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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

GUI: Optimize Font calculations by avoiding unnecessary copy-on-write ( GH-102132 ). Physics: Jolt: Fix ghost collision issue on dense triangle meshes ( GH-102614 ). Porting: Add support for embedding game process in the Android Editor ( GH-102492 ). GUI: Fix Tree Mouse hover position ( GH-102842 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Collision

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. Is solving these problems enough for Godot to become a top AA / AAA game engine?

AAA

AAA Game Development Game Developer Development

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

GH-98163 ) CSGMesh3D now explicitly requires the mesh to be manifold. A manifold mesh must be closed, have each edge connected to only two faces, and have volume. Commonly, this means that it needs to be a watertight mesh without any holes and where you can never see the backside of the triangles. (

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Beta Dev Lightmap Baking

A small defense of glTF 2.0 on its comparison against OpenGEX

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 23, 2017

In a scene description format, materials can be contained in instances (as in, the instance is the mesh used, the transform in the world, and the material) or inside meshes (mesh comes with a material). does to meshes (the later). OpenGEX and Collada apply materials to instances (the former), while glTF 2.0

Mesh

Mesh Animation Animation Game Engine

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). A couple fixes to the text resource loader which could impact notably reloading scripts ( GH-71170 ). Fix Tab key usage in the inspector ( GH-71271 ).

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Beta Dev Collision Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). A couple fixes to the text resource loader which could impact notably reloading scripts ( GH-71170 ). Fix Tab key usage in the inspector ( GH-71271 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Collision Render

Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2020

Ensure your meshes are marked as "Static Bake", then enable SDFGI in the Environment settings. Will write an article about this soon. keeps improving and we are fully commited to create an amazing game engine, that you can use with the same freedom as as if it was your own in-house tech. How do you use it?

Lightmap

Lightmap Texture Baking Mesh

Godot XR progress update June 2021

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 3, 2021

Finger tracking itself is fully supported both through updating orientation of meshes, for which a sample scene is included in the plugin, and through animating a skeleton and bone deformation. Windows Mixed Reality headsets are currently only supported through SteamVR as WMR natively only supports DirectX game engines.

Tile

Tile Render Prototyping Writing

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 ).

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Beta Dev Mesh Render

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

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 ).

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Beta Dev Mesh Render

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

Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

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. GDScript allows to write code in a quick way within a controlled environment. Does not always catch errors during compile (or write) time.

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Feature Render Editing Shaders

Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

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. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime.

Shaders

Shaders Render Feature Mesh

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. Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Thanks to all of you patrons from the bottom of our hearts!

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

Godot Showcase - Gravity Ace developer talks about his experience

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 18, 2021

Do you have prior experience with other game engines? I've made games in a bunch of different engines and frameworks and languages over the years. Godot just works in a way that meshes with how I like to think and work. It's currently in Early Access with an expected release date in 2021. Linux and Windows.

Development

Development Art Engine Engineering

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

The new 3D engine is outstanding, with many features out-of-the-box that are still not common in other mainstream engines. The new 3D renderer is state-of-the-art, with features rarely see in game engines today, such as: Full principled BSDF. writing shaders is very easy! In Godot 3.0,

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Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

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. Beyond improving usability and fixing bugs, he implemented many additional useful nodes to write more advanced shaders with greater flexibility.

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Feature Render Shaders Bug

GSoC 2019 progress report #1 (part 2)

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 18, 2019

As mentioned in the first part of this progress report , Godot is taking part in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) programme for the second time, and we have 8 students working on specific projects for Godot Engine. Godot, being an open source game engine, was built with a never-ending wish of adding new features to it.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Scripting Data Texture

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. Don't worry, though, you will be able to reap the benefits of these new features without sacrificing your game's performance. The new NavigationServer supports fully dynamic environments and on-the-fly navigation mesh baking.

Beta

Beta Engine Engineering Feature

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

stable branch in January 2020 as a major update to our free and open source game engine. The Android plugin documentation has been updated with instructions on how to write plugins for this new system. Import: Respect 'mesh compression' editor import option in Assimp and glTF importers ( GH-39134 ). But Godot 4.0

Debug

Debug Point and Click Bug Render

How to Use Unity Cinemachine Virtual Cameras

Game Designing

APRIL 21, 2022

When using Cinemachine, you don’t need to know how to write code, though coding is still essential for some components, such as scripting how a user zooms using a mouse wheel, for example. In short, the Unity Cinemachine is a game-changer. You have to pay for extra plug-ins to export, for example, FBX meshes out of an engine.

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Animation Animation Code Software

Godot Visual Scripting Tutorial For Absolute Beginners

SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Essentially, this tool is a tool that allows you to create games without having to write a line of code. Many different game engines are incorporating visual scripting tools into their software in a quest to make game development more accessible to a wider audience of users. Next, click “create”.

Visual Scripting

Visual Scripting Scripting Data Editing

Fog Volumes arrive in Godot 4.0

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 6, 2022

What makes the approach so fast is that you only calculate lighting for the cells in the froxel buffer and then, when drawing meshes, you only need to look up the fog value from the froxel buffer. write back that data to density. By default, we use a 64×64×64 froxel buffer, but this can be adjusted in the Project Settings.

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Shaders Render Alpha Engine

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