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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

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 Development Game Developer Development

Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

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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Render Baking Lightmap Debug

Introducing the new "last minute" lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The newly added VR support also suffers with GIProbe, as it has to render in very high resolutions. Light is precomputed offline and rendered to a texture, which is then used by the geometry. Lightmapping is a very cheap operation, so it should run fine even on low end mobile. How does it look? How do I use it?

Lightmap

Lightmap Baking Mesh Texture

Cocos Creator 3.7.1 Released

Cocos

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

(engine#14218) [XR] AR engine module update Fix shadowmap lowp with huawei and reflection probe brightness (engine#14058) Fix shader compilation error with the new version of lightmap (engine#14071) Fix unsynchronized model data issue when adding lod levels dynamically (engine#14054) Fix the issue that lod is not working properly when forced to use (..)

Lightmap

Lightmap Engineering Engine Mesh

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2021

Notably, Windows users could experience crashes when baking lightmaps. Import: glTF: Improved error handling around invalid images and invalid meshes ( GH-48904 , GH-48912 ). Rendering: Batching: Fix item_batch_flags stale state causing glitches ( GH-48992 ). was thus subject to this crash when baking lightmaps.

Lightmap

Lightmap Baking Bug Data

GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2022

x CPU lightmapper and adding a new debug draw mode for visualizing the texel density of lightmaps. Previously every LightmapGI node used to store its lightmap atlas in a single large image. I modified the implementation to allow saving the lightmap atlas as multiple images if it doesn't fit inside a single image. Next steps.

Lightmap

Lightmap UX Shaders Debug

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

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. GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

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: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

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Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

GLES3 renderer). 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: Add high quality glow mode ( GH-51491 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

GLES3 renderer). 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: Add high quality glow mode ( GH-51491 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2020

SDFGI is something akin to a dynamic real-time lightmap (but it does not requiere unwrapping, nor does it use textures). Ensure your meshes are marked as "Static Bake", then enable SDFGI in the Environment settings. What can it do? It's enabled and it automatically works by generating global illumination for static objects.

Lightmap

Lightmap Texture Baking Mesh

Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

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. renderer was removed. 2D skeletons.

Feature

Feature Render Editing Shaders

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

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. New physically based 3D renderer.

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Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

Maintenance release: Godot 3.0.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

It is now possible to scale an.obj mesh when importing. The lightmap baker will now use all available cores on Windows like it does on macOS and Linux. renderer is finalized, we will work on stabilizing the new features and release 3.1-stable. This is helpful for CI pipelines. This is also helpful for CI pipelines. Fixed issues.

Beta

Beta Bug Lightmap Build

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

We know many users are excited about the coming improvements to 2D and 3D rendering in 4.0. Over the last few years we have completely overhauled the Godot renders. They now target Vulkan by default and we have created them with future support for Direct3D 12 and other rendering APIs in mind. has been added by Je06jm.

Beta

Beta Engineering Engine Feature

How to Use Unity Cinemachine Virtual Cameras

Game Designing

APRIL 21, 2022

Yes, in the past, Unity has come up a little short when it came to interior renderings. Now, though, with Cinemachine, these interior renderings are beginning to look absolutely stunning. Some rendering programs complicate the process of importing files. This basically means you can only bake lightmaps using a single machine.

Animation

Animation Animation Code Software

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #6

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2018

Heyyy, this pretty much looks like the sky projected onto the meshes, that's better! At that point of development, the sky reflection didn't respond to the camera position, so it basically looked like the sky was painted ontop of the mesh. The GLES2 backend is a forward renderer, that means each gets shaded once. Done May 2018.

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Pixel Texture Render Shaders

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

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

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Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Introducing the new "last minute" lightmapper

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.2

GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination

Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Maintenance release: Godot 3.0.1

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

How to Use Unity Cinemachine Virtual Cameras

GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #6

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