Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2023

Release Candidate on the horizon we continue to release beta snapshots frequently and relentlessly! This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: SkeletonModificationStack3D has been removed, with the 3D inverse kinematic API being more or less reset to the state of Godot 3.x. With the first 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

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 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

DECEMBER 23, 2022

betas for over three months now, and we are glad to see it get more stable and usable every week. Every beta release so far has included a lot of fixes in one or more key areas, and the next major version of the engine starts to finally look complete. The game started development with Godot 3.x, Happy holidays!

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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

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

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

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

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

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! Shaders: Many improvements backported from master ( GH-56794 ).

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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

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. We released Godot 4.0 Major changes.

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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. We released Godot 4.0

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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. GH-68870 ). Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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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 ). We're getting closer to the Godot 3.5 Like with 4.0

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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

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

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. Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Highlights.

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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 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ).

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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. Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ).

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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! It also adds a much-requested minimap to GraphEdit , and thus to the VisualScript and Visual Shader editors. 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. Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Highlights.

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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 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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Cocos

JUNE 11, 2023

It will support the implementation of engine builtin Custom Pipeline and the default Deferred Pipeline. We also support Compute Shader capabilities. Google has recognized Cocos as the recommended game engine for adapting to the Google Play Games on PC platform and the recommended game engine for the large-screen experience.

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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. Some noteworthy changes in this release: Shader preprocessor support and shader includes. Grouping annotations for shaders ( uniform_group ).

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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 11, 2022

beta, reviewing many PRs which have been opened prior to our roadmap feature freeze announced a couple of weeks ago. Add often used built-ins to spatial shaders ( NODE_POSITION_WORLD , CAMERA_POSITION_WORLD , CAMERA_DIRECTION_WORLD , NODE_POSITION_VIEW ) ( GH-63597 ). We're working towards finalizing the feature set for 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Reading from SCREEN_TEXTURE and DEPTH_TEXTURE in spatial shaders. beta 9 onward, the OpenGL renderer can be enabled either by selecting the Compatibility renderer when creating a new project or by changing the rendering-method project setting to gl_compatibility. The big missing features that are planned are: 3D shadows. LightmapGI.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Reading from SCREEN_TEXTURE and DEPTH_TEXTURE in spatial shaders. beta 9 onward, the OpenGL renderer can be enabled either by selecting the Compatibility renderer when creating a new project or by changing the rendering-method project setting to gl_compatibility. The big missing features that are planned are: 3D shadows. LightmapGI.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 2, 2022

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. Shaders: Rename hint_albedo , hint_white / black in shaders ( GH-60803 ). Rendering: Fix normal and tangent blending in blend shapes ( GH-61217 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 8, 2022

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. Rendering: Fix shader compilation error with anisotropy ( GH-58419 ). Visual Shader: Add few more input/output built-ins ( GH-58719 ).

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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: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader state caching when blend shapes used ( GH-58808 ) [regression fix].

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 1, 2022

We're etching closer and closer to the beta stage, things are starting to fall into place! Movie Maker run mode to record in-game footage for trailers/movies. Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. Same deal as usual, lots of bugs fixed and more refactoring and feature work.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 24, 2022

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. Visual Shader: Add _get_func_code / _is_available virtual functions to custom nodes ( GH-57769 ). This release is built from commit d7d528c15.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 1, 2021

beta 5 available now), we still cherry-pick important bug fixes to the 3.3 Rendering: Prevent shaders from generating code before the constructor finishes ( GH-52475 ). 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 ).

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