, 2023

Limited Control: While Roblox’s platform is great and user-friendly, it ultimately is not a stand-alone game development engine like Unity, Godot, or Unreal. And thus, Roblox’s toolkit is not as robust or versatile as other game engines. This can limit the types of games that can be created on the platform.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 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. Shaders: Many improvements backported from master ( GH-56794 ). The main changes coming in Godot 3.5 Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

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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. You can enable it in the Project Settings ( rendering/gles3/shaders/shader_compilation_mode ). Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 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. Rendering: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). The main changes coming in Godot 3.5

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