Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Be sure to report anything that stops working as expected in your scripts. Editor: Bring back the renderer options button on the main editor ( GH-70500 ). Editor: Fix error when dropping script into script editor ( GH-70580 ). Editor: Fix resource picker regression for scripted resources ( GH-70277 ). get_root() ).

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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 ). renderer support ( GH-71848 ). Rendering: Use proper space for forward GI reflections ( GH-71694 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

Flag dirty dependencies when GeometryInstance dependencies change in renderer ( GH-71581 ). 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. Rendering: Fix LCD font AA on OpenGL renderer ( GH-72125 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: A ton of fixes for all rendering backends, and missing features implemented for the OpenGL3 one. Editor: Fix reload scripts error after saving in external editor ( GH-68203 ). GUI: Add a Font import option to pre-render all glyphs required for the translation ( GH-68448 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Rendering: Use circular fade instead of linear fade for distance fade ( GH-50294 ). Rendering: Tweak shadow bias defaults for DirectionalLight3D and OmniLight3D ( GH-55757 ). Rendering: Fix AABB errors on meshes with bones on multiple surfaces ( GH-65035 ). Rendering: Allow black metallic materials to reflect IBL ( GH-69522 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

GDScript: Fix Plugin Scripts load twice on startup ( GH-102535 ). Porting: Add support for embedding game process in the Android Editor ( GH-102492 ). Porting: Fix game and editor freeze when clicking on the games title bar ( GH-102744 ). Rendering: Reduce mobile pipeline compilations ( GH-102217 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

A couple fixes to the text resource loader which could impact notably reloading scripts ( GH-71170 ). As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

This design became common in game engines and libraries in the early 2010s. In Godot, a Button has the full inheritance chain implicit: Node -> CanvasItem -> Control -> Button -> Behavior Script. Godot uses plenty of data-oriented optimizations for physics, rendering, audio, etc. Game logic.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2023

The list of all global script classes (and their icons) is no longer stored in the project.godot file. Core: Move global script class cache to separate file ( GH-70557 ). GDScript: Make script annotations be placed before class_name and extends ( GH-67774 ). or below ( GH-69851 ). C#: Sync Plane with Core ( GH-71456 ).

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Logic Simplified

JULY 24, 2023

Researchers, professionals or game app developers all need to remain up-to-date with the recent advancements as well as features of the Unity engine to create and enjoy the best games possible. Some popular games built with Unity include Angry Birds 2 and Pokémon Go”. In its update, 2022.2.11, HDRP/Nature/SpeedTree8.shadergraph

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Be sure to report anything that stops working as expected in your scripts. Editor: Bring back the renderer options button on the main editor ( GH-70500 ). Editor: Fix error when dropping script into script editor ( GH-70580 ). Editor: Fix resource picker regression for scripted resources ( GH-70277 ). get_root() ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 2023

Editor: Clean up EditorFileSystem script parsing ( GH-71628 ). Rendering: Remove SCREEN_TEXTURE , DEPTH_TEXTURE , and NORMAL_ROUGHNESS_TEXTURE ( GH-70967 ). Rendering: Decompress RA_AS_RG formats on Web platform in GLES3 renderer and disable texture swizzling ( GH-71574 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Editor: Allow directly instantiate scripts in scene tree ( GH-68648 ). Rendering: Vulkan: Improve logic for detecting and tracking extensions ( GH-68833 ). Rendering: OpenGL: Fix drawing of Mesh2D ( GH-69135 ). C#: Remove VariantSpanDisposer and use constants in stackalloc ( GH-69194 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

A couple fixes to the text resource loader which could impact notably reloading scripts ( GH-71170 ). As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ).

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Radiator Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Like a lot of Counter-Strike Source, it often feels more like a game engine tech demo rather than something for humans to play. The technical aspects of wrangling the entity scripting also would've consumed a lot of time that I just didn't have. Yet some things never change, like Quake's terrible slope handling.

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Logic Simplified

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Our Gaming Solutions Can Transform Your Next Gaming Project In the competitive gaming industry, our services and solutions maximize the chances of a game’s success by focusing on the features, functionalities, and overall quality of the game. Read more on how we do that.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 16, 2022

Editor: Fix showing Extend Script option without script attached to the node ( GH-58821 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix compression on blend shapes ( GH-58838 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix incorrect buffer upload size in draw_gui_primitive ( GH-58150 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 23, 2022

Editor: Fix showing Extend Script option without script attached to the node ( GH-58821 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix compression on blend shapes ( GH-58838 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix incorrect buffer upload size in draw_gui_primitive ( GH-58150 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2021

Core: Expose Shape.get_debug_mesh() to the scripting API ( GH-48316 ). LSP: Update the filesystem for changed scripts, fixes issues with new named classes ( GH-47891 ). Rendering: Fix 2D software skinning relative transforms ( GH-48402 ). Rendering: Fix usage of proxy textures on GLES2 PanoramaSky ( GH-48541 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 8, 2022

Editor: Fix showing Extend Script option without script attached to the node ( GH-58821 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix compression on blend shapes ( GH-58838 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). CSG: Fix visible seam on smoothed sphere and cylinder shapes ( GH-58208 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

C#: Fix getting properties state when reloading scripts ( GH-56300 ). C#: Attach mono thread before getting nativeName field, fixing potential tool script crash ( GH-57739 ). GDScript: Clear pending function states when reloading script ( GH-56296 ). Rendering: Fix blend shapes when octahedral compression is used ( GH-56161 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Multi-caret support in TextEdit and script editors ( GH-61902 ). 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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Multi-caret support in TextEdit and script editors ( GH-61902 ). 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.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

Editor: Fix wrongly hidden script variables in Inspector ( GH-58443 ). Editor: Don't switch to 2D/3D viewports when selecting nodes while in Script Editor ( GH-63344 ). Multiplayer: Allow extending MultiplayerPeerExtension from scripts ( GH-63262 ). Rendering: Add Variable Rate Shading support ( GH-60901 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Core: Expose minizip API to allow creating zips using scripts ( GH-65281 ). Editor: Reorganize script editor menu ( GH-64277 ). Editor: Add script editor shortcut to add selection and caret for next occurrence of current selection ( GH-67644 ). Rendering: Add OpenGL timer queries to OpenGL3 backend ( GH-67032 ).

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Mobile gaming has become popular in recent times thanks to the growing number of mobile device users. Several mobile game engines are used to create mobile games. However, Unity has stood out as one of the most preferred and trusted mobile game engines. And that’s where Unity wins.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

C#: Fix getting properties state when reloading scripts ( GH-56300 ). C#: Attach mono thread before getting nativeName field, fixing potential tool script crash ( GH-57739 ). GDScript: Clear pending function states when reloading script ( GH-56296 ). Rendering: Fix blend shapes when octahedral compression is used ( GH-56161 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Some noteworthy changes in this release: Re-enable support for Web exports using the OpenGL 3 / WebGL 2 renderer. Implement physical light units in Vulkan renderers. C#: Create script instance of reloaded scripts even if they're not tools ( GH-65266 ). Rendering: Implement MSAA for 2D with Vulkan ( GH-63003 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

C#: Fix getting properties state when reloading scripts ( GH-56300 ). GDScript: Clear pending function states when reloading script ( GH-56296 ). 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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

David Snopek ( dsnopek ) got WebXR minimally working again ( GH-64514 ) using the WebGL 2 renderer implemented by Clay John ( clayjohn ). Editor: Script-class-aware Inspector & related controls ( GH-62413 ). Editor: Show override icon in script editor gutter ( GH-65535 ). Rendering: Fix/restore BackBufferCopy ( GH-65794 ).

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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Game automation testing aims to address these challenges by leveraging automation tools and scripts. Automated game testing involves creating scripts or using testing frameworks to simulate player interactions, such as button presses, mouse movements, and UI interactions. Even minor changes can break automation scripts.

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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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iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Imagine developing a character of your choice and rendering it with actions and movements that breathe life into your world of storytelling. In this multimedia era, games are such an intertwined part of people’s lives that they want them to be realistic and charismatic.

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Cocos

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Today, we have invited wing , an experienced Cocos game developer in our Cocos community to share some technical key points related to 2D post-effect frameworks. Post-processing effects, are used for further processing of rendered results to achieve various advanced and special effects. What are Post-processing Effects?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 15, 2021

Core: Expose Shape.get_debug_mesh() to the scripting API ( GH-48316 ). LSP: Update the filesystem for changed scripts, fixes issues with new named classes ( GH-47891 ). Rendering: Fix 2D software skinning relative transforms ( GH-48402 ). Rendering: Fix usage of proxy textures on GLES2 PanoramaSky ( GH-48541 ).

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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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Nvidia

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

DLSS is a deep learning, super-resolution network that boosts frame rates by rendering fewer pixels and then using AI to construct sharp, higher-resolution. DLSS is a deep learning, super-resolution network that boosts frame rates by rendering fewer pixels and then using AI to construct sharp, higher-resolution images.

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