karroffel - 6 June 2018GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #6
The GLES2 backend is getting closer and closer to completion, this progress report shows a detailed overview of the steps taken to implement PBR.
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HP van Braam - 2 June 2018Dev snapshot: Godot 3.0.3 RC 3
Godot 3.0.3 RC3 is out! We've done a lot of work to make the mono export experience better for Windows users. Please help us test and debug this release!
Juan Linietsky - 25 May 2018Fixing Godot games published in Google Play
After games being published using Godot on Google Play for almost 8 years with no problems, Google decided they don't like the format we use for exporting any more and is suspending many published games. Here's how to fix your APK to upload it again.
Rémi Verschelde - 21 May 2018Ben Tristem & GameDev.tv are kickstarting a Godot course
Ben Tristem and his GameDev.tv team, authors of many best-selling game development courses on the online platform Udemy, are now kickstarting a Godot Engine course! They strongly believe in Godot and want to make top quality content for all kinds of users. Ben tells us in a video what they like in Godot and why they are so enthusiastic about it.
Juan Linietsky - 19 May 2018Godot gets a new Inspector
Work is ongoing to completely overhaul Godot inspector. This was a pending assignment for me since even before Godot was open sourced but, as always, other issued had priority.
Andrea Catania - 16 May 2018Godot's ragdoll system
Godot 3.1 is getting many improvements on the physics side, and one of those is the new ragdoll system. Physics maintainer Andrea Catania presents the work he did on this topic and how to get started with physical bones and ragdoll simulation.
HP van Braam - 14 May 2018Dev snapshot: Godot 3.0.3 RC 2
This is the second release candidate for what will become Godot 3.0.3. In this release we overhauled the new buildsystem (again) and fixed quite a few bugs. Please go forth and test!
karroffel - 7 May 2018GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #5
The progress of last month was largely defined by stabilizing the 3D renderer with many smaller fixes, but work on the PRB side of things has begun and the GDNative system also saw some quality-of-life changes again, with improvements to the GDNativeLibrary resource as well as an API to provide safe type-casting in NativeScript.
Juan Linietsky - 4 May 2018Godot gets 2D skeletal deform
Currently, Godot is pretty comfortable for doing 2D cutout animation, with several games in development making use of this feature. A very common request, though, was the ability to do custom mesh deformation based on the same bones used to animate separate parts. This would allow deforming such parts, for a more organic animation feel.
HP van Braam - 2 May 2018Dev snapshot: Godot 3.0.3 RC 1
This is the first release candidate for what will become Godot 3.0.3. In this release we have initial support for Mono export for desktop platforms. Please test this release and report bugs!
Juan Linietsky - 28 April 2018Godot gets CSG support
After years of discussion on how to implement CSG, Godot finally gets suport for it. This implementation is simple, but makes use of Godot's amazing architecture to shine.
George Marques - 24 April 2018Godot in Google Summer of Code 2018
Godot has been accepted into the Google Summer of Code program in 2018. This summer we will have 5 students working on new features to the engine.
Gilles Roudiere - 22 April 2018Introducing the new axis handling system
For the past months, popular demand has been growing for a way to propery map controller axes in Godot. For a long time Godot was only able to map a single event to an action, making it impossible to deal with analog strengths. Today (after months of discussions), this problem has been solved, and it only took very little amount of changes to the current input mapping system!
Rémi Verschelde - 17 April 2018Godot's documentation is now open for translation
Godot has been around for over 4 years, and localized documentation in Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, French, Russian and many other languages has always been a very requested feature. After a lot of documentation work to ensure that we have a good original English content to translate from, and some more work on setting up a convenient infrastructure for translating and keeping translations up to date, we are now ready to welcome contributions!
karroffel - 16 April 2018GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #4
Latest update on the GLES2 and GDNative developments. This month, a lot of time has been spend on refactoring the way materials work together with shaders, but also the C++ bindings got some nice new make-up!
Rémi Verschelde - 27 March 2018Godot project management 101
As we just reached our third goal on Patreon, we are now able to hire Rémi Verschelde (Akien) as full-time project manager and representative! In this article, he gives some insights on what brought him to Godot, how he helped organize the teamwork and became the de facto project manager, as well as plans for the future.
Juan Linietsky - 25 March 2018Godot is doing well at GDC 2018!
I went to GDC yet again (this time GDC 2018) trying to see how Godot is doing at the game industry. To my surprise this time, it was quite different..
Rémi Verschelde - 24 March 2018Dev snapshot: Godot 2.1.5 RC 1
Feedback has been quite good on the past two beta builds for the upcoming Godot 2.1.5 (providing legacy support for users of Godot 2), so we're now publishing a release candidate. If all goes well (no new regression reported), that should more or less be the 2.1.5 final release. So make sure to test it thoroughly!
karroffel - 21 March 2018GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #3
Another month, another progress report! This time with the early beginnings of 3D rendering in GLES2 and some GDNative ecosystem updates.
Pedro J. Estébanez - 20 March 2018Sketchfab integrates with Godot
Sketchfab is a well-known site where you can browse a big library of 3D models and download them for use in your own projects. Many of them are free, covered by open licenses. They have just announced their download API, which allows third-parties to integrate with it, giving any application access to hundreds of thousands of models in glTF, a standard format that many tools, Godot included, understand. They have integrations for other famous game engines, like Unity and Unreal and have decided to provide an official plugin for Godot!
Rémi Verschelde - 15 March 2018Dev snapshot: Godot 2.1.5 beta 2
One step closer to releasing 2.1.5 (our "old stable" branch) with this new beta 2 build! If you are still working with Godot 2.1 for any reason, make sure to give it a try and ensure that your projects still work as intended. If all goes well we will soon make a release candidate build and then the stable one.
Juan Linietsky - 6 March 2018Join us at GDC during the Godot Meetup 2018!
Will you be attending GDC? If so, please come visit us at our 2018 meetup that we organize together with GitHub.
HP van Braam - 4 March 2018Maintenance release: Godot 3.0.2
We've found several small regressions in Godot 3.0.1. This maintenance release addresses these and also add some features for our C# users.
Juan Linietsky - 26 February 2018Moving to Vulkan (and ES 2.0) instead of OpenGL ES 3.0
The rationale for the OpenGL ES 3 renderer was having a single codebase for targeting all platforms. This sounds really good in theory and we could say it *almost* works, but...