Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Editor: Fix Embedded Game over expanded bottom panel, by resetting expanded bottom panel on Play ( GH-102978 ). Editor: Always allow selecting any rendering driver in the settings, add auto option ( GH-103026 ). Porting: Fix Embedded Game startup location on Windows ( GH-103021 ). Changelog As we released 4.4

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Beta Bug Render Build 83

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Export: Fix cross-platform configuration of rendering driver settings (narrower approach) ( GH-103197 ). Rendering: Metal: Compile MTLLibrary on demand when pipeline is created ( GH-103185 ). Rendering: Windows: Offload RenderingDevice creation test to subprocess ( GH-103245 ). if something that worked fine in previous 4.x

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Rendering: Shaders: Only convert default value to linear color if type hint is source_color ( GH-103201 ). Rendering: Metal: Fix SPIR-V MSL compilation on iOS targets ( GH-103337 ). See the GitHub issue tracker for a complete list of known bugs. Input: Change default deadzone back to 0.5

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Bug Render Build Alpha 76

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 30, 2025

Weve been keeping busy these past two weeks squashing the bugs that cropped up in 4.4 feature freeze, so our energy has been focused on addressing any new regressions or the aforementioned bugs. Were still aiming for a release sometime next month, but that all depends on how effectively new bugs get reported during this period.

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Beta Dev Bug Baking 66

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Porting: Add support for embedding game process in the Android Editor ( GH-102492 ). Porting: Fix game and editor freeze when clicking on the games title bar ( GH-102744 ). Rendering: Reduce mobile pipeline compilations ( GH-102217 ). See the GitHub issue tracker for a complete list of known bugs. beta3 snapshot.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Last year we announced that we were planning on creating an OpenGL-based renderer to complement the current Vulkan-based renderers. with an OpenGL-based renderer; it just won't be feature complete. As a reminder, an OpenGL-based renderer is still crucial so we can support older platforms, and Web export. LightmapGI.

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Render Beta Feature Bug 62

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Last year we announced that we were planning on creating an OpenGL-based renderer to complement the current Vulkan-based renderers. with an OpenGL-based renderer; it just won’t be feature complete. As a reminder, an OpenGL-based renderer is still crucial so we can support older platforms, and Web export. LightmapGI.

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Harold Serrano

JUNE 2, 2024

Last week, I wrote an article about making my renderer more user-friendly. Some bugs need fixing. But my main objective is to add Ray-Tracing to the renderer. If you haven't had a chance to read any of my previous two articles, here are some videos to catch you up. This week, I decided to work on the Lights User-Interface.

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Render Ray Tracing Bug Game Engine 64

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Import: Fix group reimport bug affecting AtlasTexture ( GH-68324 ). Rendering: Use circular fade instead of linear fade for distance fade ( GH-50294 ). Rendering: Tweak shadow bias defaults for DirectionalLight3D and OmniLight3D ( GH-55757 ). Rendering: Fix AABB errors on meshes with bones on multiple surfaces ( GH-65035 ).

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Beta Dev Render Shaders 98

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 25, 2023

Editor: Fix various gradient editor bugs ( GH-70548 ). renderer support ( GH-71848 ). Rendering: Fix Vulkan validation errors related to enabling extensions ( GH-70429 ). Rendering: Fix DirectionalLight3D shadow opacity on Forward Mobile rendering backend ( GH-71690 ). iOS: Restore OpenGL ES 3.0

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Beta Dev Render Shaders 99

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Add support for FORMAT_{ETC2,DXT5}_RA_AS_RG ( GH-71248 ). Bug reports.

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Beta Dev Collision Render 110

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: A ton of fixes for all rendering backends, and missing features implemented for the OpenGL3 one. GUI: Add a Font import option to pre-render all glyphs required for the translation ( GH-68448 ). Physics: Implement adjusting the maximum number of physics steps per rendered frame ( GH-65836 ).

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Beta Dev Render Bug 98

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Every supported renderer option is now selectable from the project creation screen, which means you can create OpenGL 3 ("Compatibility") projects without using the command line ( GH-70028 ). The illustration picture for this article is from Raffaele Picca 's car scene , rendered in Godot 4.0 Bug reports.

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Beta Dev Render Shaders 99

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

has an entirely new rendering architecture, which is divided into modern and compatibility backends. The modern one does rendering via RenderingDevice (which is implemented in drivers such as Vulkan, Direct3D 12, and more in the future). Rendering is significantly more efficient in Godot 4.0, Low level rendering access.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 15, 2022

stable: 3D: Fix bug in CylinderMesh when computing normals ( GH-67336 ). Physics: Fix typo bug in heightmap shape ( GH-69852 ). Rendering: Add options for sorting transparent objects ( GH-63040 ). Rendering: Fix debanding strength being affected by environment adjustments ( GH-66327 ). Bug reports. or earlier 3.4.x

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Beta Bug Render Scripting 100

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

Flag dirty dependencies when GeometryInstance dependencies change in renderer ( GH-71581 ). The illustration picture for this article is from Halls of Torment , a roguelite action RPG with retro late-90s pre-rendered 2D graphics. Rendering: Flag dirty dependencies when GeometryInstance dependencies change in renderer ( GH-71581 ).

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Beta Dev Shaders Render 108

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 12, 2023

stable: 3D: Fix bug in CylinderMesh when computing normals ( GH-67336 ). Core: Fix hashing bug for PoolArrays comparisons ( GH-71103 ). Physics: Fix typo bug in heightmap shape ( GH-69852 ). Rendering: Add options for sorting transparent objects ( GH-63040 ). Bug reports. Jump to the Downloads section.

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Bug Render Scripting Build 99

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

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. Editor: Bring back the renderer options button on the main editor ( GH-70500 ). Rendering: Add options for sorting transparent objects ( GH-69998 ).

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Beta Dev Render Animation 106

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Rendering: Fix Variable Rate Shading issues ( GH-68710 ). Rendering: Finish implementing Canvas Background mode ( GH-68805 ). Rendering: Fix drawing of 2D skeletons in the RD renderer ( GH-68863 ). See the GitHub issue tracker for a list of known bugs in the 4.0 Bug reports.

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Beta Dev Render Animation 98

Logic Simplified

JULY 24, 2023

Researchers, professionals or game app developers all need to remain up-to-date with the recent advancements as well as features of the Unity engine to create and enjoy the best games possible. Some popular games built with Unity include Angry Birds 2 and Pokémon Go”. Unity 2022.2.11

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: A lot of bug fixes and improvements in these areas particularly, check out the PRs listed below: Animation, Navigation, GDScript, Rendering. Rendering: Implement basic ASTC support ( GH-65376 ). See the GitHub issue tracker for a list of known bugs in the 4.0

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Beta Dev Animation Animation 101

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 2023

Rendering: Remove SCREEN_TEXTURE , DEPTH_TEXTURE , and NORMAL_ROUGHNESS_TEXTURE ( GH-70967 ). Rendering: Decompress RA_AS_RG formats on Web platform in GLES3 renderer and disable texture swizzling ( GH-71574 ). Rendering: Decompress RA_AS_RG formats on Web platform in GLES3 renderer and disable texture swizzling ( GH-71574 ).

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Beta Dev Animation Animation 105

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Rendering: Vulkan: Improve logic for detecting and tracking extensions ( GH-68833 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Fix drawing of Mesh2D ( GH-69135 ). See the GitHub issue tracker for a list of known bugs in the 4.0 Bug reports. As a tester, you are encouraged to open bug reports if you experience issues with this release.

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Beta Dev Bug Render 98

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

But no matter the amount of time dedicated to testing and profiling — bugs and issues are inevitable. with bug fix releases as we are dedicated to ensuring a stable experience as soon as possible. branch into our main development branch and other contributors joined in to add features and fix bugs. Countless bugs.

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Bug Beta Quality Assurance Feature 98

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). Rendering: Fix polyline not supporting closed polygons and not having a uniform width ( GH-62236 ). Rendering: Fix scaling issue in draw_line and similar methods ( GH-69851 ).

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Beta Dev Debug Render 99

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Add support for FORMAT_{ETC2,DXT5}_RA_AS_RG ( GH-71248 ). Bug reports.

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Beta Dev Collision Render 85

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Every supported renderer option is now selectable from the project creation screen, which means you can create OpenGL 3 (“Compatibility”) projects without using the command line ( GH-70028 ). The illustration picture for this article is from Raffaele Picca ’s car scene , rendered in Godot 4.0 Bug reports.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 12, 2023

stable: 3D: Fix bug in CylinderMesh when computing normals ( GH-67336 ). Core: Fix hashing bug for PoolArrays comparisons ( GH-71103 ). Physics: Fix typo bug in heightmap shape ( GH-69852 ). Rendering: Add options for sorting transparent objects ( GH-63040 ). Bug reports. Jump to the Downloads section.

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Bug Render Scripting Build 76

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

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. Editor: Bring back the renderer options button on the main editor ( GH-70500 ). Rendering: Add options for sorting transparent objects ( GH-69998 ).

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Beta Dev Render Animation 81

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: A lot of bug fixes and improvements in these areas particularly, check out the PRs listed below: Animation, Navigation, GDScript, Rendering. Rendering: Implement basic ASTC support ( GH-65376 ). See the GitHub issue tracker for a list of known bugs in the 4.0

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Beta Dev Animation Animation 78

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Godot is a not-for-profit free and open source game engine which aims at empowering all users in their 2D and 3D game development projects. This includes cross-platform OpenXR support, an extended input action system for VR, Vulkan rendering and optimizations on mobile, and more! Implement Vulkan rendering on Android.

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Engineering Engine Cross platform Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 16, 2022

Rendering: GLES2: Fix compression on blend shapes ( GH-58838 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix incorrect buffer upload size in draw_gui_primitive ( GH-58150 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader state caching when blend shapes used ( GH-58808 ) [regression fix].

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Render Shaders Bug Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 8, 2022

macOS: Disable window redraw during resize, when rendering in the separate thread ( GH-58738 ). Rendering: Use Filament specular model and parametrization ( GH-51716 ). Rendering: Use properly use non-perceptual roughness when filtering radiance ( GH-58418 ). Rendering: Fix shader compilation error with anisotropy ( GH-58419 ).

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Alpha Dev Render Bug 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 ). Rendering: Various tweaks to default environment and lighting config to balance quality and performance. Rendering: Use prefiltered radiance for Sky high quality update mode ( GH-58177 ). Bug reports.

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Alpha Dev Bug Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 1, 2022

Same deal as usual, lots of bugs fixed and more refactoring and feature work. Movie Maker run mode to record in-game footage for trailers/movies. Fix GDScript bug causing return values to be reset in release builds. Rendering: Add support for soft shadows to the GPU lightmapper ( GH-62054 ). Bug reports.

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Alpha Dev Render Bug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 4, 2021

beta 2 available now), we still cherry-pick important bug fixes to the 3.3 As there is no new feature and only bug fixes, this RC 1 should be as stable as 3.3.2-stable Rendering: VisualServer now sorts based on AABB position ( GH-43506 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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Bug Mesh Render Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 8, 2022

Rendering: GLES2: Fix compression on blend shapes ( GH-58838 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader state caching when blend shapes used ( GH-58808 ) [regression fix]. Bug reports. Physics: Update joints on NOTIFICATION_POST_ENTER_TREE ( GH-58642 ).

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