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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

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

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

Mesh streaming : Models are loaded as low detail (few vertices). The most complex is mesh streaming , which generally needs to be implemented together with a GPU culling strategy to ensure that very large amounts of models can be drawn at no CPU cost. GPUParticlesMaterial resource (or even an optional dedicated shader).

AAA

AAA Game Developer Game Development Development

Godot Tactics RPG – 01. Intro & Setup

The Liquid Fire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

We’re not really doing anything with shaders or post processing in the tutorial, so depending on where you want to take the tutorial later, its really up to you which you choose. You can either click that, or once you are done editing all textures, you can click save scene in the Scene menu and it will save any unsaved materials.

Point and Click

Point and Click Texture Mesh Tile

Godot's new renderer, progress report #1

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. Write a more efficient Mesh format, which allows faster loading/saving. For Godot 3.0 (our

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Render Shaders Texture Mesh

Godot gets a new Inspector

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2018

For sub-resources, editing would also go into a separate view. All editing is done via controls instead of tree cells. It also allows writing custom plugins to customize the looks, like in the image below: New Spin-Slider for numerical editing. It alows: Editing values in absolute range (via slider). the NEW inspector!

Editing

Editing Visual Scripting Animation Animation

Introducing the new "last minute" lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This generally works and looks pretty, but it's quite shader intensive, which makes it not work on mobile or low end GPUs. First of all, you need to make sure your meshes have an UV2 layer. Godot lightmapper works with one texture per mesh, so sharing UVs between meshes will not give you more optimization.

Lightmap

Lightmap Baking Mesh Texture

Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

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. New and standard-material will default to Surface Shader. Editor • Support baking high-precision lighting maps to get a better baking effect. . •

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Render Baking Lightmap Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

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. The actual deformation usually happens in the vertex shader , where the bone transforms get looked up from a texture. (In added TIME uniform to all "scriptable" shaders.

Shaders

Shaders Texture Render Scripting

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.4

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 23, 2022

Edit 2022-03-24 @ 12:15 UTC: There was a slight packaging mistake affecting the macOS editor, and the iOS and macOS export templates, as well as a build issue affecting the iOS debug template. before this edit are advised to re-download at least the export templates if they intend to export to iOS.

Render

Render Alpha Shaders Editing

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Cocos Creator 3.7.1 Released

Cocos

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Developer Notes Engine Add more API docs (engine#13937, engine#14079, engine#14088) [Optimize] add image asset’s zh i18n (engine#14108) [Optimize] Add pointerlock function for mac platform (engine#14187) [Pipeline] enable custom pipeline in the editor (engine#14084) [Pipeline] add native pipeline ubo uploading (engine#14061) [Pipeline] Fix web-pipeline (..)

Lightmap

Lightmap Engineering Engine Mesh

Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

Visual shader editor. Unsupported features will not be visible when editing materials. Some shader features will not work and throw an error when used (which is to be expected when using an older OpenGL version). Unsupported features will not be visible when editing environments. Key editing in inspector.

Feature

Feature Render Editing Shaders

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

GUI: Fix inconsistent state of Controls when editing and running scenes ( GH-70882 ). Import: Fix usages of mesh simplification functions in float=64 builds ( GH-67853 ). Rendering: Use proper indices for lights, decals, and reflection probes in mobile scene shader ( GH-70929 ). get_root() ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Animation

Godot gets 2D skeletal deform

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2018

A very common request, though, was the ability to do custom mesh deformation based on the same bones used to animate separate parts. This was recently added to GitHub head and, while overall 2D editing is a bit unstable right now (due to a massive reorganization of the 2D editor), it will be soon be possible to fully make use of this feature.

Polygon

Polygon Point and Click Editing Animation

Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. For more advanced use cases, you can use TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add WordArt to your scenes ;). Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader).

Shaders

Shaders Render Feature Mesh

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 15

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

Editor: Disable editing properties in foreign resources ( GH-63282 ). Editor: Improvements to shader editor ( GH-63582 ). Warning: This has the potential to break meshes imported in earlier alphas, we are still working on improving the compatibility code. Shaders: Quality of life Visual Shaders updates ( GH-63999 ).

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Alpha Dev Shaders Beta

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Shaders: Fix specular render_mode for Visual Shaders ( GH-41536 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). TileSet: Fix potential crash when editing polygons ( GH-40560 ).

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Bug Collision Mesh Render

GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2022

Like in previous years, Godot is participating again in the Google Summer of Code program for its 2022 edition. Project: Allow undocking the Script editor and the Shader editor. In this project, I'll focus to make the Script editor and the Shader editor undockable, and keep the undocked windows after editor restarts. PR: #62378.

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Lightmap UX Shaders Debug

Get ready for the GitHub Game Off with Godot

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 30, 2017

GitHub has announced the 5 th edition of its Game Off game jam, hosted on itch.io Kudos to the first Godot user publishing an open source shader to achieve such an effect on our Asset Library :). GDquest's 30 Tutorials in 30 Days series offers short and well-edited tutorials that will introduce you to a given feature.

Concepts

Concepts Demo Engine Engineering

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Editor: Expose ScriptEditor::edit to scripting ( GH-55709 ). Import: Fix crash when exporting meshes to glTF that have no skin ( GH-55246 ). Particles: Fix for double use of seed in random shader variables ( GH-55607 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix incompatible addition in auto exposure shader ( GH-55983 ). libvorbis 1.3.7,

Tile

Tile Render Shaders Editing

GitHub Game Off and Godot are a winning combination

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The 2018 edition of the month-long jam focusing on free and open source game development tools is about to start again on November 1st. Edit: The Game Off 2018 theme is HYBRID ! as well as many small demos meant to showcase how to use a given feature, such as particles, screen space shaders, lights, navigation meshes, etc.

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Alpha Demo Games Engine

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

GUI: Fix inconsistent state of Controls when editing and running scenes ( GH-70882 ). Import: Fix usages of mesh simplification functions in float=64 builds ( GH-67853 ). Rendering: Use proper indices for lights, decals, and reflection probes in mobile scene shader ( GH-70929 ). get_root() ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Animation

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Shader language features. Shader language features. Our shader language maintainer Yuri Roubinsky ( Chaosus ) is busy doing magic on the development branch for Godot 4.0, Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Large files support (> 2.0 Frame delta smoothing. Improved input handling.

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.3

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Shaders: Fix specular render_mode for Visual Shaders ( GH-41536 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). TileSet: Fix potential crash when editing polygons ( GH-40560 ).

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Bug Build Texture Collision

Introducing the Godot glTF 2.0 scene exporter

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 4, 2021

You can now export your Godot scenes to glTF to get it back into Blender or other apps and make edits continuously. For example, creating a blockout or prototyping within Godot, then exporting as glTF to further edit in Blender, and finally bringing the geometry back into Godot. scurest - [link]. Lyuma - [link] - [link].

Animation

Animation Animation Engine Engineering

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.1 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Please test it on Windows (any version) to confirm that editing a project from the project manager, and running a project from the editor, both work fine. Editor: Expose ScriptEditor::edit to scripting ( GH-55709 ). Import: Fix crash when exporting meshes to glTF that have no skin ( GH-55246 ). Jump to the Downloads section.

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Tile Render Bug Build

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

Materials and shaders. 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. Materials and shaders. writing shaders is very easy! Full principled BSDF. Global illumination (GI). Mid- and post-processing.

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Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

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

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.3

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

GridMap: Fix editing MeshLibrary's Shapes array from the Inspector ( GH-56891 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader compile error with Oren Nayar + Vertex Lighting ( GH-56802 ). GDScript: Fix crash when is keyword is tested against a String variable ( GH-56791 ). GUI: Release focus of Control node when exiting tree ( GH-56255 ).

Render

Render Texture Scripting Agent

Godot Showcase - Gravity Ace developer talks about his experience

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 18, 2021

Godot just works in a way that meshes with how I like to think and work. I'd love to be able to edit shaders in the main code editor instead of a dock. How has Godot helped you advance on your project? Which aspects of Godot do you consider to be its strength? I think without Godot I'd be much farther behind where I am now.

Development

Development Art Engine Engineering

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

Moving to Vulkan (and ES 2.0) instead of OpenGL ES 3.0

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Edit: Changed post title for clarity (previously Abandoning OpenGL ES 3.0 Edit 2: This article is now outdated. uses quite complex shaders which, while they work fine on WebGL 2, take a long time to compile on Windows due to the Angle GLSL validation and compilation to HLSL. for Vulkan (and ES 2.0) ). backend if Vulkan cuts it.

Render

Render Mobile Mobile Writing

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 Feature Engine

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. The scene has a single soft body cloth with a coarse mesh that is fixed along one edge. The users can automate and customize scenes and write shaders according to their needs, using a graph-based visual editor.

Debug

Debug Simulation Communications Feature

The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #28

Astral Clock Tower Studios

APRIL 21, 2021

Moving forward, Joe will continue to refine and improve the look of the fur, adding a dither effect to the hair shader to soften the edges of each card. Once he played around with the cards a bit, Pete found them rather easy to create and, surprisingly, pretty practical to individually edit. Convenient, right? 3D Environmental Design.

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Dev Concepts Demo Texture

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

Guilty Gear Xrd

Sirlin

DECEMBER 30, 2014

But 3D games are usually stuck with a certain 3D model for a character and deforming the mesh is a pain to do. We've had toon shaders for years that can make 3D look like 2D, but Team Red has perfected it to such a degree that I sometimes can't even tell I'm looking at 3D. The lighting and shading is also incredible.

Fighting

Fighting Feature Balance Mechanics

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

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

Trending Sources

Godot 4.0 gets global and per-instance shader uniforms

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

Godot Tactics RPG – 01. Intro & Setup

Godot's new renderer, progress report #1

Godot gets a new Inspector

Introducing the new "last minute" lightmapper

Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #5

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.4

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Cocos Creator 3.7.1 Released

Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Godot gets 2D skeletal deform

Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 15

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 6

GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Get ready for the GitHub Game Off with Godot

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.1

GitHub Game Off and Godot are a winning combination

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.3

Introducing the Godot glTF 2.0 scene exporter

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.1 RC 3

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.3

Godot Showcase - Gravity Ace developer talks about his experience

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Moving to Vulkan (and ES 2.0) instead of OpenGL ES 3.0

Godot reaches 2.1 stable!

GSoC 2021 - Progress report #1

The Kristala Dev Blog - Issue #28

GSoC 2018 progress report #1

Guilty Gear Xrd

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