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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

This means contributors are encouraged to focus their efforts on fixing regressions and other outstanding bugs. We wont risk merging any new features or risky bug fixes until after we release 4.4 Breaking changes Animation Audio C# Core Editor GDScript Import Input Physics Platforms Rendering and shaders XR New in Beta 1!

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Beta Dev Lightmap Baking

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Lightmap baking improvements Clay John changed the logic for baking direct lighting in LightmapGI to spread it over multiple frames, avoiding a spike of computation that can lead the OS to trigger TDR , resulting in a crash of the GPU context ( GH-102257 ). Shaders: Fix source_color default value ( GH-101642 ).

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Beta Dev Baking Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: Add optional UV2 logic for lightmapping to primitive shapes ( GH-67975 ). 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.

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Beta Dev Render Bug

Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

supports advanced global illumination techniques such as lightmapping (including SH lightmapping), Voxel GI (which is fully real-time) and SDFGI (which is a single click, open world GI solution). When doing tasks such as shader editing, VFX (particles) or animation, there is a large difference between Godot and engines such as Unreal.

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AAA Game Development Game Developer Development

GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2022

Also, there are some bugs to be fixed. Project: Allow undocking the Script editor and the Shader editor. In this project, I'll focus to make the Script editor and the Shader editor undockable, and keep the undocked windows after editor restarts. Detaching the Script editor and the Shader editor is done for the most part.

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Lightmap UX Shaders Debug

Cocos Creator 3.7.1 Released

Cocos

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

fixes many bugs that were found by the staff and developers when upgrading to 3.7. Cocos Creator 3.7.1 We appreciate your help and work to improve the engine. We also have added a new demo project that will share many of the new upgrades that have come with 3.7 and previous updates. You can download it from the Cocos Store.

Lightmap

Lightmap Engineering Engine Mesh

Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

When the user turns on high-precision lightmap baking, 16-bit colors are used instead of 8-bit colors, and AO channels are baked separately. Still, the disadvantage is that it will increase the lightmap package. New and standard-material will default to Surface Shader. Fixed bug with import plugin script exceeding 500KB.

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Render Baking Lightmap Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This beta 6 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 ).

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Beta Dev Mesh Render

Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

x updates with bug fixes, but also new features as long as they don't require breaking compatibility. x), we're going back to a stricter application of semantic versioning and those releases will only contain bug fixes and usability/documentation improvements. When we released Godot 3.2 This led us to have a quite feature-packed 3.2.2

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Collision Baking Lightmap Render

Maintenance release: Godot 3.0.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Several new GLSL built-in functions are exposed to the shader language : radians degrees asinh acosh atanh exp2 log2 roundEven. A button has been added to the debugger to copy the error messages, useful for pasting them in bug reports or other community platforms. Here are some of the more visible bugs fixed in this release.

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Beta Bug Lightmap Build

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

release, we decided to take the chance to look at our long list of features and bug fixes that could not be implemented because it involved breaking compatibility. Materials and shaders. No lightmaps or anything of the sort are required, providing a very quick and efficient workflow. Materials and shaders. GPU particles.

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Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

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). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: Add optional UV2 logic for lightmapping to primitive shapes ( GH-67975 ). 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.

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Beta Dev Render Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Animation: Fix bugs in AnimationNodeTransition's behavior ( GH-52543 , GH-52555 ). HTML5: Fix bug in AudioWorklet when reading output buffer ( GH-52696 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Animation: Fix bugs in AnimationNodeTransition's behavior ( GH-52543 , GH-52555 ). HTML5: Fix bug in AudioWorklet when reading output buffer ( GH-52696 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The goal between now and the stable release will be to continue polishing the current feature set by fixing bugs and optimizing performance. We ask that everyone join us in that – the sooner we fix the blocking bugs and release 4.0, We ask that everyone join us in that – the sooner we fix the blocking bugs and release 4.0,

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Beta Engineering Engine Feature

Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

Visual shader editor. Lots and lots of driver bugs in mobile and desktop. Even modern flagship devices still ship with crippling driver bugs. Some shader features will not work and throw an error when used (which is to be expected when using an older OpenGL version). Use baked lightmaps instead. Revamped 2D editor.

Feature

Feature Render Editing Shaders

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #6

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2018

fixed a GDNative binary compatibility bug. Because now the mipmap-level (the amount of "small-ness" of the texture) has a different use case we need to access it manually in the shaders rather than letting OpenGL handle that for us automatically. The cubemap filtering shader can be found here. Done May 2018.

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Pixel Texture Render Shaders

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Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

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Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

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