Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 28, 2022

alpha 7 comes with one week delay on our every-other-week release schedule, since I was taking some time off :) But that means it got time for even more features and bug fixes to be finalized, reviewed and merged. See past alpha releases for details ( alpha 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ). alpha builds. This new 4.0 Bug reports.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

We're continuing on our fortnightly release schedule for alpha snapshots of Godot 4.0 - this time with 4.0 See past alpha releases for details ( alpha 1 , alpha 2 ). Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds. Known issues. Bug reports.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 8, 2022

We're continuing on our fortnightly release schedule for alpha snapshots of Godot 4.0 - this time with 4.0 See past alpha releases for details ( alpha 1 , alpha 2 , alpha 3 ). Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds. Known issues.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 14, 2022

Another couple of weeks, another alpha snapshot from the development branch, this time with 4.0 Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds. alpha in general, have a look at the detailed release notes for 4.0 Jump to the Downloads section. What's new.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 1, 2022

Another couple of weeks, another alpha snapshot from the development branch, this time with 4.0 Note: There was a change in the internal format that PNG files get imported to, which you might experience as projects from earlier alphas reporting broken dependencies. alpha builds. Known issues. Bug reports.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

While this process is ongoing, we'll keep releasing alpha builds so here's 4.0 This is the first alpha to include export templates for the Web platform again. Lots of fixes to theme propagation issues, both regressions in the previous alpha 15 and pre-existing bugs that it helped uncover. alpha builds.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

alpha 17 release to ensure that things work as best as we can reasonably expect before the beta phase. Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds. alpha in general, have a look at the detailed release notes for 4.0 beta 1, and to do so we're having a (last?)

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Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

alpha 1 ― the first official alpha build of our upcoming major milestone, enabling all interested users to try it out and report bugs, as well as provide feedback on the new features. branch, we're going to release new alpha builds every other week, so that testers can always have a recent version to test the latest changes.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

While this process is ongoing, we'll keep releasing alpha builds so here's 4.0 This alpha doesn't include official builds with.NET 6 support yet, as we still have more work to do to enable this. For users of previous alphas, we don't always have compatibility code to ease transition. alpha builds.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2019

alpha 1 , our first milestone towards the next stable installment of our free and open source game engine. This first alpha build comes relatively late in our planned release schedule, mostly because of work done on our official build infrastructure to adapt to 3.2 release, we are now happy to release Godot 3.2

Alpha 52

Alpha Dev Bug Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. since early alpha releases; follow them on Twitter for updates. Rendering: Ignore depth draw optimization when using depth draw alpha prepass ( GH-70884 ). What's new.

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Beta Dev Render Animation 106

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

Rendering: Take alpha antialising options into account when setting up materials ( GH-71261 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ). Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: Use opaque rendering pipeline for alpha hash materials ( GH-61884 ). Rendering: Fix alpha hash by correcting typos and doing calculations in object space ( GH-68673 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET Requires.NET SDK 6.0

Beta 99

Beta Dev Render Bug 99

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. since early alpha releases; follow them on Twitter for updates. Rendering: Ignore depth draw optimization when using depth draw alpha prepass ( GH-70884 ). What’s new.

Beta 81

Beta Dev Render Animation 81

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

Rendering: Take alpha antialising options into account when setting up materials ( GH-71261 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ). Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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Beta Dev Collision Render 85

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

XR: OpenXR: Emulated alpha blend mode should override the real blend mode ( GH-103338 ). Support Godot is a non-profit, open source game engine developed by hundreds of contributors on their free time, as well as a handful of part and full-time developers hired thanks to generous donations from the Godot community.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Godot is a community developed game engine. In fact, our development process and code quality are, already, arguably in many senses better than commercial game engine counterparts. In fact, our development process and code quality are, already, arguably in many senses better than commercial game engine counterparts.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

But the "1" in beta 1 means that it's only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we're going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. Rendering: Improve behaviour of clip_children by clipping to parent alpha value but still retaining parent color ( GH-67043 ). We released Godot 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 20, 2020

GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ).

Beta 52

Beta Dev Collision Bug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2022

alpha (see our release policy for details on the various Godot versions). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). Some more features are still being worked on and will be included in future beta builds. Jump to the Downloads section.

Beta 52

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 2, 2017

alpha1, users need more content to test with the new 3D engine. Sites like Sketchfab provide plenty of PBR-ready assets for downloading, and plugins that export scenes from other popular game engines to this format. The surprise, though, is how good this format is for video game asset exchange. Khronos, with glTF 2.0,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

But the “1” in beta 1 means that it’s only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we’re going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. And for people doing engine development, there’s a new dev_build option which can be used together with target to enable dev-specific code and also affects a few presets.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

But the "1" in beta 1 means that it's only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we're going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 2022

alpha builds and maintenance releases for the stable branch ( 3.4.3 , 3.4.4 The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). It's already been 2 months since 3.5 Between biweekly 4.0 RC 1 ), the release team – i.e. me – is spread thin.

Beta 52

Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

But the “1” in beta 1 means that it’s only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we’re going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. Rendering: Improve behaviour of clip_children by clipping to parent alpha value but still retaining parent color ( GH-67043 ). We released Godot 4.0

Beta 40

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2022

alpha builds , we're trying to release 3.5 The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). We're getting closer to the Godot 3.5 stable release with a third beta snapshot! Like with 4.0 For now, you can check the full changelog since 3.4-stable

Beta 52

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

alpha builds , we're trying to release 3.5 The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). We're getting closer to the Godot 3.5 stable release with a fourth beta snapshot! Like with 4.0 For now, you can check the full changelog since 3.4-stable

Beta 52

Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

But the "1" in beta 1 means that it's only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we're going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET So here's beta 2!

Beta 52

Beta Dev Render Bug 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2022

alpha builds , we're trying to release 3.5 The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). We're getting closer to the Godot 3.5 stable release with a fifth beta snapshot! Like with 4.0 For now, you can check the full changelog since 3.4-stable

Beta 52

Beta Dev Shaders Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: Use opaque rendering pipeline for alpha hash materials ( GH-61884 ). Rendering: Fix alpha hash by correcting typos and doing calculations in object space ( GH-68673 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET Requires.NET SDK 6.0

Beta 40

Beta Dev Render Bug 40

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

But the “1” in beta 1 means that it’s only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we’re going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET So here’s beta 2! Requires.NET SDK 6.0

Beta 40

Beta Dev Render Bug 40

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Rest assured, we plan to publish bugfix releases quickly and regularly (as we have with the Alphas and Betas). Godot is a non-profit, open source game engine developed by hundreds of contributors on their free time, and a handful of part or full-time developers, hired thanks to donations from the Godot community. x” releases).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Enthusiasts, hobbyists, and even some Unity users looking for an alterative to their game engine! More importantly, we met people who are deeply involved into the game developpment community. Especially those from the Toulouse Game Dev association, which regroups both hobbyists and professional game developers in Toulouse.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 16, 2022

Rendering: Fix alpha scissor support with depth_draw_opaque ( GH-58959 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDNative, VisualScript). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader state caching when blend shapes used ( GH-58808 ) [regression fix]. API documentation updates.

Render 52

Render Shaders Bug Build 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

while(accum < max_dist) { float d = texture_sdf(at); accum+=d; if (d < 0.01) { break; } at += d * dir; } float alpha = 1.0-min(1.0,accum/max_dist); accum/max_dist); if (accum < fade_margin) { alpha *= max(0.0,accum accum / fade_margin); } COLOR = vec4(color.rgb,alpha * color.a); }.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 29, 2018

This is a great opportunity to discover Godot if you're not familiar with it yet, get some more experience if you know it already, or get to know some of the other awesome free and open source game engines or frameworks out there such as Phaser , LÖVE or LibGDX. currently at the alpha stage. currently at the alpha stage.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 23, 2022

In parallel to our work on the upcoming feature releases Godot 3.5 ( with a second beta ) and 4.0 ( now at alpha 4! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 Rendering: Fix alpha scissor support with depth_draw_opaque ( GH-58959 ). branch for use in production. Last month's 3.4.3 We encourage all users to upgrade to 3.4.4.

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