Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

This new beta 3 build comes shortly after last week's beta 2 to fix some of the regressions and bugs reported against that release. This update also re-adds UWP templates which we missing in beta 1 and beta 2 due to a temporary buildsystem issue. beta 3, only classical build for now). Highlights. tinyexr 1.0.0,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 11, 2020

see recent devblogs on GDScript typed instructions , Complex Text Layout , Tiles editor , documentation , and 2D rendering improvements !), This new beta 4 adds a new round of bugfixes and enhancements over the previous dev snapshots, as well as some nice new features. Additionally, beta 4 adds support for MP3 loading and playback !

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 7, 2021

This new beta 5 comes with 4 weeks' worth of bugfixes and enhancements over the previous dev snapshots, as well as some nice new features. Moreover, there have been many fixes to features introduced in previous betas, so make sure to test this build and ensure that everything works as you'd want it. see recent devblogs on glTF 2.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 21, 2020

This first beta build already includes a number of them which have been worked on by core contributors, with notable mentions to: Android App Bundle and subview embedding support. And this is just a first beta, there's more in the works that will be included in future beta builds. Now that we're confident that 3.2.3 zstd 1.4.5).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 2022

beta 2 should be worth the wait! This is a big update with close to 350 commits from 82 contributors since the previous beta! This is a big update with close to 350 commits from 82 contributors since the previous beta! and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Adding to the first beta version from last month ago, we now have even more great features coming in 3.2.4: And there's even more in the works that will be included in future beta builds. Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). YSort: Make rendering order more deterministic ( GH-42375 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2022

So we're starting the beta testing phase with this already significant set of changes, and we'll have frequent beta builds to polish them for the stable release. Some more features are still being worked on and will be included in future beta builds. Rendering: Add material_overlay property to MeshInstance ( GH-50823 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2022

stable release with a third 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 is a big update with close to 350 commits from 82 contributors since the previous beta! We're getting closer to the Godot 3.5 Like with 4.0 Highlights.

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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

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 ). Rendering: Add OccluderShapePolygon ( GH-57361 ).

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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. Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4

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Cocos

JUNE 11, 2023

Render Graph The Render Pipeline customization based on Render Graph will be officially available to developers in version 3.8. The documentation for the Render Graph and pipeline customization is not yet ready, please give us more patience, we will provide the complete documentation before the official release of 3.8.

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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 13, 2017

Wait, are we not in Beta? The newly added VR support also suffers with GIProbe, as it has to render in very high resolutions. The solution to these problems is to add support for a more traditional lightmapper (pre-baked light texture). Light is precomputed offline and rendered to a texture, which is then used by the geometry.

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Nvidia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Hybrid Translucency Another way to do ray traced translucency, with greater compatibility, speed and rendering options. World position offset simulation for ray traced instanced static meshes (beta) Allows ambient motion of foliage like trees and grass. It is available for the first time for mainline UE4 (in beta), compatible with UE4.26

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Nvidia

AUGUST 31, 2021

UE4 plugin (Download here ) Leveraging the power of ray tracing, RTXGI provides scalable solutions to compute multi-bounce indirect lighting without bake times, light leaks, or expensive per-frame costs. RTXGI 1.1.40 It gives you the performance headroom to maximize ray tracing settings and increase output resolution.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 28, 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

JANUARY 28, 2021

So here's a first Release Candidate to get broader testing of everything that has been iterated upon in the past 6 beta builds. New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. And there's even more in the works that will be included in future beta builds. Rendering: New dynamic BVH ( GH-44901 ). Highlights.

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

RTXDI makes this possible while rendering in real time. RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) Leveraging the power of ray tracing, the RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) SDK provides scalable solutions to compute multi-bounce indirect lighting without bake times, light leaks, or expensive per-frame costs. Times Square billboards. Version 1.1.30

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2025

beta 1 release notes. 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 release page , and the newly published Godot 4.4

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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. This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter. Rendering: Add OccluderShapePolygon ( GH-57361 ).

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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

APRIL 21, 2021

in January 2020, we switched the development focus towards the upcoming Godot 4.0 , which is a major, compatibility-breaking rewrite of the engine's core and rendering. Dynamic BVH for rendering and GodotPhysics. Rendering: Unified 2D batching. More rendering improvements. Dynamic BVH for rendering and GodotPhysics.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Godot can render at frame rates independent from the fixed physics tick rate. Enable this setting and Godot will automatically interpolate objects, smoothing out rendered frames.

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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. Rendering: Bake UV2 emission using half float in the compatibility backend ( GH-101730 ).

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