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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Mircosoft Game Dev

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: String and StringName are now mostly cross-compatible throughout the engine API, as well as in various GDScript-specific expressions and statements ( GH-68747 ). Core: Add feature tags to signify engine float precision ( GH-69538 ).

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 10

Mircosoft Game Dev

Every beta release so far has included a lot of fixes in one or more key areas, and the next major version of the engine starts to finally look complete. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 2D: Simplify isometric tile shape polygon in TileSet to 4 vertices ( GH-70238 ).

Beta 101
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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Mircosoft Game Dev

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: String and StringName are now mostly cross-compatible throughout the engine API, as well as in various GDScript-specific expressions and statements ( GH-68747 ). Core: Add feature tags to signify engine float precision ( GH-69538 ).

Beta 75
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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 10

Mircosoft Game Dev

Every beta release so far has included a lot of fixes in one or more key areas, and the next major version of the engine starts to finally look complete. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 2D: Simplify isometric tile shape polygon in TileSet to 4 vertices ( GH-70238 ).

Beta 78
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Godot 1.1 beta1 is out!

Mircosoft Game Dev

Visual Shader Editor (Edit shaders connecting nodes). Largely rewritten 2D engine, with support for: Shaders (Visual and Code). 2D Shadows with Polygonal Occluders. Back-Buffer compositing for shaders that read from screen (allows all sorts of post-processing effects). 2D Materials. 2D Normal Mapping.

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Godot 1.1 is out!

Mircosoft Game Dev

Brand new 2D engine and more! This release brings a completely new 2D engine and more features (feature list below). At this point Godot is one of the most advanced 2D engines out there. Visual Shader Editor (Edit shaders connecting nodes). Largely rewritten 2D engine, with support for: Shaders (Visual and Code).

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

and included in this beta are: Asynchronous shader compilation + caching (ubershader) ( GH-53411 ). A long awaited solution to shader compilation stuttering on OpenGL, courtesy Pedro J. You can move the polygon with the node transform, drag the corners to reshape it, add delete points. The main changes coming in Godot 3.5

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