Like in previous years, Godot is participating again in the Google Summer of Code program for its 2022 edition.
This year we selected 3 projects, and the 3 students and their mentors have now been working on their projects for two months. We asked them…

A few improvements to the drag-and-drop experience in our editor: You can drag-and-drop from “Files” to “Hierarchy” panel. This will add a child to the currently selected item in the tree view. You can drag-and-drop images from “Files” to the central design area even when you’re not over a viewport. From such image, we will …

We’ve made some small updates to how bump mapping (normal maps) work and wrote a nice simple documentation how to use bump mapping in our engine. Advised reading: bump mapping (normal maps) in Castle Game Engine. The default bump mapping is now bmBasic, this is much more natural than previous bmSteepParallaxShadowing. Using the parallax bump …

After 9 months of development, Godot 3.5 is out and it comes fully packed with features and quality of life improvements!
While most development focus is on our upcoming Godot 4.0 release, many contributors and users want a robust and mature 3.x branch…

How to assign normalmaps to materials in Blender, how to export them to glTF and then observe normalmaps in Castle Game Engine. Bonus: I also describe how to bake normalmaps in Blender. Another day, another video, I hope you like it 🙂

It’s been a while since our last stable release! And this is not the long anticipated 3.5, nor 4.0, but simply a Godot 3.4.5 maintenance release to fix a handful of issues in the current 3.4 stable branch.
But don’t worry – the feature release 3.5 is j…

Andrzej Kilijański is working on joints in our physics in Castle Game Engine. This is a short video from our today’s session, constructing a quick 3D demo scene for hinges 🙂 (Watch on youtube).