Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 28, 2019

Hello Godotters, as part of my October work (sponsored, as always, by Mozilla ) I've been working on getting the script debugger and profiler to work with HTML5 exports. The following section is a brief technical excursus on the internals of godot debugging and profiling. Supported features. Debugger Connection.

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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. Multi-caret support in TextEdit and script editors ( GH-61902 ). Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ) reworked the features and user experience of Godot’s ColorPicker during Google Summer of Code 2022.

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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. Multi-caret support in TextEdit and script editors ( GH-61902 ). Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ) reworked the features and user experience of Godot's ColorPicker during Google Summer of Code 2022.

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Logic Simplified

AUGUST 24, 2023

Let’s understand the array of features that create such next-level user experiences. The different components of Unreal tech allowed the creators to create a feature-fed game while maintaining its performance. Shared Experiences 6. People Occlusion 7.

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Cocos

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Even though Unity has made remarkable work with the UIToolKit approach to development, trying to mimic the same FE reactivity-like features, I could not feel that I went back a few years in time working with early versions of Angular 2. Now you can see the results and debug it in the browser as you would doing your web app.

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The Liquid Fire

APRIL 17, 2024

So you go about it by creating prefabs or scriptable objects with a single script that includes properties for each of these details. Things seem to be going well, but then you go to add another feature such as a character’s background and realize that they have overlapping features.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 30, 2021

Here are the 5 projects/students with links to the relevant sections in this post: Implementing a DAP backend for debugging Godot projects by Ricardo Subtil ( Ev1lbl0w ). Implementing a DAP backend for debugging Godot projects. Project: Implementing a DAP backend for debugging Godot projects. Branch: Ev1lbl0w/gsoc21-dap.

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The Liquid Fire

MAY 4, 2023

Create a new folder in Assets/Scripts named Component. All of the scripts we create in this lesson will be placed in one of those two folders or pre-existing folders. The trick is figuring out what should be combined and what should be separate based on what features you will actually need. We need a subclass to test on.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 1, 2022

has been in beta for over two months , and the overall feature completeness, stability and usability have improved a lot during that time. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Android: Bump the minimum Android target API to 21 (Android Lollipop) ( GH-67610 ). Android: Enable GLES3 support ( GH-69355 ).

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Cocos

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Minor version updates focus on performance, package size, ease of use, and stability, such as WASM modules, support for mini-game platforms, package compression, build process optimization, script optimization, rendering effect optimization, etc. Support for Plugin Script Sorting 8. to Cocos Creator 3.8.4 that are worth noting.

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Understanding Game Automation: Game automation refers to the use of software tools and scripts to perform automated tests on video games. Automation ensures that a wide range of game features, mechanics, and interactions are thoroughly tested, increasing the likelihood of detecting potential issues before the game’s release.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 3, 2020

In this progress report I'm going to do a brief introduction to the features included in the current version of the extensions. The two extensions support debugging of Godot games. They make it easy to launch and debug games from the IDE without the need to tweak any Godot setting. This work was kindly sponsored by Microsoft.

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AWS Games

JUNE 6, 2023

Now part of EA SPORTS, Metalhead has aimed for the fences with “ Super Mega Baseball 4 ” (SMB 4), a new version of the arcade-inspired sports game featuring more than 200 playable baseball legends – from Babe Ruth to David Ortiz. They’re also able to capture and analyze game play metrics to inform feature development.

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Nvidia

JUNE 21, 2023

Toggle the Load Debug Overlay option. The Load Debug Overlay option for Frame Generation works in the editor and can appear in development or debug builds, but won’t appear in production builds.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

This version worked well but we felt it was still far from the usability and features of a modern game engine. New core features. Instancing is one of Godot's best features. Other new core features. Smaller new core features were also added: Support for ZIP packs on export instead of PCK. New editor features.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

We're working towards finalizing the feature set for 4.0 beta, reviewing many PRs which have been opened prior to our roadmap feature freeze announced a month ago. Same deal as usual, lots of bugs fixed and more refactoring and feature work. Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 23, 2022

In parallel to our work on the upcoming feature releases Godot 3.5 ( with a second beta ) and 4.0 ( now at alpha 4! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 Core: Revert "Fix ProjectSettings has_setting() when used on a overriden setting with feature tags" ( GH-58859 ). branch for use in production. Last month's 3.4.3

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 10, 2021

As there is no new feature and only bug fixes, this RC 1 should be as stable as 3.3-stable Core: Expose Shape.get_debug_mesh() to the scripting API ( GH-48316 ). LSP: Update the filesystem for changed scripts, fixes issues with new named classes ( GH-47891 ). The upcoming Godot 3.3.1, like all future 3.3.x

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The Liquid Fire

DECEMBER 1, 2023

As a side benefit, you can look at the script in the inspector and see the Entity’s id which may be useful for a variety of debugging purposes. Open the EntityViewProvider script and modify the SetView method to look like this: public void SetView(GameObject view, Entity entity, ViewZone zone) { if (!mapping.ContainsKey(zone))

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 21, 2017

Alpha2 is around the corner and I'm glad to announce that it will come with the first usable version of C# as a Godot scripting language. I will write more posts about the internals and how things work in the future but, for this one, I would like to focus on introducing the language and how to write Godot scripts with it. Player.tscn.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 11, 2022

We're working towards finalizing the feature set for 4.0 beta, reviewing many PRs which have been opened prior to our roadmap feature freeze announced a couple of weeks ago. Same deal as usual, lots of bugs fixed and more refactoring and feature work. Editor: Keep property values when extending script ( GH-43081 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 15, 2021

As there is no new feature and only bug fixes, this RC 2 should be as stable as 3.3-stable Core: Expose Shape.get_debug_mesh() to the scripting API ( GH-48316 ). LSP: Update the filesystem for changed scripts, fixes issues with new named classes ( GH-47891 ). The upcoming Godot 3.3.1, like all future 3.3.x

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

This feature set enables you to thoroughly test your video game, ensuring it works as expected and is free from errors. TestComplete’s scripting capabilities enhance customization, allowing you to tailor your tests to meet specific needs. It facilitates profiling and debugging in C and C++ applications.

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Cocos

DECEMBER 25, 2023

In simple terms, it involves applying after-effects to game visuals and is an essential feature in game development, often utilized to enhance the visual quality and presentation of games. The technology is not complicated, but the number of points is more or less limited, and debugging is also troublesome. I tested it with an image.

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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

JANUARY 13, 2023

A couple fixes to the text resource loader which could impact notably reloading scripts ( GH-71170 ). Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Split pause() from AnimationPlayer's stop() ( GH-71218 ). Export: Fix missing "debug"/"release" export presets feature tags ( GH-71274 ).

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The Liquid Fire

JANUARY 24, 2024

At the top of the list, I see an error that looks something like this: Assets/Scripts/Actions/ActionInjector.cs(10,32): At the top of the list, I see an error that looks something like this: Assets/Scripts/Actions/ActionInjector.cs(10,32): So the first thing I do is open that script.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2021

Core: Expose Shape.get_debug_mesh() to the scripting API ( GH-48316 ). LSP: Update the filesystem for changed scripts, fixes issues with new named classes ( GH-47891 ). macOS: Update Info.plist to clarify that the minimum required version is now macOS 10.12 (due to use of C++14 features).

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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 ). C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

We had 8 students working for on great new features all around the engine, and they reported on their progress regularly on this blog, with a first ( part 1 and part 2 ) and second progress report. Improvements to the Visual Scripting System by Swarnim Arun. Improvements to the Visual Scripting System – Swarnim Arun. Work done.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 25, 2018

After a long time coming, and as part of the trend of modernizing many old Godot subsystems, the animation tree has been rewritten from scratch and it's now brand new, with plenty of new features. This was one of the main missing features in Godot, which makes it now much more apt for complex 3D games. Completely modular design.

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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 ). C#: Allow debugging exported games ( GH-38115 ). The upcoming Godot 3.2.2 stable build. stable build. Other changes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 12, 2017

This release therefore brings various new features to GDScript, the editor, some nodes' API – but we tried to ensure that compatibility with earlier 2.1.x A big thankyou to all the contributors who worked on this release by implementing bug fixes or features, or testing the changes to spot potential regressions and help debug issues.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2017

has encouraged many Godot users to contribute new features to the stable branch, in order to bring them faster to end users and to their projects. The side effect is that such features can introduce regressions, which we absolutely don't want in the stable branch, so this 2.1.4 alpha1 's nice glow feature. Made by Bauxite.

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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 ). C#: Allow debugging exported games ( GH-38115 ). After refining our Godot 3.2 Notably, Godot 3.2.2

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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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