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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

beta 1 one month ago! But the “1” in beta 1 means that it’s only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we’re going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. We’re now at beta 3, making good progress on fixing the issues that testers are reporting. Lots of rendering changes.

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Beta Dev Render Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

beta 1 one month ago! But the "1" in beta 1 means that it's only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we're going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. We're now at beta 3, making good progress on fixing the issues that testers are reporting. Lots of rendering changes.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 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. We're now at beta 4, slightly delayed as I was on holiday, but all the more interesting to try out. What's new.

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Beta Dev Render Alpha

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 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. We’re now at beta 4, slightly delayed as I was on holiday, but all the more interesting to try out. What’s new.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Alpha

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Today we are pleased to announce that the first beta for the much-anticipated release of Godot 4.0 beta just yet as we expect the engine to be unstable until we have more testing done. The beta comes with a work-in-progress conversion tool that does part of the conversion work from 3.x beta 1 now! is set in stone.

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Beta Engine Engineering Feature

new Quake map: "Taught By Thirst" for Remix Jam

Radiator Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

It was added to the map cycle early on in CS Beta 6.5 Like a lot of Counter-Strike Source, it often feels more like a game engine tech demo rather than something for humans to play. On modern computers today, rendering this entire level incurs approximately the same processing cost as Nathan Drake's chest hair.

Fighting

Fighting Texture Playtesting Balance

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 17

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

beta 1, and to do so we're having a (last?) alpha 17 release to ensure that things work as best as we can reasonably expect before the beta phase. There will likely be breaking changes between this release and the first beta release. Rendering: Ensure sibling SubViewports are renderer from top to bottom ( GH-65579 ).

Alpha

Alpha Dev Beta Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 13

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

and prepare the first beta release. But we're not there yet and we'll keep having frequent alpha builds until we're ready to slap the beta label on the engine. There will likely be breaking changes between this release and the first beta release. Rendering: Add Variable Rate Shading support ( GH-60901 ).

Alpha

Alpha Dev Shaders Beta

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 16

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

beta, reviewing many PRs which have been opened prior to our roadmap feature freeze announced a month ago. Some noteworthy changes in this release: Re-enable support for Web exports using the OpenGL 3 / WebGL 2 renderer. Some noteworthy changes in this release: Re-enable support for Web exports using the OpenGL 3 / WebGL 2 renderer.

Alpha

Alpha Dev Render Beta

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 1, 2022

We're etching closer and closer to the beta stage, things are starting to fall into place! There will likely be breaking changes between this release and the first beta release. Rendering: Add support for soft shadows to the GPU lightmapper ( GH-62054 ). Rendering: Fix usage of FSR 1.0 ( GH-62475 ).

Alpha

Alpha Dev Render Bug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 8, 2022

There will likely be breaking changes between this release and the first beta release. Only the beta will mark the so-called "feature freeze" As such, we do not recommend porting existing projects to this and other upcoming alpha releases unless you are prepared to do it again to fix future incompatibilities.

Alpha

Alpha Dev Render Bug

Godot OpenXR support

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 18, 2021

Last year both Oculus and Valve introduced their runtimes and while still officially in beta they are fully functional at the time of writing this blog post. With the announcement of the 0.9 OpenXR plugin. It has flown under the radar somewhat but Godot was one of the first game engines to show off OpenXR support. Godot 4 and OpenXR.

Render

Render Engine Engineering Beta

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

There will likely be breaking changes between this release and the first beta release. Only the beta will mark the so-called "feature freeze" As such, we do not recommend porting existing projects to this and other upcoming alpha releases unless you are prepared to do it again to fix future incompatibilities.

Alpha

Alpha Dev Bug Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 15

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

beta, reviewing many PRs which have been opened prior to our roadmap feature freeze announced a month ago. Rendering: Octahedral normal/tangent compression ( GH-60309 ). There will likely be breaking changes between this release and the first beta release. Rendering: Octahedral normal/tangent compression ( GH-60309 ).

Alpha

Alpha Dev Shaders Beta

About Godot 4, Vulkan, GLES3 and GLES2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 17, 2021

comes closer and closer, we wanted to spend some words to clarify the direction that Godot 4 has taken in regard of rendering back-ends. The renderer design and all resulting code had to be re-implemented entirely from scratch in order to support Vulkan and modern rendering techniques. The GLES2 renderer in Godot 3.x

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Render Alpha Mobile Mobile

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 24, 2022

There will likely be breaking changes between this release and the first beta release. Only the beta will mark the so-called "feature freeze" As such, we do not recommend porting existing projects to this and other upcoming alpha releases unless you are prepared to do it again to fix future incompatibilities.

Alpha

Alpha Dev Bug Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 6, 2022

There will likely be breaking changes between this release and the first beta release. Only the beta will mark the so-called "feature freeze" As such, we do not recommend porting existing projects to this and other upcoming alpha releases unless you are prepared to do it again to fix future incompatibilities. GH-59807 ).

Alpha

Alpha Dev Bug Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 9

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 2, 2022

There will likely be breaking changes between this release and the first beta release. Only the beta will mark the so-called "feature freeze" As such, we do not recommend porting existing projects to this and other upcoming alpha releases unless you are prepared to do it again to fix future incompatibilities.

Alpha

Alpha Dev Bug Render

Omniverse: Top Resources from GTC 21

Nvidia

JUNE 4, 2021

This new open, cloud-native platform makes virtual collaboration easy for creators, researchers, and engineers on photorealistic rendering projects. We’ll include hands-on demo examples that illustrate USD scene construction in Python that you can try with a web browser at home, and show how to interact with USD files within Omniverse.

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Demo Platformer Technology Data

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 28, 2022

There will likely be breaking changes between this release and the first beta release. Only the beta will mark the so-called "feature freeze" As such, we do not recommend porting existing projects to this and other upcoming alpha releases unless you are prepared to do it again to fix future incompatibilities.

Alpha

Alpha Dev Bug Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 8

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 12, 2022

There will likely be breaking changes between this release and the first beta release. Only the beta will mark the so-called "feature freeze" As such, we do not recommend porting existing projects to this and other upcoming alpha releases unless you are prepared to do it again to fix future incompatibilities.

Alpha

Alpha Dev Bug Beta

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 10

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 15, 2022

There will likely be breaking changes between this release and the first beta release. Only the beta will mark the so-called "feature freeze" As such, we do not recommend porting existing projects to this and other upcoming alpha releases unless you are prepared to do it again to fix future incompatibilities.

Alpha

Alpha Dev Terrain Bug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2 alpha 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 11, 2019

We released a first alpha build last week, and we want to keep a relatively short iteration cycle on future alpha and beta builds until the final 3.2 This build should also fix a regression for GLES2 rendering on some Windows and macOS devices. Follow its development on Twitter and play the recently updated demo on itch.io.

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Alpha Dev Bug Beta

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.0 alpha1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 26, 2017

There is also no guarantee that projects started with the alpha1 build will still work in alpha2 or later builds, as we reserve the right to do necessary breaking adjustments up to the beta stage. Also clone the godot-demo-projects repository to have demos to play with. renderer of this build was already a huge refactor.

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Dev Alpha Bug Build

NVIDIA at GDC 2021: RTX and AI Sees New Platforms, New Development Tools, New Updates, and a New SDK

Nvidia

JULY 23, 2021

Check out GDC 2021 announcements, video sessions, and game development demos on the NVIDIA at GDC Official Webpage. To show our commitment to nurturing the Arm and Linux gaming ecosystems, NVIDIA has prepared a demo of Wolfenstein: Youngblood and Amazon’s Bistro scene running RTX on an Arm-based MediaTek processor. developer blog.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing AI Platformer Development

Experimenting with Drone PIP

Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The drone centering and following feature added back in Beta 10 has been quite useful for this purpose. Drones are generally pretty fast, and I’ll often just make sure I’m in a relatively safe spot and keep an eye on what the drone(s) find while I wait and decide where to go next.

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Render Feature Mechanics Console

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

There will likely be breaking changes between this release and the first beta release. Only the beta will mark the so-called "feature freeze" As such, we do not recommend porting existing projects to this and other upcoming alpha releases unless you are prepared to do it again to fix future incompatibilities.

Alpha

Alpha Dev Bug Terrain

Godot 3's VR and AR support

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

This server allows VR and AR platforms to make themselves known to Godot and handles the interaction with the rest of the engine, including some pretty direct access to the rendering pipeline to allow for as low lag as possible between updating positional tracking and rendering to the device. arvr = true. New ARVR nodes.

Alpha

Alpha Render Mobile Mobile

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

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.

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

How to make movies in 2022: the set vs the screen

Filmustage

JANUARY 10, 2022

Also after a long time of hard work we are happy to announce the beta-testing of the new scheduling feature in the Filmustage software. That's why we're so interested not in the movie itself, but in what's behind it: shortly after the premiere, Epic Games released a free demo of the game based on the original Matrix.

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Film Technology Engineering Engine

Game Developers Network

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 4

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 4

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

new Quake map: "Taught By Thirst" for Remix Jam

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 17

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 13

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 16

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 11

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 4

Godot OpenXR support

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 15

About Godot 4, Vulkan, GLES3 and GLES2

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 5

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 6

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 9

Omniverse: Top Resources from GTC 21

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 7

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 8

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 10

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2 alpha 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.0 alpha1

NVIDIA at GDC 2021: RTX and AI Sees New Platforms, New Development Tools, New Updates, and a New SDK

Experimenting with Drone PIP

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 2

Godot 3's VR and AR support

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

How to make movies in 2022: the set vs the screen

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