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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

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.

Beta

Beta Dev Lightmap Baking

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Styleboxes of the same type can be edited together to save you time adjusting their margins and borders. One of the most common hurdles when using AnimationPlayer is that editing animations will permanently modify the state of your scene. You can have custom previews from the scenes that make sense for your project. Other areas.

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2022

Like in previous years, Godot is participating again in the Google Summer of Code program for its 2022 edition. We asked them to write a progress report to present what they're working on and the current status. Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker. Project: Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker. UX updates.

Lightmap

Lightmap UX Shaders Debug

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. In-graph editable nodes. 3) Symbol cache pool.

Visual Scripting

Visual Scripting Clipping Code Scripting

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

introduced a new graph-based editor to edit shaders visually, reimplemented from the previous version that was included in Godot 2.1. our contributor Yuri Roubinsky did a huge rework of the new visual shader's UX , and eventually assumed full maintainership of the feature. Visual Shaders overhaul. For Godot 3.2,

Feature

Feature Render Shaders Bug

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

Improved Inspector sub-resource editing. 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. Improved Inspector sub-resource editing. Physics: Many fixes to one-way collisions. Fixes to KinematicBody collisions. Editor: Node copy-pasting. OpenXR plugin.

Collision

Collision Baking Lightmap Render

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. In-graph editable nodes. The VisualScript nodes figure out which function they belong to from the connections that they have. Port swapping.

Visual Scripting

Visual Scripting Clipping Scripting Point and Click

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Editor: Fix MeshInstance2D edit rect ( GH-54070 ). Please try it out and report any issue.

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Editor: Fix MeshInstance2D edit rect ( GH-54070 ). Please try it out and report any issue.

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Scene: Fix loading packed scene with editable children at runtime ( GH-49664 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Scene: Fix loading packed scene with editable children at runtime ( GH-49664 ). Scene: Write node groups on a single line when saving a.tscn file ( GH-52284 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Scene: Fix loading packed scene with editable children at runtime ( GH-49664 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

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.

Film

Film Animation Animation Concepts

How Cookie Run Bakes its Monster Revenue

Deconstructor of Fun

APRIL 25, 2022

This post is written by the fantastic Game Bakery substack team of Chase, Zixuan, Haiyin, Caitou, Fish, Amy, Chow, Jing, Wanzi and edited by Caitou, Rob. As the builder of the kingdom, players have the god like power to write the story for their cookies as a part of designing and changing the layout of the the space.

Baking

Baking Simulation Build Animation

The Lost Ark Has Found its Way

Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

This post is written by the fantastic Game Bakery substack team of Chase, Zixuan, Haiyin, Caitou, Fish, Amy, Chow, Jing, Wanzi and edited by Caitou, Rob. However, there are not many innovative areas in the core gameplay and UX. Many South Korean players are writing English guides for new players on Reddit as well as sharing memes.

Cutscenes

Cutscenes Art Content Mechanics

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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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Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

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

GSoC 2019 progress report #3

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

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

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