As we edge ever closer to feature freeze, many of our contributors have been hard at work to get their highly-anticipated features in hopes of Godot 4.7 integration. Fortunately for them, we’ve managed to accomodate several of these proposals, and are excited to showcase them today! Your testing will be crucial to ensure that everything listed stays in scope for a 4.7 release, so be sure to give this latest build a spin after the highlights
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Highlights
Rendering: Add nearest-neighbor scaling
We’re starting things out with one of the most anticipated integrations for our rendering system: nearest-neighbor scaling for 3D viewports. Over the course of nearly three years, Hugo Locurcio has been refining GH-79731 to ensure that 3D titles with pixel-art aesthetics or lower resolution scaling will still look crisp without any compromise to performance:
Bilinear
Nearest (new behavior)
GUI: Add custom_maximum_size property to Control
Our previous development snapshot had a large focus on GUI improvements, and that QOL continues with the new custom_maximum_size property for Control. Enzo Novoselic in GH-116640 has at last brought us the maximal equivalent to the existing custom_minimum_size, enabling the fine-tuning of GUI element sizes to their full potential.
GUI: Improve drag and drop in Tree
vaner spear-headed GH-112993 in order to improve the overall usability and intuitiveness of Tree drag-and-drop functionality. Now when performing a drag-and-drop operation, there will be an always-present vertical indicator showing the potential parental chain, leveraging a standalone CanvasItem to prevent StyleBox occlusion.
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What’s more, this operation will now consider the x-position of the cursor while determining a to-be parent when in indent space (leftmost, empty space), whereas item space largely retains current behavior. This implementation mirrors what one would commonly find in vector design software.
Editor: Increase available space for array properties
Have you ever wondered why the inspector takes up so much negative space when working with arrays? Turns out it wasn’t done deliberately; it just so happened to be using the default offset of 0.5! Tomasz Chabora rightfully found this quite silly, and whipped up GH-118008 to rectify this oversight.
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And more!
There are too many exciting changes to list them all here, but here’s a curated selection:
- 2D: Rework TileSet editor proxy objects (GH-117574).
- 3D: Add vector components to 3D ruler tool (GH-106785).
- Editor: Add folding to the Visual Profiler tree (GH-118120).
- Editor: Add type filters to create dialog (GH-111518).
- Editor: Hide renderer selector in main editor window and add editor setting (GH-117754).
- Editor: Make right-clicking on unfocused scene tabs possible (GH-112919).
- GDExtension: Allow viewing GDExtensions from inside project settings (GH-118063).
- GDScript: LSP: Calculate simple string insertions on the server-side (GH-117710).
- Particles: Fix angular velocity (GH-117861).
- NOTE: This is technically compatibility-breaking, but it’s bringing the functionality in-line with how its always been documented.
- Particles: Fix particles moving when timescale is 0 (GH-109911).
- Platforms: Android: Allow implementing java interfaces from GDScript (GH-115498).
- Platforms: Windows: Implement OneCore TTS support using C++/WinRT (no deps) (GH-116349).
- Platforms: Windows: Use OneCore/WinRT emoji picker when available (GH-116351).
Changelog
88 contributors submitted 188 fixes for this release. See our interactive changelog for the complete list of changes since 4.7-dev3. You can also review all changes included in 4.7 compared to the previous 4.6 feature release.
This release is built from commit 755fa449c.
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