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Release candidate: Godot 4.4.1 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 14, 2025

Editor: Update script modified times when saved in EditorNode ( GH-103695 ). Rendering: Use separate WorkThreadPool for shader compiler ( GH-103506 ). Shaders: Fix 2D instance params crashing using outside of main() ( GH-103348 ). Shaders: Fix 2D instance params crashing using outside of main() ( GH-103348 ).

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Shaders Render Bug Data

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. This includes overriding the in-game camera and selecting objects in game.

Beta

Beta Dev Lightmap Baking

Maintenance release: Godot 4.4.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 26, 2025

Editor: Update script modified times when saved in EditorNode ( GH-103695 ). Rendering: Use separate WorkThreadPool for shader compiler ( GH-103506 ). Shaders: Fix 2D instance params crashing using outside of main() ( GH-103348 ). Shaders: 2D: Fix light shader accessing TEXTURE_PIXEL_SIZE ( GH-103617 ).

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Render Shaders Bug Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 dev 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 20, 2025

GDScript: Highlight warning lines in Script editor ( GH-102469 ). Rendering: Use separate WorkThreadPool for shader compiler ( GH-103506 ). Scripting: Fix script docs not being searchable without manually recompiling scripts ( GH-95821 ). GDExtension: Include precision in extension_api.json ( GH-103137 ).

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Dev Render Scripting Bug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Core: Fix is_valid_float , Variant parser, Expression parser, script highlighter, and TextServer not handing capital E in scientific notation ( GH-102396 ). GUI: Prevent tooltip from showing when hovering past the end of script line ( GH-100913 ). Shaders: Fix source_color default value ( GH-101642 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Baking Render

Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

introduces the ability to bind custom physics engines at runtime (without recompiling Godot) via GDExtension, so it’s perfectly possible for the community to integrate other engines such as PhysX, Jolt, or Box2D if need to be. Is solving these problems enough for Godot to become a top AA / AAA game engine?

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 16

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

Those typically shouldn’t add instability to the engine, but may require doing some changes in your scripts, scenes, and shaders if you were using the affected APIs. Core: Add PROPERTY_USAGE_NEVER_DUPLICATE flag and use for script ( GH-71142 ). Shaders: Add derivative functions with precision to shaders ( GH-72109 ).

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Beta Dev Shaders Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 15

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 25, 2023

Support script global resource name in EditorFileSystem, making Quick Open work with custom resources ( GH-71683 , GH-71687 ). Editor: Support script global resource name in EditorFileSystem ( GH-71683 , GH-71687 ). Shaders: Fix code generation for ProximityRange node in visual shader ( GH-71760 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Shaders

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 8

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Rendering: Implement CAMERA_VISIBLE_LAYERS as built-in shader variable ( GH-67387 ). Visual Shader: Make custom visual shader nodes automatically updates from script ( GH-69738 ). Rendering: Tweak shadow bias defaults for DirectionalLight3D and OmniLight3D ( GH-55757 ). XR: WebXR is now fully working in Godot 4! (

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Beta Dev Render Shaders

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 13

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2023

The list of all global script classes (and their icons) is no longer stored in the project.godot file. Core: Move global script class cache to separate file ( GH-70557 ). Editor: Fix node preview crashes after updating visual shader node ( GH-71385 ). or below ( GH-69851 ). This should improve VCS diffs for your projects.

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Beta Dev Debug Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 14

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 20, 2023

For shaders, we removed the now-redundant SCREEN_TEXTURE , DEPTH_TEXTURE , and NORMAL_ROUGHNESS_TEXTURE ( GH-70967 ). Editor: Clean up EditorFileSystem script parsing ( GH-71628 ). Add next/reset function to AnimationStateMachine ( GH-71264 , GH-71418 ). Add astcenc compression and decompression ( GH-70363 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Animation Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Be sure to report anything that stops working as expected in your scripts. Editor: Fix error when dropping script into script editor ( GH-70580 ). Editor: Fix resource picker regression for scripted resources ( GH-70277 ). GUI: Expose Tree::deselect_all to scripting ( GH-71056 ). get_root() ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 13

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

Some noteworthy changes in this release: Shader preprocessor support and shader includes. Grouping annotations for shaders ( uniform_group ). Editor: Fix wrongly hidden script variables in Inspector ( GH-58443 ). Editor: Don't switch to 2D/3D viewports when selecting nodes while in Script Editor ( GH-63344 ).

Alpha

Alpha Dev Shaders Beta

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Editor: Fix reload scripts error after saving in external editor ( GH-68203 ). Rendering: Enable mipmaps in cubemap roughness shader ( GH-68511 ). Rendering: Properly set TIME shader uniform when rendering shadows ( GH-68574 ). Editor: Load and use system emoji font in the editor ( GH-68090 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Bug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

A couple fixes to the text resource loader which could impact notably reloading scripts ( GH-71170 ). Visual Shader: Add few improvements for VisualShaderNodeParticleRandomness ( GH-71123 ). Fix Tab key usage in the inspector ( GH-71271 ). Add expand modes to TextureRect ( GH-58517 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Collision

Godot 4.0 will discontinue VisualScript

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 22, 2022

Godot's visual scripting language, VisualScript, was introduced in Godot 3.0, we decided to accept that the approach we took from the start was simply not the right one and decided to remove it from the engine. To be clear, this refers to the VisualScript scripting language, and not to visual shaders. x branch).

Visual Scripting

Visual Scripting Scripting Engineering Engine

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 8, 2022

Editor: Fix showing Extend Script option without script attached to the node ( GH-58821 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader state caching when blend shapes used ( GH-58808 ) [regression fix]. " ( GH-58862 ) [regression fix].

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Shaders Render Bug Scripting

How to get started with Unity Game Development – Tips & Tricks from iXie Experts

iXie gaming

AUGUST 17, 2023

Video games have become a prominent form of entertainment, deeply ingrained in pop culture, and have shed the previous stigma of being a time-wasting activity. Nowadays, gaming surpasses mainstream movies in terms of audience engagement, and popular game titles consistently generate substantial revenue.

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Godot Showcase - Human Diaspora developer interview

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 11, 2021

Do you have prior experience with other game engines? I began making games with Game Maker 8, then switched to Unity to create my first 3D game and kept using it until I tried Godot. Now I use Godot as my only Game Engine tool. I am staring at you shader compilation and parenting errors.

Development

Development Game Engine Engineering Engine

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Be sure to report anything that stops working as expected in your scripts. Editor: Fix error when dropping script into script editor ( GH-70580 ). Editor: Fix resource picker regression for scripted resources ( GH-70277 ). GUI: Expose Tree::deselect_all to scripting ( GH-71056 ). get_root() ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 16, 2022

Editor: Fix showing Extend Script option without script attached to the node ( GH-58821 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader state caching when blend shapes used ( GH-58808 ) [regression fix]. " ( GH-58862 ) [regression fix].

Render

Render Shaders Bug Build

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.4

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 1, 2021

C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). " error in remote script debugger ( GH-52416 ). LSP: Fix completion crashing on scene-less scripts ( GH-51333 ). Rendering: Prevent shaders from generating code before the constructor finishes ( GH-52475 ). Here are the main changes since 3.3.3-stable:

Scripting

Scripting Bug Texture Shaders

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.4

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 23, 2022

Editor: Fix showing Extend Script option without script attached to the node ( GH-58821 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix shader state caching when blend shapes used ( GH-58808 ) [regression fix]. " ( GH-58862 ) [regression fix].

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Render Alpha Shaders Editing

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2022

and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. You can create a batch script or shortcut to automatically start Godot from a console as in previous releases. Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). " error in remote script debugger ( GH-52416 ). LSP: Fix completion crashing on scene-less scripts ( GH-51333 ). Rendering: Prevent shaders from generating code before the constructor finishes ( GH-52475 ). Here are some of the main changes since 3.3.3-stable:

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Bug Scripting Texture Build

Get ready for the GitHub Game Off with Godot

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 30, 2017

The main feature of Game Off is its focus on free and open source tools for game development, and this is obviously something that we consider highly in the Godot Engine community, as a fully libre 2D and 3D game engine. or any of the hundreds of libre tools listed on awesome-gamedev. Getting started with Godot.

Concepts

Concepts Demo Engineering Engine

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2021

Batching: Fix light pass modulate , a potential crash, polygon rotation from vertex shader, and 2D skinning with unrigged polygons ( GH-48151 , GH-48125 , GH-48457 , GH-48647 )). Core: Expose Shape.get_debug_mesh() to the scripting API ( GH-48316 ). Core: Fix ZIP files being opened with two file descriptors ( GH-42337 ).

Polygon

Polygon Render Scripting Bug

What Makes Unity So Popular for Game Development

iXie gaming

JULY 23, 2023

This enhances Unity’s reputation as a fantastic game engine. Support for Several Different Platforms Unity was first made available for Mac OS X, but it currently supports over 25 other platforms, which increases the number of people who can play video games.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 14

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 11, 2022

Add often used built-ins to spatial shaders ( NODE_POSITION_WORLD , CAMERA_POSITION_WORLD , CAMERA_DIRECTION_WORLD , NODE_POSITION_VIEW ) ( GH-63597 ). Editor: Keep property values when extending script ( GH-43081 ). Same deal as usual, lots of bugs fixed and more refactoring and feature work.

Alpha

Alpha Dev Shaders Beta

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

A couple fixes to the text resource loader which could impact notably reloading scripts ( GH-71170 ). Visual Shader: Add few improvements for VisualShaderNodeParticleRandomness ( GH-71123 ). Fix Tab key usage in the inspector ( GH-71271 ). Add expand modes to TextureRect ( GH-58517 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Collision

Top Tools and Software for Creating Visual FX in Games

iXie gaming

JUNE 28, 2024

Particle Systems Within Game Engines Unity’s Shuriken and Unreal Engine’s Cascade/Niagara particle systems are powerful tools for creating 2D effects in your games. These tools work smoothly with your game engine, making it easy to use and improve your effects.

Software

Software Simulation Sprite Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.1 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 10, 2021

Batching: Fix light pass modulate , a potential crash, and polygon rotation from vertex shader ( GH-48151 , GH-48125 , GH-48457 )). Core: Expose Shape.get_debug_mesh() to the scripting API ( GH-48316 ). LSP: Update the filesystem for changed scripts, fixes issues with new named classes ( GH-47891 ). no longer works in 3.3.1

Bug

Bug Build Polygon Render

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

which would have included new multiplayer networking, visual scripting and many other improvements) because we realized that projects using the new features would no longer work in 3.0, Materials and shaders. Visual Scripting. New audio engine. Materials and shaders. writing shaders is very easy! VR support.

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

Godot reaches 2.1 stable!

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 9, 2016

The idea is that users can post assets, scripts, addons, etc. Live script reloading. Tired of having to reload your game for each small little code change or fix? Godot now supports live script reloading! Simply save your script and it will be updated in the running game. Profiler & frame profiler.

Asset

Asset Scripting Feature Engineering

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). Editor: Allow dropping property path into script editor ( GH-51629 ). Audio: Add Listener2D node ( GH-53429 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 15

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

Core: Make property_*_revert methods multilevel and expose them for scripting ( GH-64334 ). Editor: Improvements to shader editor ( GH-63582 ). Shaders: Quality of life Visual Shaders updates ( GH-63999 ). Shaders: Implement custom non-trivial Visual Shader nodes ( GH-64248 ). GH-64009 ). ( GH-64082 ).

Alpha

Alpha Dev Shaders Beta

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 2022

and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. Shaders: Many improvements backported from master ( GH-56794 ). The main changes coming in Godot 3.5 Estébanez ( RandomShaper )!

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Core: Expose minizip API to allow creating zips using scripts ( GH-65281 ). Editor: Reorganize script editor menu ( GH-64277 ). Editor: Add script editor shortcut to add selection and caret for next occurrence of current selection ( GH-67644 ). Core: Make some Image methods static ( GH-63332 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Alpha

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.1 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 15, 2021

Batching: Fix light pass modulate , a potential crash, polygon rotation from vertex shader, and 2D skinning with unrigged polygons ( GH-48151 , GH-48125 , GH-48457 , GH-48647 )). Core: Expose Shape.get_debug_mesh() to the scripting API ( GH-48316 ). Core: Fix ZIP files being opened with two file descriptors ( GH-42337 ).

Polygon

Polygon Bug Render Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). Editor: Allow dropping property path into script editor ( GH-51629 ). Audio: Add Listener2D node ( GH-53429 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

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: Allow dropping property path into script editor ( GH-51629 ). Editor: Auto-reload scripts with external editor ( GH-51828 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

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: Allow dropping property path into script editor ( GH-51629 ). Editor: Auto-reload scripts with external editor ( GH-51828 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ). Thirdparty library updates: embree 3.13.0,

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

[Share] 2D Post-Processing & Lighting Framework

Cocos

DECEMBER 25, 2023

You just need the following resources and code: A post-processing shader A material with the shader bound to it A post-processing extension TypeScript file for passing parameters to the material Let’s use an example of creating a screen grayscale effect: 1. I’ve traversed various game engines, and currently, my primary choice is Cocos.

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Render Texture Shaders Pixel

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Script editor: Don't open dominant script in external editor ( GH-40735 ). Shaders: Fix specular render_mode for Visual Shaders ( GH-41536 ). RichTextLabel: Fix RichTextLabel fill alignment regression ( GH-40081 ) [regression fix]. RichTextLabel: Fix center alignment bug ( GH-40892 ). no longer works in 3.2.3

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Bug Collision Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 4.4.1 RC 1

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

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Maintenance release: Godot 4.4.1

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 dev 1

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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 16

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Godot 4.0 will discontinue VisualScript

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.4 RC 1

How to get started with Unity Game Development – Tips & Tricks from iXie Experts

Godot Showcase - Human Diaspora developer interview

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.4 RC 2

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.4

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.4

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.4 RC 1

Get ready for the GitHub Game Off with Godot

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.1

What Makes Unity So Popular for Game Development

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 14

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Top Tools and Software for Creating Visual FX in Games

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.1 RC 1

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Godot reaches 2.1 stable!

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 15

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Release candidate: Godot 3.3.1 RC 2

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[Share] 2D Post-Processing & Lighting Framework

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 6

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