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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

Game window embedding was implemented to support our recent interactive in-game editing feature. GH-98163 ) CSGMesh3D now explicitly requires the mesh to be manifold. A manifold mesh must be closed, have each edge connected to only two faces, and have volume. For more information and a handy video, check out the PR GH-99010.

Beta

Beta Dev Lightmap Baking

Godot 4.0 gets global and per-instance shader uniforms

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 16, 2020

For this, you define a specialized uniform : shader_type canvas_item; uniform vec4 my_color : hint_color; // Edit as a color. This produces an editable parameter in the material. The material is what you set to 2D nodes or to 3D meshes in order to draw them. Is every bit of grass a mesh and an object? How do they do it?

Shaders

Shaders Mesh Texture Editing

Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

. • Fixed native side LOD screen share calculation using local coordinates, causing calculation error. Fixed an issue where Mesh objects created through MeshUtils.createMesh caused data anomalies. Fixed an issue where the setter for the Mesh:: _ hash attribute was not bound. .

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Render Baking Lightmap Debug

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Localized class reference. Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Morris Arroad ( mortarroad ) has worked on using a more reliable algorithm from Bullet to generate physics convex hulls from meshes. Take a look at the new theme editor in action in this GDQuest video: Localized class reference.

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

Learn How To Get Data From API in Unreal Engine 5 by Building a Virtual Art Gallery

DameDev.tv

MARCH 7, 2023

These include: UStaticMeshComponent to render a plane mesh on which we'll set a dynamically created material instance. The EditAnywhere specifier allows these properties to be edited in the Unreal Editor, both in the Blueprint and the Details panel of the component. FText – a localized type.

Data

Data Engine Engineering Art

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #5

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 6, 2018

In order to deform the mesh according to the bone transforms, each vertex (generally "point of a triangle") can be influenced by up to 4 bones. this was solved by having copies of the meshdata, then modifying the mesh itself with the bone transform information. It is backed by a ConfigFile which is nice for manual editing.

Shaders

Shaders Texture Render Scripting

GSoC 2021 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 30, 2021

Like in previous years, Godot is participating again in the Google Summer of Code program for its 2021 edition. For projects catering to people from various backgrounds, supporting multiple languages might be important, and with that, comes the need for the project to be robust enough to not break when using different locales.

Debug

Debug Simulation Communications Feature

Godot reaches 2.1 stable!

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 9, 2016

The approach chosen by Godot for live editing makes it really easy to create content on the fly, have it replicated in the running game, and keep your changes when the game is done running. Editing such properties is possible too, but changes won't be saved (use regular live editing for this). Remote scene inspector.

Asset

Asset Scripting Engineering Engine

Creating a See-Through | X-Ray Effect In Unity – Shader Tutorial

Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 24, 2022

The vert function on line 37 uses UnityObjectToClipPos which will transform the mesh vertex position from local object space to clip space. The properties on lines 5 and 6 will allow us to edit these values in the Inspector tab. And the frag function on line 43 will return the silhouette color which we specified. 0.59, and 0.11

Shaders

Shaders Pixel Point and Click Scripting

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

introduced a new graph-based editor to edit shaders visually, reimplemented from the previous version that was included in Godot 2.1. Skin support allows multiple meshes to share a single skeleton. formats permit more than 4 bone weights per vertex, such meshes are currently unsupported in Godot 3.2. Visual Shaders overhaul.

Feature

Feature Render Shaders Bug

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

Still, this workflow is easy and efficient as 3D objects get a second set of UVs generated on import, and baking works with instantiated meshes, scenes and even GridMaps. It is possible to either import a scene as a single file, or to split it into multiple instantiated subscenes, keep materials, meshes and animations external, etc.

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Several new optimization techniques are also at your disposal, such as occlusion culling , automatic mesh LOD , and manual HLOD using visibility ranges , made possible by Joan Fons ( JFonS ), and Juan. The new NavigationServer supports fully dynamic environments and on-the-fly navigation mesh baking. has been added by Je06jm.

Beta

Beta Engineering Engine Feature

GSoC 2018 progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 25, 2018

It now supports meshes, armatures, lights, cameras, shape keys, animations (including object transforms, pose bones and property changes in shape keys, lights and cameras), and an automatic material search. Performance edits (depends on performance at higher resolution). Documentation. Fixing Memory Leaks (precautionary).

Communications

Communications Code Engineering Engine

Unreal Engine 5 FPS: Create A Zombie Horde Shooter

Awesome Tuts

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Inside the BP_Player editor, click on the mesh component in the Component tab at the top right corner: Now inside the Details tab on the right side, under the Mesh option for the Skeletal Mesh 3D object we are going to select the Mannequin 3D object: But make sure that you select the one which is located in the Art folder.

FPS

FPS Engine Engineering Animation

The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #31

Astral Clock Tower Studios

JULY 31, 2021

and try your luck at winning a FREE PS5 Disc Edition, courtesy of women-lead indie games studio, Astral Clocktower Studios. This will ultimately help the game's localization since we can now write text with tags instead of concatenating text and images.

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Dev Demo Concepts Animation

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Godot 4.0 gets global and per-instance shader uniforms

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Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

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GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #5

GSoC 2021 - Progress report #1

Godot reaches 2.1 stable!

Creating a See-Through | X-Ray Effect In Unity – Shader Tutorial

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

GSoC 2018 progress report #1

Unreal Engine 5 FPS: Create A Zombie Horde Shooter

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