Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

Those typically shouldn’t add instability to the engine, but may require doing some changes in your scripts, scenes, and shaders if you were using the affected APIs. Rendering: Properly append global uniform buffer name in gl_compatibility shaders ( GH-72138 ). Shaders: Add derivative functions with precision to shaders ( GH-72109 ).

Beta 108

Beta Dev Shaders Render 108

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 25, 2023

Editor: Fix various gradient editor bugs ( GH-70548 ). Shaders: Fix code generation for ProximityRange node in visual shader ( GH-71760 ). Note that you need to force recompiling your affected visual shaders by doing any change in their graph. Shaders: Clean up shader parameter remap ( GH-71797 ).

Beta 99

Beta Dev Render Shaders 99

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Beta 10 will be the last dev snapshot of the year 2022, as a lot of our contributors will no doubt be slowing down for the end of year celebrations and some quality family time. Thank you for being an integral part of the dev process with your rigorous testing and timely reports! Bug reports.

Beta 101

Beta Dev Animation Animation 101

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Rendering: OpenGL: Fix scene shader error when using Omni or Spot but not both ( GH-69901 ). Shaders: Fix the sorting of shader uniforms ( GH-70016 ). Shaders: Optimize code generation of visual shader particles ( GH-69900 ). Shaders: Optimize code generation of visual shader particles ( GH-69900 ).

Beta 99

Beta Dev Render Shaders 99

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Import: Fix group reimport bug affecting AtlasTexture ( GH-68324 ). Rendering: Implement CAMERA_VISIBLE_LAYERS as built-in shader variable ( GH-67387 ). Visual Shader: Make custom visual shader nodes automatically updates from script ( GH-69738 ). See the GitHub issue tracker for a list of known bugs in the 4.0

Beta 98

Beta Dev Render Shaders 98

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 2023

For shaders, we removed the now-redundant SCREEN_TEXTURE , DEPTH_TEXTURE , and NORMAL_ROUGHNESS_TEXTURE ( GH-70967 ). Note that there’s a helpful error in the shader editor telling you how to port code, but there’s a typo: filter_linear_mipmaps should be filter_linear_mipmap (no ‘s’). As well as many improvements to the documentation.

Beta 105

Beta Dev Animation Animation 105

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

Visual Shader: Add few improvements for VisualShaderNodeParticleRandomness ( GH-71123 ). 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.

Beta 110

Beta Dev Render Collision 110

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: Enable mipmaps in cubemap roughness shader ( GH-68511 ). Rendering: Properly set TIME shader uniform when rendering shadows ( GH-68574 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET Bug reports. NET 6 build (C#, GDScript, GDExtension).

Beta 99

Beta Dev Render Bug 99

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2023

This is a bug and should be solved eventually (so that you can --export-debug or --export-release directly from a Git checkout without.godot folder). Editor: Fix node preview crashes after updating visual shader node ( GH-71385 ). Rendering: Properly initialize directional_light_count in RD sky shaders ( GH-71526 ). Bug reports.

Beta 99

Beta Dev Debug Render 99

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

We took a bit longer to prepare this beta as there were a number of fairly big GDScript refactoring PRs (needed to fix many bugs), which we wanted to merge all at once. Rendering: Use proper indices for lights, decals, and reflection probes in mobile scene shader ( GH-70929 ). Bug reports. Requires.NET SDK 6.0 specifically.

Beta 106

Beta Dev Render Animation 106

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Beta 10 will be the last dev snapshot of the year 2022, as a lot of our contributors will no doubt be slowing down for the end of year celebrations and some quality family time. Thank you for being an integral part of the dev process with your rigorous testing and timely reports! Bug reports.

Beta 78

Beta Dev Animation Animation 78

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Rendering: OpenGL: Fix scene shader error when using Omni or Spot but not both ( GH-69901 ). Shaders: Fix the sorting of shader uniforms ( GH-70016 ). Shaders: Optimize code generation of visual shader particles ( GH-69900 ). Shaders: Optimize code generation of visual shader particles ( GH-69900 ).

Beta 76

Beta Dev Render Shaders 76

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Rendering: Shaders: Only convert default value to linear color if type hint is source_color ( GH-103201 ). See the GitHub issue tracker for a complete list of known bugs. Bug reports As a tester, we encourage you to open bug reports if you experience issues with this release. Input: Change default deadzone back to 0.5

Bug 77

Bug Render Build Alpha 77

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

Visual Shader: Add few improvements for VisualShaderNodeParticleRandomness ( GH-71123 ). 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.

Beta 85

Beta Dev Render Collision 85

PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 10, 2025

I love to make everything myself, using only my own or custom assets and my own shaders. I spend a lot of time working on my own shaders, recording sounds, and composing music. Also, looking back, Ive discovered that I love to delve into complex problems, such as optimizing or bug fixing. Why did you become a solo developer?

Development 104

Development Indy Shaders Agent 104

Radiator Blog

APRIL 18, 2022

There's been some game dev twittering about Unity vs. Unreal lately. Being able to pinpoint bugs in the core Unreal Engine code, fix them, and submit patches to Epic is how modern software development works. Why use Unity when Unreal is better? But if you want high-end then UE5 Nanite / Lumen is light years beyond Unity HDRP anyway?

Engine 100

Engine Engineering Bug Rigging 100

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

We took a bit longer to prepare this beta as there were a number of fairly big GDScript refactoring PRs (needed to fix many bugs), which we wanted to merge all at once. Rendering: Use proper indices for lights, decals, and reflection probes in mobile scene shader ( GH-70929 ). Bug reports. Requires.NET SDK 6.0 specifically.

Beta 81

Beta Dev Render Animation 81

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

Some noteworthy changes in this release: Shader preprocessor support and shader includes. Grouping annotations for shaders ( uniform_group ). Rendering: Force regenerating shader cache when updating Godot ( GH-62848 ). Shaders: Add shader preprocessor and includes support ( GH-62513 ). Bug reports.

Alpha 52

Alpha Dev Shaders Beta 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 22, 2020

Update (2021-10-28): You can find a documentation page about Sky shaders in the Godot documentation. We aim to change that by introducing sky shaders. It is easy to tweak and update and uses a lightweight shader to avoid consuming GPU resources. Sky Shaders. Sky Shaders draw to the background and to the radiance cubemap.

Shaders 52

Shaders Render Texture Alpha 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 11, 2022

Same deal as usual, lots of bugs fixed and more refactoring and feature work. Add often used built-ins to spatial shaders ( NODE_POSITION_WORLD , CAMERA_POSITION_WORLD , CAMERA_DIRECTION_WORLD , NODE_POSITION_VIEW ) ( GH-63597 ). As soon as the.NET 6 port is ready to test, it will be included in dev snapshots. Bug reports.

Alpha 52

Alpha Dev Shaders Beta 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 8, 2022

Rendering: Fix shader compilation error with anisotropy ( GH-58419 ). Visual Shader: Add few more input/output built-ins ( GH-58719 ). Visual Shader: Add varying support ( GH-58750 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension, VisualScript).

Alpha 52

Alpha Dev Render Bug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2022

and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). Bug reports.

Beta 52

Beta Dev Shaders Console 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 22, 2019

release, the Visual Shader editor was recreated from the ashes of its Godot 2.x While usable and packed with visual features, Visual Shaders lacked many features from their Shader (script) big brother. The menu which the user used for adding nodes to the shader graph was the most unwieldy part of the old visual shader graph.

Shaders 52

Shaders Writing Feature Content 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

Same deal as usual, lots of bugs fixed and more refactoring and feature work. Editor: Improvements to shader editor ( GH-63582 ). Shaders: Quality of life Visual Shaders updates ( GH-63999 ). Shaders: Implement custom non-trivial Visual Shader nodes ( GH-64248 ). Bug reports. alpha 15.

Alpha 52

Alpha Dev Shaders Beta 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 2, 2022

Shaders: Rename hint_albedo , hint_white / black in shaders ( GH-60803 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension, VisualScript). See the GitHub issue tracker for a list of known bugs in the 4.0 Bug reports.

Alpha 52

Alpha Dev Bug Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 2022

and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. Shaders: Many improvements backported from master ( GH-56794 ). Bug reports. The main changes coming in Godot 3.5 x no longer works in 3.5

Beta 52

Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Rendering: Various bug fixes to both shaders and the Vulkan setup (including updating to Vulkan SDK 1.3.204 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension, VisualScript). See the GitHub issue tracker for a list of known bugs in the 4.0 Bug reports.

Alpha 52

Alpha Dev Bug Render 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 Shaders: Many improvements backported from master ( GH-56794 ).

Beta 52

Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 24, 2022

Animation: Fix blend animation to solve TRS track bug & blend order inconsistency ( GH-57675 ). Visual Shader: Add _get_func_code / _is_available virtual functions to custom nodes ( GH-57769 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension, VisualScript).

Alpha 52

Alpha Dev Bug Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

x maintenance releases , which include only thoroughly reviewed and backwards-compatible bug fixes, the 3.1 version includes all the new features (and subsequent bugs!) There will still be many fixes made before the final release, and we will need your detailed bug reports to debug issues and fix them. Bug reports.

Beta 52

Beta Dev Bug Build 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. and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. Bug reports.

Beta 52

Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 1, 2022

Same deal as usual, lots of bugs fixed and more refactoring and feature work. Fix GDScript bug causing return values to be reset in release builds. Editor: Refactored shader editor, now a permanent bottom dock with support to edit multiple files ( GH-61459 ). See the GitHub issue tracker for a list of known bugs in the 4.0

Alpha 52

Alpha Dev Bug 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

Beta 52

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

Beta 52

Beta Dev Render Debug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

This beta 5 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Animation: Fix bugs in AnimationNodeTransition's behavior ( GH-52543 , GH-52555 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ).

Beta 52

Beta Dev Mesh Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Visual Shader: Add math operators to node names for easier and simpler searching ( GH-67905 ). 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. Requires.NET SDK 6.0

Beta 52

Beta Dev Render Alpha 52