The Godot team have released Godot Engine 4.7, the latest major update for the free and open source cross-platform game engine and there's lots new.
Continuing to impress with the staggering amount of improvements that come with it. There's something for every kind of developer here - including support for Valve's new Steam Frame and Android XR.
Pictured - Godot Engine 4.7 - competitive scoring platformer template project
Some quick highlights:
- The brand new Asset Store has launched.
- Steam Frame and Android XR support.
- AreaLight3D, a new node for rectangular light sources.
- A new DrawableTexture2D API to easily draw on a texture.
- HDR output support.
- Vulkan subsampled images - dramatically improves performance of foveated rendering in the Vulkan Mobile render.
- Support for picture-in-picture.
- Allow moving and resizing the embedded game window.
- Initial touch support for Wayland on Linux.
- + Lots and lots more.
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Awesome! Already downloaded it
Impressive how this engine gets better and better
Impressive how this engine gets better and better
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For those wondering about Godot's XR support: out of the big three engines, it has probably the best tooling ([Godot XR Tools](https://github.com/GodotVR/godot-xr-tools) provides everything a beginner XR developer needs to get started making an XR game quickly) and [the best OpenXR support](https://github.khronos.org/OpenXR-Inventory/client_extension_support.html), but perhaps the worst performance, as Meta and Pico communicate with the other two commercial engines regularly and leave Godot in the dark about any API changes.
You absolutely can get the same performance by hacking into the Rendering Server, but it's quite advanced and not recommended for beginners.
You absolutely can get the same performance by hacking into the Rendering Server, but it's quite advanced and not recommended for beginners.
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