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. Core: Add PROPERTY_USAGE_NEVER_DUPLICATE flag and use for script ( GH-71142 ). Shaders: Several shader preprocessor parser fixes and improvements ( GH-72058 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 22, 2019

release, the Visual Shader editor was recreated from the ashes of its Godot 2.x While usable and packed with visual features, Visual Shaders lacked many features from their Shader (script) big brother. All the added nodes are compatible with pre-existing visual shaders. With the Godot 3.1 x ancestor. Members menu.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

The goal for Godot is to provide a great set of building blocks that can be used and combined to create more specialized game functions and tools. Visual scripting. While Godot had visual scripting in the past, we found that the form we had implemented didn’t really prove adequate for the needs of the community, so it was discontinued.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Porting: Enable raycast/embree module build for Web and Windows x86_32 ( GH-69169 ). Rendering: Implement CAMERA_VISIBLE_LAYERS as built-in shader variable ( GH-67387 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Expose emulated *Unorm4x8 GLSL functions in non-Android builds ( GH-69521 ). NET 6 build (C#, GDScript, GDExtension). GH-68870 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Be sure to report anything that stops working as expected in your scripts. They've been building upon Godot 4.0 Buildsystem: Allow building X11 without Vulkan ( GH-70677 ). Editor: Fix error when dropping script into script editor ( GH-70580 ). GDScript: Register enum type names in release build ( GH-64253 ).

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Jaunty Bear Games

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

There are many aspects to consider when building a game. This requires a lot of knowledge, skills and time to build and integrate all the components. Fortunately the Unity 3D platform has a great selection of packages and assets to accelerate the build of tools, models, shaders, sound effects, animations etc.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2023

The list of all global script classes (and their icons) is no longer stored in the project.godot file. Buildsystem: Fix feature build profile being parsed too late (and rename the option to build_profile ) ( GH-71508 ). Core: Move global script class cache to separate file ( GH-70557 ). NET 6 build (C#, GDScript, GDExtension).

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

Special plane shader With Porco Rosso being such a great source of inspiration it feels only natural to have the game also look like a Ghibli film. ” Elaborating on the game’s aesthetics, Hartley feels particularly proud of the plane shader. ” “For just two developers I think we took on too much work”, shares Hartley.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

But we're not there yet and we'll keep having frequent alpha builds until we're ready to slap the beta label on the engine. Update 2022-07-29 @ 10:30 UTC: A regression was found in the original build that prevented exporting projects to Windows and Linux with official templates. Grouping annotations for shaders ( uniform_group ).

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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 ). Editor: Clean up EditorFileSystem script parsing ( GH-71628 ). Downloads The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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Cocos

APRIL 25, 2023

Most of my time working in cocos has been devoted to shader work. My client engineer is also super busy building the rest of the game and doesn’t have time to look into my question right now. I have intermediate knowledge with C# and have worked in “another popular engine” for years but Cocos is brand new to me.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Be sure to report anything that stops working as expected in your scripts. They’ve been building upon Godot 4.0 Buildsystem: Allow building X11 without Vulkan ( GH-70677 ). Editor: Fix error when dropping script into script editor ( GH-70580 ). GDScript: Register enum type names in release build ( GH-64253 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

A couple fixes to the text resource loader which could impact notably reloading scripts ( GH-71170 ). iOS: Check Xcode output and display errors if code signing, project build or.ipa export failed ( GH-71212 ). Visual Shader: Add few improvements for VisualShaderNodeParticleRandomness ( GH-71123 ). Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 8, 2022

Editor: Fix showing Extend Script option without script attached to the node ( GH-58821 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader state caching when blend shapes used ( GH-58808 ) [regression fix]. Mono build (C# support + all the above).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 16, 2022

Editor: Fix showing Extend Script option without script attached to the node ( GH-58821 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader state caching when blend shapes used ( GH-58808 ) [regression fix]. Mono build (C# support + all the above).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Editor: Fix reload scripts error after saving in external editor ( GH-68203 ). Rendering: Enable mipmaps in cubemap roughness shader ( GH-68511 ). Rendering: Properly set TIME shader uniform when rendering shadows ( GH-68574 ). NET 6 build (C#, GDScript, GDExtension). XR: Add support for OpenGL to OpenXR ( GH-67775 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2022

So we're starting the beta testing phase with this already significant set of changes, and we'll have frequent beta builds to polish them for the stable release. Some more features are still being worked on and will be included in future beta builds. A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J.

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Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

build templates. New and standard-material will default to Surface Shader. Android Studio will run in the Release configuration if the build panel is insufficient to select the Debug option. See the documentation “Built-in shaders”: [link] • Tooltip that supplements common material parameters.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). " error in remote script debugger ( GH-52416 ). LSP: Fix completion crashing on scene-less scripts ( GH-51333 ). Rendering: Prevent shaders from generating code before the constructor finishes ( GH-52475 ). Mono build (C# support + all the above).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This beta 6 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. C#: macOS: Mono builds are now universal builds with support for both x86_64 and arm64 architectures ( GH-49248 ). C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 10, 2021

Here are some of the main changes in this build: Animation: Fix skinning initialization in MeshInstance when loaded from thread ( GH-48217 ). Batching: Fix light pass modulate , a potential crash, and polygon rotation from vertex shader ( GH-48151 , GH-48125 , GH-48457 )). HTML5: Fix build with Emscripten 2.0.17+ ( GH-48320 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

This beta 5 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. C#: macOS: Mono builds are now universal builds with support for both x86_64 and arm64 architectures ( GH-49248 ). Core: Promote object validity checks to release builds ( GH-51796 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 2022

alpha builds and maintenance releases for the stable branch ( 3.4.3 , 3.4.4 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 ).

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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). C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 21, 2018

implement spatial shaders. 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. When calling methods of a base class some indirection through an owner of the script had to be made. Rust binding guidance. 3D viewport drawing.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

While this process is ongoing, we'll keep releasing alpha builds so here's 4.0 This alpha doesn't include official builds with.NET 6 support yet, as we still have more work to do to enable this. alpha builds. Core: Make property_*_revert methods multilevel and expose them for scripting ( GH-64334 ). What's new.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 15, 2021

If all goes well with this RC 2, the stable build should come early next week. Batching: Fix light pass modulate , a potential crash, polygon rotation from vertex shader, and 2D skinning with unrigged polygons ( GH-48151 , GH-48125 , GH-48457 , GH-48647 )). Core: Expose Shape.get_debug_mesh() to the scripting API ( GH-48316 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

This beta 4 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. C#: macOS: Mono builds are now universal builds with support for both x86_64 and arm64 architectures ( GH-49248 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2022

alpha builds , we're trying to release 3.5 beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). We're getting closer to the Godot 3.5 Like with 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 11, 2022

While this process is ongoing, we'll keep releasing alpha builds so here's 4.0 Add often used built-ins to spatial shaders ( NODE_POSITION_WORLD , CAMERA_POSITION_WORLD , CAMERA_DIRECTION_WORLD , NODE_POSITION_VIEW ) ( GH-63597 ). alpha builds. Editor: Keep property values when extending script ( GH-43081 ). What's new.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

A couple fixes to the text resource loader which could impact notably reloading scripts ( GH-71170 ). iOS: Check Xcode output and display errors if code signing, project build or.ipa export failed ( GH-71212 ). Visual Shader: Add few improvements for VisualShaderNodeParticleRandomness ( GH-71123 ). Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

C#: macOS: Mono builds are now universal builds with support for both x86_64 and arm64 architectures ( GH-49248 ). C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). Core: Promote object validity checks to release builds ( GH-51796 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

C#: macOS: Mono builds are now universal builds with support for both x86_64 and arm64 architectures ( GH-49248 ). C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). Core: Promote object validity checks to release builds ( GH-51796 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

At this stage it's really close to stable, we just had a few more regression fixes merged since the previous build that warrant another build for testing: Android: Address remaining scoped storage regressions ( GH-63480 ). and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

C#: Fix restore not called when building game projects ( GH-40596 ) [regression fix]. Build HTML5 templates with threads_enabled=yes to test it. macOS: Add support for the Apple Silicon (ARM64) build target ( GH-39943 ). Note: ARM64 binaries are not included in macOS editor or template builds yet. Bug reports.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2021

Batching: Fix light pass modulate , a potential crash, polygon rotation from vertex shader, and 2D skinning with unrigged polygons ( GH-48151 , GH-48125 , GH-48457 , GH-48647 )). Core: Expose Shape.get_debug_mesh() to the scripting API ( GH-48316 ). HTML5: Fix build with Emscripten 2.0.17+ ( GH-48320 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

alpha builds , we're trying to release 3.5 beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. In this build, we also built it for 32-bit platforms (armv7 and x86) as there was some demand for it, so you'll find the APK is a bit heavier. Like with 4.0

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