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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

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

Beta Dev Collision Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 3D: Switch Mesh surface indexing to start at 0 so string name matches integer index ( GH-70176 ). Editor: Add one-way indicator to tile collision editor ( GH-67283 ). Physics: Fix 2D & 3D Continuous Collision Detection sometimes adjusting velocity too much ( GH-69934 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Shaders

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

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

Beta Dev Collision Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 3D: Switch Mesh surface indexing to start at 0 so string name matches integer index ( GH-70176 ). Editor: Add one-way indicator to tile collision editor ( GH-67283 ). Physics: Fix 2D & 3D Continuous Collision Detection sometimes adjusting velocity too much ( GH-69934 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Shaders

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 8

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

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 ). wslay 1.1.1).

Beta

Beta Dev Collision Bug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Import: Fix usages of mesh simplification functions in float=64 builds ( GH-67853 ). Physics: Bind methods related to disabling collision between joint bodies ( GH-70477 ). Physics: Implement collision impulse in Godot Physics 3D ( GH-70281 ). iOS: Add new model identifiers for DPI metrics ( GH-70022 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Animation

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 3.2.3 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 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). no longer works in 3.2.3

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Build

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

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 ).

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Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

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

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

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

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.3 RC 1

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

Bug Mesh Render Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

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

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

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

Beta Dev Mesh Render

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 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). no longer works in 3.2.3

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 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). 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 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). no longer works in 3.2.3

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Import: Fix usages of mesh simplification functions in float=64 builds ( GH-67853 ). Physics: Bind methods related to disabling collision between joint bodies ( GH-70477 ). Physics: Implement collision impulse in Godot Physics 3D ( GH-70281 ). iOS: Add new model identifiers for DPI metrics ( GH-70022 ).

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Beta Dev Render Animation

Physics progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 19, 2021

Cylinder collision shape. One of the requirements was adding support for cylinder shapes in Godot's custom collision detection system. Technical details: Godot Physics is almost entirely based on the SAT algorithm for collision detection, but cylinders can't entirely rely on that. Heightmap collision shape.

Collision

Collision Simulation Mesh Feature

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

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

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

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

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

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

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

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

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Build

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.3

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 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 ). please file an issue on GitHub.

Render

Render Mesh Bug Collision

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.3 RC 2

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

Bug Render Mesh Build

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

Bug

Bug Build Collision Texture

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 15

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

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 ). Physics: Fix collision solving between world boundary and motion shape ( GH-64936 ).

Alpha

Alpha Dev Shaders Beta

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.1 RC 1

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

Tile Render Bug Collision

Godot Tutorial: The Basics For Beginners

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. Godot is a free and open source game development software that game devs can use to make beautiful 2D and 3D games. . A Crash Course Into The Basics of Godot’s Game Engine.

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Asset Editing Code Scripting

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. scurest - [link].

Animation

Animation Animation Engine Engineering

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

A long-standing Bullet regression has finally been fixed ( GH-56801 ), solving issues with KinematicBody collisions on edges (e.g. The fix seems relatively safe but this will require heavy testing to make sure it doesn't regress - if you have 3D games using Bullet physics, please try this RC 2 and report any issue.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

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. Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Lossless WebP encoding.

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. And for more advanced use cases, there is now also TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add Word Art to your scenes ;). and backported to 3.5. This was merged fairly late (3.5

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.1 RC 2

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

Tile Render Bug Build

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.3

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

GridMap: Fix "Convert to MeshLibrary" not respecting collision transforms ( GH-56907 ). version after its release, which may affect your project: Rendering issues for both GLES2 and GLES3 with 3D meshes using blend shapes and octahedral compression ( GH-58789 ). Known incompatibilities. These issues are fixed in Godot 3.4.4.

Render

Render Texture Scripting Agent

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

Multiple fixes to one-way collisions. Physics: Fix multiple issues with one-way collisions ( GH-42574 ). Physics: Allow CollisionObject to show collision shape meshes ( GH-45783 ). TileMap: Add show_collision property to see collision shapes in editor and at run-time ( GH-46623 ).

Render

Render Collision Build Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 19, 2021

Multiple fixes to one-way collisions. Physics: Fix multiple issues with one-way collisions ( GH-42574 ). Physics: Allow CollisionObject to show collision shape meshes ( GH-45783 ). TileMap: Add show_collision property to see collision shapes in editor and at run-time ( GH-46623 ). or earlier no longer works in 3.3

Render

Render Collision Build Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2021

Multiple fixes to one-way collisions. Physics: Fix multiple issues with one-way collisions ( GH-42574 ). Physics: Allow CollisionObject to show collision shape meshes ( GH-45783 ). TileMap: Add show_collision property to see collision shapes in editor and at run-time ( GH-46623 ). or earlier no longer works in 3.3

Render

Render Collision Build Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 17, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. And for more advanced use cases, there is now also TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add Word Art to your scenes ;). and backported to 3.5. This was merged fairly late (3.5

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. And for more advanced use cases, there is now also TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add Word Art to your scenes ;). and backported to 3.5. This was merged fairly late (3.5

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. And for more advanced use cases, there is now also TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add Word Art to your scenes ;). and backported to 3.5. This was merged fairly late (3.5

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. And for more advanced use cases, there is now also TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add Word Art to your scenes ;). and backported to 3.5. This was merged fairly late (3.5

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.1 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Import: Fix crash when exporting meshes to glTF that have no skin ( GH-55246 ). Physics: Fix test_move reporting collision when touching another body ( GH-54845 ). Import: Fix support for CSG and GridMap in glTF scene export ( GH-54911 ). Input: Add Input.is_physical_key_pressed() method ( GH-55251 ). no longer works in 3.4.1

Tile

Tile Render Bug Build

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Physics progress report #1

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Godot Tutorial: The Basics For Beginners

Introducing the Godot glTF 2.0 scene exporter

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