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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

Visual scripting. While Godot had visual scripting in the past, we found that the form we had implemented didn’t really prove adequate for the needs of the community, so it was discontinued. GPUParticlesMaterial resource (or even an optional dedicated shader). Specialized artist UIs.

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Godot reaches 2.1 stable!

Mircosoft Game Dev

The approach chosen by Godot for live editing makes it really easy to create content on the fly, have it replicated in the running game, and keep your changes when the game is done running. Editing such properties is possible too, but changes won't be saved (use regular live editing for this). Remote scene inspector.

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

Improved Inspector sub-resource editing. New vertex formats allow many more custom shaders and cases to take advantage of batching than before, and optional 2D software skinning has been added which should allow using 2D skeletal animation on a far wider range of hardware than was previously available. Editor: Node copy-pasting.

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Godot gets a new Inspector

Mircosoft Game Dev

For sub-resources, editing would also go into a separate view. All editing is done via controls instead of tree cells. It also allows writing custom plugins to customize the looks, like in the image below: New Spin-Slider for numerical editing. It alows: Editing values in absolute range (via slider). the NEW inspector!

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Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

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, Materials and shaders. Visual Scripting. Materials and shaders. Unfortunately, the visual material editor from Godot 2.1

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ). Scene: Fix loading packed scene with editable children at runtime ( GH-49664 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Editor: Fix MeshInstance2D edit rect ( GH-54070 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ). Scene: Fix loading packed scene with editable children at runtime ( GH-49664 ).

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