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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

GH-98163 ) CSGMesh3D now explicitly requires the mesh to be manifold. A manifold mesh must be closed, have each edge connected to only two faces, and have volume. Commonly, this means that it needs to be a watertight mesh without any holes and where you can never see the backside of the triangles. (

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Beta Dev Lightmap Baking

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

3D: Fix collision reposition with CSGShape3D ( GH-102286 ). Physics: Jolt: Fix ghost collision issue on dense triangle meshes ( GH-102614 ). Rendering: Reduce mobile pipeline compilations ( GH-102217 ). This section covers the most relevant changes made since the beta 3 snapshot , which are largely regression fixes.

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Beta Dev Bug Collision

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 dev 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 20, 2025

Chunk tilemap physics The current implementation of TileMapLayer uses individual collision bodies for every single cell, which is extremely wasteful and a likely cause of runtime performance issues for 2D scenes relying on physics. Import: Use UID in addition to path for extracted meshes, materials and animations ( GH-100786 ).

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Dev Render Scripting Bug

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 ). Rendering: Fix mobile and gl_compatibility renderers sky_transform operations ( GH-69636 ). macOS: Add support for Xcode notarytool ( GH-69638 ).

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Beta Dev Render Shaders

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

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

Pushing Unity to the Limit: How to Optimize Performance for AAA-Quality Gameplay

iXie gaming

APRIL 21, 2025

ASTC for mobile, DXT5 for PC), and eliminate over-resolved images. Geometry: Build with LODs from the start, batch static meshes, and constrain polycounts based on hardware targets. URP is tailored for performance-sensitive titles such as mobile or VR, while HDRP enables cinematic fidelity for high-end PC and console games.

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AAA Asset Texture Baking

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 new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. seen as small bumps between tiles on a GridMap).

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Render Shaders Mesh Console

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

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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

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Render Shaders Mesh Console

Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 13, 2019

This seemed like a great idea at the beginning, but ended up giving us many problems, such as: Bad performance on old mobile/desktop hardware which wasn't designed for the more modern rendering techniques being used. Incompatibility with older mobile devices which do not support OpenGL ES 3.0. On mobile, as OpenGL ES 3.0

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Feature Render Editing Shaders

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

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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

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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

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Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 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

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Render Shaders Mesh Console

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Revamped collision layer grid in the inspector. Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Pedro added an option for agile input processing , which can help increase responsiveness for input on lower-end mobile devices, so you can keep games playable even if the framerate isn't at a steady 60 FPS.

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UX Feature Culling Mesh

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 9, 2021

A new software skinning for MeshInstance to replace the slow GPU skinning on devices that don't support the fast GPU skinning (especially mobile). 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 ).

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Render Collision Build Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 19, 2021

A new software skinning for MeshInstance to replace the slow GPU skinning on devices that don't support the fast GPU skinning (especially mobile). 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 ).

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Render Collision Build Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2021

A new software skinning for MeshInstance to replace the slow GPU skinning on devices that don't support the fast GPU skinning (especially mobile). 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 ).

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Render Collision Build Bug

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 ). Rendering: Fix mobile and gl_compatibility renderers sky_transform operations ( GH-69636 ). macOS: Add support for Xcode notarytool ( GH-69638 ).

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Beta Dev Render Shaders

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

For low-end systems or mobile devices, we provide a more classical lightmapping workflow. Still, this workflow is easy and efficient as 3D objects get a second set of UVs generated on import, and baking works with instantiated meshes, scenes and even GridMaps. The 3D asset workflow has also seen great improvements.

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Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

Bastiaan released the Oculus mobile VR plugin, and quickly got help from experienced Oculus Quest users to co-maintain the plugin and improve the overall integration (especially Fredia Huya-Kouadio and Holger Dammertz ). Skin support allows multiple meshes to share a single skeleton. and FBX scenes. Although the FBX and glTF 2.0

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Feature Render Shaders Bug

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Those now come with support for attractors, collision , trails , sub-emitters and manual emission. Several new optimization techniques are also at your disposal, such as occlusion culling , automatic mesh LOD , and manual HLOD using visibility ranges , made possible by Joan Fons ( JFonS ), and Juan. has been added by Je06jm.

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Pushing Unity to the Limit: How to Optimize Performance for AAA-Quality Gameplay

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 2

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Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 4

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Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 4

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