All cool things Godot Engine
Multi-level house via stacked 3D viewports -- each floor is a separate scene overlaid in the viewport. Global NPCs never unload: they pathfind between floors via a warp connection graph, open doors in remote levels, and can chase the player through the entire building.
Randomized 2D avatar parts bloated a project to 100k+ files -- editor search and exports went from seconds to minutes. Fix: separate Godot project for static assets, exported as PCK, loaded at runtime. Short video in post; EditorPlugin triggers re-export from main project.
Xogot -- the full Godot editor running natively on iOS, iPadOS, and visionOS -- was featured by Apple in the WWDC26 Platforms State of the Union today. See it at 27:40: youtube.com/watch?v=yl2jsIoMfDU
Godot 4.7 RC 1: 16 contributors, 16 fixes. All features are locked in -- no critical regressions. 4.7 highlights: HDR output, Asset Store, drawable textures. RC1 fixes: ResourceLoader & CanvasRenderRD deadlocks, ZIPPacker empty dir entries, Metal residency capped to Apple6+.
GodotSharp.SourceGenerators 2.7.0: new AnimNames (typed anim names from .tres/.tscn), AudioBus, AutoEnum, GlobalGroups, Instantiable, ResourceTree, Rpc wrappers, Shader/ShaderGlobals uniform access, Singleton, and TR (translation keys from CSV). Available via NuGet for C# Godot projects.
Bramwell Williams set out to make a Bullet Hell with one script -- and ended up with zero. Player movement, health tracking via RigidBody simulation, and random game state, all without a single .gd file. A look at just how versatile Godot can be. Play it: bramwell.itch.io/codeless-dodgems
Mandelbox variant as a sky shader: player/cam position and rotation fed into eyedir. Collisions use the same raymarching distance estimator as the renderer -- no separate physics geometry needed. Multiple levels in progress; gameplay concept still TBD.
Godot's built-in Camera2D smoothing is frame-rate dependent -- it can jerk wildly on dips even when the camera isn't moving. Fix: apply lerp in _process using 1.0 - exp(-smoothing_speed * safe_delta) for true framerate independence. Clamp delta to min(delta, 1.0/30.0) to prevent wild jumps.
Physically-based hair cards in Godot: Marschner R/TT/TRT scattering lobes, energy-conserving longitudinal distribution (d'Eon et al.), Karis multiple-scattering approx. Hair models from CT2Hair dataset via UE5's Hair Card Generator. Full source + shader: github.com/2Retr0/GodotHair
4-slide infographic reference for Godot's value-handling built-ins: max/min, abs, clamp, lerp, lerp_angle, inverse_lerp, remap, ease, and smoothstep -- each with code examples. Typed variants (e.g. floori()) noted. Bonus in comments: framerate-independent lerp via B + (A - B) * exp(-decay * delta).