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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

Weve unified the code to make sure it works the same on both platforms, and weve fixed some bugs. You can now export typed dictionaries from scripts and benefit from a much improved Inspector UX to assign the right keys and values. Overall, texture importing should feel faster and more stable than ever before. Import 4.4

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Beta Dev Lightmap Baking

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 4, 2025

Use Compressed Textures : Textured images can be saved with lower resolutions while compressed formats such as ASTC and DXT1 and DXT5 reduce memory usage without quality reduction. Texture Atlasing combines multiple textures into one atlas to lower the number of texture switches that occur.

Games

Games Texture Render Balance

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

To simplify some of the most common constructs in input handling code for character movement, Aaron Franke ( aaronfranke ) added two new helper methods : Input.get_axis() and Input.get_vector(). Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). This makes it easier to support multiple keyboard layouts. normalized().

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

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. Here are the 3 projects/students with links to the relevant sections in this post: Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker by Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ). Multi window code editors by trollodel. UX updates.

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Lightmap UX Shaders Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

See this demonstration made by MewPurPur : Improved ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ). Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ) reworked the features and user experience of Godot’s ColorPicker during Google Summer of Code 2022. The second part of her work has just been merged, and should significantly improve the ColorPicker’s UX.

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Beta Dev Render Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

See this demonstration made by MewPurPur : Improved ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ). Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ) reworked the features and user experience of Godot's ColorPicker during Google Summer of Code 2022. The second part of her work has just been merged, and should significantly improve the ColorPicker's UX.

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Beta Dev Render Debug

Ask a Game Dev - Untitled Article

Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Often writes the least code overall among the engineers, but the code she writes is also the most mission critical because she has the best understanding of how everything fits together. Writes shaders, writes scripts, works with code. Environment Artist : Models, textures, and places the stuff in the game levels.

Cinematics

Cinematics Writing Animation Animation

Godot core budget meeting report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 10, 2020

Hiring a generalist contributor for editor UX and web dev. Hiring Matias Goldberg to help him create GPU-based texture compressors. One of the main problems we have in Godot is the time it takes to import textures. we want to move our texture compressors to GPU using compute shaders. To work around this, for Godot 4.0,

Texture

Texture Engine Engineering UX

GSoC 2019 progress report #1 (part 1)

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 17, 2019

As announced previously , Godot is participating for the second time in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) programme, which lets students from all over the world work for three months on specific projects thanks to a Google stipend. We are now at the middle of the coding period, so students have around 6 weeks left in the GSoC programme.

Visual Scripting

Visual Scripting Clipping Code Scripting

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

Coding tools. 2D: Pseudo 3D, Texture atlas, AStar2D. as default target, and the rewrite of the Mono-specific editor code in C# (ported from C++). our contributor Yuri Roubinsky did a huge rework of the new visual shader's UX , and eventually assumed full maintainership of the feature. Coding tools. For Godot 3.2,

Feature

Feature Render Shaders Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2020

Note: Breaks compatibility for users of this plugin, but it's easy to adapt your code. Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). GLES2/GLES3: Add support for OpenGL external textures ( GH-36342 ). GLES2/GLES3: Reset texture flags after radiance map generation ( GH-37815 ).

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Beta Debug Bug Point and Click

A comprehensive guide to in-demand roles in film and games

CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

If they don’t create textures themselves, 3D modelers will work especially closely with texture artists and look development artists (aka surfacing artists) who will add realism and detail to their model through texture maps and shaders. They may also be required to use software that processes scans and photogrammetry.

Film

Film Animation Animation Concepts

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). GLES3: Allow repeat flag in viewport textures ( GH-34008 ). In-depth documentation is available.

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Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2020

Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). GLES2/GLES3: Add support for OpenGL external textures ( GH-36342 ). GLES2/GLES3: Reset texture flags after radiance map generation ( GH-37815 ). HTML5: Switch key detection from keyCode to code ( GH-39298 ). Editor: Add rotation widget to 3D viewport ( GH-33098 ).

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Beta Dev Bug Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 12, 2020

Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). GLES2/GLES3: Add support for OpenGL external textures ( GH-36342 ). GLES2/GLES3: Reset texture flags after radiance map generation ( GH-37815 ). HTML5: Switch key detection from keyCode to code ( GH-39298 ). GDNative: Fix Variant size on 32-bit platforms ( GH-38799 ).

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Beta Bug Debug Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 18, 2020

Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). GLES2/GLES3: Add support for OpenGL external textures ( GH-36342 ). GLES2/GLES3: Reset texture flags after radiance map generation ( GH-37815 ). HTML5: Switch key detection from keyCode to code ( GH-39298 ). Editor: Allow duplicating files when holding Control ( GH-39307 ).

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Beta Debug Bug Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

when running in the editor, or exporting a debug build) will properly handle such situations and, when using the debugger, provide a clear error message so that the user code can be adapted to prevent the issue. Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). GLES2/GLES3: Add support for OpenGL external textures ( GH-36342 ).

Debug

Debug Point and Click Bug Render

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

macOS: ARM64 build, code signing. Fabio Alessandrelli ( Faless ) has done a lot of work to enable running the Godot editor on the Web, using the same export code as for Godot-made games (since the Godot editor is developed 100% with the Godot API). macOS: ARM64 build, code signing. Platforms: Godot editor on the Web!

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

The Lost Ark Has Found its Way

Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Gameplay: A satisfactory and standard production As a title made within the classical Korean MMORPG framework, the core UX is similar to that of other Korean MMORPG, including character design, storyline, career system, raids, etc. However, there are not many innovative areas in the core gameplay and UX. Oily skin texture).

Cutscenes

Cutscenes Art Content Mechanics

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Strategies for Optimizing Multiplayer Games in Unity

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Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Ask a Game Dev - Untitled Article

Godot core budget meeting report #1

GSoC 2019 progress report #1 (part 1)

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

A comprehensive guide to in-demand roles in film and games

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 4

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

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

The Lost Ark Has Found its Way

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