Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 1, 2022

has been in beta for over two months , and the overall feature completeness, stability and usability have improved a lot during that time. Some big changes in this beta: Android: Enable GLES3 support ( GH-69355 ). GDScript: Loads of follow-up improvements to recent fixes in beta 5 and 6. C#: Tons of improvements! What’s new.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

beta 1 in September, and that was a big milestone on our journey to finalize our next major release – be sure to check out that blog post if you haven’t yet, for an overview of some of the main highlight of Godot 4.0. Since then, we’ve been releasing new beta snapshots every other week, and this is now the 5th beta. What’s new.

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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. In particular, this build adds WebXR support for VR games! You can try it live with the online version of the Godot editor updated for this beta. WebXR support for VR games (new in beta 5).

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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. 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). beta 3). Highlights.

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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 Bug reports.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 11, 2020

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 ! and included in this beta are: Android App Bundle and subview embedding support. Optional GDNative support for HTML5 (new in beta 4).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2021

With this beta 6 build, there are several recently merged changes that will require heavy testing to be stabilized before 3.2.4-stable: 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. Highlights.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

We had a beta 2 build ten days ago , and a number of issues have since been found and fixed, so it's time for Godot 3.4 If you already reviewed the changelog for the previous beta, you can skip right to the differences between beta 2 and beta 3. Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ).

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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. Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). While development keeps going at full speed towards Godot 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

beta 2 , even though we never had a formal beta 1 announcement on this blog. beta 1 is available for download for comparison purposes, but since it had a major regression on C# support on Windows , I skipped its blog post. and included in this beta are: Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

This beta 5 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 4 and beta 5 ( part 1 , part 2 ). Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

This beta 4 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 3 and beta 4. Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Highlights.

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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. Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Highlights.

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Nvidia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

New tools New debugging tools like the BVH viewer and Ray Timing Visualization allows developers to get a handle on ray tracing cost in their scene and get it tuned for speed. Inexact Shadows (beta) Deals with potential mesh mismatches of ray traced and raster geometry. Request access to the beta for NVIDIA DLSS plugin for UE4 here.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 11, 2022

beta, reviewing many PRs which have been opened prior to our roadmap feature freeze announced a couple of weeks ago. Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. There will likely be breaking changes between this release and the first beta release.

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Nvidia

AUGUST 31, 2021

DLSS Unreal Engine Plugins for UE4.26, UE4.27, and UE5 (beta) ( Download here ) NVIDIA DLSS is a new and improved deep learning neural network that boosts frame rates and generates beautiful, sharp images for your games. To get started adding NVIDIA Reflex to your game, check out our easy step by step integration guide.

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iXie gaming

MAY 8, 2023

Tools and Resources for Developing Metaverse Games The following four categories of tools and resources are crucial for developing metaverse games: Software and Hardware: Hardware and software requirements are particular for creating a Metaverse game. Notable among these are Unity, Unreal Engine, and CryEngine.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

beta, reviewing many PRs which have been opened prior to our roadmap feature freeze announced a month ago. The beta feature freeze will soon lock the API more or less in place, so contributors have been hard at work evaluating and merging or rejecting the last proposals for a more consistent and user-friendly API. Core: More renames!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 23, 2022

In parallel to our work on the upcoming feature releases Godot 3.5 ( with a second beta ) and 4.0 ( now at alpha 4! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 branch for use in production. Last month's 3.4.3 These binaries have been updated on the mirror, users who downloaded Godot 3.4.4 We encourage all users to upgrade to 3.4.4.

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Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

Unity has announced that DLSS will be natively supported in Unity Engine version 2021.2 Reflex Reflex SDK allows developers to implement a low latency mode that aligns game engine work to complete just-in-time for rendering, eliminating GPU render queue and reducing CPU back pressure. later this year. Learn more here.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2019

alpha 1 , our first milestone towards the next stable installment of our free and open source game engine. As such we expect the alpha and beta phases to be quite short for Godot 3.2, There will still be various fixes made before the final release, and we will need your detailed bug reports to debug issues and fix them.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 4, 2021

beta 2 available now), we still cherry-pick important bug fixes to the 3.3 Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision ( GH-49075 ). While we're busy working on both the upcoming Godot 4.0 releases (with a dev snapshot for 3.4 branch regularly for maintenance releases (see our release policy ). no longer works in 3.3.3

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Nvidia

JULY 23, 2021

Access DLSS in Unreal Engine 5 and Unreal Engine 4.26. and Unreal Engine 5. NVIDIA Nsight Updates: Optimize and Debug GPU Performance on a Super-Granular Scale NVIDIA Nsight enables developers to build and profile state-of-the-art games and applications that harness the full power of NVIDIA GPUs. developer blog.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

beta 4 available now), we still cherry-pick important bug fixes to the 3.3 Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision ( GH-49075 ). While we're busy working on both the upcoming Godot 4.0 releases (with a dev snapshot for 3.4 branch regularly for maintenance releases (see our release policy ). please file an issue on GitHub.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 16, 2021

beta 3 available now), we still cherry-pick important bug fixes to the 3.3 Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision ( GH-49075 ). While we're busy working on both the upcoming Godot 4.0 releases (with a dev snapshot for 3.4 branch regularly for maintenance releases (see our release policy ). no longer works in 3.3.3

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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. And there's even more in the works that will be included in future beta builds. Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). Highlights.

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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

MAY 18, 2022

Debugger: Add --debug-server command line option to listen for incoming connections ( GH-60819 ). You can also review the changes between beta 5 and RC 1. A lot of new features for Version Control Systems (VCS) integration in the Godot editor, such as push, pull, and fetch operations, as well as a very nice diff view UI.

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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. Raise errors when accessing deleted objects in debug. Raise errors when accessing deleted objects in debug. macOS: ARM64 build, code signing.

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