Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

features start to land in the development branch, and I'm pleased to introduce you the new NavigationServer and NavigationServer2D interfaces. Runtime navigation mesh baking. 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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Split pause() from AnimationPlayer's stop() ( GH-71218 ). Export: Fix missing "debug"/"release" export presets feature tags ( GH-71274 ).

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 28, 2021

However, using a configurator in a built environment presents multiple challenges including 3D meshes changing shape, shadows not lining up, and materials reflecting different lighting and colors. Because the lighting is baked in, it’s difficult to test out multiple lighting scenarios. Photo courtesy of Theia Interactive.

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Nvidia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Branch offers all of the benefits of mainline UE4.26, while providing some additional features: Faster ray tracing NVRTX includes a number of improvements to ray tracing performance. World position offset simulation for ray traced instanced static meshes (beta) Allows ambient motion of foliage like trees and grass.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

has been in beta for over three months , and the overall feature completeness, stability and usability have improved a lot during that time. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 3D: Switch Mesh surface indexing to start at 0 so string name matches integer index ( GH-70176 ).

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Nvidia

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Q: Does the scene have to be pre-baked in any way to use ray tracing and/or path tracing? Pierre: The path tracer does not require any pre-baking, thanks to its more brute force (and slower) approach to lighting. The shape of a volume can be a box, a sphere, a custom mesh (concave), or it can be infinitely large (global).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2025

What a year it has been, with the number of Godot submissions in game jams rising to new heights, more people working for the Godot Foundation than ever before , and most industry award shows featuring one if not more games made with Godot. The feature freeze for 3.6 A busy year inside the project as well.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Split pause() from AnimationPlayer’s stop() ( GH-71218 ). Export: Fix missing “debug”/”release” export presets feature tags ( GH-71274 ).

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The Knights of Unity

JULY 21, 2020

Level editor allowing players to create their own tracks is one of the main features. To solve the problem we rearranged the mesh and added some edge loops along track parts. Adjusting mesh, rig and skinning needed a couple of iterations. The simplifying mesh didn’t make it look worse, but enhanced the game’s framerate.

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Awesome Tuts

JANUARY 2, 2023

Before we move on to the next light actor, let us quickly explain one really nice feature Directional light has. Well, Unreal Engine has 2 different lighting methods: baked (static) lighting and dynamic lighting. But if a character passes in front of baked light it will not display his shadow at all.

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iXie gaming

APRIL 21, 2025

Geometry: Build with LODs from the start, batch static meshes, and constrain polycounts based on hardware targets. Reduce variants, embrace GPU instancing, and bake lighting when possible. Budget them like you would any feature, and when possible, bake effects directly into scene assets.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2022

was released 2 months ago , and some of the major planned features for Godot 3.5 Some more features are still being worked on and will be included in future beta builds. This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 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). The upcoming Godot 3.4

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 This beta 6 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4 Audio: Fix cubic resampling algorithm ( GH-51082 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. This feature is disabled by default, and can be enabled in the Project Settings. The upcoming Godot 3.5 stable for all users. Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. This feature is disabled by default, and can be enabled in the Project Settings. The upcoming Godot 3.5 stable for all users. Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. 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 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 With this second Release Candidate , we have frozen feature development and are nearly ready to release the stable version. Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 With this third Release Candidate , we have frozen feature development and are nearly ready to release the stable version. Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

is out and it comes fully packed with features and quality of life improvements! 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, x, and at making the existing features more optimized and reliable. After 9 months of development, Godot 3.5

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2022

Along with the basic feature and controls, some integrations were done: When the Script editor is undocked, the last selected Viewport is shown. The next step is to implement most of the feature available for the code editor to the docks (which are already undockable). Test the implement features and fix bugs. Current progress.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. This feature is disabled by default, and can be enabled in the Project Settings. The upcoming Godot 3.5 stable for all users. Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

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Nvidia

APRIL 5, 2022

It uses ray tracing to provide infinite bounce in indirect lighting, without the need to bake lighting or create multiple light setups for scenes. RTXGI is a plugin for UE5, however if you want more advanced features like indirect lighting in reflections and translucency support you can download the NVRTX branch.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 17, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. and provide the missing features that 3.5 Both features were implemented by our text rendering expert bruvzg in the master branch for Godot 4.0,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. What is it?

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iXie gaming

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Game developers looking to push the boundaries of what is possible in their games will find that Unreal Engine 5 offers a suite of powerful tools and features to help them achieve their vision. Features The Unreal Engine, which was written in C++, is highly portable and supports a variety of systems.

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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: Bind mesh merging functionality in MeshInstance ( GH-57661 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. What is it?

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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

OCTOBER 31, 2021

In game engines (or even when exported from the 3D modelling application), animation data is baked to a simpler representation because, for games, processing beziers and IKs is way too expensive for real-time. While the animation system is powerful, the 3D part of it lacked several basic features that standard animation packages offer.

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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. All these features have been implemented in the official Git integration plugin.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

support, Bullet as the 3D physics engine, and many other features which are described in depth below. which would have included new multiplayer networking, visual scripting and many other improvements) because we realized that projects using the new features would no longer work in 3.0, New features of Godot 3.0.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

It took us about 14 months to get a proper FBX importer working fully, since we had to engineer everything again: We rewrote all the mesh code to support all formats of FBX meshes correctly. Much like the work we have done with FBX we'd just be repeating work for example with mesh conversion. stable release. Known issues.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 2022

This new system uses an "ubershader" (big shader supporting all features, slow but compiled on startup) to fill in for all shaders initially while the more efficient and material-specific shaders get compiled asynchronously, and cached for future runs. All these features have been implemented in the official Git integration plugin.

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

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. Version 1.1.30 allows developers to enable, disable, and rotate individual DDGI volumes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Like in previous release cycles, a beta release means that we are happy with the features that have been included and we don’t plan on adding any major new features before release (except for a few that have been discussed and planned in advance). the sooner we can start the next feature development cycle for 4.1! beta 1 now!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. The upcoming Godot 3.5

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