Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Add track validator to AnimationPlayerEditor to detect tracks which have error ( GH-68770 ). Animation: Refactor process of animation to retrive keys more exactly ( GH-69336 ). Import: Fix group reimport bug affecting AtlasTexture ( GH-68324 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: A lot of bug fixes and improvements in these areas particularly, check out the PRs listed below: Animation, Navigation, GDScript, Rendering. So with this beta release *_degrees properties are restored for use in code and animations ( GH-70263 ). Bug reports.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 2023

For shaders, we removed the now-redundant SCREEN_TEXTURE , DEPTH_TEXTURE , and NORMAL_ROUGHNESS_TEXTURE ( GH-70967 ). Animation: Tweak the name for new animations in the editor ( GH-48570 ). Animation: Add next/reset function to AnimationStateMachine ( GH-71264 ). Add astcenc compression and decompression ( GH-70363 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2023

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. This is a bug and should be solved eventually (so that you can --export-debug or --export-release directly from a Git checkout without.godot folder).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

Several other areas got improvements, like the editor (which has been vastly reworked), UI system, multiplayer, navigation, audio, animation, etc. First of all, most of the new features still have significant bugs and performance problems that will not be solved in time for the upcoming 4.0 A lot more. So, what’s missing?

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Cocos

AUGUST 10, 2023

Sorry to litter up the forums with a question like this but I couldn’t find anything about it anywhere online… So… I have made some shaders that use time to essentially animate themselves. Unless I click and hold the right mouse button the shader doesn’t move or update in the scene. (I

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

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. Animation: Add animation_started/finished signals to AnimationTree and fix time accuracy in StateMachine ( GH-70278 ). Bug reports.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: A lot of bug fixes and improvements in these areas particularly, check out the PRs listed below: Animation, Navigation, GDScript, Rendering. So with this beta release *_degrees properties are restored for use in code and animations ( GH-70263 ). Bug reports.

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Cocos

AUGUST 23, 2023

Sorry to litter up the forums with a question like this but I couldn’t find anything about it anywhere online… So… I have made some shaders that use time to essentially animate themselves. Whenever I attach them to a material, and then a sprite in the engine, I can see them moving in the editor as expected.

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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. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Split pause() from AnimationPlayer's stop() ( GH-71218 ). Bug reports. See the list below.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

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. Animation: Add animation_started/finished signals to AnimationTree and fix time accuracy in StateMachine ( GH-70278 ). Bug reports.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

Same deal as usual, lots of bugs fixed and more refactoring and feature work. Animation: Complete implementation of Animation Retargeting ! Animation: Complete implementation of Animation Retargeting ! Animation: Make cubic_interpolate() consider key time in animation ( GH-63602 ). Bug reports.

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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. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Split pause() from AnimationPlayer’s stop() ( GH-71218 ). Bug reports. See the list below.

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 17, 2023

Custom shaders Gain control over your game’s visual style and performance by creating custom shaders. Shader programming allows you to manipulate lighting, textures, and visual effects, resulting in unique and optimized visuals. Iterate based on feedback to refine gameplay, fix bugs, and enhance the overall experience.

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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. Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track featurex ( GH-44558 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 8, 2022

stable: Animation: Fix cubic interpolate when looping ( GH-58651 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader state caching when blend shapes used ( GH-58808 ) [regression fix]. Bug reports. Jump to the Downloads section. Here are the main changes since 3.4.3-stable:

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 16, 2018

basics for skeletal animations. finish up skeletal animations (- blend shapes). Yes, some more invalid OpenGL state was fixed and a first attempt to get spatial shaders working and then this could be seen. UBOs are chunks of memory that contain data that is available "globally" and immutably in every shader stage.

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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. Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track featurex ( GH-44558 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 21, 2018

implement spatial shaders. skeletal animations. While a most of the 2D engine was already working, some bugs kept the editor from being fully usable and also caused problems in regular game projects. For that a new shader has to be used, the scene shader , as it can be found here. Rust binding guidance.

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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. Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track featurex ( GH-44558 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 16, 2022

stable: Animation: Fix cubic interpolate when looping ( GH-58651 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader state caching when blend shapes used ( GH-58808 ) [regression fix]. Bug reports. Jump to the Downloads section. Here are the main changes since 3.4.3-stable:

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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). Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Allow the drawing and editing of all animation bezier curves ( GH-55030 ). Rendering: Various bug fixes to both shaders and the Vulkan setup (including updating to Vulkan SDK 1.3.204 ). See the GitHub issue tracker for a list of known bugs in the 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 24, 2022

Animation: Fix blend animation to solve TRS track bug & blend order inconsistency ( GH-57675 ). Visual Shader: Add _get_func_code / _is_available virtual functions to custom nodes ( GH-57769 ). See the GitHub issue tracker for a list of known bugs in the 4.0 Bug reports.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). 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 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). 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

APRIL 15, 2022

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 Animation: Add option to paste animation as duplicate ( GH-60226 ).

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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 ). Rendering: Fix multiple ubershader bugs ( GH-64096 ). Bug reports.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 10, 2021

But like with any major milestone, there are some bugs which are worth addressing with low-risk maintenance releases to further improve the experience for all Godot users. x releases , focuses purely on bug fixes, and aims to preserve compatibility. As there is no new feature and only bug fixes, this RC 1 should be as stable as 3.3-stable

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Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

See the documentation “Render Debugging - Run Time Using Render debugging”: [link] • When the node animates, add the tween ‘destroySelf’ method to destroy the front nodal point. New and standard-material will default to Surface Shader. Fixed bug with import plugin script exceeding 500KB.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

and included in this beta are: Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Animation: Allow renaming bones and blend shapes ( GH-42827 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Add track validator to AnimationPlayerEditor to detect tracks which have error ( GH-68770 ). Animation: Refactor process of animation to retrive keys more exactly ( GH-69336 ). Import: Fix group reimport bug affecting AtlasTexture ( GH-68324 ).

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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 x releases , focuses purely on bug fixes, and aims to preserve compatibility. HTML5: Fix bug in AudioWorklet when reading output buffer ( GH-52696 ). Rendering: Prevent shaders from generating code before the constructor finishes ( GH-52475 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

and included in this beta are: Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Animation: Allow renaming bones and blend shapes ( GH-42827 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

This RC 3 fixes a number of recent regressions and older bugs. 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 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Such maintenance releases focus on fixing bugs and not on integrating new features. release fixes a number of regressions that users reported after the release, as well as various other fixes to pre-existing bugs and usability improvements. Animation: Fix AnimationNode has_filter not being called in scripts ( GH-64560 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2022

beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. This beta adds what should be the last batch of new features (together with a lot of bug fixes, as that's our focus at this stage), with scene unique node names and the new SceneTreeTween backported from Godot 4.0.

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