new godot 4.6 editor theme PR is up! 🎉

Here's how you can increase productivity with accelerator keys in godot ✨

lets pretend this is useful for something

yep balls

Simple height blend shader in godot (+zip included)

Reflection probe preview addon for godot

Sharing a small addon to inspect resources with single click in godot: passivestar.xyz/posts/single...

can't say I remember making this godot project in 1979, but my computer probably knows better

Apparently godot engine contribution docs are now their own site. It's pretty thorough and beginner friendly, can recommend if you wanna help make the engine better for everyone contributing.godotengine.org

if you're on mac I recommend holding off updating to macOS 26 because running any electron app causes the entire OS to stutter 😆

#GodotEngine 4.5 has finally arrived! 🎉 With this new release, we made meticulous efforts in order to amplify what is possible to do with our engine, guided by our goal of making gaming and game development for everyone! godotengine.org/releases/4.5/

How to make a light beam shader in godot + download

added animated noise to the scam lightbeam shader

making HL2 inspired Z-billboarded volumetric light shader in godot. love this trick for how stupidly effective it is for distant lights

quick intro to smart materials in ucupaint

took me bit too long to realize but size-aware gradient is possible if you use "Generated" coordinates in blender. they regenerate when you exit edit mode. makes it possible to have smart materials that make the bottom of the model dirty

godot 4.6 will likely have support for specular light in baked lightmaps

improving floater baking in ucupaint: can now bake directly into a layer mask + they get hidden after bake + some other QOL features

would be nice if dropping materials onto selected faces in edit mode was a thing

working on a ucupaint feature to copy layers from the asset library this will give us a good smart layer/mask workflow

nothing puts an artist in a creative mood as much as writing a few hundred lines of boilerplate shader code to blend some PBR materials together 😂

mmmm I probably need some kind of a layering framework for godot shaders because simple things are unnecessarily complicated to make and reuse

Sharing all of my blender texturing secrets in this in-depth ucupaint guide, hope it helps 🙂

btw did you know you can bake textures of other objects into ucupaint layers?

wish I could paste clipboard images into blender without saving them to files

working on this godot plugin that spews out blender python code for every node property that was modified on a node after import so that data could be preserved on copies of objects when using blender as a level editor

Submissions are now closed and decided 👀 While confirmations go out to speakers, we'd like to thank the committee for their help! Stay tuned for lots of upcoming spotlights for #GodotFest

btw now that I have dashboards I can make quality presets that match shadowmap sizes to proper shadow biases to quickly preview cinematic quality its like seeing in HD for the first time in godot

S-tier type shit

uber-dashboard to edit other dashboards, we in the endgame now

dashboard item that affects all nodes of type in a scene will prob be most useful for getting single nodes though, like DirectionalLight3D or WorldEnvironment to make one dashboard work for different scenes where they appear at different paths

it seems modifier stack UI is useless for things that can't be computed in realtime because there's no way to bake from it, there's only a node it's weird because bake is needed per project rather than at graph authoring time

procedural lens flares dont need light sources so you can drop threshold way down and enjoy flares from lit concrete if that's the artistic vision

wip procedural lens flares like in cyberpunk

dont forget to water your suzanne

tryna make a caustics shader or smth

wild things are possible with tool resources

Working on this idea of a proxy inspector in godot It's a resource class that lets you edit props of other objects. An inspector for workflows rather than nodes. You can have many different proxy inspectors for different workflows. No plugins

I have a better idea: S Software You just download it and keep it. When you make money with it you donate some of it back so support it Oh wait

Godot may get approximate specular light from baked directional lightmaps, which is huge github.com/godotengine/...

Blender productivity tip: instead of using workspaces you can just switch the panel type, it support accelerator keys: Click + S = Shader Editor Click + G = Geonodes Click + C = Compositor Click + A = Asset browser Click + F = File browser Click + 3 = UV editor etc, look at underlined letters

made a plugin to open the gizmo menu under mouse cursor via a hotkey because it's faster

experimenting with lighting in godot again

Starting next week (hopefully) I'll be streaming on the main Godot YouTube channel talking about what we have been doing and what we plan to do on the future. If there is any questions you would like to ask, please reply or send me a DM!

makes it look like unreal so hopefully unreal users will accidentally switch over because they wont be able to tell the difference anymore

new godot editor theme in 4.6 possibly maybe

godot just reached 100k github stars 🎉 📈

good vibes

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