Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: String and StringName are now mostly cross-compatible throughout the engine API, as well as in various GDScript-specific expressions and statements ( GH-68747 ). Core: Add feature tags to signify engine float precision ( GH-69538 ).

Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). Physics fixes and improvements for sphere-capsule, sphere-box, sphere-cylinder, and capsule-cylinder collisions ( GH-70660 , GH-70787 ). Physics: Fix sphere-capsule collision logic ( GH-70660 ). Fix Tab key usage in the inspector ( GH-71271 ).

Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: String and StringName are now mostly cross-compatible throughout the engine API, as well as in various GDScript-specific expressions and statements ( GH-68747 ). Core: Add feature tags to signify engine float precision ( GH-69538 ).

Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Over the course of the last four months the engine has seen many changes, making it more stable and feature complete, and it's getting very close to the state that we would be happy with. More engine enums are now bound with BitField, making their usage more type-safe, especially in C# ( GH-71037 , GH-71045 , GH-71116 ). beta releases.

Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). Physics fixes and improvements for sphere-capsule, sphere-box, sphere-cylinder, and capsule-cylinder collisions ( GH-70660 , GH-70787 ). Physics: Fix sphere-capsule collision logic ( GH-70660 ). Fix Tab key usage in the inspector ( GH-71271 ).

Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Runtime navigation mesh baking. Collision avoidance support. The Map represents the entire world, it's similar to the space for the physics engine, but this one is used for the navigation. The agent is also responsible for avoiding collisions. The NavigationObstacle is really simple, and it's used for collision avoidance.

Agent

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 ). wslay 1.1.1).

Beta

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 ). API documentation updates.

Collision

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Physics: Fix collision detection for degenerate capsules ( GH-69657 ). Rendering: Fix AABB errors on meshes with bones on multiple surfaces ( GH-65035 ). Linux: Split fullscreen mode into WINDOW_MODE_EXCLUSIVE_FULLSCREEN and WINDOW_MODE_FULLSCREEN to improve multi-window handling ( GH-69707 ).

Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Over the course of the last four months the engine has seen many changes, making it more stable and feature complete, and it’s getting very close to the state that we would be happy with. More engine enums are now bound with BitField, making their usage more type-safe, especially in C# ( GH-71037 , GH-71045 , GH-71116 ). beta releases.

Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 19, 2021

Hopefully, in the near future, it will be solid enough to run periodically to spot engine regressions in an automatic way. As announced before , Godot Physics will become the default physics engine for Godot 4.0. Cylinder collision shape. Heightmap collision shape. We're almost there! Bug fixing. Godot Physics features.

Collision

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 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). stb_vorbis 1.20, wslay 1.1.1).

Bug

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Mesh: Fix UV mapping on CSGSphere ( GH-49195 ).

Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ).

Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Physics: Improved logic for KinematicBody collision recovery depth ( GH-53451 ).

Beta

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 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). stb_vorbis 1.20, wslay 1.1.1).

Bug

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 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). stb_vorbis 1.20, wslay 1.1.1).

Bug

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 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). stb_vorbis 1.20, wslay 1.1.1).

Bug

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ).

Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Physics: Improved logic for KinematicBody collision recovery depth ( GH-53451 ).

Mesh

Nvidia

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

A longtime GameWorks technology, PhysX has become the primary physics engine and a key foundational technology pillar of NVIDIA Omniverse. It is a powerful simulation engine currently used by industry leaders for robotics, deep reinforcement learning, autonomous driving, factory automation, and visual effects.

Simulation

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 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). or earlier (see GH-42051 ).

Bug

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Physics: Improved logic for KinematicBody collision recovery depth ( GH-53451 ).

Mesh

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Physics: Improved logic for KinematicBody collision recovery depth ( GH-53451 ).

Mesh

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 4, 2021

Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision ( GH-49075 ). Import: glTF: Fix mesh nodes which are also bones ( GH-49119 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Editor: Fix handling of HiDPI scaling for the curve editor's handles ( GH-50627 ). no longer works in 3.3.3

Bug

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

There were fixes all around the engine to address regressions, backport new fixes from the master branch, as well as a wide array of usability enhancements and documentation improvements. GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Physics: Trigger broadphase update when changing collision layer/mask ( GH-39895 ).

Bug

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. 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

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Import: Fix crash when exporting meshes to glTF that have no skin ( GH-55246 ). macOS: Enable multithreaded OpenGL engine flag when using multithreaded VisualServer ( GH-54526 ). Physics: Fix test_move reporting collision when touching another body ( GH-54845 ). Input: Add Input.is_physical_key_pressed() method ( GH-55251 ).

Tile

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 16, 2021

Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision ( GH-49075 ). Import: glTF: Fix mesh nodes which are also bones ( GH-49119 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Editor: Fix handling of HiDPI scaling for the curve editor's handles ( GH-50627 ). no longer works in 3.3.3

Bug

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 4, 2021

Commonly selected as the format for new software and game engines, glTF can also have new functionality added using extensions. glTF in Godot Engine allows for a combination of in-engine and out-of-engine tooling to work together seamlessly. Godot Engine team - [link]. For Godot 4.0, Who helped along the way?

Animation

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Donations and corporate grants play a vital role in enabling us to develop Godot at this sustained pace, since they are our only source of income, and are used 100% to pay developers to work on the engine. Revamped collision layer grid in the inspector. Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

UX

iXie gaming

APRIL 21, 2025

But achieving that level of output requires more than clever engineering. Geometry: Build with LODs from the start, batch static meshes, and constrain polycounts based on hardware targets. Filter collisions with layers, and calibrate FixedUpdate() intervals to suit gameplay needs. Perhaps most overlooked: the import pipeline.

AAA

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

beta just yet as we expect the engine to be unstable until we have more testing done. Throughout the last two years the core of the engine has seen a lot of improvements and refactoring to bring it to the next level in terms of maintainability, reliability, and performance. We don’t recommend migrating large projects to the Godot 4.0

Beta

SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 12, 2020

In this introductory tutorial series, we’ll teach beginners how to use the basic controls within Gogot’s game engine. A Crash Course Into The Basics of Godot’s Game Engine. Nodes are at the heart of Godot’s game engine. SOVEREIGN MOON PRESENTS… Godot Tutorial: The Basics For Absolute Beginners.

Asset

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. Write a more efficient Mesh format, which allows faster loading/saving. Implement Particle Shaders, with support for: Sorting, Collision and Soft Particles.

Render

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Import: Fix crash when exporting meshes to glTF that have no skin ( GH-55246 ). macOS: Enable multithreaded OpenGL engine flag when using multithreaded VisualServer ( GH-54526 ). Physics: Fix test_move reporting collision when touching another body ( GH-54845 ). Input: Add Input.is_physical_key_pressed() method ( GH-55251 ).

Tile