Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Every supported renderer option is now selectable from the project creation screen, which means you can create OpenGL 3 (“Compatibility”) projects without using the command line ( GH-70028 ). The illustration picture for this article is from Raffaele Picca ’s car scene , rendered in Godot 4.0 Bug reports.

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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 potential bug with node rename in BlendTree editor ( GH-65651 ) [regression fix].

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2021

A few regressions made their way among the many bug fixes of 3.3.1, Notably, Windows users could experience crashes when baking lightmaps. Additionally, this release includes a number of non-regression bug fixes to various areas of the engine. x releases , focuses purely on bug fixes, and aims to preserve compatibility.

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iXie gaming

APRIL 21, 2025

milliseconds to render visuals, process logic, handle input, run physics, and update the UI. Performance regressions are treated as critical bugs. Rendering Decisions That Preserve Visual Quality Across Devices Unitys rendering stack, URP and HDRP, offers flexibility but demands decisiveness. That doesnt limit ambition.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 21, 2020

It focused mostly on fixing bugs and therefore we were somewhat conservative on what could be merged before the release. CSG: Various bug fixes. Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). Bug reports. Now that we're confident that 3.2.3

Beta 52

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Animation: Fix potential bug with node rename in BlendTree editor ( GH-65651 ). iOS: Workaround WebKit/ANGLE shader compilation bug for WebGL 2.0 ( GH-64811 ). Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). Rendering: Fix skeleton 2D stale bounding rect ( GH-63071 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 28, 2022

alpha 7 comes with one week delay on our every-other-week release schedule, since I was taking some time off :) But that means it got time for even more features and bug fixes to be finalized, reviewed and merged. Navigation: Fix NavMesh baking on thread ( GH-59995 ). Rendering: More work on splitting up RendererStorage ( GH-59984 ).

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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. CSG: Various bug fixes. Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). Bug reports. tinyexr 1.0.0, zstd 1.4.5).

Beta 52

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

CSG: Various bug fixes. Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). YSort: Make rendering order more deterministic ( GH-42375 ). Bug reports. tinyexr 1.0.0,

Beta 52

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2021

stable release to bring the numerous new features and even more important bug fixes to all Godot users. New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. CSG: Various bug fixes. Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ).

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Nvidia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Hybrid Translucency Another way to do ray traced translucency, with greater compatibility, speed and rendering options. We have updated our RTXGI UE4 plugin with bugs fixes, image quality improvements, and support for UE4.26. Uses approximate technique of shared animations to reduce overhead for simulating a full forest.

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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. x updates with bug fixes, but also new features as long as they don't require breaking compatibility. Dynamic BVH for rendering and GodotPhysics.

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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 potential bug with node rename in BlendTree editor ( GH-65651 ) [regression fix].

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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 !), CSG: Various bug fixes. Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). Bug reports. tinyexr 1.0.0,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2021

New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends, which should fix some issues and improve performance significantly in games using a high number of dynamic objects. In this beta, the dynamic BVH is the default option for both physics and rendering. New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends (new in beta 6).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. If you experience a regression in either physics or rendering, you can try these Project Settings to revert back to the previous Octree-based approach and possibly fix the issue. CSG: Various bug fixes. Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. Bug reports.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 7, 2021

CSG: Various bug fixes. Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). YSort: Make rendering order more deterministic ( GH-42375 ). Bug reports. tinyexr 1.0.0,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

You can enable it in the Project Settings ( rendering/gles3/shaders/shader_compilation_mode ). rendering may be slower for a second or two, but the slowdown will not be nearly as bad as the typical hiccup caused by classic synchronous compilation. 3D: Add Label3D node and Sprite3D material render priority ( GH-61276 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

rendering may be slower for a second or two, but the slowdown will not be nearly as bad as the typical hiccup caused by classic synchronous compilation. Then smix8 took over the custody of this area, fixing a lot of bugs and improving the feature set greatly, with the help of Pawel Lampe ( Scony ). back in 2020! and backported to 3.5.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

Note that the project settings from the rendering/quality/2d section have now been moved to rendering/2d , so if you used any of those, you will need to re-enable them under the new section in 3.2.4. New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. CSG: Various bug fixes. Stay tuned for more info!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

rendering may be slower for a second or two, but the slowdown will not be nearly as bad as the typical hiccup caused by classic synchronous compilation. Then smix8 took over the custody of this area, fixing a lot of bugs and improving the feature set greatly, with the help of Pawel Lampe ( Scony ). back in 2020! and backported to 3.5.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2022

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Rendering: Add material_overlay property to MeshInstance ( GH-50823 ). Rendering: Faster editor line drawing - Path2D and draw_line ( GH-54377 ). Bug reports. back in 2020! x no longer works in 3.5

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. If you experience a regression in either physics or rendering, you can try these Project Settings to revert back to the previous Octree-based approach and possibly fix the issue. CSG: Various bug fixes. Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. mbedtls 2.16.9,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 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

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 Rendering: Add material_overlay property to MeshInstance ( GH-50823 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

rendering may be slower for a second or two, but the slowdown will not be nearly as bad as the typical hiccup caused by classic synchronous compilation. Then smix8 took over the custody of this area, fixing a lot of bugs and improving the feature set greatly, with the help of Pawel Lampe ( Scony ). back in 2020! and backported to 3.5.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

This RC 3 fixes a number of recent regressions and older bugs. Notably, it fixes some rendering regressions with transparent materials, and crashing iOS templates and Web editor build in RC 2. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 19, 2021

New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. If you experience a regression in either physics or rendering, you can try these Project Settings to revert back to the previous Octree-based approach and possibly fix the issue. CSG: Various bug fixes. Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. zstd 1.4.8).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2021

New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. If you experience a regression in either physics or rendering, you can try these Project Settings to revert back to the previous Octree-based approach and possibly fix the issue. CSG: Various bug fixes. Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. zstd 1.4.8).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 17, 2022

This RC 4 fixes a number of recent regressions and older bugs. Then smix8 took over the custody of this area, fixing a lot of bugs and improving the feature set greatly, with the help of Pawel Lampe ( Scony ). Both features were implemented by our text rendering expert bruvzg in the master branch for Godot 4.0, back in 2020!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

Most of work was aimed at implementing missing features or fixing bugs which are critical for publishing 2D and 3D games with Godot 3.x, Since then, smix8 has taken over the custody of this area, fixing a lot of bugs and improving the feature set greatly, with the help of Pawel Lampe ( Scony ) and lawnjelly. and backported to 3.5.

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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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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2022

beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Rendering: Add material_overlay property to MeshInstance ( GH-50823 ). Bug reports.

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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). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). In-depth documentation is available.

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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 6, 2021

This beta 6 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2022

Also, there are some bugs to be fixed. Test the implement features and fix bugs. This meant that the larger scenes might refuse to bake because they don't fit within the size limits of an image. This will be a draw mode that previews the texel density of lightmaps (without actually (re)baking them). Student: trollodel.

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