Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: A ton of fixes for all rendering backends, and missing features implemented for the OpenGL3 one. It's fairly slow and there are still a lot of issues to iron out, but you should be able to start it, edit a project and run it. Rendering: Added Viewport canvas cull mask feature ( GH-52350 ).

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Cocos

DECEMBER 7, 2023

GitHub： shader-graph Preview Basic Structure Preparation Phase Cocos Creator 3.8.2 editor and the shader-graph.zip shader-graph.zip plugin. Click , choose the shader-graph.zip extension file, and import it. Creating Asset Right-click in the Assets panel, select Create/Shader Graph to create a.shadergraph asset.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: A lot of bug fixes and improvements in these areas particularly, check out the PRs listed below: Animation, Navigation, GDScript, Rendering. We previously removed *_degrees properties from 2D and 3D objects in favor of making editing degrees easier in the Inspector.

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Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

This version optimizes some rendering and lighting capabilities, fixes a series of key issues recently reported by users, and recommends that all v3.x Engine • Added DebugView at runtime UI control rendering debugging function. Skip rendering when the UI element Opacity is 0. Skip rendering when the UI element Opacity is 0.

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Nvidia

MARCH 17, 2023

USD is different from our previous format in that it can be edited in different tools, such as Houdini. Unlike previous formats, USD compositions can be used to edit data in a non-destructive manner. USD solves these problems as compositions can be used for nondestructive editing, so that you can smoothly move between multiple tools.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Editor: Bring back the renderer options button on the main editor ( GH-70500 ). GUI: Fix inconsistent state of Controls when editing and running scenes ( GH-70882 ). Rendering: Add options for sorting transparent objects ( GH-69998 ). Rendering: Cleanup and improve sky render ( GH-70253 ). get_root() ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: A lot of bug fixes and improvements in these areas particularly, check out the PRs listed below: Animation, Navigation, GDScript, Rendering. We previously removed *_degrees properties from 2D and 3D objects in favor of making editing degrees easier in the Inspector.

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Cocos

MAY 6, 2023

So they came and asked: How do I add a new Shader for the CRP? pipeline/passes ：Related scripts pipeline/resources/effects ：Related shaders pipeline/resources/materials ：Related materials Pass Code Next, we’ll ignore all principles and details for now, quickly implement a grayscale effect, and grasp the workflow. has been lost.

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Cocos

MAY 6, 2023

So they came and asked: How do I add a new Shader for the CRP? pipeline/passes ：Related scripts pipeline/resources/effects ：Related shaders pipeline/resources/materials ：Related materials Pass Code Next, we’ll ignore all principles and details for now, quickly implement a grayscale effect, and grasp the workflow. has been lost.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 14, 2014

The forum ( edit: now replaced by the Q&A ), IRC and Facebook are now full of life! is to focus on improving the 2D engine with all the feedback that we have gathered during the past months, improving shader support for 2D, visual shader editing (for 2D and 3D), and more draw options such as per-node z-priority.

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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. API documentation updates.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 6, 2018

The progress of last month was largely defined by stabilizing the 3D renderer with many smaller fixes, but work on the PRB side of things has begun and the GDNative system also saw some quality-of-life changes again, with improvements to the GDNativeLibrary resource as well as an API to provide safe type-casting in NativeScript. Introduction.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Editor: Bring back the renderer options button on the main editor ( GH-70500 ). GUI: Fix inconsistent state of Controls when editing and running scenes ( GH-70882 ). Rendering: Add options for sorting transparent objects ( GH-69998 ). Rendering: Cleanup and improve sky render ( GH-70253 ). get_root() ).

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Cocos

MAY 9, 2023

ENGINE Features ● Custom Render Pipeline based on Render Graph supports for GLES backend ● Deprecated interfaces, such as addRasterView, addComputeView, etc., Fixed Toon shader data issue on iOS Wechat. Fixed various issues when editing multiple selected nodes. Fixed various issues when editing multiple selected nodes.

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iXie gaming

JUNE 28, 2024

Other Specialized 2D Tools Pyxel Edit For games that use retro pixel art, Pyxel Edit is a must-have tool. TexturePacker helps by automatically packing many sprites into one texture atlas, which reduces the number of draw calls and improves overall rendering efficiency.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

Visual shader editor. x branch used OpenGL ES 2.0 / OpenGL 2.1 ( GLES2 ) as its rendering API. This worked well, but had many limitations preventing us to use more modern rendering techniques. all rendering code was rewritten to use the more modern OpenGL ES 3.0 / OpenGL 3.3 renderer was removed. 2D skeletons.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2021

just a few days ago with a huge array of bugfixes, but a regression was then found for macOS rendering which could cause flickering. stable: C#: Check that a.csproj exists before trying to edit it ( GH-56101 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix trunc shader function compilation on Android ( GH-56061 ). We released Godot 3.4.1

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Editor: Expose ScriptEditor::edit to scripting ( GH-55709 ). Particles: Fix for double use of seed in random shader variables ( GH-55607 ). Rendering: Fix vertex attribute specification for octahedral compression ( GH-54768 ). Rendering: Update CanvasItem when MultiMesh instance transform changes ( GH-54899 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 30, 2020

While not entirely rendering specific, a lot of nodes are being renamed. Accurate frame render time. you can only see the frames per second that takes rendering the whole editor. This is very misleading and not representative of rendering performance. Additionally, GLSL shaders (not Godot shaders, real GLSL 4.50+Vulkan

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Edit: Or not, there's a regression for the web editor in this build ( GH-57592 ). GridMap: Fix editing MeshLibrary's Shapes array from the Inspector ( GH-56891 ). GUI: Fix RichTextLabel underline prevents strikethrough from rendering ( GH-56686 ). Rendering: Fix blend shapes when octahedral compression is used ( GH-56161 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

Rendering: Octahedral normal/tangent compression ( GH-60309 ). Editor: Disable editing properties in foreign resources ( GH-63282 ). Editor: Improvements to shader editor ( GH-63582 ). Rendering: Octahedral normal/tangent compression ( GH-60309 ). Rendering: Add font LCD sub-pixel anti-aliasing support ( GH-64422 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

Godot can render at frame rates independent from the fixed physics tick rate. This can lead to problems where the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, causing unsightly jitter. Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader). Physics interpolation in 3D.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). In-depth documentation is available.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2021

Batching: Fix light pass modulate , a potential crash, polygon rotation from vertex shader, and 2D skinning with unrigged polygons ( GH-48151 , GH-48125 , GH-48457 , GH-48647 )). Editor: Fix race condition in font preview generation which could lock the editor on first edit ( GH-48308 ). Here are some of the main changes since 3.3-stable:

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

GLES3 renderer). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). Highlights.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

GLES3 renderer). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). Highlights.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Notable changes are in-editor class reference translations (so far Chinese (Simplified), Spanish, and some French), some new rendering features (high quality glow mode, 3D point light attenuation option), and a number of C# marshalling fixes. Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

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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. Lots of rendering changes. OpenGL3: Add 2D lights to canvas renderer ( GH-67335 ).

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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. Lots of rendering changes. OpenGL3: Add 2D lights to canvas renderer ( GH-67335 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). In-depth documentation is available.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Allow the drawing and editing of all animation bezier curves ( GH-55030 ). Rendering: Various bug fixes to both shaders and the Vulkan setup (including updating to Vulkan SDK 1.3.204 ). Rendering: Add ParticleShader Userdata ( GH-58088 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

GridMap: Fix editing MeshLibrary's Shapes array from the Inspector ( GH-56891 ). GUI: Fix RichTextLabel underline prevents strikethrough from rendering ( GH-56686 ). Rendering: Fix blend shapes when octahedral compression is used ( GH-56161 ). Rendering: Fix invalid read when using LightOccluder2D ( GH-56859 ).

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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 ). Particles: Fix for double use of seed in random shader variables ( GH-55607 ). Jump to the Downloads section.

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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 (..)

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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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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 1, 2022

Editor: Refactored shader editor, now a permanent bottom dock with support to edit multiple files ( GH-61459 ). Rendering: Add support for soft shadows to the GPU lightmapper ( GH-62054 ). Rendering: Use the Static global illumination mode in GeometryInstance3D by default ( GH-60935 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

It brings a brand new rendering engine with state-of-the-art PBR workflow for 3D, an improved assets pipeline, GDNative to load native code as plugins, C# 7.0 After meeting the initial goal, we hired karroffel to continue her work on GDNative (more about this below) and work on a new rendering backend. Materials and shaders.

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