First of all, sorry for a relatively silent last month when it comes to the Castle Game Engine news. It was actually an incredibly busy June, and I’m going to prove it by posting lots of news in the upcoming days 🙂 Let’s start with a new example, Shader Effects On Texture (examples/viewport_and_scenes/shader_effects_on_texture). This example …

We want to learn more about the Godot community, understand who the users of the engine are, and find out how we can better support you.

Godot will be present at gamescom latam once again: meet contributors and fellow gamedevs at the booth, or sign up to our very own party!

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 …