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George Marques  -  4 August 2020

GDScript progress report: New GDScript is now merged

New GDScript code is now merged. Here I talk a bit of what has changed, report what else I did this month and talk a bit about my current work and plans for the future.

Rémi Verschelde  - 29 July 2020

GSoC 2020 - Progress report #1

Godot is participating again in the Google Summer of Code program for its 2020 edition. 6 projects have been selected back in May, and the 6 students and their mentors have now been working on their projects for close to two months. We omitted to announce the projects formally, but this first progress report written by each student will make up for it by giving a direct glimpse into their work.

George Marques  -  6 July 2020

GDScript progress report: Type checking is back

Report on the new GDScript code featuring the new type checking, warnings, code completion and a few more details.

Ignacio Roldán Etcheverry  -  3 July 2020

C# progress report: Visual Studio and VSCode

Godot is getting extensions for Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code, including debugging support and code completion of Godot strings.

Juan Linietsky  - 28 June 2020

Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination

As work progresses on Godot 4.0 at a steady pace, a novel method of creating full-scene global illumination has been added in the master branch.

Juan Linietsky  - 11 June 2020

Godot core budget meeting report #1

The funding situation of Godot has been changing for the past months, as we received more grants and donations, and reorganizing where the funding is going, deciding hires, etc. takes considerable time as well as the right timing.

George Marques  -  1 June 2020

GDScript progress report: Writing a new parser

Showing the work for the new GDScript parser, why it is done and how it improves over the old one. Also show a bit of new features.

Juan Linietsky  -  9 May 2020

Godot 4.0 will get a new, modernized lightmapper

In most game engines, a lightmap is baked for a whole scene and there is only one of it at the same time. In Godot, different scenes can have their own lightmaps and you can mix and match them however you like.

George Marques  -  4 May 2020

GDScript progress report: Writing a tokenizer

GDScript is being rewritten. In this article we talk about the new tokenizer—the first step in the compilation process.

Juan Linietsky  -  1 May 2020

Vulkan progress report #7

It's been three months since a Vulkan progress report! I know you guys missed them, so I made sure to work extra hard to have something nice to make up. It feels great to be back to doing graphics programming after two months refactoring the core engine.

Juan Linietsky  - 17 April 2020

Godot 4.0 gets global and per-instance shader uniforms

Work towards the complete 4.0 feature set continues at a vibrant pace (Stay tuned for the progress report at the end of the month!). Today I will discuss a new feature that most likely takes a bit more time to understand than just looking at an image.

lawnjelly  -  9 April 2020

GLES2 renderer optimization - 2D batching

While Juan's work on the Vulkan rendering backend is ongoing in the master branch, the rest of the rendering team have not been idle. They have been working on many bug fixes and some improvements to the OpenGL rendering in the 3.x branch, and one of the most awaited is the addition of batching of 2D primitives in the GLES2 renderer, which should significantly increase performance in a lot of 2D games.

Ignacio Roldán Etcheverry  -  6 April 2020

C# progress report: iOS and signals as events

Godot is getting iOS support for C# games. There is also a new system for using Godot signals as C# events.

Juan Linietsky  - 28 March 2020

Core refactoring progress report #2

As promised in my previous post, the core refactoring work I am undertaking took two months to complete. This means rewriting large parts of the core engine for consistency and features.

Clay John  - 23 March 2020

Custom sky shaders in Godot 4.0

Juan Linietsky  - 29 February 2020

Core refactoring progress report #1

Expecting a Vulkan progress report? Not this month! As Godot 3.2 was released by the end of January, February was purely dedicated to do large core refactoring in preparation for Godot 4.0. This is required to unblock other contributors and their areas.

Fabio Alessandrelli  - 25 February 2020

ENet with DTLS encryption in 4.0

Easy ENet high-level-multiplayer encryption via DTLS is coming in Godot 4.0.

Andrea Catania  - 19 February 2020

Navigation Server for Godot 4.0

Feature work has started for the upcoming Godot 4.0, and one of the first major changes is the integration of NavigationServer (and NavigationServer2D) to greatly improve and simplify the navigation workflow in Godot. This devblog shows how to set things up for a simple example with dynamic collision avoidance and runtime navigation mesh re-baking.

Juan Linietsky  - 28 January 2020

Vulkan progress report #6

It's been a while since the previous progress report, as I went on Vacation in November (did not take a vacation in years..), and December I had a lot of other engine related tasks that piled up that I had to solve. Work on Vulkan branch resumed at the beginning of January and significant progress was made already.

Fabio Alessandrelli  - 28 December 2019

HTML5 export profiling for Godot 4.0

HTML5 debug export profiling is coming for Godot 4.0

Bastiaan Olij  - 23 December 2019

Godot Oculus Quest support

Godot works on the Oculus Quest, find out more about getting up and running if you want to play around with it early.

Fabio Alessandrelli  - 28 November 2019

WebSocket SSL server, HTTP server for testing HTML5 builds

More networking improvements are coming in 3.2. WebSocketServer now has SSL support, and users can now test HTML5 export from the editor with one click.

Ignacio Roldán Etcheverry  - 15 November 2019

C# progress report: WebAssembly, MonoDevelop and AOT

Godot 3.2 brings WebAssembly support for C# games. There is also a new extension for Visual Studio for Mac and MonoDevelop and preliminary support for AOT compilation.

Yuri Roubinsky  - 11 November 2019

Major update for Visual Shaders in Godot 3.2 (part 2)

This is the second blog post describing enhancements for visual shaders and shader scripts landed in Godot 3.2. Much time and effort was spent adding a lot of new things to enhance the overall experience developing shaders.