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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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Refactor the texture API to include more modern texture compression formats. 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? drawn via texture), except that it always works using hardware (ES 2.0

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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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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

comes with a new feature to support the parallel compilation of OptixModule objects containing multiple functions. NVIDIA OptiX curves are currently back-face culled, so rays that enter through the open end of a curve will miss the curve completely. Red fabric with golden texture rendered with Houdini XPU. NVIDIA OptiX 7.4

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Improve Culling: Portals (rewrite as polygon-based) and Rooms. The light voxel is computed on CPU, allowing all types of dynamic lights, then uploaded to a 3D texture (with optional real-time compression, to improve memory usage and performance) used by the shader: Here's how an area that receives no light at all gets lit by indirect bounces!

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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 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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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

DECEMBER 3, 2016

Improve Culling: Portals (rewrite as polygon-based) and Rooms. Shadow atlases exist for Spot and Omni lights (Directional uses its own texture, and multiple directional lights need several passes). How the atlas texture is organized is up to the user, though the default is sensible enough to work in most cases. SEEING THE CODE.

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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

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

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 ). GLES2/GLES3: Add support for OpenGL external textures ( GH-36342 ). Notably, Godot 3.2.2

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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. Ignore support for S3TC texture compression on Android and iOS devices in GLES3 (already done since 3.4 The upcoming Godot 3.5 stable for all users.

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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 ).

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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.

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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 ). Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). The upcoming Godot 3.2.2 stable build. stable build.

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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 ). Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). stable in a day or two.

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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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

We can also access newer GL features via extensions, so we don't miss much. At the end of the day, the use case where Vulkan and DirectX12 make the most sense is when you have hundreds of thousands of objects, which are all different (different geometry, textures, etc.), On a texture, a dual paraboloid is used. and which move.

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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

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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 ).

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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

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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.

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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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

is going to be incredibly feature-packed, and we're taking the time necessary to ensure that it will also be stable. After a lot of testing and additional work, we decided that the new 2D snapping features weren't working as we want them to yet, so they has been reverted in 3.2.4 The main new features are highlighted in bold.

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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

MARCH 19, 2021

The version change doesn't mean that we're reopening the branch for new features, and so Godot 3.3 The main new features are highlighted in bold. GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). Our last testing build was 3.2.4

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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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2021

The main new features are highlighted in bold. GLES2: Fix glow on devices with only 8 texture slots ( GH-42446 ). GLES2: Use separate texture unit for light_texture ( GH-42538 ). Rendering: Various fixes to light culling ( GH-46694 ). "Keep" import mode to keep files as-is and export them. documentation.

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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

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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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

For example, warp shuffle can be used to optimize memory access in algorithms like light culling. Handle the error. } } Querying GPU feature support Finally, before trying to use the intrinsics, you’ll probably want to know whether the device that the app’s working with actually supports those intrinsics. NVAPI_OK) { //.Handle

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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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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. This feature becomes available in HLSL Shader Model 6.6.

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iXie gaming

JULY 19, 2024

These are pre-made textures that store lighting info for objects that don’t move. Texture Compression. Makes texture files smaller, speeding up loading times and using less memory. Features magical glows and ethereal light (e.g., “Ori and the Will of the Wisps”). Light Functions. Iterate and Test.

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