Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

Fix a handful of regressions from some of the bigger input and animation changes merged for beta 15. Those typically shouldn’t add instability to the engine, but may require doing some changes in your scripts, scenes, and shaders if you were using the affected APIs. C#: Annotate API with [MustBeVariant] ( GH-72057 ).

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Cocos

APRIL 25, 2023

Most of my time working in cocos has been devoted to shader work. Then, during the timeline animation clip, at the point where the card should be flipping over, is it possible to insert a frame event where the sprite image should change, and trigger it to pull random card sprite from atlas in code?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Animation: Fix incomplete FPS spinbox display in sprite frames editor ( GH-101798 ). Core: Fix is_valid_float , Variant parser, Expression parser, script highlighter, and TextServer not handing capital E in scientific notation ( GH-102396 ). GUI: Prevent tooltip from showing when hovering past the end of script line ( GH-100913 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Be sure to report anything that stops working as expected in your scripts. 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: AnimatedSprite2D and AnimatedSprite3D improvements ( GH-65609 ).

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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 ). See the list of PRs with the breaks compat label for details. GH-68870 ).

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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. The list of all global script classes (and their icons) is no longer stored in the project.godot file. or below ( GH-69851 ).

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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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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

As avid fans of Studio Ghibli’s animated movie Porco Rosso, Rob Hartley and Diccon Yamanaka were inspired to create a game about seaplanes flying around in a beautiful Mediterranean setting. Special plane shader With Porco Rosso being such a great source of inspiration it feels only natural to have the game also look like a Ghibli film.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Be sure to report anything that stops working as expected in your scripts. 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: AnimatedSprite2D and AnimatedSprite3D improvements ( GH-65609 ).

Beta 81

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Ask a Game Dev

JUNE 14, 2024

Expertise on visuals like lighting, rendering, shaders, etc. Expertise on visuals like lighting, rendering, shaders, etc. I posted a challenge for aspiring developers to identify as many specific features and systems as they could spot. My expertise is in gameplay, so that’s where I will be focusing.

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 17, 2023

Learn C# Unity uses C# as its primary scripting language. 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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 16, 2018

basics for skeletal animations. finish up skeletal animations (- blend shapes). The GodotScript template class includes a field owner , which refers to the Object that the current script is attached to. Yes, some more invalid OpenGL state was fixed and a first attempt to get spatial shaders working and then this could be seen.

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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

MAY 6, 2018

CPU-calculated skeletal animations. add hardware support for skeletal animations. CPU-calculated skeletal animations. The actual deformation usually happens in the vertex shader , where the bone transforms get looked up from a texture. (In stabilize 3D rendering (unshaded workflow). implement skybox rendering. In Godot 2.1,

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Jaunty Bear Games

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Fortunately the Unity 3D platform has a great selection of packages and assets to accelerate the build of tools, models, shaders, sound effects, animations etc. Text Animator for Unity by Febucci Creations. Bring your dialogues to life, animating your game texts with this easy to use and customize plugin. .

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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. Fixes • Fixed bundle script dependency on import-map that could not be reused across projects.

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

Beta 52

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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. GH-64082 ).

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

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 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 featurex ( 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 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ).

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

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iXie gaming

JUNE 28, 2024

Spine Spine is the best tool for 2D skeletal animation. It has a flexible system that uses bones to create smooth and expressive animations, which can be easily reused and customized. DragonBones DragonBones is a strong tool for 2D skeletal animation, focusing on making the work process easy and quick.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 8, 2022

stable: Animation: Fix cubic interpolate when looping ( GH-58651 ). Editor: Fix showing Extend Script option without script attached to the node ( GH-58821 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Jump to the Downloads section. Here are the main changes since 3.4.3-stable:

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 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 featurex ( GH-44558 ). Animation: Fix Tween active state and repeat after stop() and then start() ( GH-47142 ).

Beta 52

Beta Dev Mesh Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 21, 2018

implement spatial shaders. skeletal animations. The main bug that was keeping me busy for weeks was related to a shader bind that was not descriptive enough when blitting a viewport to the screen. When calling methods of a base class some indirection through an owner of the script had to be made. Rust binding guidance.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 16, 2022

stable: Animation: Fix cubic interpolate when looping ( GH-58651 ). Editor: Fix showing Extend Script option without script attached to the node ( GH-58821 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Jump to the Downloads section. Here are the main changes since 3.4.3-stable:

Render 52

Render Shaders Bug Build 52

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.

Beta 85

Beta Dev Collision Render 85

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 1, 2021

C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). " error in remote script debugger ( GH-52416 ). LSP: Fix completion crashing on scene-less scripts ( GH-51333 ). Rendering: Prevent shaders from generating code before the constructor finishes ( GH-52475 ). Here are the main changes since 3.3.3-stable:

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CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

3D Modelling 3D Animation FX Concept Art 2D Animation Game Design Game Programming 3D Modelling: Shaping Virtual Worlds “3D modelling is a rewarding career where you get to bring concepts and 2D imagery to life, sculpting personality and story into characters, objects, and environments.

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Film Animation Animation Concepts 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 23, 2022

Animation: Fix cubic interpolate when looping ( GH-58651 ). Editor: Fix showing Extend Script option without script attached to the node ( GH-58821 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader state caching when blend shapes used ( GH-58808 ) [regression fix].

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2018

Sub-Resources wil open within the same list of edited properties: It also makes animation easier, as any sub-resource property can be animated transparently. The new inspector will also result in many improvements on current features, such as animation editing, visual scripting, visual shader editing, etc.

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The Liquid Fire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

From there I used Sphere, an open source 2d Engine that scripted in javascript. We’re not really doing anything with shaders or post processing in the tutorial, so depending on where you want to take the tutorial later, its really up to you which you choose. A couple quick notes. We’ll start with the Dirt texture.

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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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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 Toon shader data issue on iOS Wechat.

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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 ).

Beta 52

Beta Dev Mesh Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 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

Render 52

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