Lots of things are happening on the XR front with Godot, so time for a long overdue update blog post.
Godot 4 XR
Highlights
At the end of last year, we had rounded off most of the core changes in Godot 4 to support XR. We had XR fully working through O…

I wrote this announcement a ~week ago, which feels like ancient times now. Since then, Russia attacked Ukraine. Right now bombs are falling on the heads of people in Ukraine, including people who use and develop CGE, including my friends and their families. I feel terrified, outraged and powerless — this horrible thing just happened, …

In parallel to our work on the upcoming feature releases Godot 3.5 (with a first beta) and 4.0 (now at alpha 3!), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 branch for use in production.
A number of such fixes have been queued in the two months sinc…

A small convenience when writing float values: you can input an expression, like pi, pi / 2 or 2/3 instead of typing the actual value (3.14…, 1.57…, 0.6666….). Any expression using CastleScript is allowed. This is nice e.g. for angles for which we use radians (consistent with X3D, OpenGL, many other APIs). So you have …

We’re continuing on our fortnightly release schedule for alpha snapshots of Godot 4.0 – this time with 4.0 alpha 3. See past alpha releases for details (alpha 1, alpha 2).
Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or…

Two news about our class: The and are now (again) advised to be used through these simple names. There is no more need to use the names with Base suffix, and . They are now just deprecated aliases to the simpler names without the Base suffix. Underneath, this happened because of a change I announced …

New method allows to map a viewport (3D) position into user interface (2D) position. This allows to: Place UI element exactly where some 3D thing is. The example examples/viewport_and_scenes/position_from_world shows how to position a so that it always remains at the middle, regardless of how you move and zoom the camera. It comes down to …

For almost three years we’ve been using the Godot Improvement Proposals (GIP) repository to help track feature suggestions and enhancement ideas for the engine from its users. Over time, the project has accumulated over two thousand open proposal issue…

In parallel to our work on Godot 3.5 (with a first beta) and 4.0 (now at alpha 2!), we backport important fixes to the stable 3.4 branch for use in production.
A number of such fixes have been queued since the 3.4.2 release, so we’re getting ready to r…