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

JANUARY 10, 2023

The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. since early alpha releases; follow them on Twitter for updates. Import: Fix usages of mesh simplification functions in float=64 builds ( GH-67853 ). What's new.

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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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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. Batching means to combine mesh objects that share the same material or that are marked as static in the Unity inspector. In my case I had terrible FPS with just some thousand mesh instances.

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Febucci

OCTOBER 31, 2019

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. Now that we’ve scratched the topic of meshes, we can finally talk about shader. Shaders Theory.

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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

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

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Nvidia

MARCH 20, 2023

Opacity Micro-Map (OMM) for improving RT performance in scenes with heavy alpha effects. OMM allows you to efficiently map complex geometries, such as dense vegetation and foliage, onto triangles and micro-meshes, providing high-level performance in detailed scenes. OMM SDK 1.0 is available to all developers.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. since early alpha releases; follow them on Twitter for updates. Import: Fix usages of mesh simplification functions in float=64 builds ( GH-67853 ). What’s new.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 20, 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 ). Core: Fix leaked ObjectRCs on object Variant reassignment ( GH-39903 ) [regression fix]. wslay 1.1.1). API documentation updates.

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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 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix incorrect buffer upload size in draw_gui_primitive ( GH-58150 ). RichTextLabel: Fix shadow color when text has transparency ( GH-59054 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). Rendering: Take alpha antialising options into account when setting up materials ( GH-71261 ). A couple fixes to the text resource loader which could impact notably reloading scripts ( GH-71170 ). Fix Tab key usage in the inspector ( GH-71271 ).

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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 ). Core: Fix leaked ObjectRCs on object Variant reassignment ( GH-39903 ) [regression fix]. stb_vorbis 1.20, wslay 1.1.1).

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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

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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Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 24, 2022

The vert function on line 37 uses UnityObjectToClipPos which will transform the mesh vertex position from local object space to clip space. The idea here is that we’re going to use the alpha channel of the material color to make the material transparent. Then we indicate the end of the shader code on line 47 with ENDCG.

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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 ). Core: Fix leaked ObjectRCs on object Variant reassignment ( GH-39903 ) [regression fix].

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The Knights of Unity

JUNE 5, 2020

On top of this, I added another mesh with custom shader, this time, for refraction. This way, it doesn’t have to render unnecessary elements twice, and the captured texture has black background, so I can use it as alpha. This is how my setup for camera looks like (the camera is capturing another element described in this article).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). Rendering: Take alpha antialising options into account when setting up materials ( GH-71261 ). A couple fixes to the text resource loader which could impact notably reloading scripts ( GH-71170 ). Fix Tab key usage in the inspector ( GH-71271 ).

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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 ). GDScript: Auto completion enhanced for extends and class level identifier ( GH-41318 ).

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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 ). GDScript: Auto completion enhanced for extends and class level identifier ( GH-41318 ).

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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 ). Core: Fix leaked ObjectRCs on object Variant reassignment ( GH-39903 ) [regression fix].

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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 ). GDScript: Auto completion enhanced for extends and class level identifier ( GH-41318 ).

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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. Some more features are still being worked on and will be included in future beta builds. Jump to the Downloads section. back in 2020!

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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

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

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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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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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

It is applied to all the static meshes on the objects. Only after endless hours of testing and iterating, the game is considered ready for a late-Alpha or even a Beta release, on the basis of how polished the in-game features are. Texturing: Textures are the flat images that are added to the model to give it colour and detail.

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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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Nvidia

JULY 25, 2022

Enable the use of any-hit shaders only for those geometries that need it; for example, to do alpha testing. Invoking any-hit shader, typically for performing alpha testing, for non-opaque triangles interrupts hardware intersection search. Consider alpha testing instead of blending. Instances should share the base mesh BLAS.

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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

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 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

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

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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