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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Game window embedding was implemented to support our recent interactive in-game editing feature. You can now export typed dictionaries from scripts and benefit from a much improved Inspector UX to assign the right keys and values. Godot should now feel much faster when editing large scenes with hundreds or thousands of nodes.

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Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). now defaults to using it for lossless texture compression instead of PNGs, thanks to work from Morris Arroad ( mortarroad ). import folder to force a reimport of all lossless compressed textures using WebP. Search "rendering" in the changelog.

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Game art vs game design: What is the difference?

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Video game artists specialize in a wide range of digital art forms, such as 2D modeling, animation, concept art and texturing. Character artist The character artist shapes the characters through the creation of visual elements like facial expressions, weapons, and clothing through the use of sculpture, rigging and editing.

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Tiles editor progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

My goal here is to improve the UX of working with tiles, making it both easier to use and more powerful. When a TileMap node is selected, you can now switch between the TileMap view, to pick tiles and draw them on the TileMap, and the TileSet editor, to edit the tile properties (colisions, Z-index, etc.):

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Tiles editor progress report #5

Mircosoft Game Dev

Tile atlas editing. The first mode allows editing the atlas properties and creating/removing base tiles, the second one allows selecting and editing tiles properties, and the last one is to paint properties over the tiles. Note that, when editing a TileMap, you can replace all cells by their corresponding mapped value.

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GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Like in previous years, Godot is participating again in the Google Summer of Code program for its 2022 edition. 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.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

Our script editor maintainer, Paul Batty ( Paulb23 ), implemented initial support for multi-caret editing in TextEdit, which is therefore usable in the GDScript and shader editors, as well as any other multi-line text field in the editor. See this demonstration made by MewPurPur : Improved ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ).

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