Godot 3.0 Released

Godot 3.0 is finally here!  Godot is an open source 2D/3D game engine and the 3.0 release brings a massive number of new features including a new 3D renderer, Bullet physics, C# support, OpenVR and Cardboard support, GDNative plugins and much more!  Stay tuned to GameFromScratch for some great new Godot 3 tutorials and more.  Our existing tutorial series is still about 90% valid if you are looking to get started today.

New features of this release taken from the Godot announcement blog:

• New physically based 3D renderer
  • Full principled BSDF
  • Global illumination (GI)
  • Mid- and post-processing
  • Materials and shaders
  • GPU particles
• New asset workflow
  • glTF 2.0 support
  • Improved OBJ support
  • SVG support
• GDNative
• Mono / C# support
• Visual Scripting
• GDScript
• New audio engine
• VR support
• Bullet Physics backend
• New networked multiplayer API
• Rewritten export system
• IPv6 support
• WebAssembly and WebGL 2.0 support
• New editor theme and customization
• Auto-tiling in tile maps
• Improved flat style box
• Font oversampling
• Custom hardware cursor
• Greatly improved 3D editor viewport
• Console support
• And hundreds of other improvements

You can get more detail in our hands on video available here and embedded below.

GameDev News Godot

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