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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

Add transparency support for LightmapGI Currently when baking lightmaps users have to choose between transparent objects casting shadows as if they were fully opaque, or not casting shadows at all. This has been a major limitation in both the quality of lightmap baking and the ergonomics of the lightmap baking workflow.

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Beta Dev Lightmap Baking

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

Navigation: Fix for navmesh baking when parsing StaticBody colliders ( GH-70904 ). Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Import: Add vertex color support to OBJ importer ( GH-71033 ). iOS: Check Xcode output and display errors if code signing, project build or.ipa export failed ( GH-71212 ).

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Beta Dev Collision Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

Navigation: Fix for navmesh baking when parsing StaticBody colliders ( GH-70904 ). Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Import: Add vertex color support to OBJ importer ( GH-71033 ). iOS: Check Xcode output and display errors if code signing, project build or.ipa export failed ( GH-71212 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Collision Render

Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2020

Ensure your meshes are marked as "Static Bake", then enable SDFGI in the Environment settings. Will write an article about this soon. keeps improving and we are fully commited to create an amazing game engine, that you can use with the same freedom as as if it was your own in-house tech. How do you use it?

Lightmap

Lightmap Texture Baking Mesh

Godot 3's renderer design explained

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. Without it it's quite difficult to get into the internals.

Render

Render Shaders Texture Engineering

Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

If you use and enjoy Godot, plan to use it, or want support the cause of having a mature, high quality free and open source game engine, then please consider becoming our patron. It was reusing parts of the code for baking GIProbes, and that made it quick but not great in terms of quality. More rendering improvements.

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

The new 3D engine is outstanding, with many features out-of-the-box that are still not common in other mainstream engines. The new 3D renderer is state-of-the-art, with features rarely see in game engines today, such as: Full principled BSDF. Just set up the probe bounds and do a fast pre-bake of static objects.

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

If you use and enjoy Godot, plan to use it, or want support the cause of having a mature, high quality free and open source game engine, then please consider becoming our patron. Use baked lightmaps instead. is not a fallback but a different platform you should target your game for. GIProbes of course don't work.

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Feature Render Editing Shaders

How to Use Unity Cinemachine Virtual Cameras

Game Designing

APRIL 21, 2022

When using Cinemachine, you don’t need to know how to write code, though coding is still essential for some components, such as scripting how a user zooms using a mouse wheel, for example. In short, the Unity Cinemachine is a game-changer. As of yet, there is no distributed baking. Who Would Be Interested in Unity Cinemachine?

Animation

Animation Animation Code Software

Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

If you use and enjoy Godot, plan to use it, or want support the cause of having a mature, high quality free and open source game engine, then please consider becoming our patron. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime.

Shaders

Shaders Render Feature Mesh

GSoC 2019 progress report #1 (part 2)

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 18, 2019

As mentioned in the first part of this progress report , Godot is taking part in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) programme for the second time, and we have 8 students working on specific projects for Godot Engine. Godot, being an open source game engine, was built with a never-ending wish of adding new features to it.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Scripting Data Texture

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Last but not least, lightmaps baking is now done using the GPU to speed up the process significantly. You can even create complex dynamic effects by writing custom shaders that operate on FogVolume nodes. The new NavigationServer supports fully dynamic environments and on-the-fly navigation mesh baking. Of course, the 4.0

Beta

Beta Engineering Engine Feature

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Scene: Write node groups on a single line when saving a.tscn file ( GH-52284 ). Please try it out and report any issue. or earlier no longer works in 3.4

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Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Scene: Write node groups on a single line when saving a.tscn file ( GH-52284 ). Please try it out and report any issue.

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Scene: Write node groups on a single line when saving a.tscn file ( GH-52284 ). Please try it out and report any issue.

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Scene: Write node groups on a single line when saving a.tscn file ( GH-52284 ). Please try it out and report any issue.

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination

Godot 3's renderer design explained

Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

How to Use Unity Cinemachine Virtual Cameras

Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

GSoC 2019 progress report #1 (part 2)

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

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