passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026wowie look at my animated decal so very high tech 943738
passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 29/09/20264.8 will be the strongest godot release in a while texture streaming, contact shadows, multi-bounce AO, lightmap specular, 3d trails, mesh buffers on gpu, visual shader groups, label text fitting, symbol renaming, more flexible editor layout and a lot of ui improvements what are you still missing? 5752960
passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026just learned ambientCG has blender 5.2 remote asset library (no addon needed) 1k for free, all resolutions if you support on patreon this is cool af 326143
passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I'm not super excited about blurry 50 fps gaming where it takes your $3000 gpu several frames to converge light into a discernible picture. I love how great games got to look but the tradeoffs we took aren't very good imo We need nice baked GI again that runs on a laptop you found behind a dumpster 1134737
passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026channeling my inner sebastian lague into trying to make sense of indirect light tracing 62397
passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026the reason godot lightmapper leaks through walls is... interesting it thinks they are transparent! 72158
passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026looking at leaks in lowres godot lightmaps: - dilation touches neighbors - there's no way to increase island padding, bicubic filter needs 4 texels - denoiser doesnt have island isolation - closed rooms leak through corners, probably a bias bug - unocclusion algorithm is imprecise seems solvable 615310
passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Late Godot 4.x releases including 4.8 feel like an inflection point where the engine is starting to feel like a dependable tool 516312
passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026godot 4.8 added non-allocating physics queries, 9x faster raycast i know, i know, about time 😄 823019
passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026godot 4.8 exposed mesh buffers to gpu compute. all sorts of cool procedural shit is possible now 15840125
passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026been looking into that and it seems possible. LightmapGIData gives all APIs to set our own data. UV2 unwrapping is separate from baking so doesnt need porting. I'll need to port atlas packing though but it should be fine 2551
passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026considering reimplementing godot lightmapper in gdscript because it needs a lot of work and working in c++ is slow 9981
Reposted by passivestarGame Maker's Toolkit @gamemakerstoolkit.com · 27/07/2026Well, it finally happened! After 9 years of Unity dominance, Godot was the most used game engine for GMTK Game Jam 2026 submissions. 🤖 Godot - 47% 🎮 Unity - 34% 🛠️GameMaker - 5% 🚀 Unreal Engine - 3% ✨ Other - 11% 9356261234
Reposted by passivestarGodot Engine @godotengine.org · 16/07/2026The 2026 Godot Community Poll is here: Takes about ten minutes to complete, and it's one of the more direct ways to influence where things head next. We want to hear from you! 📝 godotengine.org/article/godo...godotengine.orgGodot Community Poll 2026 – Godot EngineWe want to learn more about the Godot community, understand who the users of the engine are, and find out how we can better support you. 26558150
passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 18/06/2026I have a good feeling about godot 4.8, a lot of cool shit is being worked on right now 1224812
passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 09/06/2026every post I made in the past 2 years www.youtube.com/watch?v=36Si...youtube.comslowly losing my mindYouTube video by passivestar 6775
passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 08/06/2026when you play a AAA game and a utility box looks oddly familiar 151199102
passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 31/05/2026wee woo wee woo sir do you have any idea how fast you were global illuminating 960751
passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 31/05/2026testing HDDAGI and I'm actually shocked with how well it runs for how good it looks WTF HELLO?? 1142030
passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 28/05/2026007 first light seems to be doing something similar. The 3 light patterns are angled and don't affect the decorative frame, only the wall behind it. could be an alpha card the actual light source is a spotlight that's facing the objects in front and has a colder color 320917
passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Did you know? When buying a AAA game it's important to check the quality of the game by counting the amount of streaks from the lights. Current generation of AAA games emits *at least* 8 streaks per light. If your copy of a AAA game has less streaks you may be eligible for a refund 161968
passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 25/05/2026hope godot 4.8 merges specular lightmaps because holy shit 654742
passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Epic has announced Unreal Engine 6. It's a 20% bigger number than 5, making it the biggest number they have ever announced. Unfortunately it fell short of the last major update (4 to 5), which was a whopping 25% increase. 291155194
passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 23/05/2026when somebody makes a hammer-like level editor for godot asset storestatic.klipy.comScarface: Tony Montana on Phone & Money CountingALT: Scarface: Tony Montana on Phone & Money Counting 1620612
passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Blender 5.2 will introduce remote asset libraries with granular per-asset downloads that anyone can host. This is HUGE 731842
passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 12/05/2026There's a godot PR that will give you nearly unlimited shader customizability at high maintenance cost. It will allow you to implement a lot of new effects that godot can't do now and fix a lot of current rendering problems without a need to fork the engine It will be a very important PR for godotgithub.comAdd custom shader template support to rendering server (core) by BastiaanOlij · Pull Request #111939 · godotengine/godotAfter discussing during a render meeting some weeks back, we discussed reviving #94427 but breaking it up into parts. This PR purely adds in the core of the implementation. E.G it introduces the sh... 915513
passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 05/05/2026you can use emissive decals for very cheap fake lights 14906117
passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 30/04/2026before plugging it into decals I was just trying to make some normal-mapped smoke cards this is inspired by the convenience of godot's built-in image generators like noises and gradients 331423
passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 30/04/2026searching for the least insane pbr wear decal workflow in godot. subclassing the decal class with custom procedural pbr map generators is probably it 937224
passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 20/03/2026@adriaan.games has been cooking a better godot runbar: - cleaner ui by default - custom run presets for different scenes and run params (buttons in the optional right panel) - includes embedding options that were previously separate 42589
passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 20/03/2026maybe it's time for a UI for creating custom menus in blender now that 5.1 assigns operator names to node tools 01032
passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 15/03/2026should I work on godot or should I make a game in it 203116
passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 13/03/2026EVERYBODY STAY CALM! we have realtime area lights in godot, I REPEAT, AREA LIGHTS IN GODOT, this is not a drill 🚨 🗣️ 301474226
passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 12/03/2026they what???80.lvNVIDIA Forks Godot To Add Path TracingYou can download it now. 1019014
passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Recently I got invited to join the new Godot UX team. When I have time I will be helping testing editor PRs and make Godot more usable for everyone. What are some of the most annoying things about Godot UI/UX that you think need attention? 10580784
passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 03/03/2026we're now at a point where we compare chips 5 generations apart in press releases 51162
passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 02/03/2026surprised people bring up the ease of reverse-engineering of godot games as a drawback over unity when it's the same in both 181859
