Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

beta 11 , we found a lot of regressions – as we expected! As the pace intensifies in the lead-up to the first Release Candidate, we decided to make more frequent beta snapshots for testing. when dealing with PackedArrays) which many beta 11 users experienced ( GH-71228 ). The game is currently being ported to Godot 4.0

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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. beta in general, have a look at the detailed release notes for 4.0 In this blog post, we will only cover the main changes since the previous beta release. Requires.NET SDK 6.0 specifically.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

beta releases. Over the course of the last four months the engine has seen many changes, making it more stable and feature complete, and it’s getting very close to the state that we would be happy with. As such we expect that this beta 11 might introduce some new GDScript regressions, which we’ll aim to fix for beta 12 next week.

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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. Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ).

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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. Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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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. Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ).

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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 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ).

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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

JANUARY 13, 2022

So we're starting the beta testing phase with this already significant set of changes, and we'll have frequent beta builds to polish them for the stable release. Some more features are still being worked on and will be included in future beta builds. was released 2 months ago , and some of the major planned features for Godot 3.5

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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. GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 20, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Core: Fix debugger error when Dictionary key is a freed Object ( GH-39906 ) [regression fix]. wslay 1.1.1). Bug reports.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2022

stable release with a third beta snapshot! beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. This is a big update with close to 350 commits from 82 contributors since the previous beta! We're getting closer to the Godot 3.5 Like with 4.0 Highlights.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

stable release with a fourth beta snapshot! 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 Like with 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 2022

beta 2 should be worth the wait! This is a big update with close to 350 commits from 82 contributors since the previous beta! This is a big update with close to 350 commits from 82 contributors since the previous beta! and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2022

stable release with a fifth beta snapshot! beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). You can also review the changes between beta 4 and beta 5.

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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. Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

has been in beta for over two months , and the overall feature completeness, stability and usability have improved a lot during that time. beta in general, have a look at the detailed release notes for 4.0 In this blog post, we will only cover the main changes since the previous beta release. Requires.NET SDK 6.0 specifically.

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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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Nvidia

DECEMBER 17, 2020

World position offset simulation for ray traced instanced static meshes (beta) Allows ambient motion of foliage like trees and grass. Inexact Shadows (beta) Deals with potential mesh mismatches of ray traced and raster geometry. It is available for the first time for mainline UE4 (in beta), compatible with UE4.26

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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 Import: glTF: Fix mesh nodes which are also bones ( GH-49119 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). no longer works in 3.3.3

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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

JULY 24, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! beta 1 and RC 1. Core: Fix debugger error when Dictionary key is a freed Object ( GH-39906 ) [regression fix].

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 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. for instructions.

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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 Import: glTF: Fix mesh nodes which are also bones ( GH-49119 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). no longer works in 3.3.3

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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 Rendering: GLES3: Fix broken normals in meshes with blend shapes ( GH-59159 ) [regression fix]. branch for use in production. Last month's 3.4.3

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Many thanks to all the contributors who worked on it, including all testers who tried beta and RC releases to ensure that the 3.4-stable Import: Fix crash when exporting meshes to glTF that have no skin ( GH-55246 ). macOS: Enable multithreaded OpenGL engine flag when using multithreaded VisualServer ( GH-54526 ).

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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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Logic Simplified

APRIL 1, 2024

It is applied to all the static meshes on the objects. Testing: Each feature, as well as the mechanics of the game, need to be tested for quality control. Only after endless hours of testing and iterating, the game is considered ready for a late-Alpha or even a Beta release, on the basis of how polished the in-game features are.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 2, 2022

beta is not far off either. Editor: Fix GridMap cursor showing the wrong mesh ( GH-58624 ). Godot is a non-profit, open source game engine developed by hundreds of contributors on their free time, and a handful of part or full-time developers, hired thanks to donations from the Godot community. but simply a Godot 3.4.5

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Many thanks to all the contributors who worked on it, including all testers who tried beta and RC releases to ensure that the 3.4-stable Import: Fix crash when exporting meshes to glTF that have no skin ( GH-55246 ). macOS: Enable multithreaded OpenGL engine flag when using multithreaded VisualServer ( GH-54526 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In parallel to our work on the upcoming feature releases Godot 3.5 ( with a first beta ) and 4.0 ( now at alpha 3! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 version after its release, which may affect your project: Rendering issues for both GLES2 and GLES3 with 3D meshes using blend shapes and octahedral compression ( GH-58789 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Many thanks to all the contributors who worked on it, including all testers who tried beta and RC releases to ensure that the 3.4-stable Import: Fix crash when exporting meshes to glTF that have no skin ( GH-55246 ). was released a month ago, and it went fairly smoothly! Input: Add Input.is_physical_key_pressed() method ( GH-55251 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Many thanks to all the contributors who worked on it, including all testers who tried beta and RC releases to ensure that the 3.4-stable Import: Fix crash when exporting meshes to glTF that have no skin ( GH-55246 ). was released a month ago, and it went fairly smoothly! Input: Add Input.is_physical_key_pressed() method ( GH-55251 ).

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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. Rendering: Bind mesh merging functionality in MeshInstance ( GH-57661 ). You can also review the changes between beta 5 and RC 1. back in 2020! Check out the Releases page for the latest 2.x

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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. As Godot 4.0

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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 Import: glTF: Fix mesh nodes which are also bones ( GH-49119 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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