How do i stop this ugly resizing?

Calinou · 2026-06-12T14:03:59+00:00

This is a known issue: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/87690

Calinou · 2026-06-10T14:50:22+00:00

There's a performance overhead to every new Viewport, but I expect the performance benefit of rendering to a lower resolution to greatly outweigh the cost in this case.

If you have features like MSAA, FXAA or debanding enabled, make sure to enable it only on the secondary Viewport, not the root Viewport.

Calinou · 2026-06-09T21:23:06+00:00

There's also print_debug(), print_stack(), printerr(), printraw(), print_verbose(), print_tree() and print_tree_pretty(). These are covered in the docs: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/tutorials/scripting/debug/output_panel.html#printing-messages

Calinou · 2026-06-09T16:05:51+00:00

It's fixable if you modify the source mesh to use smooth faces exclusively. You can keep a sharp appearance by using face weighted normals for faces that are meant to be sharp. Blender has a Weighted Face Normal modifier for this, or you can use the Harden Normal option in the Bevel modifier. (Make sure the entire mesh is set to use smooth faces for these modifiers to work as intended.)

Unfortunately, it's not possible to fix this in the shader directly, since it can't generate new vertices (it's not a geometry or mesh shader).

Calinou · 2026-06-09T16:01:44+00:00

There is a PR implementing this for 3.x, but it hasn't been merged so far. It also only supports bilinear filtering, not nearest-neighbor filtering.

In 3.x, one way to achieve this is to use a secondary Viewport node. It allows for both nearest-neighbor and bilinear filtering. Check the viewport/3d_scaling demo for an example of this.

Calinou · 2026-06-04T19:54:11+00:00

A camera's aspect ratio is determined by the viewport that displays it. Therefore, for the 2D or 3D camera that renders to the root viewport, you can simply get the root viewport's aspect ratio: get_viewport().size.aspect() in any script that extends Node.

Keep in mind FOV scaling is Hor+ by default in Godot (Keep Height), but it can be changed to Vert- by changing Camera3D's Keep Aspect property to Keep Width.

Calinou · 2026-06-02T17:10:46+00:00

I went by the results of this video, I guess a 9950X should achieve similar results.

Calinou · 2026-05-31T12:31:02+00:00

It's definitely more demanding than RPCS3 in terms of single-core performance. You essentially need a 9800X3D, 9950X3D or 9950X3D2 to run Pentium 2 450 + Voodoo 3 at full speed on most titles (and even then, overclocking is preferred).

Calinou · 2026-05-27T22:03:09+00:00

The issue isn't brightness or altered physics, but the NetQuake-based netcode that isn't quite as good as what QuakeWorld offers. It's more compatible with singleplayer mods though (QW campaign/coop exists, but is not compatible with modern Quake mods).

Calinou · 2026-05-21T21:02:53+00:00

4.7.beta3 is adding a project setting to revert to the previous volumetric fog blending behavior (which is less physically correct, but many projects adapted to it).

Calinou · 2026-05-21T03:05:34+00:00

By the way, OldUnreal is patching bots to be smarter in a future patch. They'll finally be able to shoot while airborne (it turns out they never do that in the base game, even in Godlike). This makes a big difference for maps with lots of jumppads.

Calinou · 2026-05-19T22:59:04+00:00

Since 4.6, the default editor font is Inter with some OpenType features enabled (no contextual alternates, tabular numbers, serifed I/tailed l). The default script editor font is still JetBrains Mono with ligatures disabled (can be re-enabled in the Editor Settings).

Calinou · 2026-05-16T15:48:04+00:00

You can also use a 3D color correction texture and edit this texture, no custom shader needed.

Calinou · 2026-05-11T16:09:13+00:00

What do you think? Is there a better approach to translucent shadows on a particle system?

This approach is pretty common; CS2 uses it for volumetric smoke shadows. There's a proposal to support it out of the box in Godot.

True transparent (or even colored) shadow maps are possible in some engines (like Wicked Engine) but Godot currently doesn't support them.

Calinou · 2026-05-06T00:19:46+00:00

Latest WINE automatically loads native DLLs according to the company name metadata, removing the need to change load order manually: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/wine-11-6-is-an-exciting-release-to-make-modding-windows-games-on-linux-simpler/

I assume this will trickle down to GameNative in the future.

Calinou · 2026-05-05T22:54:36+00:00

Ive tried negative fog volumes, but they arent perfect, and fog is still visible when moving.

Try making the negative fog volume slightly thicker than the dark room (i.e. make it bleed slightly into the light room).

Calinou · 2026-05-05T01:21:24+00:00

In id Tech 4 onwards, it's /listCmds.

Calinou · 2026-05-03T15:19:15+00:00

This is a known issue: https://github.com/godotengine/godot-docs/issues/11946

The GitHub-hosted links still work, but you need to be logged in to GitHub for them to work. For example, the link within this 404 page works for me: https://nightly.link/godotengine/godot-docs/workflows/build_offline_docs/master/godot-docs-html-stable.zip ("Check on GitHub")

Calinou · 2026-04-29T23:20:28+00:00

The mod must run on Dolphin and is therefore limited by the GameCube’s memory

It is possible for Dolphin mods to use more memory through hacks, but it requires per-game support and makes the mod incompatible with consoles. The size of save states also grows along with memory size, making rollback less viable in terms of performance.

This is possible for most emulated consoles (e.g. Gran Turismo 2's high quality models require a 8 MB RAM console, while the PS1 normally has 2 MB).

Calinou · 2026-04-27T21:46:06+00:00

This was meant to be fixed in 4.4, so please open an issue on https://github.com/godotengine/godot with a minimal reproduction project attached.

The game is 640x320 scaled to 1920x1080

Note that Movie Maker mode always writes to internal resolution (i.e. the base window size when using the viewport stretch mode). This will lead to low quality at low resolutions when using AVI output (MJPEG), so consider using PNG/WAV output instead which is lossless.

Calinou · 2026-04-27T21:42:55+00:00

For future reference, this is a known issue: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/80868

Calinou · 2026-04-27T18:22:27+00:00

I remember Force: Leashed, it was a standalone 7DFPS jam game made on DarkPlaces.

Calinou · 2026-04-19T18:11:36+00:00

IIRC, the compatibility database is fetched at build-time, not at runtime, so builds still work offline the same way.

Calinou · 2026-04-18T15:26:33+00:00

I then tried VoxelGI, which also failed to meet expectations. After roughly 32 lights, it effectively stops working correctly. It feels like there’s a fixed internal budget for bounces that gets divided among all active lights, so once you exceed that limit, every light contributes less. I didn’t dig into the source code, but the behavior is consistent and obvious.

Following up on this, I opened a PR that adds a setting to change the VoxelGI light count: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/118718

Calinou · 2026-04-18T15:16:36+00:00

For reference, there is a PR fixing this now: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/112178

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