Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Be sure to report anything that stops working as expected in your scripts. Editor: Bring back the renderer options button on the main editor ( GH-70500 ). Editor: Fix error when dropping script into script editor ( GH-70580 ). Editor: Fix resource picker regression for scripted resources ( GH-70277 ). get_root() ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 16, 2022

Editor: Fix showing Extend Script option without script attached to the node ( GH-58821 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix compression on blend shapes ( GH-58838 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Rendering: Fix alpha scissor support with depth_draw_opaque ( GH-58959 ).

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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 ). Editor: Clean up EditorFileSystem script parsing ( GH-71628 ). Rendering: Remove SCREEN_TEXTURE , DEPTH_TEXTURE , and NORMAL_ROUGHNESS_TEXTURE ( GH-70967 ). Add astcenc compression and decompression ( GH-70363 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 23, 2022

Editor: Fix showing Extend Script option without script attached to the node ( GH-58821 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix compression on blend shapes ( GH-58838 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Rendering: Fix alpha scissor support with depth_draw_opaque ( GH-58959 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Be sure to report anything that stops working as expected in your scripts. Editor: Bring back the renderer options button on the main editor ( GH-70500 ). Editor: Fix error when dropping script into script editor ( GH-70580 ). Editor: Fix resource picker regression for scripted resources ( GH-70277 ). get_root() ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 8, 2022

Editor: Fix showing Extend Script option without script attached to the node ( GH-58821 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix compression on blend shapes ( GH-58838 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). CSG: Fix visible seam on smoothed sphere and cylinder shapes ( GH-58208 ).

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Febucci

MAY 14, 2022

Render the components that are present in the Volume Manager stack. ??? We will do this too (kind of) - and jokes aside - things are not documented yet AND shaders are obscure anyways, so I’ll explain stuff as easily as I have understood them. A custom renderer feature, which will be added to camera’s URP renderer and render our pass.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

A couple fixes to the text resource loader which could impact notably reloading scripts ( GH-71170 ). 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 ).

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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. Both features were implemented by our text rendering expert bruvzg in the master branch for Godot 4.0, 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 ). and backported to 3.5.

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 31, 2023

Graphics and Rendering One of the most significant challenges in game test automation lies in dealing with the complexity of graphics and rendering. Games often incorporate advanced visual effects, complex shaders, and intricate animations. They expect things to work! Overcoming Challenges in Game Test Automation: I.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Core: Expose minizip API to allow creating zips using scripts ( GH-65281 ). Editor: Reorganize script editor menu ( GH-64277 ). Editor: Add script editor shortcut to add selection and caret for next occurrence of current selection ( GH-67644 ). Rendering: Add OpenGL timer queries to OpenGL3 backend ( GH-67032 ).

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Beta Dev Render Alpha 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Rendering: Use circular fade instead of linear fade for distance fade ( GH-50294 ). Rendering: Tweak shadow bias defaults for DirectionalLight3D and OmniLight3D ( GH-55757 ). Rendering: Fix AABB errors on meshes with bones on multiple surfaces ( GH-65035 ). Rendering: Allow black metallic materials to reflect IBL ( GH-69522 ).

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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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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. Both features were implemented by our text rendering expert bruvzg in the master branch for Godot 4.0, Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

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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

JUNE 1, 2022

Notably, it fixes some rendering regressions with transparent materials, and crashing iOS templates and Web editor build in RC 2. 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.

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Cocos

MAY 9, 2023

ENGINE Features ● Custom Render Pipeline based on Render Graph supports for GLES backend ● Deprecated interfaces, such as addRasterView, addComputeView, etc., Fixed Toon shader data issue on iOS Wechat. Fixed some npm libraries not working due to the use of ‘use strict’ when building scripts. Cocos Creator 3.7.3

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 6, 2018

The progress of last month was largely defined by stabilizing the 3D renderer with many smaller fixes, but work on the PRB side of things has begun and the GDNative system also saw some quality-of-life changes again, with improvements to the GDNativeLibrary resource as well as an API to provide safe type-casting in NativeScript. Introduction.

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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. Switch on physics/common/physics_interpolation , and Godot will now automatically interpolate objects on rendered frames so they look super smooth.

Beta 52

Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

A couple fixes to the text resource loader which could impact notably reloading scripts ( GH-71170 ). 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 ).

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Beta Dev Collision Render 84

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 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. Both features were implemented by our text rendering expert bruvzg in the master branch for Godot 4.0, Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

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Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

Rendering: Octahedral normal/tangent compression ( GH-60309 ). Core: Make property_*_revert methods multilevel and expose them for scripting ( GH-64334 ). Editor: Improvements to shader editor ( GH-63582 ). Rendering: Octahedral normal/tangent compression ( GH-60309 ). for instructions. Core: A plethora of renames!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 21, 2018

This time with the early beginnings of 3D rendering in GLES2 and some GDNative ecosystem updates. 2D rendering stabilized. implement spatial shaders. 2D rendering stabilized. The main bug that was keeping me busy for weeks was related to a shader bind that was not descriptive enough when blitting a viewport to the screen.

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Mesh Shaders Render Bug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

C#: Fix getting properties state when reloading scripts ( GH-56300 ). C#: Attach mono thread before getting nativeName field, fixing potential tool script crash ( GH-57739 ). GDScript: Clear pending function states when reloading script ( GH-56296 ). Rendering: Fix blend shapes when octahedral compression is used ( GH-56161 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 17, 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. Both features were implemented by our text rendering expert bruvzg in the master branch for Godot 4.0, Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

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Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

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. Switch on physics/common/physics_interpolation , and Godot will now automatically interpolate objects on rendered frames so they look super smooth.

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Cocos

APRIL 14, 2023

1、 Comprehensive TPS gameplay framework 2、 A reusable implementation of Custom Render Pipeline 3、 Forward & Deferred Rendering, PostProcessing 4、 Usage of Reflection Probes 5、 Static Occlusion Culling 6、 Compatible with High-end, Mid-end and Low-end devices In this article, we will locate the files that correspond to the features above.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

Godot can render at frame rates independent from the fixed physics tick rate. This can lead to problems where the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, causing unsightly jitter. Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader). Physics interpolation in 3D.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 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. Both features were implemented by our text rendering expert bruvzg in the master branch for Godot 4.0, Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

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Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

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. Rendering: Add material_overlay property to MeshInstance ( GH-50823 ). The main changes coming in Godot 3.5 Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

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Beta Dev Shaders Console 52

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 ). Rendering: Fix 2D software skinning relative transforms ( GH-48402 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

C#: Fix getting properties state when reloading scripts ( GH-56300 ). C#: Attach mono thread before getting nativeName field, fixing potential tool script crash ( GH-57739 ). GDScript: Clear pending function states when reloading script ( GH-56296 ). Rendering: Fix blend shapes when octahedral compression is used ( GH-56161 ).

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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. Switch on physics/common/physics_interpolation , and Godot will now automatically interpolate objects on rendered frames so they look super smooth.

Beta 52

Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

C#: Fix getting properties state when reloading scripts ( GH-56300 ). GDScript: Clear pending function states when reloading script ( GH-56296 ). GUI: Fix RichTextLabel underline prevents strikethrough from rendering ( GH-56686 ). Rendering: Fix blend shapes when octahedral compression is used ( GH-56161 ).

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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. Switch on physics/common/physics_interpolation , and Godot will now automatically interpolate objects on rendered frames so they look super smooth.

Beta 52

Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Core: Expose minizip API to allow creating zips using scripts ( GH-65281 ). Editor: Reorganize script editor menu ( GH-64277 ). Editor: Add script editor shortcut to add selection and caret for next occurrence of current selection ( GH-67644 ). Rendering: Add OpenGL timer queries to OpenGL3 backend ( GH-67032 ).

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