Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

As most of the rendering features for the upcoming Godot 4.0 are done, I have spent the past two months optimizing the rendering engine, both on the CPU and GPU side. 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.

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Cocos

APRIL 13, 2023

Cocos Cyberpunk is an open source 3D TPS (Third-person Shooter) game, developed by the Cocos Engine team, which can be published to iOS, Android and Web. New features in Cocos Creator v3.7 How time flies, the Cocos Engine team has released the latest version, Cocos Creator v3.7. is capable of handling big projects.

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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 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: A ton of fixes for all rendering backends, and missing features implemented for the OpenGL3 one. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Android: Upgrade Android gradle plugin to version 7.2.1 ( GH-68497 ). Rendering: Added Viewport canvas cull mask feature ( GH-52350 ).

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Cocos

APRIL 14, 2023

For someone who didn’t know Cocos Cyberpunk, it is an open source 3D TPS (Third-person Shooter) game, developed by the Cocos Engine team, which can be published to iOS, Android and Web. Get it for free: [link] Features in Cyberpunk Before we get started, let’s list out the features provided in Cocos Cyberpunk again.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 7, 2020

This was the final feature that had to be ported over. Like all the rest of the features ported, it managed to get massive improvements. x, but lacked several features. Here are some of the most outstanding features coming for Godot 4.0 The turn of porting the GPU particle system to Godot 4.0 has arrived. Since Godot 3.0,

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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 ).

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

NVIDIA OptiX Ray Tracing Engine is a scalable and seamless framework that offers optimal ray tracing performance on GPUs. NVIDIA OptiX Ray Tracing Engine is a scalable and seamless framework that offers optimal ray tracing performance on GPUs. Two major denoiser features come together The denoiser in NVIDIA OptiX 7.4

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

is out and it comes fully packed with features and quality of life improvements! Most of work was aimed at implementing missing features or fixing bugs which are critical for publishing 2D and 3D games with Godot 3.x, x, and at making the existing features more optimized and reliable. After 9 months of development, Godot 3.5

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Like in previous release cycles, a beta release means that we are happy with the features that have been included and we don’t plan on adding any major new features before release (except for a few that have been discussed and planned in advance). the sooner we can start the next feature development cycle for 4.1! beta 1 now!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

After more than 18 months of development, all Godot Engine contributors are proud to present our biggest release so far, Godot 3.0! It brings a brand new rendering engine with state-of-the-art PBR workflow for 3D, an improved assets pipeline, GDNative to load native code as plugins, C# 7.0 New features of Godot 3.0. SVG support.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 2022

This new system uses an "ubershader" (big shader supporting all features, slow but compiled on startup) to fill in for all shaders initially while the more efficient and material-specific shaders get compiled asynchronously, and cached for future runs. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. What is it?

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The Knights of Unity

JUNE 5, 2020

Unity Engine introduces an awesome tools to empower your game development process. And even before an era of SRPs (Scriptable Render Pipelines), there was a good amount of solid features like today’s topic: Render textures. using legacy rendering, but the features I used work in SRPs too. Project Setup.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 3, 2016

Improve Culling: Portals (rewrite as polygon-based) and Rooms. One of the main features of PBR rendering is having all sort of sources for reflections. In Godot, unlike in other engines, probes are also implemented as dual paraboloid. Other popular game engines present hard edges between one probe and the next.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Improve Culling: Portals (rewrite as polygon-based) and Rooms. an edge in quality over existing mainstream engines. The last remaining big feature is the new particle system, then everything else is simpler, and includes cleaning up the implemented techniques. Implement post process effects: DOF Blur, Bloom and Tone Mapping.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. This beta 4 is a small update with just 83 commits excluding merges, focusing on fixing bugs to stabilize the current feature set for 3.5 Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Like with 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2022

beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. This beta adds what should be the last batch of new features (together with a lot of bug fixes, as that's our focus at this stage), with scene unique node names and the new SceneTreeTween backported from Godot 4.0.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2022

beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. The backport was done while attempting to preserve API compatibility within reason, but the underlying behavior will change, mainly to provide a lot more features and flexibility. Like with 4.0 What is it?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

release, which is already quite feature-packed a mere 3 months after the 3.3 and included in this beta are: Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ).

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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. Improve Culling: Portals (rewrite as polygon-based) and Rooms. Questions that often arise are: Why don't you add features incrementally or make GLES 3 features optional?

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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. and provide the missing features that 3.5 Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. The upcoming Godot 3.5 stable for all users.

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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. All these features have been implemented in the official Git integration plugin. What is it?

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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. Both features were implemented by our text rendering expert bruvzg in the master branch for Godot 4.0,

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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. This feature is disabled by default, and can be enabled in the Project Settings. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. back in 2020!

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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. This feature is disabled by default, and can be enabled in the Project Settings. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. back in 2020!

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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. branch is worked on in parallel and receives minor updates to fix bugs, improve usability and occasionally add some compatible features. we could take the time to add some new features to the 3.2 New features! feature set.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 and included in this beta are: Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

branch, but it grew to become a feature-packed update well worth of opening a new stable branch. 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. update to the 3.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

There were a few very important features that we didn’t manage to review in time for previous betas, and which have now been implemented in beta 3. Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ) reworked the features and user experience of Godot’s ColorPicker during Google Summer of Code 2022. Major changes. This beta 3 is not only bugfixes though!

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

There were a few very important features that we didn't manage to review in time for previous betas, and which have now been implemented in beta 3. Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ) reworked the features and user experience of Godot's ColorPicker during Google Summer of Code 2022. Major changes. This beta 3 is not only bugfixes though!

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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. Then smix8 took over the custody of this area, fixing a lot of bugs and improving the feature set greatly, with the help of Pawel Lampe ( Scony ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 7, 2020

release with bug fixes in 3.2.1 , we're now looking at integrating some new features that didn't make it into the 3.2 is going to add 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform , courtesy of Ignacio ( neikeq ). Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). After refining our Godot 3.2 Other changes.

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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. This feature is disabled by default, and can be enabled in the Project Settings. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. back in 2020!

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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. Both features were implemented by our text rendering expert bruvzg in the master branch for Godot 4.0,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 22, 2020

release with bug fixes in 3.2.1 , we're now looking at integrating some new features that didn't make it into the 3.2 is going to add 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform , courtesy of Ignacio ( neikeq ). Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). After refining our Godot 3.2 Other changes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 This beta 4 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2020

Yet another snapshot on the way to the feature-packed Godot 3.2.2! is going to add 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform , courtesy of Ignacio ( neikeq ). Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Other changes.

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