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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. (

Beta

Beta Dev Lightmap Baking

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Donations and corporate grants play a vital role in enabling us to develop Godot at this sustained pace, since they are our only source of income, and are used 100% to pay developers to work on the engine. Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Thanks to all of you patrons from the bottom of our hearts!

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

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Logic Simplified

APRIL 4, 2025

Efficient Physics Management: Balance Accuracy & Performance Through the PhysX engine from Unity users achieve detailed physics calculations at the expense of heavy system usage. The use of simple colliders should include box and sphere types instead of complex mesh colliders to minimize processing requirements.

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Games Texture Render Balance

GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2022

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 ). They've all been doing outstanding work so far, and we're looking forward to integrating all those changes in the engine! Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker. UX updates.

Lightmap

Lightmap UX Shaders Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). mbedtls 2.16.11.

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

GridMap: Implement individual mesh transform for MeshLibrary items ( GH-52298 ). Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

But the rest of us engine contributors did not stay idle in the meantime, and a strong focus was put on fixing as many issues as we could to make Godot 3.2 Almost every area of the engine has seen some degree of enhancement, and we encourage users to move their active projects to Godot 3.2 And indeed, shortly after releasing 3.1

Feature

Feature Render Shaders Bug

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

stable branch in January 2020 as a major update to our free and open source game engine. Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). Import: Respect 'mesh compression' editor import option in Assimp and glTF importers ( GH-39134 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine!

Debug

Debug Point and Click Bug Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 12, 2020

Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). Import: Respect 'mesh compression' editor import option in Assimp and glTF importers ( GH-39134 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Editor: Add editor freelook navigation scheme settings ( GH-37989 ). API documentation updates. Godot 3.2.2

Beta

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 ). Import: Respect 'mesh compression' editor import option in Assimp and glTF importers ( GH-39134 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Editor: Improved go-to definition (Ctrl + Click) in script editor ( GH-37293 ). API documentation updates.

Beta

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 ). Import: Respect 'mesh compression' editor import option in Assimp and glTF importers ( GH-39134 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Editor: Improved go-to definition (Ctrl + Click) in script editor ( GH-37293 ). API documentation updates.

Beta

Beta Debug Bug Point and Click

2022 Predictions #2 How to win after Fortnite's and Why Going Cross-Platform is Mandatory for Mid-Core Games

Deconstructor of Fun

JANUARY 31, 2022

MZ’s 4X engine was already behind the curve at the time of the acquisition and sadly they weren’t able to use their know-how to support West Game’s growth. The high production values are not enough to cover the poor UX. This new contestant is a post-apocalyptic hybrid mesh of Puzzle RPG and 4X games.

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Cross platform Platformer Puzzle Mobile

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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

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

2022 Predictions #2 How to win after Fortnite's and Why Going Cross-Platform is Mandatory for Mid-Core Games

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