Long time ago, we had to disable optimizations with FPC on Aarch64 (64-bit Arm) as they were too unstable. But were happy to revert this 🙂 With FPC >= 3.2.2, optimizations on Aarch64 work flawlessly, and so we enable them. This affects Android, iOS and macOS Silicon targets. The optimizations will remain disabled if the …

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 …