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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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

Flag dirty dependencies when GeometryInstance dependencies change in renderer ( GH-71581 ). 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: Fix LCD font AA on OpenGL renderer ( GH-72125 ).

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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. specifically.

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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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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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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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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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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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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 2023

For shaders, we removed the now-redundant SCREEN_TEXTURE , DEPTH_TEXTURE , and NORMAL_ROUGHNESS_TEXTURE ( GH-70967 ). 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 ).

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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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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.

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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. Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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Nvidia

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Fast, Modular and Differentiable Shader Programming. Fast, Modular and Differentiable Shader Programming. The paper shows how a single language can serve as a unified platform for real-time, inverse, and differentiable rendering. Build differentiable renderers from existing graphics code.

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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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Game Errors

JANUARY 28, 2023

Shaders are quick applications that modify how in-game objects are rendered on the graphics processing unit (GPU). If Dead Space Remake stuck on building shaders, it may indicate that the game is having problems loading or processing the visual data. Why is Building Shaders Taking Forever in Dead Space Remake?

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Shaders Build Graphics Render 52

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

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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: Fix polyline not supporting closed polygons and not having a uniform width ( GH-62236 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 9, 2020

While Juan ( reduz ) has been busily working on Vulkan, the rest of the rendering team have not been idle. They have been working on many bug fixes and some improvements to the OpenGL rendering in the 3.x Up until now, the GLES2 2D renderer has been drawing primitives (such as rectangles) on an individual basis.

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Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

This version optimizes some rendering and lighting capabilities, fixes a series of key issues recently reported by users, and recommends that all v3.x Engine • Added DebugView at runtime UI control rendering debugging function. Skip rendering when the UI element Opacity is 0. Skip rendering when the UI element Opacity is 0.

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Cocos

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Two bugs were found on iOS in Cocos Creator 3.8.4. I set up a custom render pipeline to use GaussianBlur in my project. Custom shader alpha issue NewProject.zip (90.8 I found an increase in memory when changing scenes, but I can’t find a solution. sys.garbageCollect’ was executed before and after changing the scene.

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Cocos

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Two bugs were found on iOS in Cocos Creator 3.8.4. I set up a custom render pipeline to use GaussianBlur in my project. Custom shader alpha issue NewProject.zip (90.8 I found an increase in memory when changing scenes, but I can’t find a solution. sys.garbageCollect’ was executed before and after changing the scene.

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Alpha Shaders Render Bug 52

Cocos

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Two bugs were found on iOS in Cocos Creator 3.8.4. I set up a custom render pipeline to use GaussianBlur in my project. Custom shader alpha issue NewProject.zip (90.8 I found an increase in memory when changing scenes, but I can’t find a solution. sys.garbageCollect’ was executed before and after changing the scene.

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Alpha Shaders Render Bug 52

Cocos

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Two bugs were found on iOS in Cocos Creator 3.8.4. I set up a custom render pipeline to use GaussianBlur in my project. Custom shader alpha issue NewProject.zip (90.8 I found an increase in memory when changing scenes, but I can’t find a solution. sys.garbageCollect’ was executed before and after changing the scene.

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Alpha Shaders Render Bug 52

Cocos

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Two bugs were found on iOS in Cocos Creator 3.8.4. I set up a custom render pipeline to use GaussianBlur in my project. Custom shader alpha issue NewProject.zip (90.8 I found an increase in memory when changing scenes, but I can’t find a solution. sys.garbageCollect’ was executed before and after changing the scene.

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Alpha Shaders Render Bug 52

Cocos

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Two bugs were found on iOS in Cocos Creator 3.8.4. I set up a custom render pipeline to use GaussianBlur in my project. Custom shader alpha issue NewProject.zip (90.8 I found an increase in memory when changing scenes, but I can’t find a solution. sys.garbageCollect’ was executed before and after changing the scene.

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Alpha Shaders Render Bug 52

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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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

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

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Apart from that, the month was mostly spent on implementing more 2D items in the renderer as well as working on getting custom shaders running. add line rendering. add ninepatch rendering. add polygon and GUI primitive rendering. start work on shader compiler. add circle rendering. render meshes.

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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: Add Variable Rate Shading support ( GH-60901 ). Rendering: Force regenerating shader cache when updating Godot ( GH-62848 ). Bug reports.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 21, 2018

This time with the early beginnings of 3D rendering in GLES2 and some GDNative ecosystem updates. 2D rendering stabilized. implement spatial shaders. 2D rendering stabilized. The main bug that was keeping me busy for weeks was related to a shader bind that was not descriptive enough when blitting a viewport to the screen.

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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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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

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. API documentation updates.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 16, 2018

In this case I'm talking about a rather big refactoring of how materials are handled in the GLES2 renderer. perspective rendering. perspective rendering. stabilize 3D rendering (unshaded workflow). perspective rendering. The TIME variable in shaders? Done March 2018. C++ bindings for NativeScript 1.1.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

Same deal as usual, lots of bugs fixed and more refactoring and feature work. Rendering: Octahedral normal/tangent compression ( GH-60309 ). Editor: Improvements to shader editor ( GH-63582 ). Rendering: Octahedral normal/tangent compression ( GH-60309 ). Shaders: Quality of life Visual Shaders updates ( GH-63999 ).

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Alpha Dev Shaders Beta 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. and backported to 3.5.

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