Godot Digest 17
This is the most petite edition so far. That being said, Godot 4.4.1 is out with more than 120 fixes!
Official News
The first maintenance release for Godot 4.4 is available for download. Godot 4.4.1 has over 120 fixes. In particular, this release includes fixes to security vulnerabilities in the mbedTLS library. For that reason, if your project uses networking functionalities, it is strongly recommended that you update to this version. For the complete list of changes, check the official blog post.
https://godotengine.org/article/maintenance-release-godot-4-4-1/
From the Community
Here are some of the latest tutorials and resources from the Godot community.
How to make Battle City | Part 2 — CyberPotato
This is the third part of the tutorial series on recreating the classic game Battle City. This video will focus on implementing the player shooting mechanics and projectile-brick collision.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwiMJYPRE0s
Julia set shader + mouse events — FencerDevLog
In this video, we will make a shader that reacts to mouse clicks and movements.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQYqRHL6V8E
Boost Performance with GPU Instancing | Voxel Terrain #4 — MakerTech
This video is part of a series of tutorials for creating a voxel terrain. We will see how we can use GPU Instancing to optimize our rendering.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82gZT9MIXXY
How to Make a Ninja Platformer — Heartbeast
Continuing with the tutorial series on building a ninja platformer, we have some new videos.
In Part 5, we will focus on attack animations for the player.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtH6_EctXh4
Part 6 is about player input and movement polish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6371vyyOPQ
Part 7 will cover creating a fine state machine for the player (movement states).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0jbdJt0auY
Make better animations with Tweens —Queble
Tweens are fantastic for implementing animations quickly, and are especially useful when you don't know the starting point of your animation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUyQzjpRsU8
Inspector Buttons are straightforward now —Octodemy
This short video explains how to use the new inspector button decorator in 4.4 and UndoRed actions for your tools.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbrraAFnZe4
Endless Runner —FinePointCGI
Walk-through video on creating an endless runner-style game from scratch!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq6jz0cglMc
Make Godot a bit more modern —CyberPotato
Nice video on how to change not only the theme but also the script experience in the IDE. I tried it myself, and the result was quite pleasant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYt4-eBWTKo
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