Godot Game Engine 4.0 Development- The Story So far

November 2, 2019 Abhishek

As we have seen, Godot Engine which is an open source game engine, is heading towards version 4.0 and the biggest change that it would bring is adding Vulkan Support. Well, the good news is that the Vulkan Branch has almost reached with feature parity with OpenGL. This has led to Vulkan branch to be merged as the master branch.

Let check out what are the changes that have been incorporated as of now

Realtime GI with reflections

WIP: Realtime GI with reflections, responding to several dynamic objects with dynamic materials. Still a bit more polishing to do but looks very promising. pic.twitter.com/hBafgkIsjp
— Juan Linietsky (@reduzio) October 25, 2019

A new Code of Conduct

It's long overdue, but we've been working on a Code of Conduct for @godotengine, similar to the likes of other open source projects, but also covering our specific needs.

It will hopefully be published by the end of the week.
— Juan Linietsky (@reduzio) October 30, 2019

Realtime rough reflections

Beautiful rough reflections in motion.. pic.twitter.com/0FFI47ri39
— Juan Linietsky (@reduzio) October 30, 2019

Lighting view with Voxels

Lighting view and Voxel (what is used as source for lighting) view. pic.twitter.com/siJHjepUFg
— Juan Linietsky (@reduzio) October 30, 2019

GI probe now also shows how much ram will be used

GIProbes now tell you how much video ram they are expected to use depending on bounds and cell subdivision.

They also now ask you to save their data to a binary file, so you don't pollute and slowdown your .tscn files. pic.twitter.com/2gil0f36wy
— Juan Linietsky (@reduzio) October 31, 2019

Voxel shadow transitions are more smoother

Taking advantage of signal distance fields to make voxel shadow transitions smoother. This allows moving lights with little to no jitter due to sudden lit/unlit voxels. (some jitter due to no shadowmap filtering and low res shadowmap). pic.twitter.com/xukPgsP8y8
— Juan Linietsky (@reduzio) November 1, 2019

Small video that shows how dynamic objects participate in real-time GI, they get reflected in the environment, cause local ambient (voxel) occlusion, bounce light, and reflect surrounding objects. pic.twitter.com/ELLNWzM5Rf
— Juan Linietsky (@reduzio) November 2, 2019

That’s all for today!

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Abhishek is a Finance Professional and has worked in multiple MNCs. However, he is also an avid tech reader and tinkerer with over 20 years of experience. His passions include 3D animation and drawing Illustrations. His creations can be viewed at www.artstation.com/abhifx

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