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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

3D: Add changeable freelook speed in Game Window ( GH-102704 ). 3D: Fix collision reposition with CSGShape3D ( GH-102286 ). Physics: Jolt: Fix ghost collision issue on dense triangle meshes ( GH-102614 ). Porting: Add support for embedding game process in the Android Editor ( GH-102492 ).

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Beta Dev Bug Collision

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 dev 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 20, 2025

Even though we prepare these snapshots such that theyre suitable for general testing, backups and/or version control are recommended to prevent the loss of data. While engine maintainers try their best to ensure that each preview snapshot and release candidate is stable, this is by definition a pre-release piece of software.

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Dev Render Scripting Bug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

However, this was challenging to implement as Godot runs the game as a separate process from the editor for two reasons: The game process uses its own address space and therefore doesnt have to share CPU/GPU resources with the editor (or at least, not as much as if it was the same process). if something that worked fine in previous 4.x

Beta

Beta Dev Lightmap Baking

Why does Godot use Servers and RIDs?

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Before going into optimizing for multiple threads, let's first take a look at the typical order of execution of the main blocks of a game engine. Research on game engine optimization for multiple threads at the time resulted in documentation and papers for a new technique named job scheduling.

Render

Render Collision Engine Engineering

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 8

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Import: Fix swapped color channels in ETC1/ETC2 textures, etcpak expects BGRA data ( GH-69448 ). Physics: Fix collision detection for degenerate capsules ( GH-69657 ). GUI: Use system fonts as fallback ( GH-68995 ). Import: Fix group reimport bug affecting AtlasTexture ( GH-68324 ). Linux: Load X11 dynamically ( GH-69449 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Shaders

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.3 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 20, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Physics: Trigger broadphase update when changing collision layer/mask ( GH-39895 ). Physics: Fix laxist collision detection on one way shapes ( GH-39880 ). Physics: Allow Area2D and 3D mouse events without collision layer ( GH-40193 ). no longer works in 3.2.3

Beta

Beta Dev Collision Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 24, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Physics: Trigger broadphase update when changing collision layer/mask ( GH-39895 ). Physics: Fix laxist collision detection on one way shapes ( GH-39880 ). Physics: Allow Area2D and 3D mouse events without collision layer ( GH-40193 ). no longer works in 3.2.3

Collision

Collision Bug Mesh Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.5.1 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

GUI: Fix color modulation of the grayscale glyphs in font with mixed color / grayscale data ( GH-64745 ). Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). Physics: Hack a hot fix for Bullet's collision margin regression ( GH-64875 ). Rendering: Fix multiple ubershader bugs ( GH-64096 ).

Bug

Bug Render Collision Animation

Maintenance release: Godot 3.5.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

GUI: Fix color modulation of the grayscale glyphs in font with mixed color / grayscale data ( GH-64745 ) [regression fix]. Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). Physics: Hack a hot fix for Bullet's collision margin regression ( GH-64875 ) [regression fix].

Render

Render Baking Bug Collision

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 31, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Physics: Trigger broadphase update when changing collision layer/mask ( GH-39895 ). Physics: Fix laxist collision detection on one way shapes ( GH-39880 ). Core: Fix debugger error when Dictionary key is a freed Object ( GH-39906 ) [regression fix].

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Build

Introducing the Godot glTF 2.0 scene exporter

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 4, 2021

glTF is a growing 3D format and has received massive adoption in the game industry. Commonly selected as the format for new software and game engines, glTF can also have new functionality added using extensions. For example, VRM allows cel-shaded characters with custom hair, clothing and collisions. changelog for glTF.

Animation

Animation Animation Engine Engineering

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Physics: Trigger broadphase update when changing collision layer/mask ( GH-39895 ). Physics: Fix laxist collision detection on one way shapes ( GH-39880 ). Core: Fix debugger error when Dictionary key is a freed Object ( GH-39906 ) [regression fix].

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 21, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Physics: Trigger broadphase update when changing collision layer/mask ( GH-39895 ). Physics: Fix laxist collision detection on one way shapes ( GH-39880 ). Core: Fix leaked ObjectRCs on object Variant reassignment ( GH-39903 ) [regression fix]. no longer works in 3.2.3

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Physics: Trigger broadphase update when changing collision layer/mask ( GH-39895 ). Physics: Fix laxist collision detection on one way shapes ( GH-39880 ). Core: Fix leaked ObjectRCs on object Variant reassignment ( GH-39903 ) [regression fix]. no longer works in 3.2.3

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Render

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). glTF: Fix parsing base64-encoded buffer and image data ( GH-42501 , GH-42504 ). Physics: Fix multiple issues with one-way collisions ( GH-42574 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Collision Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Physics: Trigger broadphase update when changing collision layer/mask ( GH-39895 ). Physics: Fix laxist collision detection on one way shapes ( GH-39880 ). Core: Fix leaked ObjectRCs on object Variant reassignment ( GH-39903 ) [regression fix]. no longer works in 3.2.3

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Render

Unity DOTS for Beginners

Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

If you’re looking for efficiency, performance, and data-oriented programming in your game development platform, Unity’s Data-Oriented Technology Stack (DOTS) may just be what you need. Apart from leveraging its powerful engine, you also get to widen your skillset and enjoy a growing market demand for Unity DOTS professionals.

Technology

Technology Concepts Simulation Game Development

Maintenance release: Godot 3.5.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

GUI: Fix color modulation of the grayscale glyphs in font with mixed color / grayscale data ( GH-64745 ) [regression fix]. Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). Physics: Hack a hot fix for Bullet’s collision margin regression ( GH-64875 ) [regression fix].

Render

Render Baking Bug Collision

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.3

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Physics: Trigger broadphase update when changing collision layer/mask ( GH-39895 ). Physics: Fix laxist collision detection on one way shapes ( GH-39880 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! or earlier (see GH-42051 ).

Bug

Bug Build Collision Texture

Godot Engine reaches 2.0 stable

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

This version worked well but we felt it was still far from the usability and features of a modern game engine. The more urgent issue was to improve the 2D engine so we worked hard again and released Godot 1.1, Changes to sub-nodes would result in data loss. Collision and navigation debugging. Live scene editing.

Engine

Engine Engineering Editing Debug

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.3 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

GridMap: Fix "Convert to MeshLibrary" not respecting collision transforms ( GH-56907 ). iOS: Fix export with manually specified signing/provisioning data ( GH-57203 ). GDScript: Clear pending function states when reloading script ( GH-56296 ). GridMap: Fix editing MeshLibrary's Shapes array from the Inspector ( GH-56891 ).

Render

Render Texture Build Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.5.1 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

GUI: Fix color modulation of the grayscale glyphs in font with mixed color / grayscale data ( GH-64745 ). Physics: Hack a hot fix for Bullet's collision margin regression ( GH-64875 ). GUI: Fix ItemList selection visual when the scrollbar visibility changes ( GH-64711 ). Rendering: Fix skeleton 2D stale bounding rect ( GH-63071 ).

Bug

Bug Render Scripting Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

Multiple fixes to one-way collisions. glTF: Fix parsing base64-encoded buffer and image data ( GH-42501 , GH-42504 ). Physics: Fix multiple issues with one-way collisions ( GH-42574 ). Physics: Allow CollisionObject to show collision shape meshes ( GH-45783 ). VR: Add WebXR support for VR games ( GH-42397 ).

Render

Render Collision Build Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 19, 2021

Multiple fixes to one-way collisions. glTF: Fix parsing base64-encoded buffer and image data ( GH-42501 , GH-42504 ). Physics: Fix multiple issues with one-way collisions ( GH-42574 ). Physics: Allow CollisionObject to show collision shape meshes ( GH-45783 ). VR: Add WebXR support for VR games ( GH-42397 ).

Render

Render Collision Build Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2021

Multiple fixes to one-way collisions. glTF: Fix parsing base64-encoded buffer and image data ( GH-42501 , GH-42504 ). Physics: Fix multiple issues with one-way collisions ( GH-42574 ). Physics: Allow CollisionObject to show collision shape meshes ( GH-45783 ). VR: Add WebXR support for VR games ( GH-42397 ).

Render

Render Collision Build Bug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Physics: Improved logic for KinematicBody collision recovery depth ( GH-53451 ). Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ). Core: Provide a getter for the project data directory ( GH-52714 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Physics: Improved logic for KinematicBody collision recovery depth ( GH-53451 ). Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ). Core: Provide a getter for the project data directory ( GH-52714 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). OS: Expose OS data directory getter methods ( GH-49732 ). Physics: Heightmap collision shape support in Godot Physics 3D ( GH-47349 ). Note that some of the changes in 3.4

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.3

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

GridMap: Fix "Convert to MeshLibrary" not respecting collision transforms ( GH-56907 ). iOS: Fix export with manually specified signing/provisioning data ( GH-57203 ). GDScript: Clear pending function states when reloading script ( GH-56296 ). GridMap: Fix editing MeshLibrary's Shapes array from the Inspector ( GH-56891 ).

Render

Render Texture Scripting Agent

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 28, 2021

Multiple fixes to one-way collisions. glTF: Fix parsing base64-encoded buffer and image data ( GH-42501 , GH-42504 ). Physics: Fix multiple issues with one-way collisions ( GH-42574 ). In either case, be sure to report the problem on GitHub. iOS plugins support , with a similar interface to Android plugins.

Render

Render Bug Build Beta

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Physics: Improved logic for KinematicBody collision recovery depth ( GH-53451 ). Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ). Core: Provide a getter for the project data directory ( GH-52714 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Physics: Improved logic for KinematicBody collision recovery depth ( GH-53451 ). Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ). Core: Provide a getter for the project data directory ( GH-52714 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.3 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

GridMap: Fix "Convert to MeshLibrary" not respecting collision transforms ( GH-56907 ). iOS: Fix export with manually specified signing/provisioning data ( GH-57203 ). GDScript: Clear pending function states when reloading script ( GH-56296 ). GridMap: Fix editing MeshLibrary's Shapes array from the Inspector ( GH-56891 ).

Render

Render Texture Bug Scripting

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). OS: Expose OS data directory getter methods ( GH-49732 ). If you need to preserve the 3.2

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). OS: Expose OS data directory getter methods ( GH-49732 ). Physics: Heightmap collision shape support in Godot Physics 3D ( GH-47349 ). Note that some of the changes in 3.4

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). OS: Expose OS data directory getter methods ( GH-49732 ). If you need to preserve the 3.2

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. glTF: Fix parsing base64-encoded buffer and image data ( GH-42501 , GH-42504 ). Physics: Fix multiple issues with one-way collisions ( GH-42574 ). In either case, be sure to report the problem on GitHub. iOS plugins support , with a similar interface to Android plugins.

Render

Render Build Bug Collision

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 8

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Import: Fix swapped color channels in ETC1/ETC2 textures, etcpak expects BGRA data ( GH-69448 ). Physics: Fix collision detection for degenerate capsules ( GH-69657 ). GUI: Use system fonts as fallback ( GH-68995 ). Import: Fix group reimport bug affecting AtlasTexture ( GH-68324 ). Linux: Load X11 dynamically ( GH-69449 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Shaders

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Multiple fixes to one-way collisions. glTF: Fix parsing base64-encoded buffer and image data ( GH-42501 , GH-42504 ). Physics: Fix multiple issues with one-way collisions ( GH-42574 ). In either case, be sure to report the problem on GitHub. iOS plugins support , with a similar interface to Android plugins.

Render

Render Build Bug Editing

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

If you use and enjoy Godot, plan to use it, or want support the cause of having a mature, high quality free and open source game engine, then please consider becoming our patron. Revamped collision layer grid in the inspector. Thanks to all of you patrons from the bottom of our hearts! Dynamic BVH for Godot Physics 2D.

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

If you use and enjoy Godot, plan to use it, or want support the cause of having a mature, high quality free and open source game engine, then please consider becoming our patron. You will see the amount of uploaded and downloaded data per second, as well as an RPC counter. Many more features.

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Feature Render Shaders Bug

Schedule for GodotCon 2019 in Brussels

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2019

More and more 2D games are being made with Godot. But what 3D tools are available for the most popular open-source game engine? In this talk Paweł will tell you about his experiences while developing a 3D game ( Intrepid ), the features he's used, and the problems he's encountered.

Demo

Demo Cross platform Collision Build

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 4

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 dev 1

Trending Sources

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Why does Godot use Servers and RIDs?

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 8

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.3 beta 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.5.1 RC 2

Maintenance release: Godot 3.5.1

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 3

Introducing the Godot glTF 2.0 scene exporter

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 4

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 5

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 6

Unity DOTS for Beginners

Maintenance release: Godot 3.5.1

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.3

Godot Engine reaches 2.0 stable

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.3 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.5.1 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 4

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 7

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.3

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.3 RC 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 8

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 3

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Schedule for GodotCon 2019 in Brussels

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