Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

Those typically shouldn’t add instability to the engine, but may require doing some changes in your scripts, scenes, and shaders if you were using the affected APIs. Core: Add PROPERTY_USAGE_NEVER_DUPLICATE flag and use for script ( GH-71142 ). Shaders: Add derivative functions with precision to shaders ( GH-72109 ).

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Beta Dev Shaders Render 108

Logic Simplified

APRIL 4, 2025

Optimizing Scripting: Reduce Overhead & Boost Efficiency Key Issues & Solutions - Update() Overhead: Multiple objects invoke Update() reduce performance. The optimization of shaders combines calculation simplification methods which lowers both shader passes and processing redundancy.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 22, 2019

release, the Visual Shader editor was recreated from the ashes of its Godot 2.x While usable and packed with visual features, Visual Shaders lacked many features from their Shader (script) big brother. All the added nodes are compatible with pre-existing visual shaders. With the Godot 3.1 x ancestor. Members menu.

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Shaders Writing Feature Content 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 25, 2023

Support script global resource name in EditorFileSystem, making Quick Open work with custom resources ( GH-71683 , GH-71687 ). Editor: Support script global resource name in EditorFileSystem ( GH-71683 , GH-71687 ). Shaders: Fix code generation for ProximityRange node in visual shader ( GH-71760 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2023

Several breaking changes were made to the C# API to bring it closer to the engine core and make it more consistent overall ( GH-71445 , GH-71458 , GH-71423 , GH-71431 , GH-71424 , GH-71456 ). The list of all global script classes (and their icons) is no longer stored in the project.godot file. or below ( GH-69851 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Over the course of the last four months the engine has seen many changes, making it more stable and feature complete, and it's getting very close to the state that we would be happy with. Be sure to report anything that stops working as expected in your scripts. Editor: Fix error when dropping script into script editor ( GH-70580 ).

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Beta Dev Render Animation 106

PreMortem.Games

MARCH 1, 2024

Special plane shader With Porco Rosso being such a great source of inspiration it feels only natural to have the game also look like a Ghibli film. ” Elaborating on the game’s aesthetics, Hartley feels particularly proud of the plane shader. ” “For just two developers I think we took on too much work”, shares Hartley.

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Studios Prototyping Visual Scripting Art 104

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Rendering: Implement CAMERA_VISIBLE_LAYERS as built-in shader variable ( GH-67387 ). Visual Shader: Make custom visual shader nodes automatically updates from script ( GH-69738 ). Rendering: Tweak shadow bias defaults for DirectionalLight3D and OmniLight3D ( GH-55757 ). XR: WebXR is now fully working in Godot 4! (

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Beta Dev Render Shaders 98

Cocos

APRIL 25, 2023

I have intermediate knowledge with C# and have worked in “another popular engine” for years but Cocos is brand new to me. Most of my time working in cocos has been devoted to shader work. Currently, my client engineer has 5 cards being dealt and each card sprite pulls from a random card image on an atlas.

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Animation Animation Scripting Sprite 40

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 1, 2015

Supports a lot of scenarios and perform smart-completion of node types if a scene where the script is being used is open. Visual Shader Editor (Edit shaders connecting nodes). Largely rewritten 2D engine, with support for: Shaders (Visual and Code). 2D Materials. 2D Independent Z ordering per-node. 2D Materials.

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Polygon Shaders Beta Tile 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 20, 2015

Brand new 2D engine and more! This release brings a completely new 2D engine and more features (feature list below). At this point Godot is one of the most advanced 2D engines out there. Supports a lot of scenarios and perform smart-completion of node types if a scene where the script is being used is open. 2D Materials.

Polygon 52

Polygon Shaders Editing Engineering 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 22, 2022

Godot's visual scripting language, VisualScript, was introduced in Godot 3.0, we decided to accept that the approach we took from the start was simply not the right one and decided to remove it from the engine. To be clear, this refers to the VisualScript scripting language, and not to visual shaders.

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Visual Scripting Scripting Engineering Engine 53

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 2023

For shaders, we removed the now-redundant SCREEN_TEXTURE , DEPTH_TEXTURE , and NORMAL_ROUGHNESS_TEXTURE ( GH-70967 ). Editor: Clean up EditorFileSystem script parsing ( GH-71628 ). Add next/reset function to AnimationStateMachine ( GH-71264 , GH-71418 ). Add astcenc compression and decompression ( GH-70363 ).

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Beta Dev Animation Animation 105

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

But we're not there yet and we'll keep having frequent alpha builds until we're ready to slap the beta label on the engine. Some noteworthy changes in this release: Shader preprocessor support and shader includes. Grouping annotations for shaders ( uniform_group ). and prepare the first beta release. So here we go with 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 21, 2018

2D engine merged into master branch. implement spatial shaders. While a most of the 2D engine was already working, some bugs kept the editor from being fully usable and also caused problems in regular game projects. 2D engine merged into master branch. Done February 2018. meet with other developers at FOSDEM and GodotCon.

Mesh 52

Mesh Render Shaders Bug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 7, 2020

GPUParticles : Processes particles on GPU, allows very large amount of particles at little cost, and with ability to write custom particle shaders. x and the shader used is almost identical (should be easy to port). To solve this, it is now possible to emit particles manually by calling a function from the script API: Sub-Emitters.

Collision 52

Collision Shaders Terrain Baking 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Over the course of the last four months the engine has seen many changes, making it more stable and feature complete, and it’s getting very close to the state that we would be happy with. Be sure to report anything that stops working as expected in your scripts. Editor: Fix error when dropping script into script editor ( GH-70580 ).

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Beta Dev Render Animation 81

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 16, 2018

The biggest user-facing change in the bindings is, that user-created classes can now directly inherit from engine types. The GodotScript template class includes a field owner , which refers to the Object that the current script is attached to. The TIME variable in shaders? Until the new NativeScript 1.1 material API refactor.

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Shaders Render Mesh Code 52

The Liquid Fire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Like many people, I’ve recently been looking at other engines for ‘reasons’ and have been checking out Godot. For the past couple weeks I’ve been learning some of the ins and outs of the engine, and getting a feel for how it compares to Unity. Downloading & Running I am using Godot 4.x x for this tutorial.

Point and Click 104

Point and Click Texture Mesh Tile 104

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2022

They've all been doing outstanding work so far, and we're looking forward to integrating all those changes in the engine! 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.

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Lightmap UX Shaders Debug 52

Ask a Game Dev

JUNE 14, 2024

Expertise on visuals like lighting, rendering, shaders, etc. 3:22 - Conversation wheel with “personality” icons and paraphrased words 3:39 - Dynamic inventory in game cinematics, show player’s items 3:46 - Scripted Player equipment change during cinematic 4:04 - Quest variables (e.g. should be directed elsewhere.

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Cinematics NPC Terrain Scripting 64

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.

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Shaders Texture Render Scripting 52

iXie gaming

AUGUST 17, 2023

Unity, a widely adopted game engine, plays a pivotal role in empowering aspiring game developers in making great gaming experiences, thanks to its user-friendly interface and strong community support. Learn C# Unity uses C# as its primary scripting language. But where does one start with game development on Unity?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Editor: Fix reload scripts error after saving in external editor ( GH-68203 ). Rendering: Enable mipmaps in cubemap roughness shader ( GH-68511 ). Rendering: Properly set TIME shader uniform when rendering shadows ( GH-68574 ). Editor: Load and use system emoji font in the editor ( GH-68090 ).

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Beta Dev Render Bug 99

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

After more than 18 months of development, all Godot Engine contributors are proud to present our biggest release so far, Godot 3.0! 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 Materials and shaders. GPU particles.

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Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile 52

Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

Engine • Added DebugView at runtime UI control rendering debugging function. New and standard-material will default to Surface Shader. Cleaned up the effect file structure built into the engine (without affecting existing projects). Fixes • Fixed bundle script dependency on import-map that could not be reused across projects.

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Render Baking Lightmap Debug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 30, 2017

The main feature of Game Off is its focus on free and open source tools for game development, and this is obviously something that we consider highly in the Godot Engine community, as a fully libre 2D and 3D game engine. Kudos to the first Godot user publishing an open source shader to achieve such an effect on our Asset Library :).

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Concepts Demo Engineering Engine 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

A couple fixes to the text resource loader which could impact notably reloading scripts ( GH-71170 ). Visual Shader: Add few improvements for VisualShaderNodeParticleRandomness ( GH-71123 ). Fix Tab key usage in the inspector ( GH-71271 ). Add expand modes to TextureRect ( GH-58517 ).

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Beta Dev Render Collision 110

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 8, 2022

Editor: Fix showing Extend Script option without script attached to the node ( GH-58821 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader state caching when blend shapes used ( GH-58808 ) [regression fix]. " ( GH-58862 ) [regression fix].

Shaders 52

Shaders Render Bug Scripting 52

iXie gaming

JUNE 28, 2024

Particle Systems Within Game Engines Unity’s Shuriken and Unreal Engine’s Cascade/Niagara particle systems are powerful tools for creating 2D effects in your games. These tools work smoothly with your game engine, making it easy to use and improve your effects.

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Software Simulation Sprite Animation 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 11, 2021

Do you have prior experience with other game engines? Now I use Godot as my only Game Engine tool. The node architecture with the concept of scene within scenes and the straightforward way of scripting with GDScript sealed the deal for me. I am staring at you shader compilation and parenting errors.

Development 52

Development Game Engine Engineering Engine 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 16, 2022

Editor: Fix showing Extend Script option without script attached to the node ( GH-58821 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader state caching when blend shapes used ( GH-58808 ) [regression fix]. " ( GH-58862 ) [regression fix].

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Render Shaders Bug Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 1, 2021

C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). " error in remote script debugger ( GH-52416 ). LSP: Fix completion crashing on scene-less scripts ( GH-51333 ). Rendering: Prevent shaders from generating code before the constructor finishes ( GH-52475 ). Here are the main changes since 3.3.3-stable:

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Scripting Bug Texture Shaders 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 23, 2022

Editor: Fix showing Extend Script option without script attached to the node ( GH-58821 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader state caching when blend shapes used ( GH-58808 ) [regression fix]. " ( GH-58862 ) [regression fix].

Render 52

Render Alpha Shaders Editing 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 11, 2022

Add often used built-ins to spatial shaders ( NODE_POSITION_WORLD , CAMERA_POSITION_WORLD , CAMERA_DIRECTION_WORLD , NODE_POSITION_VIEW ) ( GH-63597 ). Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. Editor: Keep property values when extending script ( GH-43081 ).

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Alpha Dev Shaders Beta 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2022

and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. You can create a batch script or shortcut to automatically start Godot from a console as in previous releases. Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

Beta 52

Beta Dev Shaders Console 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 8, 2017

Optimize any part of your game by rewriting it transparently in C++, or any language that can compiled to native code for the target platform, wihout recompiling the engine or templates. Add external scripting languages, such as Lua, Python, etc. Before this, a module had to be created, which implies recompiling everything. More power.

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Mesh Alpha Shaders Asset 52