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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!

Beta

Beta Dev Lightmap Baking

Maintenance release: Godot 4.4.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 26, 2025

GUI: Use Viewport s default texture filter/repeat in GUI tooltips ( GH-103636 ). Rendering: Use separate WorkThreadPool for shader compiler ( GH-103506 ). Rendering: Fix Metal handling of cube textures; assert equal dimensions ( GH-104341 ). Shaders: Fix 2D instance params crashing using outside of main() ( GH-103348 ).

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Render Shaders Bug Animation

Release candidate: Godot 4.4.1 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 14, 2025

GUI: Use Viewport s default texture filter/repeat in GUI tooltips ( GH-103636 ). Rendering: Use separate WorkThreadPool for shader compiler ( GH-103506 ). Shaders: Fix 2D instance params crashing using outside of main() ( GH-103348 ). Shaders: Fix 2D instance params crashing using outside of main() ( GH-103348 ).

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Shaders Render Bug Data

Shader display problem

Cocos

AUGUST 12, 2023

On a smaller texture, the distortion is greater than on a larger texture. The HelloWorld texture has a size of 196 X 270. One shader is used, only the sprite texture changes. Do you need some tweaks or is this a bug? I scaled it up in the graphics editor to 400 x 554 and the distortion is barely noticeable.

Shaders

Shaders Texture Sprite Bug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 8

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Import: Fix group reimport bug affecting AtlasTexture ( GH-68324 ). Import: Fix swapped color channels in ETC1/ETC2 textures, etcpak expects BGRA data ( GH-69448 ). Rendering: Implement CAMERA_VISIBLE_LAYERS as built-in shader variable ( GH-67387 ). See the GitHub issue tracker for a list of known bugs in the 4.0

Beta

Beta Dev Render Shaders

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 16

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

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Custom sky shaders in Godot 4.0

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. Assign a panorama texture to the material and you are all done! It is easy to tweak and update and uses a lightweight shader to avoid consuming GPU resources. Sky Shaders.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 15

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 25, 2023

Editor: Fix various gradient editor bugs ( GH-70548 ). Rendering: Decrement texture_binding count when using screen textures ( GH-71764 ). Shaders: Fix code generation for ProximityRange node in visual shader ( GH-71760 ). Shaders: Clean up shader parameter remap ( GH-71797 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Shaders

Annoying feature/bug?

Cocos

AUGUST 10, 2023

Sorry to litter up the forums with a question like this but I couldn’t find anything about it anywhere online… So… I have made some shaders that use time to essentially animate themselves. Unless I click and hold the right mouse button the shader doesn’t move or update in the scene. (I

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Introducing the Betsy GPU texture compressor

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

x branch of Ogre aka ogre-next and I wrote Betsy, a GPU texture compressor that runs on GPUs. This work was commissioned by Godot Engine through the Software Freedom Conservancy to solve a major complaint: importing textures is excruciantly slow and takes many minutes. What is texture compression and why you care. ktx A.etc2.ktx

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Texture Shaders Code Mobile

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 14

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’).

Beta

Beta Dev Animation Animation

Why I still use Unity

Radiator Blog

APRIL 18, 2022

Being able to pinpoint bugs in the core Unreal Engine code, fix them, and submit patches to Epic is how modern software development works. Comparatively, Unity is closed source, and even if you go to the trouble of filing a bug report you'll still have to wait a year for an official bug fix if you're lucky.

Engineering

Engineering Engine Bug Rigging

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

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 The most common types of streaming are: Texture streaming : All textures are loaded in a tiny size by default. Textures which haven’t been used for some frames are freed instead.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ). 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.

Beta

Beta Dev Collision Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: Add texture reading code to OpenGL3 renderer for web and mobile ( GH-68138 ). 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.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Bug

Migrating from Range Profiler to GPU Trace in Nsight Graphics

Nvidia

APRIL 20, 2023

The Range Profiler’s pie chart shows instructions executed, per shader stage. GPU Trace can measure total instructions, but a per-shader stage decomposition is only available in the Occupancy chart. On modern GPUs, the L1TEX cache is a combined L1 Data Cache that contains a Load/Store Unit + Texture Unit.

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Graphics Shaders Texture Data

Godot Tactics RPG – 01. Intro & Setup

The Liquid Fire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Though there will be some small tweaks and fixes, and with any luck, not too many new bugs. We’re not really doing anything with shaders or post processing in the tutorial, so depending on where you want to take the tutorial later, its really up to you which you choose. For now, we’ll create the textures for the 3d objects.

Point and Click

Point and Click Texture Mesh Tile

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #3

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 21, 2018

implement spatial shaders. While a most of the 2D engine was already working, some bugs kept the editor from being fully usable and also caused problems in regular game projects. 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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Mesh Shaders Render Bug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ). 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.

Beta

Beta Dev Collision Render

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #2

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. start work on shader compiler. implement more shader features. implement more shader features. The fragment shader then calculates the associated UV coordinate for each fragment.

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How to get started with Unity Game Development – Tips & Tricks from iXie Experts

iXie gaming

AUGUST 17, 2023

Use asset stores wisely Unity Asset Store offers a wide range of free and paid assets, such as 3D models, textures, sound effects, and plugins. Custom shaders Gain control over your game’s visual style and performance by creating custom shaders. Be mindful of memory usage, especially on mobile platforms.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.3.4 RC 1

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 Editor: Fix preview grid and preserve source texture margins in SpriteFrames editor ( GH-52910 ). Bug reports. releases (with a dev snapshot for 3.4

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Bug Scripting Texture Build

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.4

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. Editor: Fix preview grid and preserve source texture margins in SpriteFrames editor ( GH-52910 ). HTML5: Fix bug in AudioWorklet when reading output buffer ( GH-52696 ).

Scripting

Scripting Bug Texture Shaders

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 8, 2022

Note: You might need to delete your.godot/imported folder to force reimporting all your textures with the new class name. 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 ). Bug reports.

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Alpha Dev Render Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.1 RC 1

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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Bug Build Polygon Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.3 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

GUI: Fix TextureButton focus texture logic ( GH-56472 ). Import: Fix glTF scene export crash on null normal texture ( GH-56380 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader compile error with Oren Nayar + Vertex Lighting ( GH-56802 ). XR: Fix external textures being freed by Godot ( GH-56148 ). Bug reports.

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Render Texture Build Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 12, 2020

Fix for the dangling Variant bug , kudos to Pedro ( RandomShaper ). Note: If using C#, the.csproj file will be converted with some bug fixes which makes it incompatible with earlier Godot 3.2 Fix for the dangling Variant bug. 2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ). Notably, Godot 3.2.2 and 3.2.1.

Beta

Beta Bug Debug Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 18, 2020

Fix for the dangling Variant bug , kudos to Pedro ( RandomShaper ). Note: If using C#, the.csproj file will be converted with some bug fixes which makes it incompatible with earlier Godot 3.2 Fix for the dangling Variant bug. 2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ). Notably, Godot 3.2.2 and 3.2.1.

Beta

Beta Debug Bug Build

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

This beta 5 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2020

Fix for the dangling Variant bug , kudos to Pedro ( RandomShaper ). Note: If using C#, the.csproj file will be converted with some bug fixes which makes it incompatible with earlier Godot 3.2 Fix for the dangling Variant bug. 2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ). Notably, Godot 3.2.2 and 3.2.1.

Beta

Beta Debug Bug Point and Click

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 8

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Import: Fix group reimport bug affecting AtlasTexture ( GH-68324 ). Import: Fix swapped color channels in ETC1/ETC2 textures, etcpak expects BGRA data ( GH-69448 ). Rendering: Implement CAMERA_VISIBLE_LAYERS as built-in shader variable ( GH-67387 ). See the GitHub issue tracker for a list of known bugs in the 4.0

Beta

Beta Dev Render Shaders

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.1 RC 2

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

Assassin’s Creed Unity Stuttering: 4 Ways to Fix It Easily

Game Errors

MARCH 15, 2023

Bugs in the game – In many cases, it has been found that Unity has bugs that trigger the stuttering issue in the game. Incorrect in-game settings – Keeping the in-game settings extremely low may cause the stuttering of fps drops issue in Assasin’s Creed Unity. How do I fix stuttering in Assassin’s Creed Unity?

FPS

FPS Texture Graphics Bug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 24, 2022

Animation: Fix blend animation to solve TRS track bug & blend order inconsistency ( GH-57675 ). Rendering: Add sky cover texture for ProceduralSkyMaterial ( GH-58018 ). Visual Shader: Add _get_func_code / _is_available virtual functions to custom nodes ( GH-57769 ). Bug reports.

Alpha

Alpha Dev Bug Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.3 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

GUI: Fix TextureButton focus texture logic ( GH-56472 ). Import: Fix glTF scene export crash on null normal texture ( GH-56380 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix buffer upload size bugs affecting blendshapes ( GH-58085 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader compile error with Oren Nayar + Vertex Lighting ( GH-56802 ). Bug reports.

Render

Render Texture Bug Scripting

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.3

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

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! If you notice any mapping issue, please file a bug report. Editor translation updates. Known incompatibilities.

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Bug Build Collision Texture

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. Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #4

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 16, 2018

Yes, some more invalid OpenGL state was fixed and a first attempt to get spatial shaders working and then this could be seen. This point actually took most of the development time this month, it was a rather frustrating and iterative process to find out how to best handle materials and shaders. The TIME variable in shaders?

Shaders

Shaders Render Mesh Code

Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

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. courtesy of Pedro J.

Shaders

Shaders Render Feature Mesh

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

This beta 4 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

. • New and standard-material will default to Surface Shader. See the documentation “Built-in shaders”: [link] • Tooltip that supplements common material parameters. Fixed bug with import plugin script exceeding 500KB. Fixed an issue where the auto-atlas texture compression configuration failed.

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Render Baking Lightmap 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.

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Lightmap Engineering Engine Mesh

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 7, 2020

release with bug fixes in 3.2.1 , we're now looking at integrating some new features that didn't make it into the 3.2 Fix for the dangling Variant bug , kudos to Pedro ( RandomShaper ) ( added in 3.2.2 Note: If using C#, the.csproj file will be converted with some bug fixes which makes it incompatible with earlier Godot 3.2

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Debug

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.

Lightmap

Lightmap UX Shaders Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Maintenance release: Godot 4.4.1

Trending Sources

Release candidate: Godot 4.4.1 RC 1

Shader display problem

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 8

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 16

Custom sky shaders in Godot 4.0

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 15

Annoying feature/bug?

Introducing the Betsy GPU texture compressor

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 14

Why I still use Unity

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

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Migrating from Range Profiler to GPU Trace in Nsight Graphics

Godot Tactics RPG – 01. Intro & Setup

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #3

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #2

How to get started with Unity Game Development – Tips & Tricks from iXie Experts

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.4 RC 1

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.4

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 4

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.1 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.3 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 8

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.1 RC 2

Assassin’s Creed Unity Stuttering: 4 Ways to Fix It Easily

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 5

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.3 RC 2

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #4

Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Cocos Creator 3.7.1 Released

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 2

GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

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