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Godot 3.6 finally released!

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

After 2 years of development, Godot 3.6 This includes 2D physics interpolation and hierarchical culling, and 3D mesh merging, level of detail, tighter shadow culling, ORM materials, and more. is finally out and it comes fully packed with features and quality of life improvements!

Culling

Culling Mesh Feature Development

Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

using data oriented algorithms to process the culling of objects and both secondary command buffers and automatic batching to efficiently submit the draw primitives. Often developers need to implement rendering techniques, post processing effects, etc. The compatibility backend is based on OpenGL ES 3.0 / OpenGL 3.3 / WebGL 2.0

AAA

AAA Game Developer Game Development Development

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

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. Rendering: Visual instance layers are regarded during shadow culling ( GH-70638 ). You can also try the Web editor (early testing, it's still slow and unstable). What's new. specifically.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The game is developed by Vedg Studio / NoirosL and was recently ported to Godot 4.0 Rendering: Added Viewport canvas cull mask feature ( GH-52350 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET Wishlist it on Steam! What's new. Requires.NET SDK 6.0

Beta

Beta Dev Render Bug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

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. Rendering: Visual instance layers are regarded during shadow culling ( GH-70638 ). You can also try the Web editor (early testing, it’s still slow and unstable). What’s new. specifically.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Animation

In regard to the vertical slice. Do studios work on/produce it to pitch a game or is it used as a milestone to reassure the money people that the game is progressing? (or both)?

Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 27, 2024

The vertical slice is a big milestone in a game's development because it shows the entire game coming together in a cohesive play experience. Similarly, the vertical slice also serves as a proof-of-concept for an internal project and used to get the green light for continued development. Call of Duty, Pokemon, Madden, etc.).

Culling

Culling Demo Prototyping Dev

The 7 deadliest game dev sins. Are you guilty of any of them?

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. This is something I see a lot in the game dev world, especially the tutorial world. If not, you have that inside Game Dev Pro. #5

Dev

Dev Culling Games Code

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 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.

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Anylysis • The games industry is thriving, so why lay off 8,000 people?

PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Developer Epic Games fires 830 people this year. The Swedish games conglomerate is in the midst of a bloody restructuring and has been culling its personnel expenses. ’ source: videogamelayoffs.com Overhead is generally the largest expense on the books of any development outfit or publisher. Top image: Fortnite.

Platformer

Platformer Games Culling Entertainment

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The illustration picture for this article is a screenshot of Black Pellet , an upcoming claymation-style Western adventure by Raisel Edwards , which is being developed with Godot 4.0. Rendering: Vulkan: Fix culling of negatively-scaled objects ( GH-67176 ). Jump to the Downloads section. Major changes. Requires.NET SDK 6.0

Beta

Beta Dev Render Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The illustration picture for this article is a screenshot of Black Pellet , an upcoming claymation-style Western adventure by Raisel Edwards , which is being developed with Godot 4.0. Rendering: Vulkan: Fix culling of negatively-scaled objects ( GH-67176 ). Jump to the Downloads section. Major changes. Requires.NET SDK 6.0

Beta

Beta Dev Render Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 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.

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 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.

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 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.

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). See the full changelog since 3.3-stable

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

development branch (see our release policy for details on the various Godot versions). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users.

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 7, 2020

merge window but have been further developed and backported since. DTLS support and ENET integration , developed by Fabio ( Faless ) ( added in 3.2.2 Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users.

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 22, 2020

merge window but have been further developed and backported since. DTLS support and ENET integration , developed by Fabio ( Faless ). Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users.

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

development branch (see our release policy for details on the various Godot versions). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users.

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Joan Fons is hired to work on Godot's rendering

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 1, 2021

I'm happy to announce that, starting today, I will be working as a full-time Godot developer! Moving forward, and with my full focus on Godot development, my goal is to work on Godot's 3D rendering and help bring Godot 4.0 My first task will be integrating an occlusion culling system into the new Vulkan renderer. finish line.

Render

Render Culling Baking Lightmap

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

development branch (see our release policy for details on the various Godot versions). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users.

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2020

DTLS support and ENET integration , developed by Fabio ( Faless ). Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. Notably, Godot 3.2.2 Re-architecture of the Android plugin system , by Fredia ( m4gr3d ).

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

development branch (see our release policy for details on the various Godot versions). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4 release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The game is developed by Vedg Studio / NoirosL and was recently ported to Godot 4.0 Rendering: Added Viewport canvas cull mask feature ( GH-52350 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET Wishlist it on Steam! What’s new. Requires.NET SDK 6.0

Beta

Beta Dev Render Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.2 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 24, 2020

Rendering: Fix shadow culling with orthogonal camera and wrong VIEWPORT_SIZE shader builtin ( GH-35406 ). For those following our dev snapshots closely, 118 commits have been merged since 3.2 Note that the Vulkan port outlined in Juan's latest posts is developed in a separate branch for Godot 4.0, development build.

Bug

Bug Culling Build Pixel

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

All Godot contributors are delighted to release our latest milestone today, Godot 3.4 , after more than 6 months of development! While most development focus is on our upcoming Godot 4.0 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.

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. The upcoming Godot 3.5 It's now time to move to the Release Candidate stage so that we can release 3.5-stable

Render

Render Shaders Console Culling

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. The upcoming Godot 3.5 stable for all users. This should show up initially as a quad.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

After 9 months of development, Godot 3.5 While most development focus is on our upcoming Godot 4.0 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. This feature was originally developed for Godot 4.0 both small and large. As Godot 4.0

Shaders

Shaders Render Feature Mesh

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. The upcoming Godot 3.5 It's now time to move to the Release Candidate stage so that we can release 3.5-stable

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 17, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. The upcoming Godot 3.5 stable for all users. This should show up initially as a quad.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. The upcoming Godot 3.5 stable for all users. This should show up initially as a quad.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. The upcoming Godot 3.5 stable for all users. This should show up initially as a quad.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. The upcoming Godot 3.5 stable for all users. This should show up initially as a quad.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

is now considered feature complete, and has received a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the past weeks thanks to all the testers and developers who reported and fixed issues. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. The upcoming Godot 3.5 stable for all users. This should show up initially as a quad.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Godot's new renderer, progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Improve Culling: Portals (rewrite as polygon-based) and Rooms. Currently, development is done under Linux using the MESA driver , which has full OpenGL ES 3.0 It performs scene culling from the camera and generates the list of lights and geometries that are visible for rendering. TODO for Milestone #3 (December 2016).

Render

Render Shaders Texture Mesh

Why does Godot use Servers and RIDs?

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. Multi-threading. This was fine, as our engine ran in a single thread (which was common, as most CPU architectures were single-core back then).

Render

Render Collision Engineering Engine

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

Note for Linux builds: use_static_cpp=yes and udev=yes are now the default values, so you need libudev and libstdc++-static development packages to build in optimal conditions. Rendering: Various fixes to light culling ( GH-46694 ). C#: Official builds now use Mono 6.12.0.114. C#: Re-work solution build output panel ( GH-42547 ).

Render

Render Collision Build Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 19, 2021

Note for Linux builds: use_static_cpp=yes and udev=yes are now the default values, so you need libudev and libstdc++-static development packages to build in optimal conditions. Rendering: Various fixes to light culling ( GH-46694 ). C#: Official builds now use Mono 6.12.0.114. C#: Re-work solution build output panel ( GH-42547 ).

Render

Render Collision Build Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2021

Note for Linux builds: use_static_cpp=yes and udev=yes are now the default values, so you need libudev and libstdc++-static development packages to build in optimal conditions. Rendering: Various fixes to light culling ( GH-46694 ). C#: Official builds now use Mono 6.12.0.114. C#: Re-work solution build output panel ( GH-42547 ).

Render

Render Collision Build Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 12, 2020

DTLS support and ENET integration , developed by Fabio ( Faless ). Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. Notably, Godot 3.2.2 Re-architecture of the Android plugin system , by Fredia ( m4gr3d ).

Beta

Beta Bug Debug Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 18, 2020

DTLS support and ENET integration , developed by Fabio ( Faless ). Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. Notably, Godot 3.2.2 Re-architecture of the Android plugin system , by Fredia ( m4gr3d ).

Beta

Beta Debug Bug Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2020

DTLS support and ENET integration , developed by Fabio ( Faless ). Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. Notably, Godot 3.2.2 Re-architecture of the Android plugin system , by Fredia ( m4gr3d ).

Beta

Beta Debug Bug Point and Click

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

development branch (see our release policy for details on the various Godot versions). With this first Release Candidate , we completely freezes feature development, and comes after a long series of beta builds to fix a number of bugs reported against previous builds (as well as against previous stable branches). The upcoming Godot 3.4

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Godot 3.6 finally released!

Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Trending Sources

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

In regard to the vertical slice. Do studios work on/produce it to pitch a game or is it used as a milestone to reassure the money people that the game is progressing? (or both)?

The 7 deadliest game dev sins. Are you guilty of any of them?

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 2

Anylysis • The games industry is thriving, so why lay off 8,000 people?

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 4

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 5

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Joan Fons is hired to work on Godot's rendering

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 4

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Release candidate: Godot 3.2 RC 3

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 3

Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 2

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's new renderer, progress report #1

Why does Godot use Servers and RIDs?

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 4

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 7

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

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