- Add options for physics ticks per second, time scale, max physics steps per frame
and physics interpolation to the 2D and 3D physics tests demos.
- Physics ticks per second are always multiplied by time scale so that
time scale does not affect the physics simulation quality.
- Enable 4× MSAA for better debug shape display. Remove meshes/lights as
the debug collision fill make these unnecessary.
- Switch to the Mobile rendering method in the 2D physics tests demo
to allow for 2D MSAA, as it's not implemented in Compatibility yet.
- Improve collision shapes color in the 2D and 3D physics tests demos
for better visibility. Each PhysicsBody type now has its own collision
shape color.
- Allow placing/breaking blocks when further away (up to 5 blocks instead of 4).
- Add a background to the debug display to improve readability on bright backgrounds.
- Simplify coordinate display using the `%v` placeholder available in 4.3 onwards.
This was most common at low physics tick rates like 20 TPS.
This also fixes an issue with the RigidBody character demo having
movement speed depending on the physics tick rate.
Four moods are available: sunrise, day, sunset, night. Sunset and night
also feature artificial point lights placed in the town scene.
The mood can be set on the main menu before playing. It can also be cycled
during gameplay by pressing M or D-Pad Down.
- Add reflection probes for each test sphere, which can be toggled using
a new dropdown with 3 options (no reflection probe, reflection only,
reflection + ambient). The cull and reflection masks are configured
on each reflection probe so that spheres don't self-reflect, but other
spheres still appear in each sphere's reflections. Probe extents are made
very large to prevent any visible fading, and the test beds don't
receive the reflection probe's ambient or reflection.
- Improve ice material visuals by giving it some opacity.
- Use lossless compression on all textures, as their relatively low
resolution and count by today's standards makes them not use much VRAM
anyway.
* These changes allow the project to start and run in Godot 4.2
I hit some of the files with my formatter, if whitespace updates are not wanted I can remove those.
The project doesn't entirely work yet, but it runs. I am still working on making it work properly fully, but at least it starts now instead of crashing.
* Center text to match Godot 3 example better.
The 3D demos aren't very demanding and Godot has been optimized
a bit since 4.0's release, so we can afford using higher quality
shadow settings for less noisy shadow filtering.
This also tweaks shadow bias to reduce shadow acne in the Voxel demo.
The time slider in the Physical Light and Camera units demo now
allows for more precise adjustments.
- Make the attractor in the example dynamic to better showcase its functionality,
and add a visual representation to it.
- Tweak the appearance of attracted particles.
- Fix force field particle display (it wasn't using Local Coords as intended).
- Lower the sun angle to make the background darker (and particles easier to see).
This leads to code that is easier to understand and runs
faster thanks to GDScript's typed instructions.
The untyped declaration warning is now enabled on all projects
where type hints were added. All projects currently run without
any untyped declration warnings.
Dodge the Creeps and Squash the Creeps demos intentionally don't
use type hints to match the documentation, where type hints haven't
been adopted yet (given its beginner focus).
- Move all demo projects that don't require Forward+/Mobile-only features
to the Compatibility rendering method. This improves performance significantly
on low-end devices and ensures visuals are identical to a web export
of the demo.
- Set deadzone on all inputs to 0.2 for better gamepad usability.
- Remove reliance on `default_env.tres` to use built-in Environment
resources in the main scene instead (which follows the preview environment
workflow).
- Remove notices pointing to GDNative or VisualScript, since both were
removed in 4.0.
- Various bug fixes and usability tweaks to 10+ demos.
* Remove unnecessary use of `self`
* Connect to signals directly over `connect("name")`
* Use `call_deferred` on callables over `call_deferred("name"))`
* Emit signals directly over `emit_signal("name"...)`
- Add fog shader example courtesy of alghost
(https://godotshaders.com/shader/moving-gradient-noise-fog-mist-for-godot-4/).
- Add textured floor to make volumetric fog easier to see.
- Add keys to adjust volumetric fog quality (higher values are sharper).
- Increase volumetric fog energy on one of the SpotLights to show
the difference.
All demos were opened with Godot 4.2.1, with the mesh format
upgraded for 3D demos.
The 3D antialiasing demo now uses Extra Cull Margin on the last
object to prevent it from disappearing too early when the camera
rotates (due to its use of shader-based animation).
On mobile platforms, the vehicle automatically accelerates.
Touch the left and right edges of the screen to steer.
Touch the middle of the screen to brake/reverse
(this also temporarily stops acceleration).
- Fix braking not working correctly (and make breaking stronger
to make vehicles easier to control at high speeds).
- Allow using the D-Pad for steering and X/Square for braking.
- Tweak exhaust particles to be more subtle and fade more smoothly.
- Change spawn position to a location that's more straightforward
to drive.
- Add colored planes below some examples to make antialiasing
differences easier to see.
- Change various textures to make antialiasing differences easier to see.
