Godot 4.5 dev 2: The 250 Improvements Ready to Roll

With 4.4 Exit A little a month ago, one might expect that content updates are slowing down for our initial 4.5 development snapshots. … well, maybe not after seeing the 4.5 Dev 1 Snapshot, but Certainly They can't follow that to another flood of expected changes, right?

Fools ka. Underestimate the desire of our community again, as 250 The improvements are ready to roll for this snapshot. What else is, unlike the last time, we are not Basy In the Bugfix territory. Now the time for proper enhancements and features that are completely unique in this development came, and this blogpost aims to highlight them to the best of our ability. As usual: in new features new bugs come (probably), so the sooner we get feedback and bug reports, the better.

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Highlights

If you ever missed them, see the 4.5 Dev 1 Release the notes for a general meal of some basic features that already have that snapshot, and therefore still available for testing in Dev 2.

Dedicated 2D Navigation Server

For the longest time, the navigation server is a single animal. 3D and 2D, Yin and Yang, two sides of the same coin. While beautiful at a philosophical level and undoubtedly a heart-wrenching screenplay waiting to happen, it is a relatively sour deal for the 2D part of things. In the past, if you were making a 2D game and would like to use a Completely See a bump on output size.

The steps were taken during the initial 4.5 period to ensure that the logic of navigation was cleaner and fixed, led by our navigation Guru Smix8, but nothing could be possible without a clean splitting of the navigation server on Twain. The longtime contributing athusherships took the mantle into this project, and he successfully achieved this goal with the GH-101504. From now on, users can select/disable navigation modules for 2D and/or 3D, rather than forcing an all-or-no ultimatum.

Reorganized Shader Editor UI

The editor experience for shaders and visual shaders gained some TLC in the GH-100287. Yuri Rubinsky's helmed, this PR provides a lot of requested features and updates of QOL to our shading friends. Below is a preview image taken directly from the PR in question, where you will find more information on what to expect when you get your hands on this snapshot.

Editor's Language Change without being able to

Godot has built-in support for handling multiple languages, both for the games you created and the editor itself. However, in contrast to the games built using the machine, it is not possible to change the current language on-the-fly right inside the editor. Our editor expert Tomasz Chabora has responded to this issue with GH-102562, ensuring that users can change their preferred language within the same editor session! While this is a relatively niche, our stance on comfort and accession is one that we take seriously, and a seamless/stitched editor experience is exactly the kind of thing we want as many users as possible to enjoy.

Fragment Density Map Support

When rendering for VR headsets, the pixels around the outside of the viewport are insignificant, as they are a bit annoyed by the lens, and the players tend to rotate their heads instead of moving their eyes too far in the middle.

Godot has already supported the use of the extension of the Vulkan “fragment shading rate” to provide outside viewport to a lower resolution, leading to performance improvements with a slightly noticeable decrease in quality. However, in standalone VR headsets (such as meta quest), this extension is not supported, or does not provide significant improving performance as an extension of the “Vulkan fragment density.

In GH-99551, rendering expert Dariosamo has implemented support for the “fragment density map” extension, making the Vulkan Mobile Renderer more viable for VR with standalone headsets.

WAYLAND: Native sub-window support

Thanks to Riteo's tireless effort, the Wayland of X11 was given first-class treatment in Godot. It is a long road to stand as an equivalent of such a dominant display server protocol, but it is closer to each passing PR; Even some are hesitant to make a change for one reason: lack of native sub-window. Taking this obstruction for consistency is no little hope, but this is a requirement for supporting embedded Windows Windows in Wayland, so (GH-101774) this happened at all:

And more!

There are many Kapana -exciting changes to list everything here, but here's a curated choice:

• 2D: Optimize the availability of ViewononsCreennotifier2D (GH-100874).
• 3D: Allow Path3D Debug color customization (GH-82321) color.
• Animation: Add delta argument to _process_modification() number _process_modification_with_delta(delta) and expose advance() In Skeleton3D (GH-103639).
• Animation: Add movement of the Selection/Scale box to the Bezier animation editor (GH-100470).
• CORE: I -Optimize Object::cast_to By assuming no virtual and many inheritance, getting 7x throughput over dynamic_cast (GH-103708).
• Editor: Add UID to file tooltip (GH-105069).
• Editor: Improve Default/No Query Fast Open Dialog Behavior (GH-104061).
• Editor: Remove the new prefix from the editorresourcepicker (GH-104604).
• Export: Updates and repairs to Android Prebuilt Export Logic (GH-103173).
• GDScript: Return in advance when parsing an invalid Super Call (GH-104509).
• GUI: Improve the popup content_scale_factor (GH-104399).
• GUI: I -Optimize start -up times by using ubrk_clone instead of ubrk_open (GH-104455).
• GUI: Scroll EditorInspector While dragging and drop hovering near the edges (GH-103943).
• Import: Load a decompressable texture format if no one is supported one is found (GH-104590).
• Navigation: Allow compiling templates without navigation features (GH-104811).
• Physics: Allow compiling templates without physics servers (GH-103373).
• Physics: Jolt: Update to 5.3.0 (GH-104449).
• Porting: Android: Add a Editor Setting to Enable/Disable TouchActionsPanel (GH-105015).
• Porting: Android: Add Support for Mute Game Toggle (GH-104409).
• Porting: Android: Auto Create nomedia File to hide project files in media apps (GH-104970).
• Porting: Linux: Detective KDE/LXQT and change OK/Cancel the Windows style buttons (GH-104959).
• Porting: Macos: Replace custom main loop with [NSApp run] and CFRunLoop Observer (GH-104397).
• Porting: Macos: Support more controllers in Macos 11+ (GH-104619).
• Rendering: Avoid using a global variable to store an index example on canvas shader items in RD Renderer (GH-105037).
• XR: i -Deactivate the CameraServer By default (GH-104232).
• XR: OpenXR: Cleaning OpenXRExtensionWrapper By removing a lot of inheritance and withdrawing OpenXRExtensionWrapperExtension (GH-104087).

Changelog

90 contributors submitted 250 repair For this release. See our Interactive Changelog For the complete list of changes since the past 4.5-DEV1 snapshot.

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Known issues

There are currently no known issues introduced by this release.

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