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.
A new version of the Inventory System is available. This release includes a new structure placement feature and improves crafting. Structure Placement Players can now place structures from their inventory. When using an inventory item representing a structure, the player is prompted to select where to place it. The included demo lets players place an …
This release improves weight management. Inventories can now configure an option weight limit, and item stacking and item transfer strategies are weight-aware. The crafting demo and crafting mechanic in the inventory tour have been improved. Auto-crafting is limited to the crafting slide, so that items don’t automatically and unexpectedly get crafted while stepping through the …
The first alpha of the inventory system v2 is now available. For v2, a lot of refactoring work has been done with a focus on improving the developer experience. As part of that, the naming convention of the addon classes was streamlined and is more consistent now. The GDScript documentation comments have been improved significantly …
Are you using @onready to reference nodes? There’s a better way! Here’s a simple example of how many tutorials use @onready to reference nodes: That script is attached to a CanvasLayer node with a ProgressBar called HealthBar. And yet, when running the scene, it will throw an error: This is because there’s actually a spelling …
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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