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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

Add transparency support for LightmapGI Currently when baking lightmaps users have to choose between transparent objects casting shadows as if they were fully opaque, or not casting shadows at all. This has been a major limitation in both the quality of lightmap baking and the ergonomics of the lightmap baking workflow.

Beta

Beta Dev Lightmap Baking

GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2022

Like in previous years, Godot is participating again in the Google Summer of Code program for its 2022 edition. UV2 Texel Density Debug Draw Mode. x CPU lightmapper and adding a new debug draw mode for visualizing the texel density of lightmaps. Debug draw mode for texel density. Soft Shadows (merged). Introduction.

Lightmap

Lightmap UX Shaders Debug

Maintenance release: Godot 3.5.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). Navigation: Fix TileMaps placing baked NavigationPolygons with wrong offset without a Navigation2D node ( GH-66262 ) [regression fix]. Rendering: Portals: Show RayCast debug helper ( GH-65686 ). API documentation updates. x releases.

Render

Render Baking Bug Collision

Maintenance release: Godot 3.5.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). Navigation: Fix TileMaps placing baked NavigationPolygons with wrong offset without a Navigation2D node ( GH-66262 ) [regression fix]. Rendering: Portals: Show RayCast debug helper ( GH-65686 ). API documentation updates. x releases.

Render

Render Baking Bug Collision

Release candidate: Godot 3.5.1 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). Rendering: Portals: Show RayCast debug helper ( GH-65686 ). Thirdparty libraries: libpng 1.6.38, GameControllerDB from 2022-09-04. Networking: Prevent HTTPRequest from polling invalid client ( GH-64472 ). API documentation updates.

Bug

Bug Render Collision Animation

My Elephant in the Room, Part 1

Designer Notes

MARCH 31, 2023

I gave an Old World postmortem at GDC 2022, which is available on YouTube: However, I fully scripted the talk ahead of time, so I decided it would be worth taking the time to post the slides online, in three parts to have mercy on your browser. Editor’s Note: Later in 2022, Old World actually was nominated for a Grammy!)

Tile

Tile Point and Click AI Mechanics

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Debugger: Add --debug-server command line option to listen for incoming connections ( GH-60819 ). Rendering: CPU lightmapper: Account for ambient light settings when baking lights ( GH-62260 ).

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Debugger: Add --debug-server command line option to listen for incoming connections ( GH-60819 ). Rendering: CPU lightmapper: Account for ambient light settings when baking lights ( GH-62260 ).

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Debugger: Add --debug-server command line option to listen for incoming connections ( GH-60819 ). Rendering: CPU lightmapper: Account for ambient light settings when baking lights ( GH-62260 ).

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Debugger: Add --debug-server command line option to listen for incoming connections ( GH-60819 ). Rendering: CPU lightmapper: Account for ambient light settings when baking lights ( GH-62260 ).

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2022

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Debugger: Add --debug-server command line option to listen for incoming connections ( GH-60819 ). pcre2 10.40, CA certificates (2022-03-31). back in 2020! Core: Add search methods for pool arrays ( GH-60856 ).

Render

Render Shaders Console Culling

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Debugger: Add --debug-server command line option to listen for incoming connections ( GH-60819 ). pcre2 10.40, CA certificates (2022-03-31). Editor: Improve ColorPicker presets ( GH-54439 ).

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Debugger: Add --debug-server command line option to listen for incoming connections ( GH-60819 ). pcre2 10.40, CA certificates (2022-03-31). Editor: Improve ColorPicker presets ( GH-54439 ).

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 17, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Debugger: Add --debug-server command line option to listen for incoming connections ( GH-60819 ). pcre2 10.40, CA certificates (2022-03-31). Editor: Improve ColorPicker presets ( GH-54439 ).

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

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My Elephant in the Room, Part 1

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