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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

You can now export typed dictionaries from scripts and benefit from a much improved Inspector UX to assign the right keys and values. Note: At time of writing, this does not replace Godot Physics as the default 3D physics engine. This feature has been a work in progress for awhile and was recently finished and merged in ( GH-97647 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Lightmap Baking

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Such use-after-free access needs to be guarded with is_instance_valid(obj) , but this has been surprisingly difficult to get right due to a number of bugs and inconsistencies between debug and release builds. Estébanez ( RandomShaper ) has become an expert on this topic and made a number of improvements included in Godot 3.2.2 and Godot 3.3.

UX

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GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2022

We asked them to write a progress report to present what they're working on and the current status. Here are the 3 projects/students with links to the relevant sections in this post: Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker by Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ). Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker. UX updates. PRs: #62075 , #62910.

Lightmap

Lightmap UX Shaders Debug

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

The Android plugin documentation has been updated with instructions on how to write plugins for this new system. Such pointer could be reported as valid even though the memory it points to was not, or worse, that memory could now hold a different object, leading to hard to debug situations. Porting existing 3.2 feature set.

Debug

Debug Point and Click Bug Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). Core: Add detailed error messages to release builds (used to be debug-only) ( GH-53405 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). Core: Add detailed error messages to release builds (used to be debug-only) ( GH-53405 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Editor: Add custom debug shape thickness and color options to RayCast ( GH-49726 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). Core: Add detailed error messages to release builds (used to be debug-only) ( GH-53405 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). Core: Add detailed error messages to release builds (used to be debug-only) ( GH-53405 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

Raise errors when accessing deleted objects in debug. Raise errors when accessing deleted objects in debug. but going one step too far: in debug builds in 3.2.3, was still far away, so we tasked Joan Fons ( jfons ), as part of the GSoC program, to write a new CPU lightmapper for Godot 3.x. Rendering: Unified 2D batching.

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

GSoC 2019 progress report #1 (part 1)

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 17, 2019

We also have adopted some UX tips from Unreal Engine 4 for the initialisation of a VCS in a new project, however since Unreal Engine uses an external editor for C++ code by default, we found ourselves looking at something similar to what we already have in Visual Studio/Visual Studio Code. How does it look like? What is next.

Visual Scripting

Visual Scripting Clipping Code Scripting

GSoC 2019 progress report #3

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Port connection swapping was also added as a minor UX improvement. Then there are in-graph editable nodes , which provide a simple yet powerful UX improvement to the Visual Script. There were a few things I think I could have done better which would involve a better testing and debugging setup. About the project experience.

Visual Scripting

Visual Scripting Clipping Scripting Point and Click

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

our contributor Yuri Roubinsky did a huge rework of the new visual shader's UX , and eventually assumed full maintainership of the feature. Beyond improving usability and fixing bugs, he implemented many additional useful nodes to write more advanced shaders with greater flexibility. For Godot 3.2,

Feature

Feature Render Shaders Bug

A comprehensive guide to in-demand roles in film and games

CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

They turn the vision of game designers into a functional reality, writing the code that governs how a game behaves. This involves assembling the platforms and engines that the game runs on, as well as writing code for custom software to support the unique requirements of each game.

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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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GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

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

GSoC 2019 progress report #1 (part 1)

GSoC 2019 progress report #3

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

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