Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Our SCons setup used to have tools and target options that were combined to build either the editor or the export templates, and define whether it's a "release" or "debug" build. The "debug" term in that setup was quite ambiguous however and the source of a lot of confusion, as described in godot-proposals#3371.

Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 7, 2020

While this is not a feature per se, it fixes a major annoyance that users have had with pointers to freed objects unexpectedly being re-assigned to new objects, causing hard-to-debug issues. this bug was fixed with a more comprehensive approach which prevents dangling Variant pointers in both release and debug builds. Other changes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Donations and corporate grants play a vital role in enabling us to develop Godot at this sustained pace, since they are our only source of income, and are used 100% to pay developers to work on the engine. Rendering: Portal occlusion culling. Portal occlusion culling. Thanks to all of you patrons from the bottom of our hearts!

UX

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 18, 2020

While this is not a feature per se, it fixes a major annoyance that users have had with pointers to freed objects unexpectedly being re-assigned to new objects, causing hard-to-debug issues. this bug was fixed with a more comprehensive approach which prevents dangling Variant pointers in both release and debug builds. Other changes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 22, 2020

While this is not a feature per se, it fixes a major annoyance that users have had with pointers to freed objects unexpectedly being re-assigned to new objects, causing hard-to-debug issues. this bug was fixed with a more comprehensive approach which prevents dangling Variant pointers in both release and debug builds. Other changes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

stable branch in January 2020 as a major update to our free and open source game engine. Such pointer could be reported as valid even though the memory it points to was not, or worse, that memory could now hold a different object, leading to hard to debug situations. C#: Allow debugging exported games ( GH-38115 ).

Debug

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2020

While this is not a feature per se, it fixes a major annoyance that users have had with pointers to freed objects unexpectedly being re-assigned to new objects, causing hard-to-debug issues. C#: Allow debugging exported games ( GH-38115 ). Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). The fix made in the 3.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2020

While this is not a feature per se, it fixes a major annoyance that users have had with pointers to freed objects unexpectedly being re-assigned to new objects, causing hard-to-debug issues. this bug was fixed with a more comprehensive approach which prevents dangling Variant pointers in both release and debug builds. Other changes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Editor: Add custom debug shape thickness and color options to RayCast ( GH-49726 ). HTML5: Debug HTTP server refactor with SSL support ( GH-48250 ). mbedtls 2.16.11. Downloads.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 12, 2020

While this is not a feature per se, it fixes a major annoyance that users have had with pointers to freed objects unexpectedly being re-assigned to new objects, causing hard-to-debug issues. this bug was fixed with a more comprehensive approach which prevents dangling Variant pointers in both release and debug builds. Other changes.

Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Editor: Add custom debug shape thickness and color options to RayCast ( GH-49726 ). HTML5: Debug HTTP server refactor with SSL support ( GH-48250 ). mbedtls 2.16.11.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Editor: Add custom debug shape thickness and color options to RayCast ( GH-49726 ). HTML5: Debug HTTP server refactor with SSL support ( GH-48250 ). API documentation updates.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Editor: Add custom debug shape thickness and color options to RayCast ( GH-49726 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Core: Add detailed error messages to release builds (used to be debug-only) ( GH-53405 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Godot uses a considerably different approach to rendering (and rendering abstraction) than other, popular, game engines. Rendering engineers are rare to find, so this can be a starting point. As for DirectX12, it's only relevant for Windows/UWP, so there is no strong incentive for us to support it as a cross-platform engine.

Render

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.

Collision

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Core: Add detailed error messages to release builds (used to be debug-only) ( GH-53405 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ).

Mesh

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

Thanks to all pre-release testers who help us find and debug regressions! Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). Rendering: Various fixes to light culling ( GH-46694 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! stable soon™. mbedtls 2.16.9,

Render

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Core: Add detailed error messages to release builds (used to be debug-only) ( GH-53405 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ).

Mesh

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Core: Add detailed error messages to release builds (used to be debug-only) ( GH-53405 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ).

Mesh

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2022

Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

Render

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

Render

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: Added Viewport canvas cull mask feature ( GH-52350 ). Rendering: Fix several render issues found while debugging XR ( GH-68102 ). Multiplayer: Add peer authentication support to the default MultiplayerAPI( GH-67917 ). Physics: Implement adjusting the maximum number of physics steps per rendered frame ( GH-65836 ).

Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 19, 2021

Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). Rendering: Various fixes to light culling ( GH-46694 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Camera2D: Fix frame delay and smoothing processing issues ( GH-46697 , GH-46717 ). mbedtls 2.16.10, miniupnpc 2.2.2,

Render

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2021

Core: Disable decayment of freed Objects to null in debug builds ( GH-41866 ). Rendering: Various fixes to light culling ( GH-46694 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Camera2D: Fix frame delay and smoothing processing issues ( GH-46697 , GH-46717 ). mbedtls 2.16.10, miniupnpc 2.2.2,

Render

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

Render

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 17, 2022

Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

Render

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

Render

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

Render

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

Render

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Add an Occluder node to your scene, and choose to create an OccluderShapePolygon.

Render

Nvidia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

As of today, Unreal Engine 4 (UE4). As of today, Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) developers can now access DLSS as a plugin for Unreal Engine 4.26. Additionally, NVIDIA Reflex is now available as a feature in Unreal Engine. The NVIDIA RTX UE4 4.25 branches have also received updates. Access the NVIDIA DLSS plugin for UE4 here.

Ray Tracing

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 13, 2025

Core: Fix for debugging typed dictionaries ( GH-106170 ). Particles: Overhaul the cull mask internals for Lights, Decals, and Particle Colliders ( GH-102399 ). While engine maintainers try their best to ensure that each preview snapshot and release candidate is stable, this is by definition a pre-release piece of software.

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