Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2022

alpha (see our release policy for details on the various Godot versions). This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 26, 2019

features this month ( 2D meshes , 2D skeletons and AnimationTree docs). The illustration picture is a screenshot from John Watson's upcoming game, Gravity Ace , a gorgeous arcade twin-stick shooter currently in public alpha on itch.io. Juan added several tutorials on new 3.1 Known regressions in 3.1

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 8, 2017

The new particle system uses meshes by default (to work with impostor quads, just create a QuadMesh and assign a material with billboard set to enabled). Mesh surfaces can also emit directed by normals: We wanted to include skeletal transform support to emission meshes, as it's not a lot more complex, but this will have to wait for 3.1 :(.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2022

alpha builds , we're trying to release 3.5 This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Rendering: Bind mesh merging functionality in MeshInstance ( GH-57661 ). We're getting closer to the Godot 3.5 stable release with a third beta snapshot! Like with 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

alpha builds , we're trying to release 3.5 This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Rendering: Bind mesh merging functionality in MeshInstance ( GH-57661 ). We're getting closer to the Godot 3.5 stable release with a fourth beta snapshot! Like with 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 2022

alpha builds and maintenance releases for the stable branch ( 3.4.3 , 3.4.4 This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2022

alpha builds , we're trying to release 3.5 This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Rendering: Bind mesh merging functionality in MeshInstance ( GH-57661 ). We're getting closer to the Godot 3.5 stable release with a fifth beta snapshot! Like with 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

The new CSG nodes lacked support for generating the tangents, there were orientation issues when importing Collada or glTF files, and the new primitive meshes reversed the direction of these. We spent a great deal of time over the last week going through all these issues and correcting them.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

But the “1” in beta 1 means that it’s only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we’re going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. Physics: Optimized support function for large meshes ( GH-64382 ). We released Godot 4.0 Multiplayer: Add MultiplayerPeer disconnect_peer , close ( GH-67982 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 24, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 16, 2022

Rendering: GLES3: Fix broken normals in meshes with blend shapes ( GH-59159 ) [regression fix]. Rendering: Fix alpha scissor support with depth_draw_opaque ( GH-58959 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). API documentation updates.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Instancing is used to render similar objects (mesh, material and misc settings), reducing the pressure over the rendering API. There are special versions of meshes to render when doing shadow maps or depth pre-pass. As we are approaching an Alpha release, Godot 4.0 A set of benchmarks was created at : [link].

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 31, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 23, 2022

In parallel to our work on the upcoming feature releases Godot 3.5 ( with a second beta ) and 4.0 ( now at alpha 4! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 Rendering: GLES3: Fix broken normals in meshes with blend shapes ( GH-59159 ) [regression fix]. Rendering: Fix alpha scissor support with depth_draw_opaque ( GH-58959 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 29, 2018

For new users, we recommend the "classical" build (as opposed to the "Mono" build with C# support, currently in alpha) and the GDScript language, which you should be able to learn very fast. currently at the alpha stage. alpha 2 build should be published in coming days. currently at the alpha stage.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 21, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 11, 2017

If you care about using meshes separately, it is also possible to tell Godot to save them as files. Reimports will overwrite those meshes, though. All that remains now is to complete and fix the remaining and existing features and we will be releasing an alpha of 3.0. This is more akin to how Unity works. Hope that happens soon!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 30, 2017

and among game devs, we're all still children at heart, aren't we? :). There are many official demos included in this archive , such as a simple Pong game, 2D and 3D platformers, a space shooter, and many small demos meant to showcase how to use a given feature, such as particles, screen space shaders, lights, navigation meshes, etc.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Games will often have several requirements that must be satisfied regarding the imported animations, such as: Ability to attach and remove different meshes to be deformed by the same skeleton. alpha is around the corner now (we have been pushing pre-alpha builds recently), so looking forward to a release soon!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 6, 2018

In order to deform the mesh according to the bone transforms, each vertex (generally "point of a triangle") can be influenced by up to 4 bones. this was solved by having copies of the meshdata, then modifying the mesh itself with the bone transform information. made separate alpha pass use custom blending modes.

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Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Inside the main material editor, Right Click and search for lerp and select Linear Interpolate: As you can see the Lerp node has 3 pins: The Alpha pin controls the output of the Lerp node. If the value of the Alpha is 0, then the Lerp node will use the A pin for the output. It can have a value between 0 and 1.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). GDScript: Auto completion enhanced for extends and class level identifier ( GH-41318 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 28, 2021

The new importer has an "Advanced" mode, which allows to precisely customize every individual node, mesh, material and animation. Import options were limited to a tiny "Import" menu that attempted to do too much and fell short. Additionally, handling of external assets was re-thought. In Godot 3.x,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In parallel to our work on the upcoming feature releases Godot 3.5 ( with a first beta ) and 4.0 ( now at alpha 3! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 version after its release, which may affect your project: Rendering issues for both GLES2 and GLES3 with 3D meshes using blend shapes and octahedral compression ( GH-58789 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

with 17 alpha builds distributed in 2022, and continuous development effort since 2019. You may have already seen some of this content on social media, in blog posts, or in alpha release notes. The new NavigationServer supports fully dynamic environments and on-the-fly navigation mesh baking. It has been a long road to Godot 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 19, 2021

Technical details: Heightmaps are very similar to triangle meshes in term of collision detection. The difference is that heightmaps use an alternative first step to find which triangles to collide with, and then can use the same algorithm that triangle meshes use to generate contacts. To get ready for an alpha release of Godot 4.0,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

It is now possible to scale an.obj mesh when importing. C# support is still in alpha so backward-incompatible improvements are still allowed in this branch (and will happen). This is helpful for CI pipelines. Another new CLI option is --quit which will quit the engine after the first main loop iteration. Type icons are back!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 6, 2022

alpha 1 and later. What makes the approach so fast is that you only calculate lighting for the cells in the froxel buffer and then, when drawing meshes, you only need to look up the fog value from the froxel buffer. Note: FogVolumes are available in 4.0 On top of the existing non-volumetric fog, Godot 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 9, 2016

Thanks to the development work done by Alket Rexhepi and Bojidar Marinov , this frontend will soon reach the alpha status and be announced officially, so that all community members can start submitting assets to the library. As of the 2.1 New plugin API. Together with the Asset Library, we have introduced an EditorPlugin API for Godot.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

Still, this workflow is easy and efficient as 3D objects get a second set of UVs generated on import, and baking works with instantiated meshes, scenes and even GridMaps. It parses your code and automatically understands what you are trying to do (such as writing to alpha for transparency, reading from screen, etc.) In Godot 3.0,

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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. alpha is planned to be soon, so those features will hopefully be ready to test by then.

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