Godot 4.3 is in beta, and progressing well towards stable. This beta 2 fixes many critical issues reported by testers of the previous snapshots.

GodotCon 24 will take place on the 12+13th of October in Berlin, Germany. The first batch of tickets as well as the call for speakers and exhibitors just went live. Sponsors welcome.

A non-production release for development and testing, which will hopefully lead to a “stable” release..
What’s Changed Since 3.7.0-beta.1:

#2275 Improve assertions for invalid transforms. by @richardTingle in #2276
Fix Casting error that occurred on c…

A non-production release for development and testing, which will hopefully lead to a “stable” release..
What’s Changed Since 3.7.0-beta.1:

override toString() in certain math classes by @stephengold in #2253
Added SoftBloomFilter by @codex128 in #2229…

As you can see from our increased frequency of news posts, we’re busy busy doing lots of things around the engine 🙂 The primary goal is to push engine 7.0-alpha.3 release out, with the bigger goal on the horizon to finally reach the mythical engine 7.0 release. And then of course do more things, planned …

I added a new example showcasing various engine features you can enable to optimize how animations are processed. It is present in examples/animations/optimize_animations_test subdirectory of the engine. Enjoy! Make sure to make a release (not debug) build to experiment with performance. On my system, I can make FPS between 15 and 60 (which is maximum …

We have recently updated our Castle Image Viewer to version 2.2.0. Castle Image Viewer is an image viewer developed using Castle Game Engine. It supports many image formats, including common formats (PNG, JPG…) but also some exotic formats useful in game development or just general 3D visualization (KTX, DDS, RGBE). It exposes even limited image …

In Godot 4.3, a large number of animation features have been reworked since 4.0, so it’s time to migrate your animations.