Collision, Content, Game Engine and Games

Maintenance release: Godot 3.5.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

stable: Android: Fix issue preventing the Android Editor from displaying the project content ( GH-64420 ). Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). Physics: Hack a hot fix for Bullet's collision margin regression ( GH-64875 ) [regression fix]. Here are the main changes since 3.5-stable:

Baking

Baking Render Collision Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.5.1 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

stable: Android: Fix issue preventing the Android Editor from displaying the project content ( GH-64420 ). Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). Physics: Hack a hot fix for Bullet's collision margin regression ( GH-64875 ). Here are the main changes since 3.5-stable:

Render

Render Bug Collision Animation

Unity DOTS for Beginners

Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

If you’re looking for efficiency, performance, and data-oriented programming in your game development platform, Unity’s Data-Oriented Technology Stack (DOTS) may just be what you need. Apart from leveraging its powerful engine, you also get to widen your skillset and enjoy a growing market demand for Unity DOTS professionals.

Technology

Technology Concepts Simulation Game Developer

Maintenance release: Godot 3.5.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

stable: Android: Fix issue preventing the Android Editor from displaying the project content ( GH-64420 ). Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). Physics: Hack a hot fix for Bullet’s collision margin regression ( GH-64875 ) [regression fix]. Here are the main changes since 3.5-stable:

Baking

Baking Render Collision Bug

Why does Godot use Servers and RIDs?

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Before going into optimizing for multiple threads, let's first take a look at the typical order of execution of the main blocks of a game engine. Research on game engine optimization for multiple threads at the time resulted in documentation and papers for a new technique named job scheduling.

Render

Render Collision Engine Engineering

Release candidate: Godot 3.5.1 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

stable: Android: Fix issue preventing the Android Editor from displaying the project content ( GH-64420 ). Physics: Hack a hot fix for Bullet's collision margin regression ( GH-64875 ). As usual, you can try it live with the online version of the Godot editor updated for this release. Here are the main changes since 3.5-stable:

Bug

Bug Render Scripting Build

Introducing the Godot glTF 2.0 scene exporter

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 4, 2021

glTF is a growing 3D format and has received massive adoption in the game industry. Commonly selected as the format for new software and game engines, glTF can also have new functionality added using extensions. The nature of 3D can complicate the import/export process of a game character.

Animation

Animation Animation Engine Engineering

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.3 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

GridMap: Fix "Convert to MeshLibrary" not respecting collision transforms ( GH-56907 ). Networking: Fix HTTPRequest support for requests with "content-length" above 2.1 GDScript: Clear pending function states when reloading script ( GH-56296 ). GUI: Release focus of Control node when exiting tree ( GH-56255 ).

Render

Render Texture Build Agent

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.3

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

GridMap: Fix "Convert to MeshLibrary" not respecting collision transforms ( GH-56907 ). Networking: Fix HTTPRequest support for requests with "content-length" above 2.1 The illustration picture is from Fishards , a wacky fish-wizard PvP spell fighting game developed by Rivernotch Game Studio.

Render

Render Texture Scripting Agent

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.3 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

GridMap: Fix "Convert to MeshLibrary" not respecting collision transforms ( GH-56907 ). Networking: Fix HTTPRequest support for requests with "content-length" above 2.1 GDScript: Clear pending function states when reloading script ( GH-56296 ). GUI: Release focus of Control node when exiting tree ( GH-56255 ).

Render

Render Texture Bug Scripting

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

x branch to develop and publish their games today , so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience. As such, most of the focus was on implementing missing features or bugfixes which are critical for publishing 2D and 3D games with Godot 3, and on making the existing features more optimized and reliable.

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ). Physics: Heightmap collision shape support in Godot Physics 3D ( GH-47349 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ). Physics: Heightmap collision shape support in Godot Physics 3D ( GH-47349 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Godot Engine reaches 2.0 stable

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

This version worked well but we felt it was still far from the usability and features of a modern game engine. The more urgent issue was to improve the 2D engine so we worked hard again and released Godot 1.1, This is helpful in production games, as unexpected bugs that might commonly cause a crash will not make it fail.

Engine

Engine Engineering Editing Debug

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Physics: Improved logic for KinematicBody collision recovery depth ( GH-53451 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Physics: Improved logic for KinematicBody collision recovery depth ( GH-53451 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Physics: Improved logic for KinematicBody collision recovery depth ( GH-53451 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ). Physics: Heightmap collision shape support in Godot Physics 3D ( GH-47349 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2020

installment, bringing dozens of major features and hundreds of bugfixes and enhancements to bring our game developers an ever-improving feature set with a strong focus on usability. Godot is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing the world with the best possible free and open source game technology. Download Godot 3.2

Render

Render Feature Shaders Bug

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Physics: Improved logic for KinematicBody collision recovery depth ( GH-53451 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

x branch to develop and publish their games today , so it's important for us to keep giving Godot 3 users an improved gamedev experience. As such, most of the focus was on implementing missing features or bugfixes which are critical for publishing 2D and 3D games with Godot 3, and on making the existing features more optimized and reliable.

UX

UX Feature Culling Mesh

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. release, with a lot of new content and many updates to existing tutorials to match the 3.2 You can join the translation effort on Weblate and help bring high quality localized documentation to game developers all over the world!

Debug

Debug Point and Click Bug Render

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

You may have already seen some of this content on social media, in blog posts, or in alpha release notes. We also reached out to content creators from the Godot community and got two very nice videos from FinePointCGI and Bramwell covering what Godot 4.0 In this article we highlight some of the new features we are most excited about.

Beta

Beta Engine Engineering Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ). Physics: Heightmap collision shape support in Godot Physics 3D ( GH-47349 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

It's a long read, so here's a table of contents to easily get to a specific section: New physically based 3D renderer. The new 3D engine is outstanding, with many features out-of-the-box that are still not common in other mainstream engines. As mentioned above, 3.0 has been 18 months in the making and is a huge release.

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

Game Developers Network

Maintenance release: Godot 3.5.1

Release candidate: Godot 3.5.1 RC 2

Trending Sources

Unity DOTS for Beginners

Maintenance release: Godot 3.5.1

Why does Godot use Servers and RIDs?

Release candidate: Godot 3.5.1 RC 1

Introducing the Godot glTF 2.0 scene exporter

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.3 RC 1

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.3

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.3 RC 2

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

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Godot Engine reaches 2.0 stable

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

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