Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2025

What a year it has been, with the number of Godot submissions in game jams rising to new heights, more people working for the Godot Foundation than ever before , and most industry award shows featuring one if not more games made with Godot. And with that, the 2024 season comes to an end. A busy year inside the project as well.

Engineering 40

Engineering Engine Mechanics Co-op 40

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. Open the scene named scene-game-start and click on the preview button to run the game, you will see the following screen.

Code 52

Code Culling Lightmap Render 52

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. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). The main changes coming in Godot 3.5

Beta 52

Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

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 52

Render Shaders Texture Mesh 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. Rendering: Use proper indices for lights, decals, and reflection probes in mobile scene shader ( GH-70929 ). Jump to the Downloads section. They've been building upon Godot 4.0

Beta 106

Beta Dev Render Animation 106

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 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. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). The main changes coming in Godot 3.5

Beta 52

Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 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. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). The main changes coming in Godot 3.5

Beta 52

Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

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. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). The main changes coming in Godot 3.5

Beta 52

Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

x branch to develop and publish their games today, so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience. 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, This ensures your game will run the same on all machines.

Shaders 53

Shaders Render Feature Mesh 53

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. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). Two years ago (!),

Render 52

Render Shaders Console Culling 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Godot uses a considerably different approach to rendering (and rendering abstraction) than other, popular, game engines. Ability to completely reimplement all rendering code if desired, without changing the underlying game. For example: On GLES3+ we can use UBOs to optimize shader parameters. Shader abstraction.

Render 52

Render Shaders Texture Engineering 52

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 )!

Render 52

Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

Mnenad

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

  I have to admit it was frustrating to work with a machine that cannot handle much heavy calculations at once (my Macbook from 2011) from time to time, but on the other hand this forced me to get into optimizing the game very soon, what might become a good base for expanding the complexity in near future. Draw call batching.

Mesh 52

Mesh Shaders FPS Polygon 52

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. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). Two years ago (!),

Render 52

Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

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 new GI probe implementation in Godot is a game changer, and gives Godot 3.0 Implement the new version of the Godot SVO-based Light Baker. TODO for Milestone #4 (January 2017).

Render 52

Render Baking Lightmap Shaders 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

x branch to develop and publish their games today , so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience. 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.

UX 52

UX Feature Culling Mesh 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

The fix seems relatively safe but this will require heavy testing to make sure it doesn't regress - if you have 3D games using Bullet physics, please try this RC 2 and report any issue. and included in this release candidate are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). The main changes coming in Godot 3.5

Render 52

Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

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. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). Two years ago (!),

Render 52

Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

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. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). Two years ago (!),

Render 52

Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

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. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). Two years ago (!),

Render 52

Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

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 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ).

Beta 52

Beta Dev Mesh Render 52

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 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ).

Beta 52

Beta Dev Mesh Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. Rendering: Use proper indices for lights, decals, and reflection probes in mobile scene shader ( GH-70929 ). Jump to the Downloads section. They’ve been building upon Godot 4.0

Beta 82

Beta Dev Render Animation 82

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. In order to benefit you should be moving your objects and running your game logic in _physics_process(). Two years ago (!),

Render 52

Render Shaders Mesh Console 52

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 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ).

Beta 52

Beta Dev Mesh Render 52

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 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ).

Beta 52

Beta Dev Mesh Render 52

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 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ).

Beta 52

Beta Dev Mesh Render 52

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 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ).

Mesh 52

Mesh Render Shaders Animation 52

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 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ).

Mesh 52

Mesh Render Shaders Animation 52

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 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ).

Mesh 52

Mesh Render Shaders Animation 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

Materials and shaders. The new 3D renderer is state-of-the-art, with features rarely see in game engines today, such as: Full principled BSDF. Materials and shaders. In other engines, you have to provide many shader variants, mix HLSL with a metalanguage, error reporting is terrible and writing shaders is difficult in general.

Render 52

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 12, 2020

GLES2 batching is enabled by default both in-game and in the editor. 2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ). C#: Allow debugging exported games ( GH-38115 ). Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). Shaders: Add shader time scaling ( GH-38995 ).

Beta 52

Beta Bug Debug Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 18, 2020

GLES2 batching is enabled by default both in-game and in the editor. 2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ). C#: Allow debugging exported games ( GH-38115 ). Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). Shaders: Add shader time scaling ( GH-38995 ).

Beta 52

Beta Debug Bug Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2020

GLES2 batching is enabled by default both in-game and in the editor. 2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ). C#: Allow debugging exported games ( GH-38115 ). Core: Fixed false positives in the culling system ( GH-37863 ). Shaders: Add shader time scaling ( GH-38995 ).

Beta 52

Beta Debug Bug Point and Click 52

Nvidia

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Catmull-Rom curves are a popular choice in the film and games industries for hair and fur and other uses of curves. Open-ended curves can be desirable for avoiding shader divergence having to do with special-case handling of endcap normals. Open-ended curves are common and desirable and also better for performance.

Ray Tracing 52

Ray Tracing Render Feature Animation 52

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 ).

Beta 52

Beta Dev Render Debug 52

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 ).

Beta 52

Beta Dev Render Debug 52