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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

GH-94783 ) Change NavigationMesh to also parse collision shapes by default. This is part of an effort to encourage users to use collision shapes for NavigationMesh instead of visual meshes as collision shapes are much simpler and thus more efficient for Navigation. ( GH-95013 ) XR: Disable hand tracking by default. Import 4.4

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Beta Dev Lightmap Baking

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 ). Example original mesh (40K vertices): Simplified convex hull of that mesh (56 vertices): Revamped collision layer grid in the inspector. HTML5: PWA, Godot/JavaScript interface, AudioWorklet.

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

Tiles editor progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 1, 2020

My goal here is to improve the UX of working with tiles, making it both easier to use and more powerful. To simplify things with the TileSet setup (removing the need to specify manually the atlases, autotiles or single tiles in a texture), you now have to organize your textures into fixed-size grids.

Tile

Tile Texture UX Editing

Tiles editor progress report #5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In this third mode, I implemented a dedicated editor for tile shapes (collision shapes, occluders, naviagation shapes). This allows setting up tile collisions in a very fast way: Since my previous implementation of panning was not working great in the atlas editor, I reworked it a little bit. x isometric tiles demo to 4.0:

Tile

Tile Collision Editing Alpha

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ).

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Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ).

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Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Physics: Improved logic for KinematicBody collision recovery depth ( GH-53451 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ).

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Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

See this demonstration made by MewPurPur : Improved ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ). The second part of her work has just been merged, and should significantly improve the ColorPicker’s UX. GUI: Improve ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ). Import: Respect texture filtering when importing glTF ( GH-59481 ).

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Beta Dev Render Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

See this demonstration made by MewPurPur : Improved ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ). The second part of her work has just been merged, and should significantly improve the ColorPicker's UX. GUI: Improve ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ). Import: Respect texture filtering when importing glTF ( GH-59481 ).

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Beta Dev Render Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ).

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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 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ).

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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 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ).

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 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Animation: Fix rendering centered odd-size texture for AnimatedSprite/AnimatedSprite3D ( GH-53052 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

Physics: Many fixes to one-way collisions. Fixes to KinematicBody collisions. Cylinder collision shape for GodotPhysics. Many fixes to one-way collisions. One-way collisions prior to Godot 3.3 Fixes to KinematicBody collisions. Cylinder collision shape for GodotPhysics. Rendering: Unified 2D batching.

Collision

Collision Baking Lightmap Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 12, 2020

Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). GLES2/GLES3: Add support for OpenGL external textures ( GH-36342 ). GLES2/GLES3: Reset texture flags after radiance map generation ( GH-37815 ). Physics: Test collision mask before creating constraint pair in Godot physics broadphase 2D and 3D ( GH-39399 ).

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Beta Bug Debug Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 18, 2020

Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). GLES2/GLES3: Add support for OpenGL external textures ( GH-36342 ). GLES2/GLES3: Reset texture flags after radiance map generation ( GH-37815 ). Physics: Test collision mask before creating constraint pair in Godot physics broadphase 2D and 3D ( GH-39399 ).

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Beta Debug Bug Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2020

Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). GLES2/GLES3: Add support for OpenGL external textures ( GH-36342 ). GLES2/GLES3: Reset texture flags after radiance map generation ( GH-37815 ). Physics: Test collision mask before creating constraint pair in Godot physics broadphase 2D and 3D ( GH-39399 ).

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Beta Debug Bug Point and Click

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

2D: Pseudo 3D, Texture atlas, AStar2D. our contributor Yuri Roubinsky did a huge rework of the new visual shader's UX , and eventually assumed full maintainership of the feature. 2D: Pseudo 3D, Texture atlas, AStar2D. Support for texture atlases also comes back to Godot with 3.2, Graphics/Rendering improvements.

Feature

Feature Render Shaders Bug

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). GLES2/GLES3: Add support for OpenGL external textures ( GH-36342 ). GLES2/GLES3: Reset texture flags after radiance map generation ( GH-37815 ). Physics: Test collision mask before creating constraint pair in Godot physics broadphase 2D and 3D ( GH-39399 ).

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Debug Point and Click Bug Render

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

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Tiles editor progress report #1

Tiles editor progress report #5

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

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