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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. They only write what is needed (no redundant information), keep the ordering of sections and are simple enough to understand changes by just looking at the diff.

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Delores Source Code Released!

Grumpy Gamer

MAY 25, 2020

While you can do pretty much anything you want to the game, including writing a whole new UI, or translating into any language, or returning it to the verb matrix, you can't release or publish a game. Releasing the engine source (c++) is problematic for a few reasons. It's just an adventure game engine.

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Delores Source Code Released!

Grumpy Gamer

MAY 24, 2020

” While you can do pretty much anything you want to the game, including writing a whole new UI, or translating into any language, or returning it to the verb matrix, you can’t release or publish a game. Releasing the engine source (c++) is problematic for a few reasons. “Holy crap-a-reno!

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Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

If you use and enjoy Godot, plan to use it, or want support the cause of having a mature, high quality free and open source game engine, then please consider becoming our patron. Rendering: Portal occlusion culling. Portal occlusion culling. Thanks to all of you patrons from the bottom of our hearts!

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Godot 3's renderer design explained

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Godot uses a considerably different approach to rendering (and rendering abstraction) than other, popular, game engines. This document was written in hopes to find more developers that would like to help us write rendering code, as it explains the overall design. Without it it's quite difficult to get into the internals.

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Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

If you use and enjoy Godot, plan to use it, or want support the cause of having a mature, high quality free and open source game engine, then please consider becoming our patron. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. It is really as simple as that to get started, place them wherever you like in your game level.

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Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

The new 3D engine is outstanding, with many features out-of-the-box that are still not common in other mainstream engines. The new 3D renderer is state-of-the-art, with features rarely see in game engines today, such as: Full principled BSDF. writing shaders is very easy! In Godot 3.0, Bullet Physics backend.

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

stable branch in January 2020 as a major update to our free and open source game engine. The Android plugin documentation has been updated with instructions on how to write plugins for this new system. Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). Godot contributors released the Godot 3.2 But Godot 4.0

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Scene: Write node groups on a single line when saving a.tscn file ( GH-52284 ). or earlier no longer works in 3.4

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Scene: Write node groups on a single line when saving a.tscn file ( GH-52284 ). Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). In-depth documentation is available.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Scene: Write node groups on a single line when saving a.tscn file ( GH-52284 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Scene: Write node groups on a single line when saving a.tscn file ( GH-52284 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Scene: Write node groups on a single line when saving a.tscn file ( GH-52284 ).

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Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

If you use and enjoy Godot, plan to use it, or want support the cause of having a mature, high quality free and open source game engine, then please consider becoming our patron. was still far away, so we tasked Joan Fons ( jfons ), as part of the GSoC program, to write a new CPU lightmapper for Godot 3.x.

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The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

You can even create complex dynamic effects by writing custom shaders that operate on FogVolume nodes. Don't worry, though, you will be able to reap the benefits of these new features without sacrificing your game's performance. We hope the new analyzers will help users avoid common pitfalls and write better code.

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

Delores Source Code Released!

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Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Godot 3's renderer design explained

Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

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