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Tiles editor progress report #3

Mircosoft Game Dev

A significant part of my work those past two months has mostly been about reimplementing most of the already existing TileSet features, while introducing more flexibility to it. Most of TileSet's systems (rendering, collisions, physics, navigation, …) are now using a concept of "layers" (this might be renamed). Navigation.

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New improvements for GPUParticles in Godot 4.0

Mircosoft Game Dev

This was the final feature that had to be ported over. Like all the rest of the features ported, it managed to get massive improvements. Allows collisions against the physics world. x, but lacked several features. Here are some of the most outstanding features coming for Godot 4.0 Baked SDF Collision.

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Physics progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

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. Godot Physics features. The transition requires adding missing features that were supported only with Bullet. Cylinder collision shape. Heightmap collision shape.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

There were a few very important features that we didn’t manage to review in time for previous betas, and which have now been implemented in beta 3. Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ) reworked the features and user experience of Godot’s ColorPicker during Google Summer of Code 2022. Major changes. This beta 3 is not only bugfixes though!

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

There were a few very important features that we didn't manage to review in time for previous betas, and which have now been implemented in beta 3. Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ) reworked the features and user experience of Godot's ColorPicker during Google Summer of Code 2022. Major changes. This beta 3 is not only bugfixes though!

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GSoC 2020 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

One of the most requested language feature that GDScript lacks is being able to generate documentation for your code, using a system similar to "javadoc" in Java, "XML comments" in C# and "doc string" in Python, etc. Currently the first part of the project is almost done and I'm working on the UI features.

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Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

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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