Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: String and StringName are now mostly cross-compatible throughout the engine API, as well as in various GDScript-specific expressions and statements ( GH-68747 ). The illustration picture for this article is from Raffaele Picca 's car scene , rendered in Godot 4.0

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Beta Dev Render Shaders 99

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Over the course of the last four months the engine has seen many changes, making it more stable and feature complete, and it's getting very close to the state that we would be happy with. More engine enums are now bound with BitField, making their usage more type-safe, especially in C# ( GH-71037 , GH-71045 , GH-71116 ). beta releases.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 3, 2016

It's been a month since the first progress report , and progress continues towards the new Godot renderer. Little by little every system falls into place, and rendering starts feeling a lot more mature. Implement Particle Shaders, with support for: Sorting, Collision and Soft Particles. Add Layered/Stencil rendering.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2016

As many of you have probably heard, a new rendering backend is being worked on for Godot. Our goal is to have a modern, clustered renderer that supports everything mainstream engines support, including PBR, global illumination and flexible shader editing. Optimize scene rendering to use less function calls. In ES 2.0,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Physics: Fix collision detection for degenerate capsules ( GH-69657 ). 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 ).

Beta 98

Beta Dev Render Shaders 98

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 30, 2016

It's been a month since the second progress report , and progress continues towards the new Godot renderer. Implement Particle Shaders, with support for: Sorting, Collision and Soft Particles. Add Layered/Stencil rendering. renderer works entirely in linear space (Gamma is no longer supported). Introduction.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

Physics fixes and improvements for sphere-capsule, sphere-box, sphere-cylinder, and capsule-cylinder collisions ( GH-70660 , GH-70787 ). As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! Physics: Fix sphere-capsule collision logic ( GH-70660 ). Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ).

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Beta Dev Collision Render 85

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 25, 2023

renderer support ( GH-71848 ). Physics: Fix regression in collision detection for uniform scaling ( GH-71707 ). Rendering: Fix Vulkan validation errors related to enabling extensions ( GH-70429 ). Rendering: Fix DirectionalLight3D shadow opacity on Forward Mobile rendering backend ( GH-71690 ).

Beta 99

Beta Dev Render Shaders 99

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: String and StringName are now mostly cross-compatible throughout the engine API, as well as in various GDScript-specific expressions and statements ( GH-68747 ). The illustration picture for this article is from Raffaele Picca ’s car scene , rendered in Godot 4.0

Beta 76

Beta Dev Render Shaders 76

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Vulkan rewrite has largely been enhancements to the 3D engine, the 2D side will also see several improvements. The main one was performance due to every light being rendered in a separate draw pass. A very requested feature for the 2D engine is the possibility to have 2D directional lights and shadows. Improved Performance.

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Engineering Engine Alpha Texture 55

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Over the course of the last four months the engine has seen many changes, making it more stable and feature complete, and it’s getting very close to the state that we would be happy with. More engine enums are now bound with BitField, making their usage more type-safe, especially in C# ( GH-71037 , GH-71045 , GH-71116 ). beta releases.

Beta 81

Beta Dev Render Animation 81

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 2023

Physics: Implement analytic collision normals ( GH-71447 ). 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 ). Import: Avoid importing MSVC obj files ( GH-71662 ).

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Beta Dev Animation Animation 105

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

This version worked well but we felt it was still far from the usability and features of a modern game engine. The more urgent issue was to improve the 2D engine so we worked hard again and released Godot 1.1, which did in fact improve 2D rendering considerably. Collision and navigation debugging. Live scene editing.

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Engine Engineering Editing Debug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Previous engines we have developed (we as in Juan Linietsky and Ariel Manzur) did not really use this architecture and everything was provided via simple classes with inheritance and polymorphism. This was fine, as our engine ran in a single thread (which was common, as most CPU architectures were single-core back then).

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Cocos

JUNE 11, 2023

we have completed the transformation of the engine-builtin Custom Pipeline using RenderGraph. Render Graph The Render Pipeline customization based on Render Graph will be officially available to developers in version 3.8. Download Links (Ver. For now, you can refer to the pipeline test project to learn how to use them.

Beta 52

Beta Lightmap Render Animation 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 24, 2020

Physics: Trigger broadphase update when changing collision layer/mask ( GH-39895 ). Physics: Fix laxist collision detection on one way shapes ( GH-39880 ). Physics: Allow Area2D and 3D mouse events without collision layer ( GH-40193 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). stb_vorbis 1.20, wslay 1.1.1).

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Collision Bug Mesh Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2021

New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends, which should fix some issues and improve performance significantly in games using a high number of dynamic objects. In this beta, the dynamic BVH is the default option for both physics and rendering. New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends (new in beta 6).

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Beta Dev Collision Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 20, 2020

Physics: Trigger broadphase update when changing collision layer/mask ( GH-39895 ). Physics: Fix laxist collision detection on one way shapes ( GH-39880 ). Physics: Allow Area2D and 3D mouse events without collision layer ( GH-40193 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). wslay 1.1.1).

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Beta Dev Collision Bug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

Rendering: Octahedral normal/tangent compression ( GH-60309 ). Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. Particles: Add "Hide on Contact" collision mode to ParticlesMaterial ( GH-61238 ). Physics: Fix collision solving between world boundary and motion shape ( GH-64936 ).

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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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Render Collision Build Bug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

macOS: Enable multithreaded OpenGL engine flag when using multithreaded VisualServer ( GH-54526 ). Physics: Fix test_move reporting collision when touching another body ( GH-54845 ). Rendering: Fix vertex attribute specification for octahedral compression ( GH-54768 ). iOS: Capture and display xcodebuild output ( GH-54711 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 31, 2020

Physics: Trigger broadphase update when changing collision layer/mask ( GH-39895 ). Physics: Fix laxist collision detection on one way shapes ( GH-39880 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). stb_vorbis 1.20, wslay 1.1.1).

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Bug Collision Mesh Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

David Snopek ( dsnopek ) got WebXR minimally working again ( GH-64514 ) using the WebGL 2 renderer implemented by Clay John ( clayjohn ). Physics: Turn on recovery as collisions only for floor snapping ( GH-64728 ). Physics: Add recovery as collision in move_and_collide / test_move ( GH-65931 ).

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Beta Dev Render Bug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). Physics: Hack a hot fix for Bullet's collision margin regression ( GH-64875 ). Rendering: Fix skeleton 2D stale bounding rect ( GH-63071 ). Rendering: Fix multiple ubershader bugs ( GH-64096 ). if something that worked fine in 3.5

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Bug Render Collision Animation 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). Physics: Hack a hot fix for Bullet's collision margin regression ( GH-64875 ) [regression fix]. Physics: Hack a hot fix for Bullet's collision margin regression ( GH-64875 ) [regression fix]. please file an issue on GitHub.

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Render Baking Bug Collision 52

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. Additional funding will enable us to hire more core developers to work full-time on the engine, and thus further improve its development pace and stability.

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Collision Lightmap Baking Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 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: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). Crypto: Add HMACContext ( GH-48869 ).

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Beta Dev Mesh Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 21, 2020

Physics: Trigger broadphase update when changing collision layer/mask ( GH-39895 ). Physics: Fix laxist collision detection on one way shapes ( GH-39880 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). stb_vorbis 1.20, wslay 1.1.1).

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Bug Collision Mesh Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Physics: Trigger broadphase update when changing collision layer/mask ( GH-39895 ). Physics: Fix laxist collision detection on one way shapes ( GH-39880 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). stb_vorbis 1.20, wslay 1.1.1).

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Bug Collision Mesh Render 52

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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Render Collision Build Bug 52

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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Render Collision Build Bug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 19, 2021

Hopefully, in the near future, it will be solid enough to run periodically to spot engine regressions in an automatic way. As announced before , Godot Physics will become the default physics engine for Godot 4.0. Cylinder collision shape. Heightmap collision shape. We're almost there! Bug fixing. Godot Physics features.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Physics: Trigger broadphase update when changing collision layer/mask ( GH-39895 ). Physics: Fix laxist collision detection on one way shapes ( GH-39880 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). or earlier (see GH-42051 ).

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Bug Collision Mesh Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 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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Render Bug Build Beta 52

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 ).

Beta 52

Beta Dev Render Debug 52

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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Beta Dev Render Debug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 4, 2021

Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision ( GH-49075 ). Rendering: VisualServer now sorts based on AABB position ( GH-43506 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Fix CanvasItem bounding rect calculation in some cases ( GH-49160 ).

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