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Godot XR update - February 2025

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 6, 2025

Announcing the Meta Toolkit extension We are pleased to announce the release of the Godot Meta Toolkit , a GDExtension plugin that exposes Metas Platform SDK and provides other tools to simplify and accelerate XR development on Metas platform. the Godot Meta Toolkit supports v72 of the Platform SDK. As of version 1.0.2,

Collision

Collision Simulation Bug Asset

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

This means contributors are encouraged to focus their efforts on fixing regressions and other outstanding bugs. We wont risk merging any new features or risky bug fixes until after we release 4.4 Breaking changes Animation Audio C# Core Editor GDScript Import Input Physics Platforms Rendering and shaders XR New in Beta 1!

Beta

Beta Dev Lightmap Baking

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

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. The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. Bug reports.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 14

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 2023

Physics: Implement analytic collision normals ( GH-71447 ). Rendering: Decompress RA_AS_RG formats on Web platform in GLES3 renderer and disable texture swizzling ( GH-71574 ). See the GitHub issue tracker for a list of known bugs in the 4.0 Import: Avoid importing MSVC obj files ( GH-71662 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Animation Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 15

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 25, 2023

Editor: Fix various gradient editor bugs ( GH-70548 ). Given the scope of this change for all platforms, we expect some regressions, which will be fixed for beta 16. Physics: Fix regression in collision detection for uniform scaling ( GH-71707 ). See the GitHub issue tracker for a list of known bugs in the 4.0

Beta

Beta Dev Render Shaders

Maintenance release: Godot 2.1.4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2017

But as a result, it's actually a pretty exciting "maintenance" release with various new features and a great deal of bug fixes. A big thankyou to all the contributors who worked on this release by implementing bug fixes or features, or testing the changes to spot potential regressions and help debug issues. Support duration.

Tile

Tile Bug Point and Click Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

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. The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha. Bug reports.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.3 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 20, 2020

would focus mainly on fixing those new bugs to ensure that all Godot users can have the most stable experience possible. Physics: Trigger broadphase update when changing collision layer/mask ( GH-39895 ). Physics: Fix laxist collision detection on one way shapes ( GH-39880 ). Bug reports. wslay 1.1.1). beta 1).

Beta

Beta Dev Collision Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 24, 2020

would focus mainly on fixing those new bugs to ensure that all Godot users can have the most stable experience possible. Physics: Trigger broadphase update when changing collision layer/mask ( GH-39895 ). Physics: Fix laxist collision detection on one way shapes ( GH-39880 ). Bug reports. stb_vorbis 1.20, wslay 1.1.1).

Collision

Collision Bug Mesh Build

Tiles editor progress report #5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In this third mode, I implemented a dedicated editor for tile shapes (collision shapes, occluders, naviagation shapes). This allows setting up tile collisions in a very fast way: Since my previous implementation of panning was not working great in the atlas editor, I reworked it a little bit. What's next.

Tile

Tile Collision Editing Alpha

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2021

Multiple fixes to one-way collisions , handling many cases where collisions would not work reliably. Multiple fixes to one-way collisions (new in beta 6). CSG: Various bug fixes. Font: Load dynamic fonts to memory on all platforms to avoid locked files ( GH-44117 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D.

Beta

Beta Dev Collision Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 31, 2020

would focus mainly on fixing those new bugs to ensure that all Godot users can have the most stable experience possible. Physics: Trigger broadphase update when changing collision layer/mask ( GH-39895 ). Physics: Fix laxist collision detection on one way shapes ( GH-39880 ). Bug reports. stb_vorbis 1.20, wslay 1.1.1).

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 21, 2020

would focus mainly on fixing those new bugs to ensure that all Godot users can have the most stable experience possible. Physics: Trigger broadphase update when changing collision layer/mask ( GH-39895 ). Physics: Fix laxist collision detection on one way shapes ( GH-39880 ). RichTextLabel: Fix center alignment bug ( GH-40892 ).

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

would focus mainly on fixing those new bugs to ensure that all Godot users can have the most stable experience possible. Physics: Trigger broadphase update when changing collision layer/mask ( GH-39895 ). Physics: Fix laxist collision detection on one way shapes ( GH-39880 ). RichTextLabel: Fix center alignment bug ( GH-40892 ).

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 15

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

Same deal as usual, lots of bugs fixed and more refactoring and feature work. Rename JavaScript platform to Web ( GH-65023 ). Particles: Add "Hide on Contact" collision mode to ParticlesMaterial ( GH-61238 ). Physics: Add collision weight to PhysicsBody2D/3D for penetrations which must be avoided ( GH-64343 ).

Alpha

Alpha Dev Shaders Beta

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

would focus mainly on fixing those new bugs to ensure that all Godot users can have the most stable experience possible. Physics: Trigger broadphase update when changing collision layer/mask ( GH-39895 ). Physics: Fix laxist collision detection on one way shapes ( GH-39880 ). RichTextLabel: Fix center alignment bug ( GH-40892 ).

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2020

would focus mainly on fixing those new bugs to ensure that all Godot users can have the most stable experience possible. Physics: Trigger broadphase update when changing collision layer/mask ( GH-39895 ). Physics: Fix laxist collision detection on one way shapes ( GH-39880 ). Bug reports. stb_vorbis 1.20, wslay 1.1.1).

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.3 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 16, 2021

beta 3 available now), we still cherry-pick important bug fixes to the 3.3 As there is no new feature and only bug fixes, this RC 2 should be as stable as 3.3.2-stable Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision ( GH-49075 ). Windows: Fix platform file access to allow file sharing with external programs ( GH-51430 ).

Bug

Bug Render Mesh Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.3 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 4, 2021

beta 2 available now), we still cherry-pick important bug fixes to the 3.3 As there is no new feature and only bug fixes, this RC 1 should be as stable as 3.3.2-stable Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision ( GH-49075 ). Bug reports. While we're busy working on both the upcoming Godot 4.0

Bug

Bug Mesh Render Build

Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

x updates with bug fixes, but also new features as long as they don't require breaking compatibility. x), we're going back to a stricter application of semantic versioning and those releases will only contain bug fixes and usability/documentation improvements. Platforms: Godot editor on the Web! When we released Godot 3.2

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2021

stable release to bring the numerous new features and even more important bug fixes to all Godot users. Multiple fixes to one-way collisions. CSG: Various bug fixes. Font: Load dynamic fonts to memory on all platforms to avoid locked files ( GH-44117 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. mbedtls 2.16.9,

Render

Render Bug Build Beta

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

Multiple fixes to one-way collisions. CSG: Various bug fixes. Font: Load dynamic fonts to memory on all platforms to avoid locked files ( GH-44117 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. Physics: Fix multiple issues with one-way collisions ( GH-42574 ). In either case, be sure to report the problem on GitHub.

Render

Render Collision Build Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 19, 2021

Multiple fixes to one-way collisions. CSG: Various bug fixes. Font: Load dynamic fonts to memory on all platforms to avoid locked files ( GH-44117 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. Physics: Fix multiple issues with one-way collisions ( GH-42574 ). In either case, be sure to report the problem on GitHub.

Render

Render Collision Build Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2021

Multiple fixes to one-way collisions. CSG: Various bug fixes. Font: Load dynamic fonts to memory on all platforms to avoid locked files ( GH-44117 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. Physics: Fix multiple issues with one-way collisions ( GH-42574 ). In either case, be sure to report the problem on GitHub.

Render

Render Collision Build Bug

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.3

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

beta 4 available now), we still cherry-pick important bug fixes to the 3.3 in May , there have been a number of bug fixes which are worth including in a new stable release for all Godot users. x releases , focuses purely on bug fixes, and aims to preserve compatibility. While we're busy working on both the upcoming Godot 4.0

Render

Render Mesh Bug Collision

Schedule for GodotCon 2019 in Brussels

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2019

There are GPU accelerated particles in Godot, but they don't support collisions. Paweł will present a simple and effective way of implementing collision response with a dynamically destructible 2D object. Demo: Make your own cross-platform builds easily with the upcoming godot_build tool | Hein-Pieter van Braam-Stewart ( hpvb ).

Demo

Demo Cross platform Collision Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 12, 2020

is going to add 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform , courtesy of Ignacio ( neikeq ). Fix for the dangling Variant bug , kudos to Pedro ( RandomShaper ). Note: If using C#, the.csproj file will be converted with some bug fixes which makes it incompatible with earlier Godot 3.2 Fix for the dangling Variant bug.

Beta

Beta Bug Debug Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 18, 2020

is going to add 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform , courtesy of Ignacio ( neikeq ). Fix for the dangling Variant bug , kudos to Pedro ( RandomShaper ). Note: If using C#, the.csproj file will be converted with some bug fixes which makes it incompatible with earlier Godot 3.2 Fix for the dangling Variant bug.

Beta

Beta Debug Bug Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2020

is going to add 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform , courtesy of Ignacio ( neikeq ). Fix for the dangling Variant bug , kudos to Pedro ( RandomShaper ). Note: If using C#, the.csproj file will be converted with some bug fixes which makes it incompatible with earlier Godot 3.2 Fix for the dangling Variant bug.

Beta

Beta Debug Bug Point and Click

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This beta 6 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Physics: Improved logic for KinematicBody collision recovery depth ( GH-53451 ). Core: Harmonize output of OS.get_locale() between platforms ( GH-40708 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Multiple fixes to one-way collisions. CSG: Various bug fixes. Font: Load dynamic fonts to memory on all platforms to avoid locked files ( GH-44117 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. Physics: Fix multiple issues with one-way collisions ( GH-42574 ). Bug reports. mbedtls 2.16.9, zstd 1.4.8).

Render

Render Build Bug Collision

Godot Engine reaches 2.0 stable

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

We have more regular contributors, a documentation team, a bug triage team and a much larger community! This is helpful in production games, as unexpected bugs that might commonly cause a crash will not make it fail. Collision and navigation debugging. we are in need of an unified platform for sharing them. While for 2.0

Engine

Engine Engineering Editing Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

This beta 5 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Windows: Fix platform file access to allow file sharing with external programs ( GH-51430 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4 Crypto: Add HMACContext ( GH-48869 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The reception of beta 1 was surprisingly good – we're happy to see the community tinker with the beta, report bugs and provide feedback on the new features. Many bugs have been fixed in just two weeks, with close to 250 PRs merged , many of which fixed bugs reported by beta testers. Bug reports.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

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). Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). Physics: Heightmap collision shape support in Godot Physics 3D ( GH-47349 ). Particles: Add ring emitter for 3D particles ( GH-47801 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

This beta 4 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Windows: Fix platform file access to allow file sharing with external programs ( GH-51430 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

branch is worked on in parallel and receives minor updates to fix bugs, improve usability and occasionally add some compatible features. includes 5 major features: C# support for the iOS platform. This nearly completes the platform support for C# projects in Godot (only UWP support is still missing). But Godot 4.0 is released).

Debug

Debug Point and Click Bug Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Multiple fixes to one-way collisions. CSG: Various bug fixes. Font: Load dynamic fonts to memory on all platforms to avoid locked files ( GH-44117 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. Physics: Fix multiple issues with one-way collisions ( GH-42574 ). Bug reports. mbedtls 2.16.9, zstd 1.4.8).

Render

Render Build Bug Editing

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Physics: Improved logic for KinematicBody collision recovery depth ( GH-53451 ). Windows: Fix platform file access to allow file sharing with external programs ( GH-51430 ). Animation: Fix bugs in AnimationNodeTransition's behavior ( GH-52543 , GH-52555 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Physics: Improved logic for KinematicBody collision recovery depth ( GH-53451 ). Windows: Fix platform file access to allow file sharing with external programs ( GH-51430 ). Animation: Fix bugs in AnimationNodeTransition's behavior ( GH-52543 , GH-52555 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

How to get started with Unity Game Development – Tips & Tricks from iXie Experts

iXie gaming

AUGUST 17, 2023

Use techniques like object pooling, efficient collision detection, and level-of-detail systems to optimize your game’s performance on different platforms. Be mindful of memory usage, especially on mobile platforms. Test and iterate Regularly test your game on target platforms and gather feedback from others.

Game Developer

Game Developer Game Development Development Shaders

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). Physics: Heightmap collision shape support in Godot Physics 3D ( GH-47349 ). Particles: Add ring emitter for 3D particles ( GH-47801 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Platforms: Android: Scoped storage, Play Asset Delivery, input responsiveness. Revamped collision layer grid in the inspector. Such use-after-free access needs to be guarded with is_instance_valid(obj) , but this has been surprisingly difficult to get right due to a number of bugs and inconsistencies between debug and release builds.

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

Godot XR update - February 2025

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

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Maintenance release: Godot 2.1.4

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

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Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 1

Tiles editor progress report #5

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 4

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 5

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 15

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.3 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.3 RC 1

Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 4

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 7

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.3

Schedule for GodotCon 2019 in Brussels

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 2

Godot Engine reaches 2.0 stable

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 3

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

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