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Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Portal occlusion culling. More rendering improvements. 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(). More rendering improvements. Large files support (> 2.0

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

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

See this demonstration made by MewPurPur : Improved ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ). Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ) reworked the features and user experience of Godot’s ColorPicker during Google Summer of Code 2022. The second part of her work has just been merged, and should significantly improve the ColorPicker’s UX.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 14, 2022

See this demonstration made by MewPurPur : Improved ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ). Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ) reworked the features and user experience of Godot's ColorPicker during Google Summer of Code 2022. The second part of her work has just been merged, and should significantly improve the ColorPicker's UX.

Beta

Beta Dev Render Debug

[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. Known issues Preview panel does not support dynamic preview Development team Devs: Knox、Youyou Framework：VisualSJ PM：AndyTian UI/UX：派大星 Director：Jare

Shaders

Shaders Point and Click Asset UX

Adventures in Map Zooming, Part 1: Realtime Image Scaling

Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

When the engine is about to render a frame, it first lets this function know about it and expects to be handed an image in return. The engine finishes rendering its normal frame, then at the end of that frame takes the zoomed image sent by Cogmind and copies it over to the desired area before displaying the final results on the screen.

Render

Render Engine Engineering FPS

The Top Game Test Automation Tools You Need to Know About

iXie gaming

DECEMBER 9, 2023

These games have high-quality visuals, animations, and sounds, which renders 100% manual testing infeasible. Also, they ensure a seamless user experience (UX) regardless of the device used by the player. It allows you to run automated tests on application programming interfaces (APIs), code, frameworks, and software shells.

Quality Assurance

Quality Assurance Cross platform Platformer Mobile

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). In-depth documentation is available.

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

GLES3 renderer). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). Highlights.

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

GLES3 renderer). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). Highlights.

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Notable changes are in-editor class reference translations (so far Chinese (Simplified), Spanish, and some French), some new rendering features (high quality glow mode, 3D point light attenuation option), and a number of C# marshalling fixes. Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). In-depth documentation is available.

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

our lead developer Juan Linietsky moved on to developing the upcoming Vulkan renderer for Godot 4.0 which will bring a new Vulkan-based rendering backend in lieu of the current OpenGL ES 3.0 / OpenGL 3.3 The curious among you may read Juan's progress reports for details on this new architecture and rendering features implemented for 4.0

Render

Render Feature Shaders Bug

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. macOS: ARM64 build, code signing. Dynamic BVH for rendering and GodotPhysics. Rendering: Unified 2D batching. More rendering improvements.

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 5, 2020

2D batching for the GLES2 renderer , thanks to lawnjelly and Clay ( clayjohn ). The new 2D batching is only implemented for the GLES2 renderer, so if you use GLES3 you will not be able to benefit from it. As the GLES3 renderer is being deprecated by Vulkan in Godot 4.0, Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Debug

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

2D batching for the GLES2 renderer. While most rendering work was postponed for the 4.0 release with its new Vulkan-based renderer, our contributors lawnjelly and Clay ( clayjohn ) decided to give some more attention to the 3.2 Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). GDScript: Various bugs fixed in the parser.

Debug

Debug Point and Click Bug Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 22, 2020

2D batching for the GLES2 renderer , thanks to lawnjelly and Clay ( clayjohn ). The new 2D batching is only implemented for the GLES2 renderer, so if you use GLES3 you will not be able to benefit from it in this build. Note that currently, only rects are batched (TileMaps, draw_rect , text rendering, etc.), Notably, Godot 3.2.2

Beta

Beta Debug Bug Point and Click

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 18, 2020

2D batching for the GLES2 renderer , thanks to lawnjelly and Clay ( clayjohn ). The new 2D batching is only implemented for the GLES2 renderer, so if you use GLES3 you will not be able to benefit from it in this build. Note that currently, only rects are batched (TileMaps, draw_rect , text rendering, etc.), Notably, Godot 3.2.2

Beta

Beta Debug Bug Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 12, 2020

2D batching for the GLES2 renderer , thanks to lawnjelly and Clay ( clayjohn ). The new 2D batching is only implemented for the GLES2 renderer, so if you use GLES3 you will not be able to benefit from it in this build. Note that currently, only rects are batched (TileMaps, draw_rect , text rendering, etc.), stable build.

Beta

Beta Bug Debug Build

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. It also supports many editors - VS Code, Atom, Sublime, etc.

Visual Scripting

Visual Scripting Clipping Scripting Point and Click

Godot core budget meeting report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 10, 2020

Additionally, many languages require advanced font shaping features to handle diacritics and letter combinations, which are often fundamental for any accurate rendering of these languages (see e.g. Is this Arabic? Hiring a generalist contributor for editor UX and web dev. for a light-hearted crash course).

Texture

Texture Engine Engineering UX

The Lost Ark Has Found its Way

Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Gameplay: A satisfactory and standard production As a title made within the classical Korean MMORPG framework, the core UX is similar to that of other Korean MMORPG, including character design, storyline, career system, raids, etc. However, there are not many innovative areas in the core gameplay and UX. Oily skin texture).

Cutscenes

Cutscenes Art Content Mechanics

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

Deconstructor of Fun

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

I try not to allow my companies to spend 18 month coding before they get any sort of you know, there's so many. That's where you get new 3D rendering engines like you see with id Software. They can't code. You need the UX to work. I need to write that piece of code. Gigi Levy Weiss Yeah. Gigi Levy Weiss Exactly.

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Games Point and Click Engine Engineering

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Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

[Release post of the official Shader Graph extension]

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The Top Game Test Automation Tools You Need to Know About

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

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

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 4

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 1

GSoC 2019 progress report #3

Godot core budget meeting report #1

The Lost Ark Has Found its Way

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