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…

I created a nice documentation about managing states. Some of this information was already available, but scattered over the manual and not so clearly organized. The new page should serve as a clear documentation how states are supposed to be used. We have a nice list of TCastleTransform descendants with screenshots in the manual page …

I added and to easier load designed UI in , and even see the designed UI in Lazarus form inspector. The short documentation is added to TCastleControl chapter. Our engine examples examples/lazarus/model_3d_with_2d_controls and examples/lazarus/two_controls use it already.

We have made a significant change to how our vectors are declared. They now have X, Y, Z, W as fields (not properties), and the compiler will prevent you from falling into a trap of writing Scene.Translation.X := Scene.Translation.X + 10; Like in the below testcase: uses SysUtils, CastleScene, CastleVectors; var S: TCastleScene; begin S …