Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: Animated sprites, both 2D and 3D, now support options for more precise timing of individual frames ( GH-65609 ). Animation: Add animation_started/finished signals to AnimationTree and fix time accuracy in StateMachine ( GH-70278 ).

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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 ). Physics: Fix collision detection for degenerate capsules ( GH-69657 ).

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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. OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). Physics: Fix sphere-capsule collision logic ( GH-70660 ). See the list below.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: Animated sprites, both 2D and 3D, now support options for more precise timing of individual frames ( GH-65609 ). Animation: Add animation_started/finished signals to AnimationTree and fix time accuracy in StateMachine ( GH-70278 ).

Beta 81

Beta Dev Render Animation 81

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Runtime navigation mesh baking. Collision avoidance support. 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. The agent is also responsible for avoiding collisions. Collision avoidance dynamic map updates. Character.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

and included in this beta are: Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Mesh: Fix UV mapping on CSGSphere ( GH-49195 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

and included in this beta are: Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Mesh: Fix UV mapping on CSGSphere ( GH-49195 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ).

Beta 52

Beta Dev Mesh Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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Beta Dev Mesh Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

Animation: Complete implementation of Animation Retargeting ! Animation: Complete implementation of Animation Retargeting ! Animation: Make cubic_interpolate() consider key time in animation ( GH-63602 ). Animation: Improve animation track optimizer ( GH-64132 ). for instructions.

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Game Development

JANUARY 24, 2019

Texture Sheet Animation. Allows you to use an animation instead of a static image for a particle. To use the GPU to compute our particle we must first change the render method from Billboard to mesh. Then make sure the Enable Mesh GPU Instancing is checked. Allows particle to collide with colliders. Sub Emitters.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 4, 2021

Animation: Fixed issue where bones become detached if multiple SkeletonIK nodes are used ( GH-49031 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision ( GH-49075 ). Import: glTF: Fix mesh nodes which are also bones ( GH-49119 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 4, 2021

We want Godot to be accessible to programmers, animators, and character artists. One primary example is character animation support, where mistakes and corrupted animations abound. In some cases, broken animations could take enomous effort to correct. In some cases, broken animations could take enomous effort to correct.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Revamped collision layer grid in the inspector. Other areas: Animation "reset" track. Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Morris Arroad ( mortarroad ) has worked on using a more reliable algorithm from Bullet to generate physics convex hulls from meshes. Lossless WebP encoding.

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DameDev.tv

JULY 4, 2023

You will learn how to animate a button press using coroutines, work with Unity events and utilize TextMesh Pro. I have also prepared a starter package for you, which includes meshes, textures, materials, and a prefab with an assembled calculator using these assets. I recommend using Unity 2021.3.24f1.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 16, 2021

Animation: Fixed issue where bones become detached if multiple SkeletonIK nodes are used ( GH-49031 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision ( GH-49075 ). Import: glTF: Fix mesh nodes which are also bones ( GH-49119 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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Bug Render Mesh Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

A long-standing Bullet regression has finally been fixed ( GH-56801 ), solving issues with KinematicBody collisions on edges (e.g. 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 ).

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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. And for more advanced use cases, there is now also TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add Word Art to your scenes ;). and backported to 3.5. This was merged fairly late (3.5

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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. And for more advanced use cases, there is now also TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add Word Art to your scenes ;). and backported to 3.5. This was merged fairly late (3.5

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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. And for more advanced use cases, there is now also TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add Word Art to your scenes ;). and backported to 3.5. This was merged fairly late (3.5

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Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

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. And for more advanced use cases, there is now also TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add Word Art to your scenes ;). and backported to 3.5. This was merged fairly late (3.5

Render 52

Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

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. And for more advanced use cases, there is now also TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add Word Art to your scenes ;). and backported to 3.5. This was merged fairly late (3.5

Render 52

Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

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. And for more advanced use cases, there is now also TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add Word Art to your scenes ;). and backported to 3.5. This was merged fairly late (3.5

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 12, 2020

In the bottom panel , you’ll see your output, debug, audio and animation windows. We might need another node to act as our character’s collision mesh to ensure then they do things like bump into walls that they are stopped and don’t walk through them and we might need other nodes to handle things like animations or physics.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

Revamped animation editor. In particular, it solves a major pain point for new Godot users by no longer offering scaling handles for collision shapes, but letting you directly change their size instead. Revamped animation editor. The animation editor has also been completely rewritten to ensure a much better experience.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Those now come with support for attractors, collision , trails , sub-emitters and manual emission. Several new optimization techniques are also at your disposal, such as occlusion culling , automatic mesh LOD , and manual HLOD using visibility ranges , made possible by Joan Fons ( JFonS ), and Juan. has been added by Je06jm.

Beta 52

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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 ). Physics: Fix collision detection for degenerate capsules ( GH-69657 ).

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Beta Dev Render Shaders 40

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Animation: Expose AnimationNodeOneShot::mix_mode as a property ( GH-37945 ). GridMap: Fix "Convert to MeshLibrary" not respecting collision transforms ( GH-56907 ). See the curated changelog , or the full commit history on GitHub on in text form for an exhaustive overview of the fixes in this release. Known incompatibilities.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

animations was greatly improved. Skin support allows multiple meshes to share a single skeleton. FBX files exported from Blender with animations are partially supported. formats permit more than 4 bone weights per vertex, such meshes are currently unsupported in Godot 3.2. In particular, the import of glTF 2.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

Still, this workflow is easy and efficient as 3D objects get a second set of UVs generated on import, and baking works with instantiated meshes, scenes and even GridMaps. It is possible to either import a scene as a single file, or to split it into multiple instantiated subscenes, keep materials, meshes and animations external, etc.

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Awesome Tuts

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Inside the BP_Player editor, click on the mesh component in the Component tab at the top right corner: Now inside the Details tab on the right side, under the Mesh option for the Skeletal Mesh 3D object we are going to select the Mannequin 3D object: But make sure that you select the one which is located in the Art folder.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Animation: Fixed issue where bones become detached if multiple SkeletonIK nodes are used ( GH-49031 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision ( GH-49075 ). Import: glTF: Fix mesh nodes which are also bones ( GH-49119 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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