Awesome Tuts

APRIL 8, 2022

These are 7 absolutely worst things you can do in your game dev project that will slow down your game, make it crash, not get you hired in a game studio, or get you fired if you work in one. This is something I see a lot in the game dev world, especially the tutorial world. This is messy and will lead to hard-to-find bugs in the end.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 7, 2020

release with bug fixes in 3.2.1 , we're now looking at integrating some new features that didn't make it into the 3.2 Fix for the dangling Variant bug , kudos to Pedro ( RandomShaper ) ( added in 3.2.2 Note: If using C#, the.csproj file will be converted with some bug fixes which makes it incompatible with earlier Godot 3.2

Beta 52

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 22, 2020

release with bug fixes in 3.2.1 , we're now looking at integrating some new features that didn't make it into the 3.2 Fix for the dangling Variant bug , kudos to Pedro ( RandomShaper ). Note: If using C#, the.csproj file will be converted with some bug fixes which makes it incompatible with earlier Godot 3.2 and 3.2.1.

Beta 52

Beta Dev Bug Debug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 2022

Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Bug reports. This should show up initially as a quad. x no longer works in 3.5

Beta 52

Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2020

This beta 4 fixes some regressions and adds more bug fixes to make the upcoming release even better. Fix for the dangling Variant bug , kudos to Pedro ( RandomShaper ). Note: If using C#, the.csproj file will be converted with some bug fixes which makes it incompatible with earlier Godot 3.2 Fix for the dangling Variant bug.

Beta 52

Beta Dev Bug Debug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

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 Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Bug reports.

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Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

In the past two weeks since beta 2, we had over 250 PRs merged , many of which fixed bugs reported by beta testers. And for people doing engine development, there’s a new dev_build option which can be used together with target to enable dev-specific code and also affects a few presets. Jump to the Downloads section. Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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Beta Dev Render Debug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

In the past two weeks since beta 2, we had over 250 PRs merged , many of which fixed bugs reported by beta testers. And for people doing engine development, there's a new dev_build option which can be used together with target to enable dev-specific code and also affects a few presets. Jump to the Downloads section. Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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Beta Dev Render Debug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2022

beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. This beta adds what should be the last batch of new features (together with a lot of bug fixes, as that's our focus at this stage), with scene unique node names and the new SceneTreeTween backported from Godot 4.0.

Beta 52

Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2022

beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon. Bug reports.

Beta 52

Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users.

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Beta Dev Mesh Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users.

Beta 52

Beta Dev Mesh Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

This beta 4 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Bug reports.

Beta 52

Beta Dev Mesh Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

This beta 5 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Animation: Fix bugs in AnimationNodeTransition's behavior ( GH-52543 , GH-52555 ). HTML5: Fix bug in AudioWorklet when reading output buffer ( GH-52696 ).

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Beta Dev Mesh Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 1, 2021

My first task will be integrating an occlusion culling system into the new Vulkan renderer. While occlusion culling is not a silver bullet, it can give big performance improvements in a variety of scenes. Moving forward, and with my full focus on Godot development, my goal is to work on Godot's 3D rendering and help bring Godot 4.0

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Render Culling Baking Lightmap 55

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This beta 6 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Animation: Fix bugs in AnimationNodeTransition's behavior ( GH-52543 , GH-52555 ). HTML5: Fix bug in AudioWorklet when reading output buffer ( GH-52696 ).

Beta 52

Beta Dev Mesh Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 24, 2020

Mono: Various bug fixes ( GH-35372 , GH-35407 , GH-35472 , GH-35478 ). Rendering: Fix shadow culling with orthogonal camera and wrong VIEWPORT_SIZE shader builtin ( GH-35406 ). For those following our dev snapshots closely, 118 commits have been merged since 3.2 Bug reports. Documentation and translation updates.

Bug 52

Bug Culling Build Pixel 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: Added Viewport canvas cull mask feature ( GH-52350 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET See the GitHub issue tracker for a list of known bugs in the 4.0 Bug reports. XR: Add support for OpenGL to OpenXR ( GH-67775 ).

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Beta Dev Render Bug 40

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

using data oriented algorithms to process the culling of objects and both secondary command buffers and automatic batching to efficiently submit the draw primitives. First of all, most of the new features still have significant bugs and performance problems that will not be solved in time for the upcoming 4.0

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AAA Game Development Game Developer Development 145

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 12, 2020

Fix for the dangling Variant bug , kudos to Pedro ( RandomShaper ). Note: If using C#, the.csproj file will be converted with some bug fixes which makes it incompatible with earlier Godot 3.2 Fix for the dangling Variant bug. Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). Notably, Godot 3.2.2 and 3.2.1.

Beta 52

Beta Bug Debug Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 18, 2020

Fix for the dangling Variant bug , kudos to Pedro ( RandomShaper ). Note: If using C#, the.csproj file will be converted with some bug fixes which makes it incompatible with earlier Godot 3.2 Fix for the dangling Variant bug. Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). Notably, Godot 3.2.2 and 3.2.1.

Beta 52

Beta Debug Bug Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2020

Fix for the dangling Variant bug , kudos to Pedro ( RandomShaper ). Note: If using C#, the.csproj file will be converted with some bug fixes which makes it incompatible with earlier Godot 3.2 Fix for the dangling Variant bug. Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). Notably, Godot 3.2.2 and 3.2.1.

Beta 52

Beta Debug Bug Point and Click 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Portal occlusion culling. Such use-after-free access needs to be guarded with is_instance_valid(obj) , but this has been surprisingly difficult to get right due to a number of bugs and inconsistencies between debug and release builds. Portal occlusion culling. Godot is a complex piece of software and is not bug-free.

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UX Feature Culling Mesh 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

This RC 3 fixes a number of recent regressions and older bugs. Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Bug reports.

Render 52

Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 17, 2022

This RC 4 fixes a number of recent regressions and older bugs. Then smix8 took over the custody of this area, fixing a lot of bugs and improving the feature set greatly, with the help of Pawel Lampe ( Scony ). Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Bug reports. and provide the missing features that 3.5

Render 52

Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2022

Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Bug reports. This should show up initially as a quad. x no longer works in this 3.5

Render 52

Render Shaders Console Culling 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

Most of work was aimed at implementing missing features or fixing bugs which are critical for publishing 2D and 3D games with Godot 3.x, Since then, smix8 has taken over the custody of this area, fixing a lot of bugs and improving the feature set greatly, with the help of Pawel Lampe ( Scony ) and lawnjelly. Early adopters of 3.5

Shaders 53

Shaders Render Feature Mesh 53

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

CSG: Various bug fixes. Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. Rendering: Various fixes to light culling ( GH-46694 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users.

Render 52

Render Collision Build Bug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 19, 2021

CSG: Various bug fixes. Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. Rendering: Various fixes to light culling ( GH-46694 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users.

Render 52

Render Collision Build Bug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2021

CSG: Various bug fixes. Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. Rendering: Various fixes to light culling ( GH-46694 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users.

Render 52

Render Collision Build Bug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Be sure to test them and report any bug or inconvenience with the implementation.

Render 52

Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

Then smix8 took over the custody of this area, fixing a lot of bugs and improving the feature set greatly, with the help of Pawel Lampe ( Scony ). Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon.

Render 52

Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

Then smix8 took over the custody of this area, fixing a lot of bugs and improving the feature set greatly, with the help of Pawel Lampe ( Scony ). Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon.

Render 52

Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

Then smix8 took over the custody of this area, fixing a lot of bugs and improving the feature set greatly, with the help of Pawel Lampe ( Scony ). Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon.

Render 52

Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

branch is worked on in parallel and receives minor updates to fix bugs, improve usability and occasionally add some compatible features. Among a wide array of bug fixes to the GLES2 and GLES3 renderer, they also designed and implemented a 2D batching system for GLES2 , which greatly optimizes the 2D rendering performance in many situations.

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Debug Point and Click Bug Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

Then smix8 took over the custody of this area, fixing a lot of bugs and improving the feature set greatly, with the help of Pawel Lampe ( Scony ). Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon.

Render 52

Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

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). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4 beta 6 and RC 1.

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