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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 15

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

We're working towards finalizing the feature set for 4.0 beta, reviewing many PRs which have been opened prior to our roadmap feature freeze announced a month ago. While this process is ongoing, we'll keep releasing alpha builds so here's 4.0 Same deal as usual, lots of bugs fixed and more refactoring and feature work.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Over the course of the last four months the engine has seen many changes, making it more stable and feature complete, and it's getting very close to the state that we would be happy with. The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Split pause() from AnimationPlayer's stop() ( GH-71218 ). Export: Fix missing "debug"/"release" export presets feature tags ( GH-71274 ). Bug reports.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

But the "1" in beta 1 means that it's only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we're going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Android: Use proper types for converting Java float/double arrays ( GH-67581 ). Bug reports.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Over the course of the last four months the engine has seen many changes, making it more stable and feature complete, and it’s getting very close to the state that we would be happy with. The illustration picture for this article is from The Mirror , an upcoming all-in-one game and game development platform currently in Closed Alpha.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Animation: Split pause() from AnimationPlayer’s stop() ( GH-71218 ). Export: Fix missing “debug”/”release” export presets feature tags ( GH-71274 ). Bug reports.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

But the “1” in beta 1 means that it’s only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we’re going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Android: Use proper types for converting Java float/double arrays ( GH-67581 ). Bug reports.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.3 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 20, 2020

was released on June 26 with over 3 months' worth of development, including many bugfixes and a handful of features. would focus mainly on fixing those new bugs to ensure that all Godot users can have the most stable experience possible. GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Bug reports. beta 1).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 16, 2022

Core: Revert "Fix ProjectSettings has_setting() when used on a overriden setting with feature tags" ( GH-58859 ). Rendering: GLES3: Fix broken normals in meshes with blend shapes ( GH-59159 ) [regression fix]. Rendering: Fix alpha scissor support with depth_draw_opaque ( GH-58959 ). Bug reports.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.1 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 26, 2019

We've been hard at work fixing bugs since the Godot 3.1 There were over 600 bugs listed for the 3.1 x maintenance releases , which include only thoroughly reviewed and backwards-compatible bug fixes, the 3.1 version includes all the new features (and subsequent bugs!) The features. Bug reports.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 24, 2020

was released on June 26 with over 3 months' worth of development, including many bugfixes and a handful of features. would focus mainly on fixing those new bugs to ensure that all Godot users can have the most stable experience possible. GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Bug reports.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2022

was released 2 months ago , and some of the major planned features for Godot 3.5 Some more features are still being worked on and will be included in future beta builds. Some more features are still being worked on and will be included in future beta builds. Bug reports. Jump to the Downloads section. Highlights.

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Godot 3.0 progress report #6

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 8, 2017

Let me tell you that this amazing new feature by karroffel and Bojidar Marinov ( bojidar-bg ) is the real deal. The new particle system uses meshes by default (to work with impostor quads, just create a QuadMesh and assign a material with billboard set to enabled). (again, remember, latest versions of Chrome or Firefox only!).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 31, 2020

was released on June 26 with over 3 months' worth of development, including many bugfixes and a handful of features. would focus mainly on fixing those new bugs to ensure that all Godot users can have the most stable experience possible. GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Bug reports.

Collision Bug Mesh Render

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Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

was released on June 26 with over 3 months' worth of development, including many bugfixes and a handful of features. would focus mainly on fixing those new bugs to ensure that all Godot users can have the most stable experience possible. GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Bug reports.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 21, 2020

was released on June 26 with over 3 months' worth of development, including many bugfixes and a handful of features. would focus mainly on fixing those new bugs to ensure that all Godot users can have the most stable experience possible. GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Bug reports.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2020

was released on June 26 with over 3 months' worth of development, including many bugfixes and a handful of features. would focus mainly on fixing those new bugs to ensure that all Godot users can have the most stable experience possible. GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Bug reports.

Collision Bug Mesh Build

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Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

was released on June 26 with over 3 months' worth of development, including many bugfixes and a handful of features. would focus mainly on fixing those new bugs to ensure that all Godot users can have the most stable experience possible. GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Bug reports.

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GitHub Game Off and Godot are a winning combination

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 29, 2018

For new users, we recommend the "classical" build (as opposed to the "Mono" build with C# support, currently in alpha) and the GDScript language, which you should be able to learn very fast. currently at the alpha stage. alpha 2 build should be published in coming days. currently at the alpha stage.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

alpha builds , we're trying to release 3.5 beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. This beta 4 is a small update with just 83 commits excluding merges, focusing on fixing bugs to stabilize the current feature set for 3.5

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2022

alpha builds , we're trying to release 3.5 beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. We're getting closer to the Godot 3.5

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2022

alpha builds , we're trying to release 3.5 beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Bug reports. Like with 4.0

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 2022

alpha builds and maintenance releases for the stable branch ( 3.4.3 , 3.4.4 This new system uses an "ubershader" (big shader supporting all features, slow but compiled on startup) to fill in for all shaders initially while the more efficient and material-specific shaders get compiled asynchronously, and cached for future runs.

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.3

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). GLES3: Force depth prepass when using alpha prepass ( GH-39865 ). RichTextLabel: Fix center alignment bug ( GH-40892 ). Sprite3D: Use mesh instead of immediate for drawing Sprite3D ( GH-39867 ). If you notice any mapping issue, please file a bug report.

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Physics progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 19, 2021

We needed a test framework because physics features have many different use cases, and it's easy to break something while fixing or improving something else. Bug fixing. Godot Physics features. The transition requires adding missing features that were supported only with Bullet. Test framework. We're almost there!

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.3

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In parallel to our work on the upcoming feature releases Godot 3.5 ( with a first beta ) and 4.0 ( now at alpha 3! ), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 Core: Fix ProjectSettings.has_setting() to handle feature overrides like get_setting() ( GH-57972 ). branch for use in production. Known incompatibilities.

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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. GDquest's 30 Tutorials in 30 Days series offers short and well-edited tutorials that will introduce you to a given feature.

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.0.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

We have added many new features to the editor (and several to GDScript) in this release which we think will make your use of Godot even better. It is now possible to scale an.obj mesh when importing. A button has been added to the debugger to copy the error messages, useful for pasting them in bug reports or other community platforms.

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GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #6

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2018

fixed a GDNative binary compatibility bug. Heyyy, this pretty much looks like the sky projected onto the meshes, that's better! At that point of development, the sky reflection didn't respond to the camera position, so it basically looked like the sky was painted ontop of the mesh. fixed a GDNative binary compatibility bug.

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The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

with 17 alpha builds distributed in 2022, and continuous development effort since 2019. Like in previous release cycles, a beta release means that we are happy with the features that have been included and we don’t plan on adding any major new features before release (except for a few that have been discussed and planned in advance).

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Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

support, Bullet as the 3D physics engine, and many other features which are described in depth below. 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, New features of Godot 3.0.

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Guilty Gear Xrd

Sirlin

DECEMBER 30, 2014

But 3D games are usually stuck with a certain 3D model for a character and deforming the mesh is a pain to do. YRCs The biggest new feature of the fighting system is the YRC, or yellow roman cancel. Roman cancel is a really great feature because it's so simple to do and opens up so many possibilities.

Fighting Feature Balance Mechanics