Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ).

Beta 52

Beta Dev Mesh Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 21, 2018

mesh loading. basic mesh drawing. implement spatial shaders. It was a joy to be there and talk with other people about things we love - free and open source software and game development! The drawing to the window happens by using a viewport as a texture and then displaying that in the correct position in the window.

Mesh 52

Mesh Shaders Render Bug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ).

Beta 52

Beta Dev Mesh Render 52

Mnenad

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Mainly I focused on generating grass that bends in the wind and some fern like plants, but what comes next is usable for all kind of meshes. Static batching : combines static (not moving) GameObjects into big Meshes, and renders them in a faster way.   In my case I had terrible FPS with just some thousand mesh instances.

Mesh 52

Mesh Shaders FPS Polygon 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ).

Beta 52

Beta Dev Mesh Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The illustration picture for this article is a screenshot of Sandfire , an upcoming 3D person action-adventure game by Kmitt. The game was recently ported to Godot 4, see Kmitt’s YouTube channel and Twitter for devlogs and updates. Import: Fix swapped color channels in ETC1/ETC2 textures, etcpak expects BGRA data ( GH-69448 ).

Beta 40

Beta Dev Render Shaders 40

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 53

Shaders Render Mesh Feature 53

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). The game is currently being ported to Godot 4.0 Follow Kenny Park on Twitter or Mastodon for development updates, and check his website to discover other games and applications. Fix Tab key usage in the inspector ( GH-71271 ). What's new.

Beta 110

Beta Dev Collision Render 110

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).

Render 52

Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

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. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime.

Render 52

Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

GUI: Fix TextureButton focus texture logic ( GH-56472 ). Import: Fix glTF scene export crash on null normal texture ( GH-56380 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader compile error with Oren Nayar + Vertex Lighting ( GH-56802 ). XR: Fix external textures being freed by Godot ( GH-56148 ). Known incompatibilities.

Render 52

Render Texture Scripting Agent 52

Game Errors

JUNE 1, 2023

Hardware incompatibility issues Too many background apps Outdated GPU drivers Incorrect in-game graphics settings Outdated Windows version Antivirus intervention Underclocked GPU and CPU How do I fix low frame rate in Street Fighter 6? A drop in frame rate in graphics-intensive games like Street Fighter 6 can be really annoying.

FPS 52

FPS Graphics PC Mesh 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). The game is currently being ported to Godot 4.0 Follow Kenny Park on Twitter or Mastodon for development updates, and check his website to discover other games and applications. Fix Tab key usage in the inspector ( GH-71271 ). What’s new.

Beta 84

Beta Dev Collision Render 84

Astral Clock Tower Studios

JANUARY 14, 2021

Welcome back to the ever-enchanting Kristala dev blog, where you'll get a front-row seat to the development process for the inaugural title from the leading ladies at Astral Clocktower Studios—a female-owned indie games studio based in Central PA, USA. We can't wait to see these textured!

Dev 52

Dev Rigging Texture Concepts 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

C#: Fix restore not called when building game projects ( GH-40596 ) [regression fix]. GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Shaders: Fix specular render_mode for Visual Shaders ( GH-41536 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). Known incompatibilities.

Bug 52

Bug Collision Build Texture 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2018

Heyyy, this pretty much looks like the sky projected onto the meshes, that's better! At that point of development, the sky reflection didn't respond to the camera position, so it basically looked like the sky was painted ontop of the mesh. (but mostly just the textureCube() function in GLSL). cubemap filtering.

Pixel 52

Pixel Texture Render Shaders 52

Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 24, 2022

In video games, the small effects add up to making your game look stunning. And popular games like Batman Arkham Asylum have this effect: Other notable games that have this effect are Mortal Kombat – which they implement when the characters perform special attacks on each other. What Is a Shader?

Shaders 90

Shaders Pixel Scripting Render 90

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Editor: Make texture preview filter setting content aware ( GH-67426 ). Physics: Optimized support function for large meshes ( GH-64382 ). Visual Shader: Add math operators to node names for easier and simpler searching ( GH-67905 ). Editor: Added custom Node export ( GH-67055 ).

Beta 52

Beta Dev Render Alpha 52

Nvidia

MAY 21, 2021

NetEase Thunder Fire Games Uses Mesh Shading To Create Beautiful Game Environments for Justice In December, we interviewed Haiyong Qian, NetEase Game Engine. Recently, NetEase introduced Mesh Shader support to Justice. Not only are the updated environments breathtaking, the game supports 1.8

Mesh 52

Mesh Culling Ray Tracing Shaders 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Import: Fix texture atlas generation when source sprite is larger than generated atlas ( GH-55094 ). Import: Fix crash when exporting meshes to glTF that have no skin ( GH-55246 ). Particles: Fix for double use of seed in random shader variables ( GH-55607 ). Input: Add Input.is_physical_key_pressed() method ( GH-55251 ).

Tile 52

Tile Render Shaders Editing 52

Febucci

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Shaders are used to create many effects, like “water”, “fire” and more. In order to understand them and become a wizard/witch, we have to learn a bit about meshes first. A mesh is made (usually!) You can see the mesh as the structure of your object, built by combining its triangles together. Shaders Theory.

Shaders 52

Shaders Writing Mesh Pixel 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Editor: Make texture preview filter setting content aware ( GH-67426 ). Physics: Optimized support function for large meshes ( GH-64382 ). Visual Shader: Add math operators to node names for easier and simpler searching ( GH-67905 ). Editor: Add “Scene” and “Visibility” buttons in Remote Scene Tree ( GH-65118 ).

Beta 40

Beta Dev Render Alpha 40

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Import: Fix texture atlas generation when source sprite is larger than generated atlas ( GH-55094 ). Import: Fix crash when exporting meshes to glTF that have no skin ( GH-55246 ). Particles: Fix for double use of seed in random shader variables ( GH-55607 ). Input: Add Input.is_physical_key_pressed() method ( GH-55251 ).

Tile 52

Tile Render Bug Build 52

Nvidia

JANUARY 5, 2023

This starts from mesh instance selection and their data. This starts from mesh instance selection and their data processing towards optimized tracing and shading of every hit that you encounter. Parallel mesh processing for instance data generation. Each instance alone requires 64 bytes of memory. Batched vertex data processing.

Ray Tracing 131

Ray Tracing Mesh Shaders Data 131

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 4, 2021

glTF is a growing 3D format and has received massive adoption in the game industry. Commonly selected as the format for new software and game engines, glTF can also have new functionality added using extensions. The nature of 3D can complicate the import/export process of a game character. bin + textures).

Animation 52

Animation Animation Engine Engineering 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Import: Fix texture atlas generation when source sprite is larger than generated atlas ( GH-55094 ). Import: Fix crash when exporting meshes to glTF that have no skin ( GH-55246 ). Particles: Fix for double use of seed in random shader variables ( GH-55607 ). Input: Add Input.is_physical_key_pressed() method ( GH-55251 ).

Tile 52

Tile Render Bug Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2020

GLES2 batching is enabled by default both in-game and in the editor. 2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ). C#: Allow debugging exported games ( GH-38115 ). GDScript: Fix leaked objects when game ends with yields in progress ( GH-38288 ). 2D: Implement skew in Node2D ( GH-38394 ).

Beta 52

Beta Debug Bug Point and Click 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 18, 2020

GLES2 batching is enabled by default both in-game and in the editor. 2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ). C#: Allow debugging exported games ( GH-38115 ). GDScript: Fix leaked objects when game ends with yields in progress ( GH-38288 ). 2D: Implement skew in Node2D ( GH-38394 ).

Beta 52

Beta Debug Bug Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 12, 2020

GLES2 batching is enabled by default both in-game and in the editor. 2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ). C#: Allow debugging exported games ( GH-38115 ). GDScript: Fix leaked objects when game ends with yields in progress ( GH-38288 ). 2D: Implement skew in Node2D ( GH-38394 ).

Beta 52

Beta Bug Debug Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

The features offered are also a lot more reminiscent of AAA games, such as far more material options and advanced visual effects (including circle DOF , volumetric fog, AMD FSR, etc.). The traditional way to make games longer since the beginning of times is to divide them in stages. Rendering is significantly more efficient in Godot 4.0,

AAA 145

AAA Game Developer Game Development Development 145

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

stable branch in January 2020 as a major update to our free and open source game engine. You can join the translation effort on Weblate and help bring high quality localized documentation to game developers all over the world! 2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ). Godot contributors released the Godot 3.2

Debug 52

Debug Point and Click Bug Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 16, 2020

Godot shader language is one of the easiest ones to use of any engine. Letting visual shaders aside, the shading language is a very tidy and self-contained version of GLSL ES 3.0, Shaders can take take inputs, modify them and produce outputs. Shaders can take take inputs, modify them and produce outputs. Simple, right?

Shaders 52

Shaders Mesh Texture Editing 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

Beta 52

Beta Dev Mesh Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

Mesh 52

Mesh Render Shaders Animation 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

Beta 52

Beta Dev Mesh Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

Mesh 52

Mesh Render Shaders Animation 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

Mesh 52

Mesh Render Shaders Animation 52