Godot Engine 4.0 has been released per official announcement. With version 4.0, Godot has gone through “3+ years of breaking and rebuilding from the ground up, a complete core overhaul and a full engine rewrite, through 17 alphas, 17 betas and 6 release candidates“. The announcement post is credited to “2000+ Godot contributors.”
It’s a great milestone for Godot, but the work is far from finished. There are still aspects of Godot 4 that feel rough that are likely to be addressed in the coming days, weeks, and months with point releases.
Per feedback, we’ve exposed more inventory user interface component signals to make it easier to react to slot/item interactions with custom logic. New features: In addition, these bug fixes are included:
This release finally uses Godot Engine 4.4. It adds the GGCraftingSystem singleton and updates the GGInteractable2DStrategyCrafting class to use it. The crafting editor nodes now have prefixes, which makes it much easier to search for specific recipe or item nodes in larger crafting libraries. Some syntactic sugar was added as well. You can now easily …
Ever had the problem where you’re firing a bullet or some kind of projectile at high speeds, and it just goes right through the collision object, instead of hitting it? Here’s a weapon that fires a bullet at random velocities, to demonstrate the issue: The bullets impact the character in various places, rather than at …
A smaller update. The inventory components now have custom icons to make it easier to tell them apart. This release also includes additional bug fixes:
Godot Engine 4.0 released!
Godot Engine 4.0 has been released per official announcement. With version 4.0, Godot has gone through “3+ years of breaking and rebuilding from the ground up, a complete core overhaul and a full engine rewrite, through 17 alphas, 17 betas and 6 release candidates“. The announcement post is credited to “2000+ Godot contributors.”
It’s a great milestone for Godot, but the work is far from finished. There are still aspects of Godot 4 that feel rough that are likely to be addressed in the coming days, weeks, and months with point releases.
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Per feedback, we’ve exposed more inventory user interface component signals to make it easier to react to slot/item interactions with custom logic. New features: In addition, these bug fixes are included:
Inventory System 2 Alpha 4 available
This release finally uses Godot Engine 4.4. It adds the GGCraftingSystem singleton and updates the GGInteractable2DStrategyCrafting class to use it. The crafting editor nodes now have prefixes, which makes it much easier to search for specific recipe or item nodes in larger crafting libraries. Some syntactic sugar was added as well. You can now easily …
Projectiles going through collision objects
Ever had the problem where you’re firing a bullet or some kind of projectile at high speeds, and it just goes right through the collision object, instead of hitting it? Here’s a weapon that fires a bullet at random velocities, to demonstrate the issue: The bullets impact the character in various places, rather than at …
Inventory System v1.4 available
A smaller update. The inventory components now have custom icons to make it easier to tell them apart. This release also includes additional bug fixes: