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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

Breaking changes Animation Audio C# Core Editor GDScript Import Input Physics Platforms Rendering and shaders XR New in Beta 1! Most importantly, if the game crashes for any reason, the editor does not crash at the same time (which could cause data loss). GH-94783 ) Change NavigationMesh to also parse collision shapes by default.

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Beta Dev Lightmap Baking

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. Rendering: Use separate WorkThreadPool for shader compiler ( GH-103506 ). You can also try the Web editor or the Android editor for this release.

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Dev Render Scripting Bug

Improvements to shaders and visual shaders in Godot 4.0

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Hi, I'm Yuri ( Chaosus ), and I made a number of changes this past 18 months to upgrade the shader language in Godot 4.0 There are changes to the editor usability, to the shader language itself, and to visual shaders. Shader creation dialog. A new warning system for shaders within the editor has been implemented.

Shaders

Shaders Point and Click Texture Code

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 ). Rendering: Implement CAMERA_VISIBLE_LAYERS as built-in shader variable ( GH-67387 ). GUI: Use system fonts as fallback ( GH-68995 ). GH-68870 ).

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Beta Dev Render Shaders

Godot's new renderer, progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Our goal is to have a modern, clustered renderer that supports everything mainstream engines support, including PBR, global illumination and flexible shader editing. Refactor the Image class to include modern data types. Write a more flexible, GLES 3 GLSL compatible shader language. support, included the #version 300 es shaders.

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Render Shaders Texture Mesh

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Physics: Improved logic for KinematicBody collision recovery depth ( GH-53451 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ).

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 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). 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 ).

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Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Physics: Improved logic for KinematicBody collision recovery depth ( GH-53451 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ).

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 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Android: Add basic user data backup option ( GH-49070 ). Android: Add support for prompting the user to retain app data on uninstall ( GH-51605 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). 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 ).

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Beta Dev Mesh 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 ). Shaders: Fix specular render_mode for Visual Shaders ( GH-41536 ). or earlier (see GH-42051 ).

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Bug Collision Mesh Render

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 ). iOS: Workaround WebKit/ANGLE shader compilation bug for WebGL 2.0 ( GH-64811 ). iOS: Workaround WebKit/ANGLE shader compilation bug for WebGL 2.0 ( GH-64811 ). Rendering: Fix skeleton 2D stale bounding rect ( GH-63071 ).

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]. iOS: Workaround WebKit/ANGLE shader compilation bug for WebGL 2.0 ( GH-64811 ). Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ).

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Render Baking Bug Collision

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). 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 ). Note that some of the changes in 3.4

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Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). 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 ). Note that some of the changes in 3.4

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

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 ). Shaders: Fix specular render_mode for Visual Shaders ( GH-41536 ). or earlier (see GH-42051 ).

Bug

Bug Build Collision Texture

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]. iOS: Workaround WebKit/ANGLE shader compilation bug for WebGL 2.0 ( GH-64811 ). Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ).

Render

Render Baking Bug Collision

Introducing the Godot glTF 2.0 scene exporter

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 4, 2021

For example, VRM allows cel-shaded characters with custom hair, clothing and collisions. Godot exposes the internal glTF data structure to allow creating extensions as game developers wish. We can break apart the glTF data structure into something that can be combined and interpreted. changelog for glTF. bin + textures).

Animation

Animation Animation Engine Engineering

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 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader compile error with Oren Nayar + Vertex Lighting ( GH-56802 ). macOS: Improve window activation hack ( GH-56700 ).

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 ). iOS: Workaround WebKit/ANGLE shader compilation bug for WebGL 2.0 ( GH-64811 ). Physics: Hack a hot fix for Bullet's collision margin regression ( GH-64875 ). Rendering: Fix skeleton 2D stale bounding rect ( GH-63071 ).

Bug

Bug Render Scripting Localization

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 ). Rendering: Implement CAMERA_VISIBLE_LAYERS as built-in shader variable ( GH-67387 ). GUI: Use system fonts as fallback ( GH-68995 ). GH-68870 ).

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Beta Dev Render Shaders

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 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader compile error with Oren Nayar + Vertex Lighting ( GH-56802 ). iOS: Fix touch handling for overlay views ( GH-57604 ).

Render

Render Texture Scripting Agent

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 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader compile error with Oren Nayar + Vertex Lighting ( GH-56802 ). iOS: Fix touch handling for overlay views ( GH-57604 ).

Render

Render Texture Bug Scripting

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

Visual Shaders overhaul. Visual Shaders overhaul. introduced a new graph-based editor to edit shaders visually, reimplemented from the previous version that was included in Godot 2.1. our contributor Yuri Roubinsky did a huge rework of the new visual shader's UX , and eventually assumed full maintainership of the feature.

Feature

Feature Render Shaders Bug

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Shader language features. Revamped collision layer grid in the inspector. Shader language features. Our shader language maintainer Yuri Roubinsky ( Chaosus ) is busy doing magic on the development branch for Godot 4.0, Large files support (> 2.0 Frame delta smoothing. Improved input handling. ACES Fitted tonemapper.

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

GSoC 2020 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 29, 2020

The game calls that callable at each profiler tick (performance profiler's tick in this case) and sends the returned data to the editor together with the data of predefined monitors. All the relevant information (the name, data type, return type, setter, getter, default value, value of a constant, etc.)

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Code Feature Scripting Point and Click

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

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Improvements to shaders and visual shaders in Godot 4.0

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 8

Godot's new renderer, progress report #1

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.5.1 RC 2

Maintenance release: Godot 3.5.1

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.3

Maintenance release: Godot 3.5.1

Introducing the Godot glTF 2.0 scene exporter

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.3 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.5.1 RC 1

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 8

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.3

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.3 RC 2

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

GSoC 2020 - Progress report #1

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