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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

Breaking changes Animation Audio C# Core Editor GDScript Import Input Physics Platforms Rendering and shaders XR New in Beta 1! Game window embedding was implemented to support our recent interactive in-game editing feature. Add 2D shader instance uniforms Previously, Godot only supported shader instance uniforms in Spatial shaders.

Beta

Beta Dev Lightmap Baking

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

Awesome Tuts

DECEMBER 24, 2022

What Is a Shader? Since the main premise of this effect is going to be a shader, we’ll start with explaining what a shader is. A shader is a script where you write code that determines how the colors will be rendered based on various scenarios like lighting and material configuration.

Shaders

Shaders Pixel Point and Click Scripting

The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition Crashing [Fixed]

Game Errors

MARCH 5, 2023

Is The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition crashing on your PC? The award-winning RPG game The Outer Worlds’ new version, the Spacer’s Choice Edition, has many elements to attract gamers. Why does the Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition keeps crashing on my PC? Don’t worry. Get DriverFix 2.

Editing

Editing Shaders Graphics PC

Godot 4.0 gets global and per-instance shader uniforms

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 16, 2020

Godot shader language is one of the easiest ones to use of any engine. Letting visual shaders aside, the shading language is a very tidy and self-contained version of GLSL ES 3.0, Shaders can take take inputs, modify them and produce outputs. This produces an editable parameter in the material. Per instance global what?

Shaders

Shaders Mesh Texture Editing

Major update for Visual Shaders in Godot 3.2 (part 2)

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

This is the second blog post describing enhancements for visual shaders and shader scripts landed in Godot 3.2. Since the previous update, I've (Chaosus) spent much time and effort adding a lot of new things to enhance the overall experience developing shaders. Shader changes. First, let's have a look at shader scripts.

Shaders

Shaders Texture Scripting Code

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 15

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 25, 2023

Rework EditorPlugin editing logic, allowing multiple plugins to be active at the same time ( GH-71770 ). Cleanup and unify keyboard input, adds new Key Label property for localized key mappings ( GH-70052 ). Editor: Rework EditorPlugin editing logic ( GH-71770 ). Shaders: Clean up shader parameter remap ( GH-71797 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Shaders

[CC 3.7.3] Shader Error?

Cocos

JUNE 1, 2023

I’m just learning how a shader works. Now, back to the issue, I think, only “cc_matWorld” is used from #include <builtin/uniforms/cc-local> If I commented both of these lines, there were no error. Edit: mySprite.effect contents: // Copyright (c) 2017-2020 Xiamen Yaji Software Co.,

Shaders

Shaders Sprite Alpha Localization

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2021

stable: C#: Check that a.csproj exists before trying to edit it ( GH-56101 ). GUI: Fix BaseButton's localization for tooltip text with shortcut ( GH-56109 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix trunc shader function compilation on Android ( GH-56061 ). Here are the main changes since 3.4.1-stable: This reverts a change introduced in 3.4.1

Pixel

Pixel Render Racing Shaders

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #5

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 6, 2018

The actual deformation usually happens in the vertex shader , where the bone transforms get looked up from a texture. (In backend is supposed to run on old hardware, there are some problems with hardware support for that: not all GPUs allow textures to be used in vertex shaders. added TIME uniform to all "scriptable" shaders.

Shaders

Shaders Texture Render Scripting

Maintenance release: Godot 3.1.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Edit: The update is now also available on Steam and itch.io. Edit 2019-12-03 @ 15:00 UTC: A regression was found in the WebAssembly (HTML5) export templates, which was fixed this day. If you downloaded Godot after the date of this edit, you do not need to do anything. While Godot 3.2 branch: Godot 3.1.2 Download Godot 3.1.2

Bug

Bug Beta Editing Localization

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. New and standard-material will default to Surface Shader. See the documentation “Built-in shaders”: [link] • Tooltip that supplements common material parameters. . • Fixed Mat4.getRotation getRotation issue.

Render

Render Baking Lightmap Debug

Vulkan progress report #7

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 30, 2020

Additionally, GLSL shaders (not Godot shaders, real GLSL 4.50+Vulkan It can't be edited in-engine, but it supports shader variants using a custom syntax. It is also possible to create local rendering devices, which run in the game thread (or any other thread). Vulkan extensions) can now be imported.

Render

Render Shaders Simulation Texture

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

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 1, 2022

Core: Fix VECTOR/LOCAL transitions in Node3D ( GH-62396 ). Editor: Refactored shader editor, now a permanent bottom dock with support to edit multiple files ( GH-61459 ). Core: Remake ResourceCache thread safety code and API ( GH-62309 ). Core: Fix option to convert text resources to binary ( GH-56185 ).

Alpha

Alpha Dev Render Bug

Boosting Unreal Engine Performance with Amazon FSx for OpenZFS as a Shared Derived Data Cache

AWS Games

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

DDC stores processed derived asset data such as texture compressions, shader compilations, and geometry conversions that can be quickly accessed by the engine during load times. DDC can be local to a single user or shared across a team via a network to improve the efficiency of the development pipeline.

Data

Data Engineering Engine Asset

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

Materials and shaders. Materials and shaders. makes up for it by providing an extremely powerful default material (which supports detail textures, triplanar mapping and other nice features) and an extremely easy-to-use shader language. writing shaders is very easy! Full principled BSDF. Global illumination (GI).

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Shader language features. Localized class reference. Shader language features. Our shader language maintainer Yuri Roubinsky ( Chaosus ) is busy doing magic on the development branch for Godot 4.0, Styleboxes of the same type can be edited together to save you time adjusting their margins and borders. Other areas.

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

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 Engine Engineering

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

Visual Shaders overhaul. Visual Shaders overhaul. introduced a new graph-based editor to edit shaders visually, reimplemented from the previous version that was included in Godot 2.1. our contributor Yuri Roubinsky did a huge rework of the new visual shader's UX , and eventually assumed full maintainership of the feature.

Feature

Feature Render Shaders Bug

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. is introducing sky shaders which allow users to create dynamic skies that update in real time (including reflections). For more information see the article introducing sky shaders. For other atmospheric effects, Godot 4.0

Beta

Beta Engine Engineering Feature

GSoC 2018 progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 25, 2018

reduz is always quick to respond on IRC, although he is busy developing new features for Godot (during that time, he finished the new Animation editor, the new AnimationTree and visual shader editor. Textures, normal maps and some of the BSDF shaders are already well supported. I am mentored by sdfgeoff and reduz. Amazing!!).

Communications

Communications Code Engine Engineering

GSoC 2020 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 29, 2020

As we announced a few months ago , Godot is participating again in the Google Summer of Code program for its 2020 edition. Localization is part of game development if one wishes to make their games more accessible to a wider audience. You can checkout a branch from the list of local branches. Introduction. Diff view.

Code

Code Feature Scripting Point and Click

UID changes coming to Godot 4.4

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2025

However, scripts and shaders are not imported resources and they are plain text formats, without any Godot-specific information stored within. In practice, this meant that UIDs could be used for scenes and most resources, but not scripts and shaders. Whats changing with UIDs in Godot 4.4 For example, if you have some_file.gd

Shaders

Shaders Scripting Content Engine

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

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

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The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition Crashing [Fixed]

Godot 4.0 gets global and per-instance shader uniforms

Major update for Visual Shaders in Godot 3.2 (part 2)

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 15

[CC 3.7.3] Shader Error?

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.2

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #5

Maintenance release: Godot 3.1.2

Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Vulkan progress report #7

GSoC 2021 - Progress report #1

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 11

Boosting Unreal Engine Performance with Amazon FSx for OpenZFS as a Shared Derived Data Cache

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Godot reaches 2.1 stable!

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

GSoC 2018 progress report #1

GSoC 2020 - Progress report #1

UID changes coming to Godot 4.4

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