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[Release post of the official Shader Graph extension]

Cocos

DECEMBER 7, 2023

To promote collaboration and innovation within the developer community, we have open-sourced the full set of source code for this plugin under the MIT license. Surface (Surface Shader) Unlit (Unlit Shader) Double-click the asset to enter the editing panel. This plugin relies on Cocos Creator version 3.8.2

Shaders

Shaders Point and Click Asset UX

Game Localization Ultimate Guide

iXie gaming

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Localizing video games involves linguistic tasks, such as translating the game’s dialogue, extracting strings from code, and incorporating them into a system for localization management. Editing is the process of correcting style and content errors and ensuring that the language is accurate and consistent. Translation.

Localization

Localization Quality Assurance Games Content

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

To simplify some of the most common constructs in input handling code for character movement, Aaron Franke ( aaronfranke ) added two new helper methods : Input.get_axis() and Input.get_vector(). Styleboxes of the same type can be edited together to save you time adjusting their margins and borders. normalized(). Other areas.

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

GSoC 2019 progress report #1 (part 1)

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 17, 2019

As announced previously , Godot is participating for the second time in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) programme, which lets students from all over the world work for three months on specific projects thanks to a Google stipend. We are now at the middle of the coding period, so students have around 6 weeks left in the GSoC programme.

Visual Scripting

Visual Scripting Clipping Code Scripting

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

macOS: ARM64 build, code signing. Improved Inspector sub-resource editing. Fabio Alessandrelli ( Faless ) has done a lot of work to enable running the Godot editor on the Web, using the same export code as for Godot-made games (since the Godot editor is developed 100% with the Godot API). macOS: ARM64 build, code signing.

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2022

Like in previous years, Godot is participating again in the Google Summer of Code program for its 2022 edition. 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 ). Multi window code editors by trollodel. 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

GSoC 2019 progress report #3

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

For the second time, Godot took part in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) programme, which lets students from all over the world work for three months on specific projects thanks to a Google stipend. Port connection swapping was also added as a minor UX improvement. In-graph editable nodes. Graph unification. Port swapping.

Visual Scripting

Visual Scripting Clipping Scripting Point and Click

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

Coding tools. as default target, and the rewrite of the Mono-specific editor code in C# (ported from C++). introduced a new graph-based editor to edit shaders visually, reimplemented from the previous version that was included in Godot 2.1. Coding tools. As of now, there are client plugins for VS Code plugin and Atom.

Render

Render Feature Shaders Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Editor: Fix MeshInstance2D edit rect ( GH-54070 ). GDScript: Ignore property groups and categories in GDScript code completion ( GH-54272 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Editor: Fix MeshInstance2D edit rect ( GH-54070 ). GDScript: Ignore property groups and categories in GDScript code completion ( GH-54272 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

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: Fix loading packed scene with editable children at runtime ( GH-49664 ). Shaders: Prevent shaders from generating code before the constructor finishes ( GH-52475 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Scene: Fix loading packed scene with editable children at runtime ( GH-49664 ). Shaders: Prevent shaders from generating code before the constructor finishes ( GH-52475 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Scene: Fix loading packed scene with editable children at runtime ( GH-49664 ). Shaders: Prevent shaders from generating code before the constructor finishes ( GH-52475 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

The Lost Ark Has Found its Way

Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

This post is written by the fantastic Game Bakery substack team of Chase, Zixuan, Haiyin, Caitou, Fish, Amy, Chow, Jing, Wanzi and edited by Caitou, Rob. However, there are not many innovative areas in the core gameplay and UX. written by Amy, Chase, Chow, Fish, Jiaqi, Jing, Wanzi, Yuhang, Zixuan edited by Jiaqi, Rob

Cutscenes

Cutscenes Art Content Mechanics

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[Release post of the official Shader Graph extension]

Game Localization Ultimate Guide

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Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

GSoC 2019 progress report #1 (part 1)

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

GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

GSoC 2019 progress report #3

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

The Lost Ark Has Found its Way

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