Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

beta 11 , we found a lot of regressions – as we expected! As the pace intensifies in the lead-up to the first Release Candidate, we decided to make more frequent beta snapshots for testing. when dealing with PackedArrays) which many beta 11 users experienced ( GH-71228 ). A lot more GDScript fixes and improvements! What's new.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2023

Release Candidate on the horizon we continue to release beta snapshots frequently and relentlessly! Unfortunately, we also have to rollback one of the core animations features. This decision allows us to better focus efforts of the Animation team on stabilizing other features. With the first Godot 4.0 What’s new.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

betas for over three months now, and we are glad to see it get more stable and usable every week. Every beta release so far has included a lot of fixes in one or more key areas, and the next major version of the engine starts to finally look complete. beta, with the process covered in this devlog. Happy holidays! What’s new.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

beta releases. We took a bit longer to prepare this beta as there were a number of fairly big GDScript refactoring PRs (needed to fix many bugs), which we wanted to merge all at once. As such we expect that this beta 11 might introduce some new GDScript regressions, which we’ll aim to fix for beta 12 next week.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

beta 11 , we found a lot of regressions – as we expected! As the pace intensifies in the lead-up to the first Release Candidate, we decided to make more frequent beta snapshots for testing. when dealing with PackedArrays) which many beta 11 users experienced ( GH-71228 ). A lot more GDScript fixes and improvements! What’s new.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

This beta 5 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. If you already reviewed the changelog for the previous beta, you can skip right to the differences between beta 4 and beta 5 ( part 1 , part 2 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

This beta 4 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. If you already reviewed the changelog for the previous beta, you can skip right to the differences between beta 3 and beta 4. Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

We had a beta 2 build ten days ago , and a number of issues have since been found and fixed, so it's time for Godot 3.4 If you already reviewed the changelog for the previous beta, you can skip right to the differences between beta 2 and beta 3. Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

stable release with a fourth beta snapshot! beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. This beta 4 is a small update with just 83 commits excluding merges, focusing on fixing bugs to stabilize the current feature set for 3.5 Like with 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This beta 6 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. If you already reviewed the changelog for the previous beta, you can skip right to the differences between beta 5 and beta 6. Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

beta 1 one month ago! 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. We’re now at beta 3, making good progress on fixing the issues that testers are reporting. We released Godot 4.0 Major changes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

beta 1 one month ago! 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. We're now at beta 3, making good progress on fixing the issues that testers are reporting. We released Godot 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2022

stable release with a fifth beta snapshot! beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). We're getting closer to the Godot 3.5 Like with 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

beta 2 , even though we never had a formal beta 1 announcement on this blog. beta 1 is available for download for comparison purposes, but since it had a major regression on C# support on Windows , I skipped its blog post. and included in this beta are: Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Today we are pleased to announce that the first beta for the much-anticipated release of Godot 4.0 beta just yet as we expect the engine to be unstable until we have more testing done. The beta comes with a work-in-progress conversion tool that does part of the conversion work from 3.x beta 1 now! is set in stone.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

has been in beta for over two months , and the overall feature completeness, stability and usability have improved a lot during that time. beta in general, have a look at the detailed release notes for 4.0 In this blog post, we will only cover the main changes since the previous beta release. GH-68870 ).

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Cocos

JUNE 11, 2023

We also support Compute Shader capabilities. Render Graph The Render Pipeline customization based on Render Graph will be officially available to developers in version 3.8. It will support the implementation of engine builtin Custom Pipeline and the default Deferred Pipeline. AGP upgraded to 8.0.2. AGP upgraded to 8.0.2.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

beta, reviewing many PRs which have been opened prior to our roadmap feature freeze announced a month ago. Animation: Complete implementation of Animation Retargeting ! There will likely be breaking changes between this release and the first beta release. Animation: Complete implementation of Animation Retargeting !

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Cocos

JULY 2, 2024

Fixed the issue where the gizmo icon of nodes in the animation panel was not displayed when selecting nodes in the animation edit mode. Fixed the issue where the second new build task on Huawei AGC platform did not update the configuration.

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Cocos

JULY 2, 2024

Fixed the issue where the gizmo icon of nodes in the animation panel was not displayed when selecting nodes in the animation edit mode. Fixed the issue where the second new build task on Huawei AGC platform did not update the configuration.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2025

beta 1 release notes. Strategize with animals and nature in mind! Tech Highlights To be frank: there is no good way to summarize the work of hundreds of contributors across the span of an entire year without leaving out something important. The closest we can feasibly get are the Godot 4.3 May Did you know that we still update Godot 3?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

With this first Release Candidate , we completely freezes feature development, and comes after a long series of beta builds to fix a number of bugs reported against previous builds (as well as against previous stable branches). If you already reviewed the changelog for beta 6, you can skip right to the differences between beta 6 and RC 1.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 24, 2022

There will likely be breaking changes between this release and the first beta release. Only the beta will mark the so-called "feature freeze" As such, we do not recommend porting existing projects to this and other upcoming alpha releases unless you are prepared to do it again to fix future incompatibilities.

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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. Animation: Add option to paste animation as duplicate ( GH-60226 ). The main changes coming in Godot 3.5

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

There will likely be breaking changes between this release and the first beta release. Only the beta will mark the so-called "feature freeze" As such, we do not recommend porting existing projects to this and other upcoming alpha releases unless you are prepared to do it again to fix future incompatibilities.

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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 Animation: Fix cubic interpolate when looping ( GH-58651 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). branch for use in production.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 1, 2022

We're etching closer and closer to the beta stage, things are starting to fall into place! There will likely be breaking changes between this release and the first beta release. Animation: Add AnimationTree advance expressions ( GH-61196 ). Same deal as usual, lots of bugs fixed and more refactoring and feature work.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 1, 2021

beta 5 available now), we still cherry-pick important bug fixes to the 3.3 Rendering: Prevent shaders from generating code before the constructor finishes ( GH-52475 ). The illustration picture is from The Adventure of NAYU , an endearing and beautifully animated idle clicker game developed by ambai and kogeume.

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Nvidia

JUNE 4, 2021

On-Demand Sessions Introduction to RTX Technology and the Omniverse Platform Speaker: Vincent Brisebois, NVIDIA We introduce NVIDIA RTX technology at a very high level (Shaders, RT Cores and Tensor Cores), then introduce the Omniverse platform. Panel: Plumbing the Metaverse with USD Speakers: Dean Takahashi, VentureBeat; F.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

is shaping up nicely in the late beta stage , it's time for a long overdue update to the stable 3.1 This version is currently in beta and should become stable within a few weeks. beta 2 , but if you have game in production using Godot 3.1.1, Shaders: Fix support for hint_range using integers ( GH-31650 ). While Godot 3.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

beta 1 ), I'm going back to the stable branches to provide new releases. This version is currently in beta and should become stable within a few weeks. beta 1 , but if you have game in production using Godot 3.1.1, Below are a few selected highlights: Animation: Fixes for onion skinning support of Skeleton2D ( GH-29109 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In parallel to our work on Godot 3.5 ( with a first beta ) and 4.0 ( and finally alpha 1! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 Animation: Expose AnimationNodeOneShot::mix_mode as a property ( GH-37945 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader compile error with Oren Nayar + Vertex Lighting ( GH-56802 ).

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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 Animation: Expose AnimationNodeOneShot::mix_mode as a property ( GH-37945 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader compile error with Oren Nayar + Vertex Lighting ( GH-56802 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In parallel to our work on Godot 3.5 ( with a first beta ) and 4.0 ( now at alpha 2! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 Animation: Expose AnimationNodeOneShot::mix_mode as a property ( GH-37945 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader compile error with Oren Nayar + Vertex Lighting ( GH-56802 ).

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 31, 2023

Games often incorporate advanced visual effects, complex shaders, and intricate animations. Additionally, leveraging crowd testing or beta testing with real users can help gather feedback on different input devices and configurations. Verifying the correctness of these elements through automation can be a daunting task.

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iXie gaming

APRIL 24, 2023

An Introduction to Roblox Roblox launched in 2006, after having the platform on beta since 2004 under the name “Dynablox”. What are the benefits of developing games in Roblox and what are its drawbacks? Let’s find the answers to these questions and more.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 30, 2025

Users are strongly encouraged to test these beta releases so this process can be as smooth and expedient as possible! beta 1 , which cover a lot of the changes. This blog post only covers the changes between beta 1 and beta 2. Animation: Add validation for rotation axis to SpringBoneSimulator3D ( GH-101571 ).

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