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. Refactor the rendering API to make it easier to understand (and contribute to!).

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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

JANUARY 10, 2023

The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. Editor: Bring back the renderer options button on the main editor ( GH-70500 ). Physics: Bind methods related to disabling collision between joint bodies ( GH-70477 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The illustration picture for this article is a screenshot of Sandfire , an upcoming 3D person action-adventure game by Kmitt. The game was recently ported to Godot 4, see Kmitt's YouTube channel and Twitter for devlogs and updates. Physics: Fix collision detection for degenerate capsules ( GH-69657 ). What's new.

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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! The game is currently being ported to Godot 4.0 The game is currently being ported to Godot 4.0 See the list below. What’s new.

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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 ).

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Cocos

JUNE 14, 2023

A dev, Night by Night 00, shared his work on building warpable and wearable materials for games. Analysis The whole effect can be split into two parts, one for the simulation of the mesh and one for the rendering of the mesh. Rendering is even more straightforward, just use the Graphic component and draw lines directly.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Every supported renderer option is now selectable from the project creation screen, which means you can create OpenGL 3 (“Compatibility”) projects without using the command line ( GH-70028 ). The illustration picture for this article is from Raffaele Picca ’s car scene , rendered in Godot 4.0 What’s new.

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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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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. Editor: Bring back the renderer options button on the main editor ( GH-70500 ). Physics: Bind methods related to disabling collision between joint bodies ( GH-70477 ).

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Game Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It’s about allowing players to lose themselves in more than just a game, but a new world. This goal is always top-of-mind for Schell Games. In this interview, we spoke to Schell Games’ Vice President of Product, Charlie Amis, to learn their story. This isn’t as true or a high priority in PC and console games.

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Ask a Game Dev

MAY 3, 2023

How many collision checks do you need to make here to see if Zangief gets hit? Now here’s a question - how many collision checks do I need to make in order to tell if Ryu hit Gief this frame? There are often thousands or even tens of thousands of polygons that go into a fully rendered model. If yes, Zangief gets hit.

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iXie gaming

OCTOBER 10, 2023

As video games get bigger and better, so do the errors and glitches. Regardless of how many hours your game development team spends polishing the video game, some technical glitches are bound to occur. But why do video game glitches occur? Why Do Video Game Glitches Occur? Let’s find out.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Before going into optimizing for multiple threads, let's first take a look at the typical order of execution of the main blocks of a game engine. This order of events can't be escaped, as logic affects physics and rendering needs both information from logic and physics to display. Both Logic and Physics set information into Rendering.

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Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 24, 2022

In video games, the small effects add up to making your game look stunning. And popular games like Batman Arkham Asylum have this effect: Other notable games that have this effect are Mortal Kombat – which they implement when the characters perform special attacks on each other. What Is a Shader?

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Cocos

JUNE 11, 2023

Render Graph The Render Pipeline customization based on Render Graph will be officially available to developers in version 3.8. The documentation for the Render Graph and pipeline customization is not yet ready, please give us more patience, we will provide the complete documentation before the official release of 3.8.

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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. WebXR support for VR games. MP3 loading and playback support.

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Big Games

JANUARY 30, 2024

Game design software does play a pivotal role in bringing the digital world to life, which allows game developers and designers to create immersive and engaging experiences. The world of game design is a captivating landscape brimming with possibilities. It is important to understand the genre of your game.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 24, 2020

C#: Fix restore not called when building game projects ( GH-40596 ) [regression fix]. 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 ).

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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. WebXR support for VR games. New dynamic BVH for rendering and the GodotPhysics backends. Stay tuned for more info!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 19, 2021

WebXR support for VR games. 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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2021

WebXR support for VR games. 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.

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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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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]. We encourage all users to upgrade to 3.5.1.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The illustration picture for this article is a screenshot of devmar 's game Penitent , which is being developed with Godot 4.0. David Snopek ( dsnopek ) got WebXR minimally working again ( GH-64514 ) using the WebGL 2 renderer implemented by Clay John ( clayjohn ). Rendering: Fix/restore BackBufferCopy ( GH-65794 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

Rendering: Octahedral normal/tangent compression ( GH-60309 ). Particles: Add "Hide on Contact" collision mode to ParticlesMaterial ( GH-61238 ). Physics: Add collision weight to PhysicsBody2D/3D for penetrations which must be avoided ( GH-64343 ). Rendering: Octahedral normal/tangent compression ( GH-60309 ).

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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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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

x branch to develop and publish their games today , so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience. As such, most of the focus was on implementing missing features or bugfixes which are critical for publishing 2D and 3D games with Godot 3, and on making the existing features more optimized and reliable.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

GridMap: Fix "Convert to MeshLibrary" not respecting collision transforms ( GH-56907 ). GUI: Fix RichTextLabel underline prevents strikethrough from rendering ( GH-56686 ). Rendering: Fix blend shapes when octahedral compression is used ( GH-56161 ). Rendering: Fix invalid read when using LightOccluder2D ( GH-56859 ).

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Awesome Tuts

APRIL 8, 2022

These are 7 absolutely worst things you can do in your game dev project that will slow down your game, make it crash, not get you hired in a game studio, or get you fired if you work in one. But in Unity, if Awake & Start are left empty, they will still affect the loading time of your game. So what are they? #1

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 31, 2020

C#: Fix restore not called when building game projects ( GH-40596 ) [regression fix]. 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 ). no longer works in 3.2.3

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The Liquid Fire

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

As a game engine, Unity provides a lot of functionality right out of the box. You could make some really fun physics based games and not need to have a math degree to do it! In fact, in this lesson we will start creating game objects that react to physics, with no programming required. Move the Wall beneath the Ball.

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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

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 ). no longer works in 3.2.3

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2021

WebXR support for VR games. 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. mbedtls 2.16.9,

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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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