Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 1, 2021

I quickly felt at home and I started focusing on 3D editor and rendering contributions. Here you can see some screenshots: Comparison between no indirect lighting (top), and baked indirect lighting (bottom) in the TPS demo. Cornell box test using baked indirect lighting. A bit about me. Scene by NHodgesVFX. finish line.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 30, 2016

It's been a month since the second progress report , and progress continues towards the new Godot renderer. Add Layered/Stencil rendering. renderer works entirely in linear space (Gamma is no longer supported). It must be pre-baked for dynamic scenario geometry, but it offers support for full dynamic lights and dynamic objects.

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Game Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

So many games have that question baked into their core. And many of the regular tricks that devs use to save on rendering costs are lost when building VR games. “It You’re rendering everything twice You have two screens you’re working with. Double the screens, double the render. Does it feel good when playing?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Godot uses a considerably different approach to rendering (and rendering abstraction) than other, popular, game engines. This document was written in hopes to find more developers that would like to help us write rendering code, as it explains the overall design. Running the whole graphics rendering in a separate thread.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 21, 2020

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 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 28, 2022

Navigation: Fix NavMesh baking on thread ( GH-59995 ). Rendering: More work on splitting up RendererStorage ( GH-59984 ). Rendering: More work on splitting up RendererStorage ( GH-59984 ). Rendering: Restore antialiasing for draw_line ( GH-60171 ). Networking: Allow branch-specific MultiplayerAPIs ( GH-57647 ).

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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. YSort: Make rendering order more deterministic ( GH-42375 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). Rendering: Add option for snapping 2D transforms to whole coordinates, for pixel art motion ( GH-43554 ). YSort: Make rendering order more deterministic ( GH-42375 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). Rendering: Add option for snapping 2D transforms to whole coordinates, for pixel art motion ( GH-43554 ). YSort: Make rendering order more deterministic ( GH-42375 ).

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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. Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). Rendering: Disable lights for objects with baked lighting ( GH-41629 ). see recent devblogs on glTF 2.0

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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

MAY 8, 2020

Most scenes bake in seconds instead of minutes or hours. branch uses state of the art algorithms to ensure the maximum possible quality: Bakes geometry to lightmap coordinates using the actual rendering code, so any existing shader or material works. Allows baking dynamic and static lights. Features of the new Godot 4.0

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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 ). back in 2020! For now, you can check the full changelog since 3.4-stable

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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

MARCH 30, 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

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

MAY 3, 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

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 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). In-depth documentation is available.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 13, 2017

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. How does it look?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). Navigation: Fix TileMaps placing baked NavigationPolygons with wrong offset without a Navigation2D node ( GH-66262 ) [regression fix]. Rendering: Fix skeleton 2D stale bounding rect ( GH-63071 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). Rendering: Fix skeleton 2D stale bounding rect ( GH-63071 ). Rendering: Fix multiple ubershader bugs ( GH-64096 ). Rendering: Portals: Show RayCast debug helper ( GH-65686 ). Windows: Fix list dir handle leak ( GH-64461 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2021

Notably, Windows users could experience crashes when baking lightmaps. Rendering: Batching: Fix item_batch_flags stale state causing glitches ( GH-48992 ). was thus subject to this crash when baking lightmaps. was released a month ago , and we had a first maintenance release last week with Godot 3.3.1.

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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. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. and backported to 3.5.

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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. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. and backported to 3.5.

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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. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. and backported to 3.5.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 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. Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). zstd 1.4.8).

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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

JANUARY 28, 2025

General 2D: 2D parallax 3D: 3D physics interpolation Core: Typed dictionaries Editor: Project Manager refresh , Android Editor: export support Documentation: Comment section added Platforms Android: Native file picker support Web: Single-threaded exports and audio samples Linux: Wayland support macOS/iOS: Metal renderer Windows: Direct3D 12 Systems (..)

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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. Rendering: Add fast approximate antialiasing (FXAA) to Viewport ( GH-42006 ). zstd 1.4.8).

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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. Rendering: New dynamic BVH ( GH-44901 ). New CPU lightmapper.

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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

JUNE 1, 2022

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

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). Navigation: Fix TileMaps placing baked NavigationPolygons with wrong offset without a Navigation2D node ( GH-66262 ) [regression fix]. Rendering: Fix skeleton 2D stale bounding rect ( GH-63071 ).

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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. GLES2: Improve PCF13 shadow rendering by using a soft PCF filter ( GH-46301 ).

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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. 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. and backported to 3.5.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

The new NavigationServer 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. and backported to 3.5.

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