Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 6, 2025

Features The StartXR startup script has had a cleanup pass, it now: Properly handles the passthrough system changes in Godot 4.3. The Godot XR Tools repository on GitHub contains a GitHub workflow that prepares and uploads the demo project to the above itch.io This workflow can be used as a template for your own project.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

This is the second blog post describing enhancements for visual shaders and shader scripts landed in Godot 3.2. Since the previous update, I've (Chaosus) spent much time and effort adding a lot of new things to enhance the overall experience developing shaders. Shader changes. Visual Shader changes.

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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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Cocos

APRIL 26, 2023

I am very new to cocos engine and web app development in general… up until now, I have always been more focused on shader development, 3d character rigs, solid modeling, and world design. Thank you so much for taking the time to provide this valuable feedback! All of it was in Unity engine.

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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: Several shader preprocessor parser fixes and improvements ( GH-72058 ).

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Beta Dev Shaders Render 108

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

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Core: Fix is_valid_float , Variant parser, Expression parser, script highlighter, and TextServer not handing capital E in scientific notation ( GH-102396 ). GUI: Prevent tooltip from showing when hovering past the end of script line ( GH-100913 ). Shaders: Fix source_color default value ( GH-101642 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

Visual scripting. While Godot had visual scripting in the past, we found that the form we had implemented didn’t really prove adequate for the needs of the community, so it was discontinued. What we realized is that visual scripting really shines when combined together with the premade behaviors mentioned in the previous section.

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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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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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Cocos

APRIL 25, 2023

Most of my time working in cocos has been devoted to shader work. I have intermediate knowledge with C# and have worked in “another popular engine” for years but Cocos is brand new to me. So, I am trying to create a card flip effect.

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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 ). Editor: Fix node preview crashes after updating visual shader node ( GH-71385 ). or below ( GH-69851 ). This should improve VCS diffs for your projects.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Be sure to report anything that stops working as expected in your scripts. Editor: Fix error when dropping script into script editor ( GH-70580 ). Editor: Fix resource picker regression for scripted resources ( GH-70277 ). GUI: Expose Tree::deselect_all to scripting ( GH-71056 ). get_root() ).

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Beta Dev Render Animation 106

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). Largely rewritten 2D engine, with support for: Shaders (Visual and Code).

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Polygon Shaders Beta Tile 52

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

AUGUST 10, 2022

Project: Allow undocking the Script editor and the Shader editor. For things like the Script editor, this means you can move it to another screen, move the undocked window to be side-by-side with the main window, or just using Alt+Tab to change between the main window and the undocked one. Student: trollodel. PR: #62378.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

Some noteworthy changes in this release: Shader preprocessor support and shader includes. Grouping annotations for shaders ( uniform_group ). 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 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 16, 2018

The GodotScript template class includes a field owner , which refers to the Object that the current script is attached to. Even though Godot's scripting languages try to make you believe that you can "extend" or "inherit" engine types, all that is done is actually delegation. The TIME variable in shaders?

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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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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.

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Collision Shaders Terrain Baking 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 20, 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). Largely rewritten 2D engine, with support for: Shaders (Visual and Code).

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Polygon Shaders Editing Engine 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 22, 2022

Godot's visual scripting language, VisualScript, was introduced in Godot 3.0, To be clear, this refers to the VisualScript scripting language, and not to visual shaders. Visual shaders are working well and appreciated by many users, so they're not going anywhere. was around was visual scripting. Retrospective.

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Visual Scripting Scripting Engine Engineering 53

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 21, 2018

implement spatial shaders. The main bug that was keeping me busy for weeks was related to a shader bind that was not descriptive enough when blitting a viewport to the screen. When calling methods of a base class some indirection through an owner of the script had to be made. Rust binding guidance. 3D viewport drawing.

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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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iXie gaming

AUGUST 17, 2023

Learn C# Unity uses C# as its primary scripting language. Custom shaders Gain control over your game’s visual style and performance by creating custom shaders. Shader programming allows you to manipulate lighting, textures, and visual effects, resulting in unique and optimized visuals.

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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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Mnenad

JANUARY 25, 2018

  So, first off let’s find the part of the script where the chunks are being generated. It is found at:    TerrainChunk   (script)   public   void  UpdateTerrainChunk(). The AssetPlacement (script) contains the actual spawning of the asset on the chosen height of the mesh vertices. 

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Be sure to report anything that stops working as expected in your scripts. Editor: Fix error when dropping script into script editor ( GH-70580 ). Editor: Fix resource picker regression for scripted resources ( GH-70277 ). GUI: Expose Tree::deselect_all to scripting ( GH-71056 ). get_root() ).

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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 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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Game Errors

APRIL 12, 2023

Minimum requirements: CPU : Intel Core i3-4160 @ 3.60GHz CPU SPEED : Info RAM : 6 GB VIDEO CARD : NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 480, GTX 570, GTX 670, or better DEDICATED VIDEO RAM : 1536 MB PIXEL SHADER : 5.0 VERTEX SHADER : 5.0 VERTEX SHADER : 5.1

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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 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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Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

. • New and standard-material will default to Surface Shader. See the documentation “Built-in shaders”: [link] • Tooltip that supplements common material parameters. Fixes • Fixed bundle script dependency on import-map that could not be reused across projects. Fixed bug with import plugin script exceeding 500KB.

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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 ). 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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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 )!

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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 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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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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