Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

A refactor of Animation APIs to change the stop(reset: bool) to two separate stop() and pause() methods ( GH-71218 ), as was heavily requested by the community. A couple fixes to the text resource loader which could impact notably reloading scripts ( GH-71170 ). A lot more GDScript fixes and improvements! See the list below.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Runtime navigation mesh baking. Now the NavigationRegion can be added during gameplay, and it's possible to change its transform or even bake the navigation mesh data at runtime. Remember to hit the button Bake NavMesh to bake the navigation data, as you used to do in 3.x! Runtime baking. Multi-threading safety.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

A refactor of Animation APIs to change the stop(reset: bool) to two separate stop() and pause() methods ( GH-71218 ), as was heavily requested by the community. A couple fixes to the text resource loader which could impact notably reloading scripts ( GH-71170 ). A lot more GDScript fixes and improvements! See the list below.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Animation: Fix AnimationNode has_filter not being called in scripts ( GH-64560 ). Animation: Fix potential bug with node rename in BlendTree editor ( GH-65651 ) [regression fix]. Animation: Fix crash when playing SceneTreeTween right after finishing ( GH-65896 ). Audio: Make audio thread control flags safe ( GH-64608 ).

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Cocos

APRIL 14, 2023

1、animations There is only one animation file under the folder, which is used for camera animation during roaming the scene when start. 2、LightFX The lightmaps generated by the Lightmap Baking System will be automatically stored in this folder, and there is no need to manually modify the contents inside it.

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Cocos

MAY 9, 2023

Fixed animation switch issue when GPU INSTANCING is enabled for the material of SkinnedMeshRenderer. Fixed bone animation texture size error on some platforms that don’t support float point texture format. Fixed animation system error by saving incorrect material uniform binding. Fixed memory leak of built-in physics module. .

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Cocos

JANUARY 31, 2024

Editor Fixed the issue where new scripts would not run after importing a resource package. Fixed the issue of not finding node data when opening other prefabs from animation mode. Fixed the potential freezing of the preview when scripts were frequently modified. Fixed the problem of exception when audio exit on Xiaomi platform.

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Game Global

JULY 12, 2021

They’re related, but the difference is this: A game writer’s primary responsibility is to promote the story that the game tells through the scripts they write. This is a clip of the Heider-Simmel animation. How can I get this NPC to convey a specific emotion if I don’t have that specific animation in my toolbox?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Animation: Fix AnimationNode has_filter not being called in scripts ( GH-64560 ). Animation: Fix potential bug with node rename in BlendTree editor ( GH-65651 ). Animation: Fix crash when playing SceneTreeTween right after finishing ( GH-65896 ). GUI: Expose Tabs set / get_tab_button_icon() to scripting ( GH-64707 ).

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The Knights of Unity

JULY 21, 2020

What’s more, it’s easy to imitate movement by creating a simple animation, as we did in the booster’s model. Creating animations for animals wasn’t an easy part. In the editor props are spawned procedurally – it took some time to organize scripts and meshes properly. That allows us to reduce the size of the game.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Animation: Fix AnimationNode has_filter not being called in scripts ( GH-64560 ). Animation: Fix potential bug with node rename in BlendTree editor ( GH-65651 ) [regression fix]. Animation: Fix crash when playing SceneTreeTween right after finishing ( GH-65896 ). Audio: Make audio thread control flags safe ( GH-64608 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track featurex ( GH-44558 ). Animation: Fix Tween active state and repeat after stop() and then start() ( GH-47142 ).

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Game Designing

APRIL 21, 2022

Coding camera angles for games and animation has been a pain … Until now. Before Unity Cinemachine, camera movement needed to be directly keyframed or, using code, had to be carefully scripted. It completely transforms the landscape of game development, digital animation, and especially in-game camera systems.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Animation: Fix Tween active state and repeat after stop() and then start() ( GH-47142 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Animation: Fix Tween active state and repeat after stop() and then start() ( GH-47142 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Animation: Fix Tween active state and repeat after stop() and then start() ( GH-47142 ).

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DameDev.tv

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

 That is, instead of rendering your animation frame by frame on your local PC, the job is being split into multiple frames (or even tiles) and each machine in the render farm renders just some of them. Additionally, all scripts are being disabled for security reasons. Anything involving physics should be baked first too.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 18, 2019

Improvements to the Visual Scripting System by Swarnim Arun. Here you can see the Sponza demo model, with baked direct lighting, and the corresponding light map: Note that this first pass is not taking occlusion into account yet. Further optimizations will be done so it isn't necessary to process the same scripts again and again.

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Cocos

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Fixes Fix the issue where the new script will not run after importing the resource package and can only be restarted. Fix the issue where opening other prefabs from the animation mode prompts that node data cannot be found. Fix the issue where preview may be stuck if the script is modified frequently.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Last but not least, lightmaps baking is now done using the GPU to speed up the process significantly. Scripting them is simpler now as well. The new NavigationServer supports fully dynamic environments and on-the-fly navigation mesh baking. Read more about animation changes in this blog post by Juan.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Animation: Add option to paste animation as duplicate ( GH-60226 ). Animation: New SceneTreeTween backported from Godot 4.0 ( GH-60581 ). x one, or adopt the new API from 4.0.

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Designer Notes

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

I gave a talk on games and meaning at GDC 2023, which is now available on YouTube: However, I fully scripted the talk ahead of time, so I decided it would be worth taking the time to post the slides online, in three parts to have mercy on your browser. Your enemies don’t see them.

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Mnenad

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

 When batched, the animations from the Advanced Foliage Shader go a bit crazy and make the grass float around. I just toggled the “Baked Pivots” option in the shader to ON. Subdividing the mesh in Cinema4D’s sculpting mode and baking a displacement map works great. That’s it. When

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Animation: Add option to paste animation as duplicate ( GH-60226 ). Animation: New SceneTreeTween backported from Godot 4.0 ( GH-60581 ). x one, or adopt the new API from 4.0.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Animation: Add option to paste animation as duplicate ( GH-60226 ). Animation: New SceneTreeTween backported from Godot 4.0 ( GH-60581 ). x one, or adopt the new API from 4.0.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Animation: Add option to paste animation as duplicate ( GH-60226 ). Animation: New SceneTreeTween backported from Godot 4.0 ( GH-60581 ). x one, or adopt the new API from 4.0.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

New vertex formats allow many more custom shaders and cases to take advantage of batching than before, and optional 2D software skinning has been added which should allow using 2D skeletal animation on a far wider range of hardware than was previously available. New CPU lightmapper. New CPU lightmapper. The lightmapper in the previous 3.x

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

which would have included new multiplayer networking, visual scripting and many other improvements) because we realized that projects using the new features would no longer work in 3.0, Visual Scripting. Just set up the probe bounds and do a fast pre-bake of static objects. A year ago, we decided to skip the release of Godot 2.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2022

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. To help with the common task of accessing specific nodes from scripts, Juan Linietsky ( reduz ) added the concept of "scene unique names" for nodes in the master branch ( GH-60298 ), and Tomasz backported it for 3.5.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Animation: Add option to paste animation as duplicate ( GH-60226 ). Animation: New SceneTreeTween backported from Godot 4.0 ( GH-60581 ). x one, or adopt the new API from 4.0.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2022

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. To help with the common task of accessing specific nodes from scripts, Juan Linietsky ( reduz ) added the concept of "scene unique names" for nodes in the master branch ( GH-60298 ), and Tomasz backported it for 3.5.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Animation: Add option to paste animation as duplicate ( GH-60226 ). Animation: New SceneTreeTween backported from Godot 4.0 ( GH-60581 ). x one, or adopt the new API from 4.0.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 17, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Animation: Add option to paste animation as duplicate ( GH-60226 ). Animation: New SceneTreeTween backported from Godot 4.0 ( GH-60581 ). x one, or adopt the new API from 4.0.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Animation: Add option to paste animation as duplicate ( GH-60226 ). You can create a batch script or shortcut to automatically start Godot from a console as in previous releases. back in 2020!

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

where the main drawback is you're still vulnerable during the 2 second execution animation. During this time, mission selection is restricted and progression is heavily scripted / controlled. This ties into a common complaint: the melee weapon machete is very powerful, like a 1-3 hit kill (maybe 10-15 hits against a boss?)

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