How excited are you for Godot 3.2?

Ebenezer

Another big release of godot 3.2 beta 1 version has been announced, how excited are you? You can find the news here: https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-3-2-alpha-1

Bye...

Megalomaniak

It's yet another big release, of course it is exciting - for different reasons to different people.

richard-kain

Most of the features that I consider "crucial" for my projects are already in Godot. So my enthusiasm is a little more limited. I look forward to the 3.1 release. But I also will likely continue to work with the current stable version before upgrading.

Ace_Dragon

I've been enjoying the benefits of the new stuff for a while now (thanks to Calinou's daily builds).

3.1 is currently shaping up to be a pretty good release on part with version 3, though it took a while to get there. I definitely wouldn't mind more frequent releases (even if it means they are smaller), if only for the reason to deliver new features to game developers faster (as many just use release builds).

Luto-Akino

:) Yes, I am. I have an intel hd graphics 3000 and the first time I met Godot I was so disappointed that my machine couldn't run it. the next day, I decided to see the old versions and finally I was able to run Godot v2.1. at first I had several problems trying to do the tutorial for version 3.0, but finally I was able to make it work in version 2.1. Making 2d games is easier and faster than on Unity, mainly talking about the aspect ratio and screen size resolutions where Unity needs more work as it is more focused on 3d. Although Godot API information needs more work. I'm excited to wait for Godot 3.1. :)

Ebenezer

I can't wait to get my hands on Godot 3.1. What I like most is the animation editor improvement.

Ebenezer

I am wondering if the size of godot 3.1 will be more between 40mb - 60mb or even more. Do anyone have an idea about it's size?

TwistedTwigleg

@Ebenezer said: I am wondering if the size of godot 3.1 will be more between 40mb - 60mb or even more. Do anyone have an idea about it's size?

If the nightly builds are anything to go by, then Godot 3.1 classic (not the mono version) should land around 22-30mb in size. Since Godot 3.1 is in a feature freeze, unless there is just a really big bug fix or something, the file size shouldn't grow dramatically larger than the current nightly builds.

Personally I'm excited for the IK system in Godot 3.1, that and OpenGL ES 2 on mobile. The IK system for some tutorials I want to get around to, and OpenGL ES 2 for potentially being able to port some projects to mobile devices at playable frame rates.

All in all, it should be a good release.

Ace_Dragon

@Ebenezer said: I am wondering if the size of godot 3.1 will be more between 40mb - 60mb or even more. Do anyone have an idea about it's size?

Even if Godot was 100 megs, the size would be peanuts compared to the amount of data you download to use a build of Unity, Unreal, and especially Lumberyard.

On Calinou's site, the zipped filesize of Godot itself is less than 30 megabytes, though the cumulative size of all the release templates are several times larger.

--- Another thing to note, we know the Godot devs. really want to get 3.1 out the door because they are even working the weekends now to eliminate as many bugs as possible.

Megalomaniak

They are still targeting the end of this month for release, we will see if a show-stopping bug will creep up or not, however hopefully not so the release can happen around the end of the month or right at the beginning of the next.

richard-kain

@TwistedTwigleg said: Personally I'm excited for the IK system in Godot 3.1, that and OpenGL ES 2 on mobile.

OpenGL ES 2 support is going to be a bit of an advantage for older and hardware-limited platforms. It will likely allow Godot to run capably on the Raspberry Pi, which is going to be an appealing feature for a lot of hobbyists. There are almost no game engines that run on single-board computers, especially with an editing environment.

beshur

@Richard Kain said:

@TwistedTwigleg said: Personally I'm excited for the IK system in Godot 3.1, that and OpenGL ES 2 on mobile.

OpenGL ES 2 support is going to be a bit of an advantage for older and hardware-limited platforms. It will likely allow Godot to run capably on the Raspberry Pi, which is going to be an appealing feature for a lot of hobbyists. There are almost no game engines that run on single-board computers, especially with an editing environment.

Doesn't Godot 2.x run on Raspberry Pi? It should use OpenGL 2 there.

Calinou

@beshur said: Doesn't Godot 2.x run on Raspberry Pi? It should use OpenGL 2 there.

It does, but Godot 3.0 supports only OpenGL ES 3.0. Godot 3.1 will have an OpenGL ES 2.0 renderer again (in addition to the GLES 3.0 renderer, which will be kept until it's replaced by the upcoming Vulkan renderer).

wombatstampede

I noticed a performance increase for OpenGL2 in the latest 3.1 beta 3. It is still not on par with godot 2.x performance (difficult to judge though) but they're getting there ;-)

richard-kain

I would imagine that some users would want the OpenGL ES 3, less for the overall performance than for some of it's specialized rendering features.

Of course, that's only going to be SOME people, not all. For my part, most of the projects I want to work on would not require OpenGL ES 3, and if performance benefits were in the cards for using OpenGL ES 2, I would gladly downgrade.

GarromOrcShaman

I'm very excited. GoDot 3.1 Is All around awesome. I'll just work on assets until 3.1 is out and then I glue all assets together jerky code.

Ebenezer

Yea, everyone using Godot are all excited.

GarromOrcShaman

@Ebenezer said: Yea, everyone using Godot are all excited.

What a surprise huh ? Is obvious we are excited. Just change of GUI gives it totally different feeling, in a good way. Just new animation system is enough to get hyped for. Just two rather small thing is enough to make crowd excited and now imagine changelog big enough to fill several A4 papers because that is changelog of GoDot 3.1. Amount of excitement is indescribable.

Ebenezer

Well, I am glad to announce that Godot 3.1 beta 10 is out and this is the last beta to be release the next release will be in few days time. You guys should be glad just in a matter of time to tell me what is new in Godot 3.1.

wombatstampede

I had regular crashes in godot until beta9. Then i did a debug build of godot and filed a ticket with the error msg. One day later the error was fixed. These guys are fast!