Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

beta releases. We took a bit longer to prepare this beta as there were a number of fairly big GDScript refactoring PRs (needed to fix many bugs), which we wanted to merge all at once. As such we expect that this beta 11 might introduce some new GDScript regressions, which we’ll aim to fix for beta 12 next week.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

beta 1 in September, and that was a big milestone on our journey to finalize our next major release – be sure to check out that blog post if you haven't yet, for an overview of some of the main highlight of Godot 4.0. We're now at beta 4, slightly delayed as I was on holiday, but all the more interesting to try out. Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

We had a beta 2 build ten days ago , and a number of issues have since been found and fixed, so it's time for Godot 3.4 If you already reviewed the changelog for the previous beta, you can skip right to the differences between beta 2 and beta 3. Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2022

So we're starting the beta testing phase with this already significant set of changes, and we'll have frequent beta builds to polish them for the stable release. Some more features are still being worked on and will be included in future beta builds. was released 2 months ago , and some of the major planned features for Godot 3.5

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

This beta 5 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. If you already reviewed the changelog for the previous beta, you can skip right to the differences between beta 4 and beta 5 ( part 1 , part 2 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

This beta 4 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. If you already reviewed the changelog for the previous beta, you can skip right to the differences between beta 3 and beta 4. Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2022

stable release with a third beta snapshot! beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. This is a big update with close to 350 commits from 82 contributors since the previous beta! We're getting closer to the Godot 3.5 Like with 4.0 Highlights.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

stable release with a fourth beta snapshot! beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. This beta 4 is a small update with just 83 commits excluding merges, focusing on fixing bugs to stabilize the current feature set for 3.5 Like with 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

beta 2 , even though we never had a formal beta 1 announcement on this blog. beta 1 is available for download for comparison purposes, but since it had a major regression on C# support on Windows , I skipped its blog post. and included in this beta are: Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

beta 1 in September, and that was a big milestone on our journey to finalize our next major release – be sure to check out that blog post if you haven’t yet, for an overview of some of the main highlight of Godot 4.0. We’re now at beta 4, slightly delayed as I was on holiday, but all the more interesting to try out. Requires.NET SDK 6.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This beta 6 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. If you already reviewed the changelog for the previous beta, you can skip right to the differences between beta 5 and beta 6. GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 2022

beta 2 should be worth the wait! This is a big update with close to 350 commits from 82 contributors since the previous beta! This is a big update with close to 350 commits from 82 contributors since the previous beta! and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2022

stable release with a fifth beta snapshot! beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). You can also review the changes between beta 4 and beta 5.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

has been in beta for over two months , and the overall feature completeness, stability and usability have improved a lot during that time. beta in general, have a look at the detailed release notes for 4.0 In this blog post, we will only cover the main changes since the previous beta release. Requires.NET SDK 6.0 specifically.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 20, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). wslay 1.1.1).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2019

beta 1 , and many high priority bug reports have been fixed since then. We're now publishing a new beta 2 snapshot for testers to work with. From now on dev focus is on release-critical issues that would seriously hamper Godot 3.1's beta 1 and 3.1 This beta is built from commit 1efd37f. beta 2 now bundles mono 5.18

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 26, 2019

beta 2 last week, and our new beta 3 snapshot is a lot closer to what we want the final 3.1 beta 2 and 3.1 This beta is built from commit a851033. IMPORTANT: This is a beta build, which means that it is not suitable for use in production, nor for press reviews of what Godot 3.1 to be like. Contrarily to our 3.0.x

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 2018

beta 1 build was relatively good, and many fixes have been done since, especially to the (still imperfect, but better) tool to convert 2.1 We'll go over the changes more in-depth in the actual release announcement, but until then, we need testers for this new beta 2 build! x branch for a while - at least until 3.1

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

beta, reviewing many PRs which have been opened prior to our roadmap feature freeze announced a month ago. The beta feature freeze will soon lock the API more or less in place, so contributors have been hard at work evaluating and merging or rejecting the last proposals for a more consistent and user-friendly API. for instructions.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Today we are pleased to announce that the first beta for the much-anticipated release of Godot 4.0 beta just yet as we expect the engine to be unstable until we have more testing done. The beta comes with a work-in-progress conversion tool that does part of the conversion work from 3.x beta 1 now! is set in stone.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 4, 2021

releases (with a dev snapshot for 3.4 beta 2 available now), we still cherry-pick important bug fixes to the 3.3 Import: glTF: Fix mesh nodes which are also bones ( GH-49119 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). While we're busy working on both the upcoming Godot 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 16, 2021

releases (with a dev snapshot for 3.4 beta 3 available now), we still cherry-pick important bug fixes to the 3.3 Import: glTF: Fix mesh nodes which are also bones ( GH-49119 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). While we're busy working on both the upcoming Godot 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

With this first Release Candidate , we completely freezes feature development, and comes after a long series of beta builds to fix a number of bugs reported against previous builds (as well as against previous stable branches). If you already reviewed the changelog for beta 6, you can skip right to the differences between beta 6 and RC 1.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

releases (with a dev snapshot for 3.4 beta 4 available now), we still cherry-pick important bug fixes to the 3.3 Import: glTF: Fix mesh nodes which are also bones ( GH-49119 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). While we're busy working on both the upcoming Godot 4.0

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 24, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). beta 1 and RC 1. The download links for dev snapshots are not featured on the Download page to avoid confusion for new users. Thirdparty library updates (mbedtls 2.16.7,

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

We expect bugs with the beta, even some regressions which we have seen already, but we are working on fixes to the reported problems to be ready for the 3.2.4 Much like the work we have done with FBX we'd just be repeating work for example with mesh conversion. Fix bugs in the beta phase, we expect them. stable release.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2020

is turning out to be quite feature-packed and we've been taking the time to iterate with four beta snapshots and two release candidates (RC). beta 4 have been renamed in preparation for the addition of GLES3 batching, see this Pull Request ). Pull Request, so we're now confident to include it in this beta build for further testing.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 18, 2020

is turning out to be quite feature-packed and we've been taking the time to iterate with four beta snapshots. beta 4 have been renamed in preparation for the addition of GLES3 batching, see this Pull Request ). Pull Request, so we're now confident to include it in this beta build for further testing. The upcoming Godot 3.2.2

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 12, 2020

is turning out to be quite feature-packed and we've been taking the time to iterate with four beta snapshots before reaching a state that we're confident enough to label as release candidate. beta 4 have been renamed in preparation for the addition of GLES3 batching, see this Pull Request ). The upcoming Godot 3.2.2 stable build.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Many thanks to all the contributors who worked on it, including all testers who tried beta and RC releases to ensure that the 3.4-stable Import: Fix crash when exporting meshes to glTF that have no skin ( GH-55246 ). was released earlier this month, and it went fairly smoothly! iOS: Capture and display xcodebuild output ( GH-54711 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Wait, are we not in Beta? First of all, you need to make sure your meshes have an UV2 layer. Godot lightmapper works with one texture per mesh, so sharing UVs between meshes will not give you more optimization. In any case, Godot makes the process of generating unique UVs for each mesh easier for you.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2019

is still in beta at this time download the latest beta. Holger Dammertz has made a great toolkit for the quest that contains a lot of scenes to get help you on your way including really nice controller meshes. Whether you are on Windows, macOS or Linux, if your machine runs Godot you can develop for the Quest. Getting started.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Many thanks to all the contributors who worked on it, including all testers who tried beta and RC releases to ensure that the 3.4-stable Import: Fix crash when exporting meshes to glTF that have no skin ( GH-55246 ). was released a month ago, and it went fairly smoothly! Input: Add Input.is_physical_key_pressed() method ( GH-55251 ).

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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: GLES3: Fix broken normals in meshes with blend shapes ( GH-59159 ) [regression fix]. branch for use in production. Last month's 3.4.3

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Many thanks to all the contributors who worked on it, including all testers who tried beta and RC releases to ensure that the 3.4-stable Import: Fix crash when exporting meshes to glTF that have no skin ( GH-55246 ). was released a month ago, and it went fairly smoothly! Input: Add Input.is_physical_key_pressed() method ( GH-55251 ).

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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. Rendering: Bind mesh merging functionality in MeshInstance ( GH-57661 ). You can also review the changes between beta 5 and RC 1. back in 2020! Check out the Releases page for the latest 2.x

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Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 2, 2022

beta is not far off either. Editor: Fix GridMap cursor showing the wrong mesh ( GH-58624 ). And this is not the long anticipated 3.5, but simply a Godot 3.4.5 maintenance release to fix a handful of issues in the current 3.4 stable branch. But don't worry – the feature release 3.5 Editor: Fix UndoRedo in Gradient editor ( GH-60401 ).

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