Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Lots of rendering changes. Our rendering contributors keep working on finalizing the implementation of all expected features for Godot 4.0, notably with the following major changes by Clay John ( clayjohn ) and Bastiaan Olij ( BastiaanOlij ): Emulate double precision for regular rendering operation when REAL_T_IS_DOUBLE ( GH-66178 ).

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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. This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter. This should show up initially as a quad.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

Notably, it fixes some rendering regressions with transparent materials, and crashing iOS templates and Web editor build in RC 2. This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter. Jump to the Downloads section.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Portal occlusion culling. More rendering improvements. Revamped collision layer grid in the inspector. Portal occlusion culling. Although raster (pixel based) occlusion culling will not be available until Godot 4, some geometrical occlusion methods are being added to Godot 3.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

rendering may be slower for a second or two, but the slowdown will not be nearly as bad as the typical hiccup caused by classic synchronous compilation. This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

You can enable it in the Project Settings ( rendering/gles3/shaders/shader_compilation_mode ). rendering may be slower for a second or two, but the slowdown will not be nearly as bad as the typical hiccup caused by classic synchronous compilation. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. and backported to 3.5.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). Rendering: Import option to split vertex buffer stream in positions and attributes ( GH-46574 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

rendering may be slower for a second or two, but the slowdown will not be nearly as bad as the typical hiccup caused by classic synchronous compilation. This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). Rendering: Import option to split vertex buffer stream in positions and attributes ( GH-46574 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Notable changes are in-editor class reference translations (so far Chinese (Simplified), Spanish, and some French), some new rendering features (high quality glow mode, 3D point light attenuation option), and a number of C# marshalling fixes. Physics: Improved logic for KinematicBody collision recovery depth ( GH-53451 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

Note that the project settings from the rendering/quality/2d section have now been moved to rendering/2d , so if you used any of those, you will need to re-enable them under the new section in 3.2.4. New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. Multiple fixes to one-way collisions. New CPU lightmapper.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Physics: Improved logic for KinematicBody collision recovery depth ( GH-53451 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 17, 2022

This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter. Switch on physics/common/physics_interpolation , and Godot will now automatically interpolate objects on rendered frames so they look super smooth. and backported to 3.5.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

rendering may be slower for a second or two, but the slowdown will not be nearly as bad as the typical hiccup caused by classic synchronous compilation. This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

GLES3 renderer). Physics: Improved logic for KinematicBody collision recovery depth ( GH-53451 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

GLES3 renderer). Physics: Improved logic for KinematicBody collision recovery depth ( GH-53451 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2021

New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. If you experience a regression in either physics or rendering, you can try these Project Settings to revert back to the previous Octree-based approach and possibly fix the issue. Multiple fixes to one-way collisions. Rendering: New dynamic BVH ( GH-44901 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 19, 2021

New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. If you experience a regression in either physics or rendering, you can try these Project Settings to revert back to the previous Octree-based approach and possibly fix the issue. Multiple fixes to one-way collisions. Rendering: New dynamic BVH ( GH-44901 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

This order of events can't be escaped, as logic affects physics and rendering needs both information from logic and physics to display. Rendering, while mostly a sequential process (GPUs are sequential), can be parallelized in a few places, like frustum culling and (in modern APIs such as Vulkan, Metal or DirectX12) creation of command lists.

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Awesome Tuts

APRIL 8, 2022

It means you type a string manually every time you need it e.g. when checking collisions, getting a game object in the scene, getting a child object from a parent, etc. Cameras render things on screen, and that’s a heavy process that is updated every second. Learning how to use occlusion culling will also help you in this case.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

in January 2020, we switched the development focus towards the upcoming Godot 4.0 , which is a major, compatibility-breaking rewrite of the engine's core and rendering. Dynamic BVH for rendering and GodotPhysics. Rendering: Unified 2D batching. More rendering improvements. Physics: Many fixes to one-way collisions.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

We know many users are excited about the coming improvements to 2D and 3D rendering in 4.0. Over the last few years we have completely overhauled the Godot renders. They now target Vulkan by default and we have created them with future support for Direct3D 12 and other rendering APIs in mind. has been added by Je06jm.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2020

2D batching for the GLES2 renderer , thanks to lawnjelly and Clay ( clayjohn ). The new 2D batching is only implemented for the GLES2 renderer, so if you use GLES3 you will not be able to benefit from it in this build. Note that currently, only rects are batched (TileMaps, draw_rect , text rendering, etc.), Notably, Godot 3.2.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 18, 2020

2D batching for the GLES2 renderer , thanks to lawnjelly and Clay ( clayjohn ). The new 2D batching is only implemented for the GLES2 renderer, so if you use GLES3 you will not be able to benefit from it in this build. Note that currently, only rects are batched (TileMaps, draw_rect , text rendering, etc.), Notably, Godot 3.2.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 12, 2020

2D batching for the GLES2 renderer , thanks to lawnjelly and Clay ( clayjohn ). The new 2D batching is only implemented for the GLES2 renderer, so if you use GLES3 you will not be able to benefit from it in this build. Note that currently, only rects are batched (TileMaps, draw_rect , text rendering, etc.), stable build.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

2D batching for the GLES2 renderer. While most rendering work was postponed for the 4.0 release with its new Vulkan-based renderer, our contributors lawnjelly and Clay ( clayjohn ) decided to give some more attention to the 3.2 Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

It brings a brand new rendering engine with state-of-the-art PBR workflow for 3D, an improved assets pipeline, GDNative to load native code as plugins, C# 7.0 After meeting the initial goal, we hired karroffel to continue her work on GDNative (more about this below) and work on a new rendering backend. New physically based 3D renderer.

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