Collision, Concepts and Mesh - Game Developers Network

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

GH-98163 ) CSGMesh3D now explicitly requires the mesh to be manifold. A manifold mesh must be closed, have each edge connected to only two faces, and have volume. Commonly, this means that it needs to be a watertight mesh without any holes and where you can never see the backside of the triangles. (

Beta

Beta Dev Lightmap Baking

Object Placement on Terrain (Mesh)

Mnenad

JANUARY 25, 2018

This chapter is all about how I solved it (so far) to be able to place all kinds of assets like 3D-meshes or self-growing fractal seeds on the terrain. Let’s assume we do it for each vertex on a mesh with let’s say 10’000 vertices. Asset placement - depending on mesh height vertices. Before we start.

Terrain

Terrain Mesh Asset Shaders

Navigation Server for Godot 4.0

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Runtime navigation mesh baking. Collision avoidance support. If you're unfamiliar with the concept of "servers" used in the Godot architecture, you can refer to this past devblog and the documentation. Some new concepts appeared in the Godot world - let's talk about these to get a good overview. What's new.

Agent

Agent Baking Collision Mesh

Godot's new renderer, progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Write a more efficient Mesh format, which allows faster loading/saving. Implement Particle Shaders, with support for: Sorting, Collision and Soft Particles. uses the more flexible concepts of in/outs (while ES 2.0 It manages resource storage such as textures, meshes, skeletons, etc. Implement Decals. OpenGL ES 3.0

Render

Render Shaders Texture Mesh

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

A long-standing Bullet regression has finally been fixed ( GH-56801 ), solving issues with KinematicBody collisions on edges (e.g. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. seen as small bumps between tiles on a GridMap).

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. And for more advanced use cases, there is now also TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add Word Art to your scenes ;). and backported to 3.5. Scene unique nodes ( GH-60527 ).

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 17, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. And for more advanced use cases, there is now also TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add Word Art to your scenes ;). and backported to 3.5. Scene unique nodes ( GH-60527 ).

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. And for more advanced use cases, there is now also TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add Word Art to your scenes ;). and backported to 3.5. Scene unique nodes ( GH-60527 ).

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. And for more advanced use cases, there is now also TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add Word Art to your scenes ;). and backported to 3.5. Scene unique nodes ( GH-60527 ).

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. And for more advanced use cases, there is now also TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add Word Art to your scenes ;). and backported to 3.5. Scene unique nodes ( GH-60527 ).

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. And for more advanced use cases, there is now also TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add Word Art to your scenes ;). and backported to 3.5. Scene unique nodes ( GH-60527 ).

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

In particular, it solves a major pain point for new Godot users by no longer offering scaling handles for collision shapes, but letting you directly change their size instead. Godot now supports 2D meshes , which can be used from code or converted from sprites to avoid drawing large transparent areas. Revamped filesystem dock.

Feature

Feature Render Editing Shaders

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

We recommend that new users start with our official Step by Step tutorial to learn the basic concepts of Godot. Skin support allows multiple meshes to share a single skeleton. formats permit more than 4 bone weights per vertex, such meshes are currently unsupported in Godot 3.2. The same content is also available as the 3.2

Feature

Feature Render Shaders Bug

Lesson 4: Creating and Using Scripts

Game Designing

AUGUST 23, 2023

Summary In this Unity Scripts tutorial, we explain the main concepts that apply to scripting in Unity. By default, it needs to render, so it needs its mesh renderer as well as it comes with a collider by default. So if there was collision to happen in the scene, this would have a method to handle it.

Scripting

Scripting Point and Click Localization Code

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Object Placement on Terrain (Mesh)

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Navigation Server for Godot 4.0

Godot's new renderer, progress report #1

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 4

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 5

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 7

Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Lesson 4: Creating and Using Scripts

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