A great deal of effort went into this update and has quite a few exciting enhancements. There's just so much! You'll have to click the link and check it out for yourself. Happy game developing!
Free & Open Source Software
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The free and open source game engine got another update last week, thanks to a continued increase in attention and financial support! There are quite a few really cool things in this update, some of which I intend to use include the addition of code regions that let you mark out areas of code for folding, labeling and commenting in/out. Importing 3D assets is much better now, you don't need to restart the editor when making changes to your import settings. There's also been improvements to format support/conversion for the importer. There have been a lot of improvements everywhere so you should take a look at the link yourself!
Check out the new stable and current build of Godot with quite a few changes from the last stable version (3.5). Almost everything in the engine has been improved including: 3D rendering, level editing, visual effects, shader editing, scripting (both GDScript and C#), physics, XR/VR, networking, audio, and animation. Check the link for more details.
And while these features are quite a step up for many developers, more importantly the core of the engine's code has been improved which may not be obvious to users of the engine apart from performance improvements. What this means is future development on the engine has been made better to maintain and expand than before. This is the key that makes Godot 4 such an important update for the future of the engine.
I am personally very excited to see a free and open source project reach such a goal. This is an impressive engine for such a small package and will enable a lot of creative people to realize their game and software creating dreams.
You can also watch the full breakdown of the engine's features by GDQuest here: