Development snapshot #4 of Godot Engine 4.1 is here.
Among many other changes, it fixes a lighting issue related to using Light-only mode in CanvasItemMaterial (#44559). Unfortunately, it also introduced a UX issue with gradient color pickers (#77745), which makes it quite difficult to work with gradients at all. If you use gradients, I recommend sticking to dev3 for now.
I’m wrapping up development on version 1 of the Inventory System, which is currently at v1.18.1. All core functionality is in place, and it provides many quality-of-life features. The guide covers and walks through most of the code base, and the demo projects show off a lot of use cases. This first version has been …
It’s been about a year since Valve announced the Steam Deck. Back then, I pre-ordered it as soon as I could, then things were quiet for a year. A few days ago I received the availability notice: I completed the purchase, and it arrived a few days later. Steam Deck Arrival I unpacked it, plugged …
I had a setup with nested CanvasLayer nodes. Toggling the visibility of the root CanvasLayer doesn’t hide any nested CanvasLayer nodes. My solution was to listen to the visibility_changed signal, find any CanvasLayer child nodes, and apply the same visibility to them.
Godot Engine 4.1.dev4 is available
Development snapshot #4 of Godot Engine 4.1 is here.
Among many other changes, it fixes a lighting issue related to using Light-only mode in CanvasItemMaterial (#44559). Unfortunately, it also introduced a UX issue with gradient color pickers (#77745), which makes it quite difficult to work with gradients at all. If you use gradients, I recommend sticking to dev3 for now.
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