Game Engine, Mesh, Render and Scripting

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Be sure to report anything that stops working as expected in your scripts. Editor: Bring back the renderer options button on the main editor ( GH-70500 ). Editor: Fix error when dropping script into script editor ( GH-70580 ). Editor: Fix resource picker regression for scripted resources ( GH-70277 ). get_root() ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 8

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Rendering: Use circular fade instead of linear fade for distance fade ( GH-50294 ). Rendering: Tweak shadow bias defaults for DirectionalLight3D and OmniLight3D ( GH-55757 ). Rendering: Fix AABB errors on meshes with bones on multiple surfaces ( GH-65035 ). XR: WebXR is now fully working in Godot 4!

Beta

Beta Dev Render Shaders

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 16

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2023

Flag dirty dependencies when GeometryInstance dependencies change in renderer ( GH-71581 ). Those typically shouldn’t add instability to the engine, but may require doing some changes in your scripts, scenes, and shaders if you were using the affected APIs. Rendering: Fix LCD font AA on OpenGL renderer ( GH-72125 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

A couple fixes to the text resource loader which could impact notably reloading scripts ( GH-71170 ). OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). See the list below.

Beta

Beta Dev Collision Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 10, 2023

Be sure to report anything that stops working as expected in your scripts. Editor: Bring back the renderer options button on the main editor ( GH-70500 ). Editor: Fix error when dropping script into script editor ( GH-70580 ). Editor: Fix resource picker regression for scripted resources ( GH-70277 ). get_root() ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 16, 2022

Editor: Fix showing Extend Script option without script attached to the node ( GH-58821 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix compression on blend shapes ( GH-58838 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix incorrect buffer upload size in draw_gui_primitive ( GH-58150 ).

Render

Render Shaders Bug Build

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.4

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 23, 2022

Editor: Fix showing Extend Script option without script attached to the node ( GH-58821 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix compression on blend shapes ( GH-58838 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix VersionKey comparison in shader binding ( GH-58855 ). Rendering: GLES2: Fix incorrect buffer upload size in draw_gui_primitive ( GH-58150 ).

Render

Render Alpha Shaders Editing

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Core: Expose minizip API to allow creating zips using scripts ( GH-65281 ). Editor: Reorganize script editor menu ( GH-64277 ). Editor: Add script editor shortcut to add selection and caret for next occurrence of current selection ( GH-67644 ). Physics: Optimized support function for large meshes ( GH-64382 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Alpha

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2023

A couple fixes to the text resource loader which could impact notably reloading scripts ( GH-71170 ). OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). See the list below.

Beta

Beta Dev Collision Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.3

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

C#: Fix getting properties state when reloading scripts ( GH-56300 ). C#: Attach mono thread before getting nativeName field, fixing potential tool script crash ( GH-57739 ). GDScript: Clear pending function states when reloading script ( GH-56296 ). Rendering: Fix blend shapes when octahedral compression is used ( GH-56161 ).

Render

Render Texture Scripting Agent

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.3 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 4, 2021

Editor: Fix slow load/save of scenes with many instances of the same script ( GH-49570 ). Import: glTF: Fix mesh nodes which are also bones ( GH-49119 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Rendering: VisualServer now sorts based on AABB position ( GH-43506 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Bug Build

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

Mesh: Implement octahedral map normal/tangent attribute compression ( GH-46800 ). Mesh: Options to clean/simplify convex hull generated from mesh ( GH-50328 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

rendering may be slower for a second or two, but the slowdown will not be nearly as bad as the typical hiccup caused by classic synchronous compilation. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. and backported to 3.5.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Core: Expose minizip API to allow creating zips using scripts ( GH-65281 ). Editor: Reorganize script editor menu ( GH-64277 ). Editor: Add script editor shortcut to add selection and caret for next occurrence of current selection ( GH-67644 ). Physics: Optimized support function for large meshes ( GH-64382 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Alpha

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.3

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

Editor: Fix slow load/save of scenes with many instances of the same script ( GH-49570 ). Import: glTF: Fix mesh nodes which are also bones ( GH-49119 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Rendering: VisualServer now sorts based on AABB position ( GH-43506 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Bug Collision

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.3 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 16, 2021

Editor: Fix slow load/save of scenes with many instances of the same script ( GH-49570 ). Import: glTF: Fix mesh nodes which are also bones ( GH-49119 ). Input: Fix game controllers ignoring the last listed button ( GH-48934 ). Rendering: VisualServer now sorts based on AABB position ( GH-43506 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Bug Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

Notably, it fixes some rendering regressions with transparent materials, and crashing iOS templates and Web editor build in RC 2. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. This RC 3 fixes a number of recent regressions and older bugs.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 8

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Rendering: Use circular fade instead of linear fade for distance fade ( GH-50294 ). Rendering: Tweak shadow bias defaults for DirectionalLight3D and OmniLight3D ( GH-55757 ). Rendering: Fix AABB errors on meshes with bones on multiple surfaces ( GH-65035 ). XR: WebXR is now fully working in Godot 4!

Beta

Beta Dev Render Shaders

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

rendering may be slower for a second or two, but the slowdown will not be nearly as bad as the typical hiccup caused by classic synchronous compilation. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. and backported to 3.5.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

You can enable it in the Project Settings ( rendering/gles3/shaders/shader_compilation_mode ). rendering may be slower for a second or two, but the slowdown will not be nearly as bad as the typical hiccup caused by classic synchronous compilation. We switched it back to disabled by default for all platforms. and backported to 3.5.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

rendering may be slower for a second or two, but the slowdown will not be nearly as bad as the typical hiccup caused by classic synchronous compilation. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. and backported to 3.5.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 31, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). Rendering: Properly calculate Polygon2D AABB with skeleton ( GH-40869 ). Thirdparty library updates (mbedtls 2.16.7,

Collision

Collision Bug Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 17, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter. and backported to 3.5.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.5

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 2, 2022

Editor: Fix custom class icon when it inherits from a script ( GH-60536 ). Editor: Fix GridMap cursor showing the wrong mesh ( GH-58624 ). Rendering: GLES2: Unpack blend shape arrays when necessary ( GH-60829 ). Rendering: GLES3: Unbind vertex buffer before calculating blend shapes ( GH-60832 ).

Render

Render Texture Mesh Mobile

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.5 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 19, 2022

Editor: Fix custom class icon when it inherits from a script ( GH-60536 ). Editor: Fix GridMap cursor showing the wrong mesh ( GH-58624 ). Rendering: GLES2: Unpack blend shape arrays when necessary ( GH-60829 ). Rendering: GLES3: Unbind vertex buffer before calculating blend shapes ( GH-60832 ).

Render

Render Bug Texture Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter. and backported to 3.5.

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). Rendering: Properly calculate Polygon2D AABB with skeleton ( GH-40869 ). RichTextLabel: Fix center alignment bug ( GH-40892 ).

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 21, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). Rendering: Properly calculate Polygon2D AABB with skeleton ( GH-40869 ). RichTextLabel: Fix center alignment bug ( GH-40892 ).

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). Rendering: Properly calculate Polygon2D AABB with skeleton ( GH-40869 ). RichTextLabel: Fix center alignment bug ( GH-40892 ).

Bug

Bug Collision Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2022

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter. Rendering: Add OccluderShapePolygon ( GH-57361 ).

Render

Render Shaders Console Culling

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Editor: Expose ScriptEditor::edit to scripting ( GH-55709 ). Import: Fix crash when exporting meshes to glTF that have no skin ( GH-55246 ). Rendering: Fix vertex attribute specification for octahedral compression ( GH-54768 ). Rendering: Update CanvasItem when MultiMesh instance transform changes ( GH-54899 ).

Tile

Tile Render Shaders Editing

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 3, 2022

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter. Rendering: Add OccluderShapePolygon ( GH-57361 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 5, 2022

If you use and enjoy Godot, plan to use it, or want support the cause of having a mature, high quality free and open source game engine, then please consider becoming our patron. The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime.

Shaders

Shaders Render Mesh Feature

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). Script editor: Don't open dominant script in external editor ( GH-40735 ). if something that worked fine in 3.2.1

Collision

Collision Bug Mesh Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.1 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Editor: Expose ScriptEditor::edit to scripting ( GH-55709 ). Import: Fix crash when exporting meshes to glTF that have no skin ( GH-55246 ). Rendering: Fix vertex attribute specification for octahedral compression ( GH-54768 ). Rendering: Update CanvasItem when MultiMesh instance transform changes ( GH-54899 ).

Tile

Tile Render Bug Build

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 15

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 30, 2022

Rendering: Octahedral normal/tangent compression ( GH-60309 ). Core: Make property_*_revert methods multilevel and expose them for scripting ( GH-64334 ). Rendering: Octahedral normal/tangent compression ( GH-60309 ). Rendering: Fix viewport sorting being wrong on parent/child relation ( GH-63091 ). for instructions.

Alpha

Alpha Dev Shaders Beta

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 15, 2022

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter. Rendering: Add OccluderShapePolygon ( GH-57361 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 30, 2022

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter. Rendering: Add OccluderShapePolygon ( GH-57361 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 13, 2022

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Rendering: Add material_overlay property to MeshInstance ( GH-50823 ). Rendering: Faster editor line drawing - Path2D and draw_line ( GH-54377 ). back in 2020! if something that worked fine in 3.4.x

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Console

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.3

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

GLES2: Fixed mesh data access errors in GLES2 ( GH-40235 ). Rendering: Fixed images in black margins ( GH-37475 ). Rendering: Allow nearest neighbor lookup when using mipmaps ( GH-40523 ). Rendering: Properly calculate Polygon2D AABB with skeleton ( GH-40869 ). RichTextLabel: Fix center alignment bug ( GH-40892 ).

Bug

Bug Collision Build Texture

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MARCH 15, 2022

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. This can lead to a problem, when the movement of objects (which tends to occur on physics ticks) does not line up with the rendered frames, giving unsightly jitter. Rendering: Add OccluderShapePolygon ( GH-57361 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Shaders Render

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. Exporting C# projects to iOS should be done from macOS using the classical workflow , and the scripts will be automatically compiled Ahead-of-Time (AOT) for iOS. 2D batching for the GLES2 renderer. But Godot 4.0

Debug

Debug Point and Click Bug Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 8

Trending Sources

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 16

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 11

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.4 RC 2

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.4

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 4

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.3 RC 1

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 4

Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.3

Release candidate: Godot 3.3.3 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 8

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 7

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 5

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 3

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 4

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.5

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.5 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 5

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 4

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 6

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 1

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.1

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 5

Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

Release candidate: Godot 3.2.3 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.1 RC 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 15

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 4

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 1

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.3

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 2

Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

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