Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 24, 2022

We're continuing on our fortnightly release schedule for alpha snapshots of Godot 4.0 - this time with 4.0 See past alpha releases for details ( alpha 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ). Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds. Jump to the Downloads section.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

alpha 17 release to ensure that things work as best as we can reasonably expect before the beta phase. Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds. alpha in general, have a look at the detailed release notes for 4.0 beta 1, and to do so we're having a (last?)

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 6, 2022

We're continuing on our fortnightly release schedule for alpha snapshots of Godot 4.0 - this time with 4.0 See past alpha releases for details ( alpha 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ). Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds. Jump to the Downloads section.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 2, 2022

Straight out of the Godot Sprint in Barcelona, here's another alpha snapshot of the development branch, this time with 4.0 See past alpha releases for details ( alpha 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 ). Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 12, 2022

Another fortnight, another alpha snapshot of the development branch, this time with 4.0 See past alpha releases for details ( alpha 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 ). Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds. and binutils 2.37.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

We're working towards finalizing the feature set for 4.0 beta, reviewing many PRs which have been opened prior to our roadmap feature freeze announced a month ago. While this process is ongoing, we'll keep releasing alpha builds so here's 4.0 Same deal as usual, lots of bugs fixed and more refactoring and feature work.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 15, 2022

Another couple of weeks, another alpha snapshot from the development branch, this time with 4.0 is a huge release that requires a lot of work, and because we're committed to providing dev snapshots frequently so that pre-release testers can quickly access the new features and bug fixes. alpha builds. x projects to the 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 28, 2022

alpha 7 comes with one week delay on our every-other-week release schedule, since I was taking some time off :) But that means it got time for even more features and bug fixes to be finalized, reviewed and merged. See past alpha releases for details ( alpha 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ). alpha builds. This new 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

alpha 1 ― the first official alpha build of our upcoming major milestone, enabling all interested users to try it out and report bugs, as well as provide feedback on the new features. branch, we're going to release new alpha builds every other week, so that testers can always have a recent version to test the latest changes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 11, 2019

We released a first alpha build last week, and we want to keep a relatively short iteration cycle on future alpha and beta builds until the final 3.2 alpha 2 as a second snapshot, fixing various issues from the last build. alpha 2 as a second snapshot, fixing various issues from the last build. The features.

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The Knights of Unity

JUNE 5, 2020

And even before an era of SRPs (Scriptable Render Pipelines), there was a good amount of solid features like today’s topic: Render textures. In this post I’m going to explain to you how to use render textures in your game. using legacy rendering, but the features I used work in SRPs too.

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Cocos

JULY 18, 2024

Hello all, I have a shader that takes the alpha value of one texture and applies to a sprite frame. I prefer to go this way so that I can have a gradient fade to transparency… the mask component uses the stencil buffer and isn’t set up to use alpha blending and therefore cannot utilize the gradient of alpha values.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: A ton of fixes for all rendering backends, and missing features implemented for the OpenGL3 one. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Android: Upgrade Android gradle plugin to version 7.2.1 ( GH-68497 ). Rendering: Added Viewport canvas cull mask feature ( GH-52350 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Over the course of the last four months the engine has seen many changes, making it more stable and feature complete, and it's getting very close to the state that we would be happy with. The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 31, 2022

was released with the hopes of rewriting the rendering architecture using Vulkan as a target API. A lot of work was done, but almost nothing worked and so many features were unfinished. After it, 17 alphas followed in total. Things improved a lot, but eventually it was time to do feature freeze and focus on bug fixing.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 3, 2016

It's been a month since the first progress report , and progress continues towards the new Godot renderer. Little by little every system falls into place, and rendering starts feeling a lot more mature. Add Layered/Stencil rendering. One of the main features of PBR rendering is having all sort of sources for reflections.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Godot uses a considerably different approach to rendering (and rendering abstraction) than other, popular, game engines. This document was written in hopes to find more developers that would like to help us write rendering code, as it explains the overall design. Running the whole graphics rendering in a separate thread.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Split pause() from AnimationPlayer's stop() ( GH-71218 ). Export: Fix missing "debug"/"release" export presets feature tags ( GH-71274 ). New NavigationServer performance monitor ( GH-70731 ).

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Nvidia

JANUARY 5, 2023

Some ray-traced effects, like reflections or shadows, require support for out-of-frustum objects for rendering accuracy. Alpha tested geometry. High-poly geometry, with alpha testing like hair and fur, can be challenging for direct tracing. Parallel mesh processing for instance data generation. Dynamic objects selection.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 31, 2022

was released with the hopes of rewriting the rendering architecture using Vulkan as a target API. A lot of work was done, but almost nothing worked and so many features were unfinished. After it, 17 alphas followed in total. Things improved a lot, but eventually it was time to do feature freeze and focus on bug fixing.

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Alpha Media Bug Feature 111

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

We have been in feature freeze since mid-August and have been focused on fixing workflow breaking bugs since then (well, we have accepted some small features and enhancements on occasion). First, Godot’s lead developer Juan Linietsky (reduz) worked alone in a branch where he modernized the renderer (making a switch from OpenGL 2.1

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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. The rendering stages involved in Deferred Rendering. The problems that are solved by Deferred Rendering. Solution for transparent object rendering.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Over the course of the last four months the engine has seen many changes, making it more stable and feature complete, and it’s getting very close to the state that we would be happy with. The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha.

Beta 81

Beta Dev Render Animation 81

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Split pause() from AnimationPlayer’s stop() ( GH-71218 ). Export: Fix missing “debug”/”release” export presets feature tags ( GH-71274 ). Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ).

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Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 24, 2022

A shader is a script where you write code that determines how the colors will be rendered based on various scenarios like lighting and material configuration. The ZWrite Off and ZTest Greater are responsible for making the shader render the material behind other objects.

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Nvidia

MARCH 1, 2023

The solution also enables users to fill objects in with color, paint over them with an RBG brush, or cover regions with physically based rendering (PBR) materials. The company recently released a feature that enables export to USDZ, making models created in Shapeyard compatible with NVIDIA Omniverse.

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Nvidia

MARCH 20, 2023

NVIDIA at GDC 2023: Frame Generation and Path Tracing Tools Now Available Generate frames with the latest breakthrough in AI rendering Announced with the NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture, DLSS 3 raised the bar not just for visuals but also performance and responsiveness. Frame generation is the latest evolution.

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

UE5’s features and functionality have further expanded to include experimental new features for rendering, animation and simulation. Design: Working with the artist, the design team renders character models, iterates on the interfaces, designs dynamic and interactive level designs and environments, and so on.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 26, 2017

is mostly feature-complete and ready for broader testing by the Godot community. We are therefore releasing a first alpha snapshot for existing users to play with and report bugs. IMPORTANT: This is an alpha build, which means that it is not suitable for use in production, nor for press reviews of what Godot 3.0 The features.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 1, 2017

We know Godot has been known for many years to have a relatively stable master/HEAD at Github, so users can try the new features in their projects with very little risk of breaking them. We will take the chance to do deep changes in Godot internals, which (while for the better) will render it incompatible with previous versions.

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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 Core: Revert "Fix ProjectSettings has_setting() when used on a overriden setting with feature tags" ( GH-58859 ). branch for use in production.

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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. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Android: Use proper types for converting Java float/double arrays ( GH-67581 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

As most of the rendering features for the upcoming Godot 4.0 are done, I have spent the past two months optimizing the rendering engine, both on the CPU and GPU side. All this work has resulted in significantly faster rendering times. A lot of the render state is now better cached, so less is done at render time.

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Nvidia

JUNE 21, 2023

Streamline is an open-source cross-IHV framework that simplifies the integration of features like DLSS 3. Integrate without any features and focus on tasks such as manual hooking and resource state tracking. Integrate NVIDIA Reflex through Streamline: Add Reflex and its sub-features to the rendering pipeline.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

The main one was performance due to every light being rendered in a separate draw pass. A very requested feature for the 2D engine is the possibility to have 2D directional lights and shadows. The regular CanvasOccluders have a new option to enable them for SDF rendering. Improved 2D lighting. This has been added for 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 14, 2017

Usually we let our lead developer Juan (reduz) do progress reports on his impressive work on rendering features, but since he was in holidays for more than a month, we'll showcase the work of some key contributors this time. compatible renderer can be used optimally. stable release, but it's already looking pretty slick.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 16, 2022

Core: Revert "Fix ProjectSettings has_setting() when used on a overriden setting with feature tags" ( GH-58859 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix compression on blend shapes ( GH-58838 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). API documentation updates. See the full changelog since 3.4.3-stable

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