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

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

It includes major improvements all across the board in features, performance, and usability. using data oriented algorithms to process the culling of objects and both secondary command buffers and automatic batching to efficiently submit the draw primitives. Several features were added to Godot Physics since 3.x, improvements.

AAA

AAA Game Developer Game Development Development

Realistic Lighting in Justice with Mesh Shading

Nvidia

MAY 21, 2021

Recently, NetEase introduced Mesh Shader support to Justice. His work focuses on the rendering engine in Justice, specifically GPU features enabled by DirectX 12. Soon we found we can combine Mesh Shaders with auto-generated LODs to achieve almost only-resolution-relevant rendering complexity, instead of polygon number.

Mesh

Mesh Culling Shaders Ray Tracing

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

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. now and read on to learn more about the many new features in this update. Rendering: Portal occlusion culling.

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

Godot 4.0 optimization progress report

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

As most of the rendering features for the upcoming Godot 4.0 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.

Culling

Culling Render Shaders Mesh

Best Practices for Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing (Updated)

Nvidia

JULY 25, 2022

It can be directly in the AS build calls or in some related task like the culling of the objects. Cull instances for TLAS. Instead, cull instances depending on the situation. For example, consider culling based on an expanded camera frustum. Moving the CPU work to one or more worker threads is potentially beneficial.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Shaders Culling Render

Practical Use of Render Textures

The Knights of Unity

JUNE 5, 2020

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. For shaders, I used Amplify Shader Editor to add some visual effects on top of the render texture.

Texture

Texture Render Shaders Alpha

New improvements for GPUParticles in Godot 4.0

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. GPUParticles : Processes particles on GPU, allows very large amount of particles at little cost, and with ability to write custom particle shaders. x, but lacked several features.

Collision

Collision Shaders Terrain Baking

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

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 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Bug

Godot's new renderer, progress report #1

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

Render

Render Shaders Texture Mesh

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 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. All these features have been implemented in the official Git integration plugin.

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Project Structure - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos

APRIL 14, 2023

Get it for free: [link] Features in Cyberpunk Before we get started, let’s list out the features provided in Cocos Cyberpunk again. Get it for free: [link] Features in Cyberpunk Before we get started, let’s list out the features provided in Cocos Cyberpunk again. So you can get a feel for what it looks like.

Code

Code Culling Lightmap Render

Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

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

Shaders

Shaders Render Mesh Feature

Unlocking GPU Intrinsics in HLSL

Nvidia

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

For example, a shader can use warp shuffle instructions to exchange data between threads in a warp without going through shared memory, which is especially valuable in pixel shaders where there is no shared memory. Or a shader can perform atomic additions on half-precision floating-point numbers in global memory. x, u1 mov r3.yz,

Shaders

Shaders Ray Tracing Pixel Mechanics

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 4

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

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 3

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. 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. Like with 4.0

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 5

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.

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

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. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: One Copyright Update to rule them all ( GH-70885 ). beta releases.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Animation

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 ). The features. Documentation writers are hard at work to catch up with the new features, and the latest branch should already include details on many of the new 3.2 Documentation and translation updates.

Bug

Bug Culling Build Pixel

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. You can enable it in the Project Settings ( rendering/gles3/shaders/shader_compilation_mode ). The upcoming Godot 3.5 stable for all users. back in 2020!

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

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. and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). The upcoming Godot 3.5 stable for all users.

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. and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). The upcoming Godot 3.5 stable for all users.

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. and provide the missing features that 3.5 and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ).

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. and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). The upcoming Godot 3.5 stable for all users.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Godot's new renderer, progress report #3

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. The last remaining big feature is the new particle system, then everything else is simpler, and includes cleaning up the implemented techniques. TODO for Milestone #4 (January 2017).

Render

Render Baking Lightmap Shaders

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. and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). The upcoming Godot 3.5 stable for all users.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

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. and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). The upcoming Godot 3.5 stable for all users.

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. and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). The upcoming Godot 3.5 stable for all users.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

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 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

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 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Latest NVIDIA OptiX Renders Ray Tracing Faster Than Ever Before

Nvidia

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

comes with a new feature to support the parallel compilation of OptixModule objects containing multiple functions. Open-ended curves can be desirable for avoiding shader divergence having to do with special-case handling of endcap normals. Two major denoiser features come together The denoiser in NVIDIA OptiX 7.4

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Render Feature Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 This beta 5 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 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

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 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

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. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: One Copyright Update to rule them all ( GH-70885 ). beta releases.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Animation

Godot 3's renderer design explained

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

For example: On GLES3+ we can use UBOs to optimize shader parameters. We can also access newer GL features via extensions, so we don't miss much. 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. in only 4k lines of code!)

Render

Render Shaders Texture Engineering

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 This beta 6 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 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 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 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

support, Bullet as the 3D physics engine, and many other features which are described in depth below. which would have included new multiplayer networking, visual scripting and many other improvements) because we realized that projects using the new features would no longer work in 3.0, New features of Godot 3.0. GPU particles.

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 With this second Release Candidate , we have frozen feature development and are nearly ready to release the stable version. Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4 Please report any issue.

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 With this third Release Candidate , we have frozen feature development and are nearly ready to release the stable version. Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4 Please report any issue.

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 12, 2020

is turning out to be quite feature-packed and we've been taking the time to iterate with four beta snapshots before reaching a state that we're confident enough to label as release candidate. is going to add 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform , courtesy of Ignacio ( neikeq ). The upcoming Godot 3.2.2 stable build.

Beta

Beta Bug Debug Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 18, 2020

is turning out to be quite feature-packed and we've been taking the time to iterate with four beta snapshots. is going to add 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform , courtesy of Ignacio ( neikeq ). 2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ). Shaders: Add shader time scaling ( GH-38995 ).

Beta

Beta Debug Bug Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2020

is turning out to be quite feature-packed and we've been taking the time to iterate with four beta snapshots and two release candidates (RC). is going to add 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform , courtesy of Ignacio ( neikeq ). 2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ). The upcoming Godot 3.2.2

Beta

Beta Debug Bug Point and Click

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

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 we could take the time to add some new features to the 3.2 Some of those features had already been partially implemented before the 3.2

Debug

Debug Point and Click Bug Render

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

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!

Beta

Beta Engineering Engine Feature

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

Realistic Lighting in Justice with Mesh Shading

Trending Sources

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Godot 4.0 optimization progress report

Best Practices for Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing (Updated)

Practical Use of Render Textures

New improvements for GPUParticles in Godot 4.0

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Godot's new renderer, progress report #1

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 2

Project Structure - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

Unlocking GPU Intrinsics in HLSL

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 4

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 5

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Release candidate: Godot 3.2 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 4

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

Godot's new renderer, progress report #3

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 5

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 7

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Latest NVIDIA OptiX Renders Ray Tracing Faster Than Ever Before

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Godot 3's renderer design explained

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

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