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Maintenance release: Godot 4.4.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 26, 2025

Help us continue our work: Make a Donation The illustration picture for this article comes from Psycho Patrol R , a FPS/mecha hybrid europolice sim, which was recently released in Early Access on Steam. Rendering: Add ASTC HDR format variants ( GH-102777 ). Rendering: Fix voxelizer normals ( GH-102893 ). Download Godot 4.4.1

Render

Render Shaders Bug Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Animation: Fix incomplete FPS spinbox display in sprite frames editor ( GH-101798 ). Export: Disable Metal and Vulkan renderers in simulator builds. Rendering: 2D: Fix clip children and rendering artefacts ( GH-102161 ). Rendering: Add loop annotations to ubershaders to prevent loop unrolling ( GH-102480 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Baking Render

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! This integration ensures developers targeting macOS or iOS can achieve excellent rendering quality and performance on supported Apple hardware. Highlights Many features originally intended for 4.3

Beta

Beta Dev Lightmap Baking

Understanding and Measuring PC Latency

Nvidia

MAY 5, 2023

In many cases, it is more impactful to the overall gaming experience than frames per second (FPS). System latency is an important gaming performance metric. In many cases, it is more impactful to the overall gaming experience than frames per second (FPS). For a list of tagged events, see Table 1.

PC

PC FPS Render Engine

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

has an entirely new rendering architecture, which is divided into modern and compatibility backends. The modern one does rendering via RenderingDevice (which is implemented in drivers such as Vulkan, Direct3D 12, and more in the future). Rendering is significantly more efficient in Godot 4.0, Low level rendering access.

AAA

AAA Game Developer Game Development Development

Movie Maker mode arrives in Godot 4.0

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The idea of using a game engine for projects other than creating video games is not new. For decades, game engines have been used to create applications, simulations and more. These use cases include architecture visualization, cinema, animation and cutscene rendering. What is Movie Maker mode for?

Render

Render Cutscenes Animation Animation

Agile input processing is here for smoother, more responsive gameplay

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 21, 2021

In a game engine, the engine loop is the sequence of steps that is happening again and again to let the game run. This includes rendering, physics, input processing, and more. Consider a game that wants its gameplay logic and physics to run at 60 FPS. Old behavior in Godot 3.3.x x and before.

FPS

FPS Render Engine Engineering

Movie Maker mode arrives in Godot 4.0

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The idea of using a game engine for projects other than creating video games is not new. For decades, game engines have been used to create applications, simulations and more. These use cases include architecture visualization, cinema, animation and cutscene rendering. What is Movie Maker mode for?

Render

Render Cutscenes Animation Animation

Realistic Lighting in Justice with Mesh Shading

Nvidia

MAY 21, 2021

NetEase Thunder Fire Games Uses Mesh Shading To Create Beautiful Game Environments for Justice In December, we interviewed Haiyong Qian, NetEase Game Engine. Not only are the updated environments breathtaking, the game supports 1.8 billion triangles running over 60 FPS in 4K on an NVIDIA 3060Ti.

Mesh

Mesh Culling Shaders Ray Tracing

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 9

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 14, 2021

For 2D rendering, we're also re-adding some testing options which were used in earlier betas to allow users to test different scenarios which may impact performance for some OpenGL drivers (especially on Windows and macOS). Please report if you see any suspicious FPS drop in RC9 compared to RC8! See GH-47864 for details.

Bug

Bug FPS Build Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 17

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Animation: Rework AnimatedTexture's fps into speed_scale ( GH-65188 ). Rendering: Ensure sibling SubViewports are renderer from top to bottom ( GH-65579 ). Rendering: Properly scale SSR reflection based on metallic value for dielectric materials ( GH-65594 ). Physics: Implement Area[2D/3D].has_overlapping_[bodies/areas]

Alpha

Alpha Dev Beta Render

New Ray-Tracing, AI, Cloud, and Virtual World Tools Simplify Game Development at GDC 2022

Nvidia

MARCH 24, 2022

Today NVIDIA is releasing Streamline, an open-source cross-IHV framework that aims to simplify integration of multiple super-resolution technologies and other graphics effects in games and applications. It sits between the game and render API, and abstracts the SDK-specific API calls into an easy-to-use Streamline framework.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing AI Game Developer Game Development

Adventures in Map Zooming, Part 1: Realtime Image Scaling

Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Terminal-based engines don’t behave like a normal game engine where you have individual windows represented essentially as images layered on top of one another and their contents can therefore be scaled individually. Once it got “fixed” the real FPS was more like 24, definitely far below acceptable.

Render

Render Engine Engineering FPS

Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2020

It does not require raytracing , and it runs in most current (and some years old) dedicated GPUs, even medium-end budget CPUs from some years ago (SDFGI was developed and tested on a GeForce 1060, running at a stable 60 FPS). Light changes are real-time , meaning any change in lighting conditions will result in an immediate update.

Lightmap

Lightmap Texture Baking Mesh

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 31, 2020

HTML5: More fixes, audio fallback, fixed FPS ( GH-40052 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). Rendering: Properly calculate Polygon2D AABB with skeleton ( GH-40869 ). Build HTML5 templates with threads_enabled=yes to test it.

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 24, 2020

HTML5: More fixes, audio fallback, fixed FPS ( GH-40052 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). Build HTML5 templates with threads_enabled=yes to test it. IK: Fixed SkeletonIK not working with scaled skeletons ( GH-39803 ).

Collision

Collision Bug Mesh Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 21, 2020

HTML5: More fixes, audio fallback, fixed FPS ( GH-40052 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). Rendering: Properly calculate Polygon2D AABB with skeleton ( GH-40869 ). Build HTML5 templates with threads_enabled=yes to test it.

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

HTML5: More fixes, audio fallback, fixed FPS ( GH-40052 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). Rendering: Properly calculate Polygon2D AABB with skeleton ( GH-40869 ). Build HTML5 templates with threads_enabled=yes to test it.

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

HTML5: More fixes, audio fallback, fixed FPS ( GH-40052 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). Rendering: Properly calculate Polygon2D AABB with skeleton ( GH-40869 ). Build HTML5 templates with threads_enabled=yes to test it.

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Render

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.3

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

HTML5: More fixes, audio fallback, fixed FPS ( GH-40052 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). Rendering: Properly calculate Polygon2D AABB with skeleton ( GH-40869 ). Build HTML5 templates with threads_enabled=yes to test it.

Bug

Bug Build Collision Texture

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.3 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 20, 2020

HTML5: More fixes, audio fallback, fixed FPS ( GH-40052 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Godot is a non-profit, open source game engine developed by hundreds of contributors on their free time, and a handful of part or full-time developers, hired thanks to donations from the Godot community.

Beta

Beta Dev Collision Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2020

HTML5: More fixes, audio fallback, fixed FPS ( GH-40052 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). Build HTML5 templates with threads_enabled=yes to test it. HTML5: Implement HTML5 cancel/ok button swap on Windows ( GH-40755 ).

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Build

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

If you use and enjoy Godot, plan to use it, or want support the cause of having a mature, high quality free and open source game engine, then please consider becoming our patron. Rendering: Portal occlusion culling. More rendering improvements. More rendering improvements. Large files support (> 2.0

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

AWS for Games at Gamescom 2023

AWS Games

AUGUST 18, 2023

Frag Lab – founded in 2017, Frag Lab a video game development studio based in Kyiv, needed a cost-effective solution to launch and scale their first game, Shatterline, a fast-paced multiplayer FPS. Learn how Frag Lab scaled to two million players in five weeks using Amazon GameLift. Read the blog to learn more.

Games

Games Engine Engineering Game Developer

Getting started with HaxeFlixel in 2021

Radiator Blog

APRIL 9, 2021

For an upcoming project commission, I'm making a 2D game with crowd simulation and simple controls that works well on mobile browsers. The engine should be able to render and simulate 200+ lightweight game objects -- frame-animated sprites with simple collision, no fancy physics or shaders. and no WASM.)

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Sprite Simulation Build Code

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Maintenance release: Godot 4.4.1

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 3

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Understanding and Measuring PC Latency

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

Movie Maker mode arrives in Godot 4.0

Agile input processing is here for smoother, more responsive gameplay

Movie Maker mode arrives in Godot 4.0

Realistic Lighting in Justice with Mesh Shading

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 9

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 17

New Ray-Tracing, AI, Cloud, and Virtual World Tools Simplify Game Development at GDC 2022

Adventures in Map Zooming, Part 1: Realtime Image Scaling

Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 4

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 5

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 6

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.3 beta 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 2

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

AWS for Games at Gamescom 2023

Getting started with HaxeFlixel in 2021

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