Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Before getting into the GPU side, several optimizations have been done on the CPU side: Culling is now done in a brute-force way which is extremely cache efficient. Everything in the main frame is culled at the same time, objects, light cascades, SDFGI cascades, etc. These test do culling on 10k objects.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2022

and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Shaders: Many improvements backported from master ( GH-56794 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). In-depth documentation is available.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). In-depth documentation is available.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Thirdparty library updates: embree 3.13.0,

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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. When doing tasks such as shader editing, VFX (particles) or animation, there is a large difference between Godot and engines such as Unreal. Specialized artist UIs.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). In-depth documentation is available.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). In-depth documentation is available.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Our script editor maintainer, Paul Batty ( Paulb23 ), implemented initial support for multi-caret editing in TextEdit, which is therefore usable in the GDScript and shader editors, as well as any other multi-line text field in the editor. Editor: Add multi-caret support to TextEdit (and the script/shader editors) ( GH-61902 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Our script editor maintainer, Paul Batty ( Paulb23 ), implemented initial support for multi-caret editing in TextEdit, which is therefore usable in the GDScript and shader editors, as well as any other multi-line text field in the editor. Editor: Add multi-caret support to TextEdit (and the script/shader editors) ( GH-61902 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 7, 2020

2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ). 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. 2D: Implement skew in Node2D ( GH-38394 ). Core: Fix dangling Variants ( GH-38119 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 22, 2020

2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ). 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. 2D: Implement skew in Node2D ( GH-38394 ). Core: Fix dangling Variants ( GH-38119 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2020

2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ). 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. 2D: Implement skew in Node2D ( GH-38394 ). Core: Fix dangling Variants ( GH-38119 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: Added Viewport canvas cull mask feature ( GH-52350 ). Rendering: Enable mipmaps in cubemap roughness shader ( GH-68511 ). Rendering: Properly set TIME shader uniform when rendering shadows ( GH-68574 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 7, 2020

GPUParticles : Processes particles on GPU, allows very large amount of particles at little cost, and with ability to write custom particle shaders. x and the shader used is almost identical (should be easy to port). It can also be done from within a particle shader itself by chaining another particle system as a sub-emitter.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Our goal is to have a modern, clustered renderer that supports everything mainstream engines support, including PBR, global illumination and flexible shader editing. Write a more flexible, GLES 3 GLSL compatible shader language. Implement Particle Shaders, with support for: Sorting, Collision and Soft Particles. For Godot 3.0 (our

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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 Object: Make sure we know when deleting an emitting object ( GH-35423 ). Tween: Fixed Tween::start with pending updates ( GH-35452 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2022

and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Shaders: Many improvements backported from master ( GH-56794 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2025

Look at these shiny highlights: 2D physics interpolation 2D hierarchical culling Mesh merging Discrete level of detail (LOD) ORM materials Text to speech Arctic Eggs This game about cooking eggs in a cold climate found great reception on the internet. The feature freeze for 3.6

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

This RC 6 has a few notable changes compared to the previous build: In RC 4, async shader compilation and caching was enabled by default on desktop, but several users reported issues with it on some hardware. You can enable it in the Project Settings ( rendering/gles3/shaders/shader_compilation_mode ). Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Shaders: Many improvements backported from master ( GH-56794 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader). A long awaited improvement to reduce shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL is coming to Godot 3.5, Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. As always, many improvements and fixes to shader editing have been backported from 4.0 courtesy of Pedro J.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

For example: On GLES3+ we can use UBOs to optimize shader parameters. Shader abstraction. This may sound like the obvious way of doing things but, in truth, it creates a big bottleneck on allowing users to write shaders. Users need to learn not only the language, but how the engine internals work regarding shaders.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Shaders: Many improvements backported from master ( GH-56794 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 17, 2022

and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Shaders: Many improvements backported from master ( GH-56794 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Shaders: Many improvements backported from master ( GH-56794 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Shaders: Many improvements backported from master ( GH-56794 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Implement Particle Shaders, with support for: Sorting, Collision and Soft Particles. Improve Culling: Portals (rewrite as polygon-based) and Rooms. Implement the new version of the Godot SVO-based Light Baker. Implement post process effects: DOF Blur, Bloom and Tone Mapping. TODO for Milestone #4 (January 2017). Implement Decals.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Shaders: Many improvements backported from master ( GH-56794 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Portal occlusion culling. Shader language features. Portal occlusion culling. Up till now a significant missing feature in the renderer has been the ability to cull (prevent rendering) objects that are within the camera view, but occluded by another object (for instance a wall). Shader language features.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). In-depth documentation is available.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). In-depth documentation is available.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). In-depth documentation is available.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 12, 2020

2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ). Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). Shaders: Add shader time scaling ( GH-38995 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. Godot 3.2.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 18, 2020

2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ). Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). Shaders: Add shader time scaling ( GH-38995 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. Godot 3.2.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2020

2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ). Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). Shaders: Add shader time scaling ( GH-38995 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. Godot 3.2.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

Materials and shaders. Materials and shaders. makes up for it by providing an extremely powerful default material (which supports detail textures, triplanar mapping and other nice features) and an extremely easy-to-use shader language. writing shaders is very easy! Full principled BSDF. Global illumination (GI).

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