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 ).

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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 ). See the GitHub issue tracker for a list of known bugs in the 4.0

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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 ). See the GitHub issue tracker for a list of known bugs in the 4.0 Bug reports.

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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

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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’).

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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. Shaders: Fix shader crash when using boolean type for vertex->fragment varyings ( GH-70460 ). Bug reports.

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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 ). See the GitHub issue tracker for a list of known bugs in the 4.0 Bug reports.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

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

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

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 Is solving these problems enough for Godot to become a top AA / AAA game engine? Godot, at its core, is and will always be (by design) a very general purpose game engine.

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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. Shaders: Fix shader crash when using boolean type for vertex->fragment varyings ( GH-70460 ). Bug reports.

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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. Rendering: Use proper indices for lights, decals, and reflection probes in mobile scene shader ( GH-70929 ). Bug reports.

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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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

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

MARCH 8, 2022

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. As a tester, you are encouraged to open bug reports if you experience issues with 3.4.4 API documentation updates.

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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 ). See the GitHub issue tracker for a list of known bugs in the 4.0 Bug reports.

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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 ). See the GitHub issue tracker for a list of known bugs in the 4.0 The Vulkan Mobile backend has a lot of known bugs. Bug reports.

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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. Bug reports. As a tester, you are encouraged to open bug reports if you experience issues with 3.5 The main changes coming in Godot 3.5

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 16, 2022

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. As a tester, you are encouraged to open bug reports if you experience issues with 3.4.4 stable builds should be notarized again.

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Render Shaders Bug Build 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.

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Alpha Dev Shaders Beta 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 20, 2022

We expect it will have more bugs for the time being. Reading from SCREEN_TEXTURE and DEPTH_TEXTURE in spatial shaders. For now, the focus remains on bug fixing and ensuring that we can release 4.0 As it is much newer, the OpenGL 3 renderer hasn't been tested as widely as the Vulkan-based renderer. ReflectionProbes. LightmapGI.

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Render Beta Feature Bug 63

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 2, 2022

Shaders: Rename hint_albedo , hint_white / black in shaders ( GH-60803 ). 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 4.0 Rendering: Fix normal and tangent blending in blend shapes ( GH-61217 ).

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Alpha Dev Bug Render 52

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. Rendering: Use proper indices for lights, decals, and reflection probes in mobile scene shader ( GH-70929 ). Bug reports.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 10, 2021

But like with any major milestone, there are some bugs which are worth addressing with low-risk maintenance releases to further improve the experience for all Godot users. x releases , focuses purely on bug fixes, and aims to preserve compatibility. As there is no new feature and only bug fixes, this RC 1 should be as stable as 3.3-stable

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

beta 5 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 3.3.3-stable HTML5: Fix bug in AudioWorklet when reading output buffer ( GH-52696 ). Bug reports. While we're busy working on both the upcoming Godot 4.0

Bug 52

Bug Scripting Texture Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 20, 2022

We expect it will have more bugs for the time being. Reading from SCREEN_TEXTURE and DEPTH_TEXTURE in spatial shaders. For now, the focus remains on bug fixing and ensuring that we can release 4.0 As it is much newer, the OpenGL 3 renderer hasn’t been tested as widely as the Vulkan-based renderer. ReflectionProbes. LightmapGI.

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Render Beta Feature Bug 60

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 1, 2021

beta 5 available now), we still cherry-pick important bug fixes to the 3.3 x releases , focuses purely on bug fixes, and aims to preserve compatibility. HTML5: Fix bug in AudioWorklet when reading output buffer ( GH-52696 ). Rendering: Prevent shaders from generating code before the constructor finishes ( GH-52475 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 15, 2021

But like with any major milestone, there are some bugs which are worth addressing with low-risk maintenance releases to further improve the experience for all Godot users. x releases , focuses purely on bug fixes, and aims to preserve compatibility. As there is no new feature and only bug fixes, this RC 2 should be as stable as 3.3-stable

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Polygon Bug Render Build 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

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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 ). See the GitHub issue tracker for a list of known bugs in the 4.0 Below we list a few of them that may be important to a lot of users: GDScript's rewrite has a number of outstanding bugs which may affect your testing.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 14, 2014

This release does not mean that Godot is as stable as it can be, but ensures that bugs are rare enough to find and, and with easy workarounds that do not affect the workflow. So, in order to help the engine and the community grow, please mention Godot to your peers and in the communities you usually take part of. The plan for 1.1

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 17, 2023

Video games have become a prominent form of entertainment, deeply ingrained in pop culture, and have shed the previous stigma of being a time-wasting activity. Nowadays, gaming surpasses mainstream movies in terms of audience engagement, and popular game titles consistently generate substantial revenue.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

would focus mainly on fixing those new bugs to ensure that all Godot users can have the most stable experience possible. RichTextLabel: Fix center alignment bug ( GH-40892 ). Shaders: Fix specular render_mode for Visual Shaders ( GH-41536 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 11, 2021

Do you have prior experience with other game engines? I began making games with Game Maker 8, then switched to Unity to create my first 3D game and kept using it until I tried Godot. Now I use Godot as my only Game Engine tool. I am staring at you shader compilation and parenting errors.

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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 ). See the GitHub issue tracker for a list of known bugs in the 4.0 Bug reports. Core: Remove VARIANT_ARG* macros ( GH-58929 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

x branch to develop and publish their games today, so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience. 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, Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader).

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