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Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

If you use and enjoy Godot, plan to use it, or want support the cause of having a mature, high quality free and open source game engine, then please consider becoming our patron. Thanks to all of you patrons from the bottom of our hearts! As a community effort, Godot relies on individual contributors to improve.

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

This feature being implemented at the core of the engine means that all scripting languages (GDScript, C#, C++) can take advantage by interfacing with Godots Dictionary type. You can now export typed dictionaries from scripts and benefit from a much improved Inspector UX to assign the right keys and values.

Beta

Beta Dev Lightmap Baking

Godot core budget meeting report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 10, 2020

There is a high demand from Godot users in countries and cultures where right-to-left writing systems are used to have proper support for it in Godot (such as Arabic, Hebrew, etc.). Hiring a generalist contributor for editor UX and web dev. The idea of these reports is to add more transparency in how we decide to use our funding.

Texture

Texture Engine Engineering UX

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

If you use and enjoy Godot, plan to use it, or want support the cause of having a mature, high quality free and open source game engine, then please consider becoming our patron. our contributor Yuri Roubinsky did a huge rework of the new visual shader's UX , and eventually assumed full maintainership of the feature.

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. The Android plugin documentation has been updated with instructions on how to write plugins for this new system. Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). Godot contributors released the Godot 3.2 But Godot 4.0

Debug

Debug Point and Click Bug Render

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: Write node groups on a single line when saving a.tscn file ( GH-52284 ).

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: Write node groups on a single line when saving a.tscn file ( GH-52284 ). Editor: Improve 2D editor zoom logic ( GH-50490 , GH-50499 ). if something that worked fine in 3.3.3

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: Write node groups on a single line when saving a.tscn file ( GH-52284 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

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 ). Scene: Write node groups on a single line when saving a.tscn file ( GH-52284 ).

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 ). Scene: Write node groups on a single line when saving a.tscn file ( GH-52284 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

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

CG Spectrum

JUNE 10, 2024

Software used by professional game designers: Unreal Engine/Unity Blueprint/C# Microsoft or Google Office software for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations Art software (e.g., They turn the vision of game designers into a functional reality, writing the code that governs how a game behaves.

Film

Film Animation Animation Concepts

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

If you use and enjoy Godot, plan to use it, or want support the cause of having a mature, high quality free and open source game engine, then please consider becoming our patron. 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.

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking 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. It was an incredible learning experience with GSoC and Godot Engine! Pull Requests: godot#31937. godot-vscode-plugin#112. What's the project?

Visual Scripting

Visual Scripting Clipping Scripting Point and Click

How to Scale A Games Company | Travis Boatman, Gigi Levy-Weiss, & Kristian Segerstrale

Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

And basically, it's a storytelling game where you basically write a story with the A.I. But at the other extreme, we you know, we invest in companies that are very, very data driven, iterative, where you could almost claim that there's almost no game innovation other than what Kristian said before. You need the UX to work.

Games

Games Point and Click Engine Engineering