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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

Breaking changes Animation Audio C# Core Editor GDScript Import Input Physics Platforms Rendering and shaders XR New in Beta 1! Add 2D shader instance uniforms Previously, Godot only supported shader instance uniforms in Spatial shaders. Navigation Navigation contains some of the oldest code in the engine.

Beta

Beta Dev Lightmap Baking

Strategies for Optimizing Multiplayer Games in Unity

Logic Simplified

APRIL 4, 2025

The optimization of shaders combines calculation simplification methods which lowers both shader passes and processing redundancy. Efficient Physics Management: Balance Accuracy & Performance Through the PhysX engine from Unity users achieve detailed physics calculations at the expense of heavy system usage.

Games

Games Texture Render Balance

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. Shader language features. Shader language features. Thanks to all of you patrons from the bottom of our hearts!

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

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 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

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 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

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 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Debug

Ask a Game Dev - Untitled Article

Ask a Game Dev

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Technical Director - Engineering lead. All engineers report to her. Architects the game’s major technical features and framework, then gradually shifts to managing the engineers that join the team and keeping them tasked out and productive. Writes shaders, writes scripts, works with code. Rigger : [ The skeleton master ].

Cinematics

Cinematics Writing Animation Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ). API documentation updates.

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ). API documentation updates.

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ). mbedtls 2.16.11.

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ). mbedtls 2.16.11.

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

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 Visual Shaders overhaul. Compatibility.

Feature

Feature Render Shaders Bug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ). API documentation updates.

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ). API documentation updates.

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ). API documentation updates.

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ). API documentation updates.

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 12, 2020

2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ). Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). Shaders: Add shader time scaling ( GH-38995 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! 2D: Implement skew in Node2D ( GH-38394 ). 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

2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ). Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). Shaders: Add shader time scaling ( GH-38995 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! 2D: Implement skew in Node2D ( GH-38394 ). API documentation updates. Godot 3.2.2

Beta

Beta Debug Bug Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2020

2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ). Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). Shaders: Add shader time scaling ( GH-38995 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! 2D: Implement skew in Node2D ( GH-38394 ). API documentation updates. Godot 3.2.2

Beta

Beta Debug Bug Point and Click

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. 2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ). Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). Shaders: Add shader time scaling ( GH-38995 ). Godot contributors released the Godot 3.2 But Godot 4.0

Debug

Debug Point and Click Bug Render

Godot core budget meeting report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 10, 2020

We discussed with the core developers about hiring GDQuest (who have plenty of experience working with the engine documentation, with Nathan being one of our main docs contributors) to work on this task. Hiring a generalist contributor for editor UX and web dev. we want to move our texture compressors to GPU using compute shaders.

Texture

Texture Engineering Engine UX

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 7, 2020

2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ). Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Here are some highlights: 2D: Expose the cell_size affecting VisibilityNotifier2D precision ( GH-38286 ). CSG: Various bug fixes ( GH-38011 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 22, 2020

2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ). Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Here are some highlights: 2D: Expose the cell_size affecting VisibilityNotifier2D precision ( GH-38286 ). API documentation updates.

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2020

2D: Add MODULATE builtin to canvas item shaders ( GH-38432 ). Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Here are some highlights: 2D: Expose the cell_size affecting VisibilityNotifier2D precision ( GH-38286 ). API documentation updates.

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Debug

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

CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

If they don’t create textures themselves, 3D modelers will work especially closely with texture artists and look development artists (aka surfacing artists) who will add realism and detail to their model through texture maps and shaders. 3D modeling software 3D modelers use a range of software for modeling, sculpting, and texturing.

Film

Film Animation Animation Concepts

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

in January 2020, we switched the development focus towards the upcoming Godot 4.0 , which is a major, compatibility-breaking rewrite of the engine's core and rendering. Additional funding will enable us to hire more core developers to work full-time on the engine, and thus further improve its development pace and stability.

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Strategies for Optimizing Multiplayer Games in Unity

Trending Sources

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Ask a Game Dev - Untitled Article

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

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

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Godot core budget meeting report #1

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 4

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

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

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