That year should bring the long-awaited OpenGL ES 3.0 compatible renderer
with state-of-the-art rendering techniques tuned to work as low as middle
end handheld devices - without compromising with the possibilities given
for higher end desktop games of course. Great times ahead for the Godot
community and the gamers that will play our games!
(cherry picked from commit c7bc44d5ad)
You can't set this value very well, since it's automatically computed
from the mass and the collision shapes. But since the values are higher
than many people might suspect, so being able to read it helps estimate
the amount of torque you might need to apply.
-ItemList control for easier lists/thumbnails
-New file dialog, with support for thumbnails, favorites, recent places,
etc
-Moved .fscache out of the project, no more bugs due to committed/pulled
.fscache!
-Dir dialog now sorts directories
-KinematicBody2D::move now properly recognizes collision exceptions and masks, fixes#1649
-Removed object type masking for KinematicBody2D
-Added a test_motion() function to RigidBody2D, allowing simlar behavior to KinematicBody2D::move there.
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-Removed "density" property
-Added instead more flexible "angular damp" and "linear damp"
-Added ability to override angular and linear damp in rigidbody
-Added gravity scale option rigidbody
Test well and iron out bugs, when it works the same will be moved to 3D
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Curse the day I decided to port UDP code, as it ended up
being two nights of work. At least It's done now (I hope).
-Fixed UDP Support, API seems stable
-Added UDP Chat demo (chat that can lose your packets, heh)
-Added helpers to areas and bodies to get list of collided bodies and contained bodies.
-Sped up screen/viewport capture code.
-Added code to save an image as PNG
-Small fix so scripts register their singletons after modules did.
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-Fixed some DAE import & export bugs
-Changed Collada exporter to use the mesh loops API
-Added tangent export to Collada exporter
-Added triangulation option to Collada exporter
-Changed a little how normalmaps are handled in shader. Not sure if it's working properly, be careful.
-Fixed some strange bug with kinematic bodies #776
-Fix release compilaiton issues #782
-WorldEnvironment cleanup issues fixed (#563)
-Text Editor improvement to shift-mouse selection (#648)
-(Hopefully) fixed rare (but horrible) indexing bug in GDScript compiler (#652)
-Some changes to PhysicsBody API, renamed property "active" to "sleeping", which makes more sense
-Added add_collision_exception() API in PhysicsBody (more accessible)
-ability to select and copy in the output messages panel
-IMA-ADPCM support for samples, this means that sound effects can be compressed and use 4 timess less RAM.
-New 3D import workflow based on Wavefront OBJ. Import single objects as mesh resources instead of full scenes. Many people prefers to work this way. Just like the rest of the imported resources, these are updated in realtime if modified externally.
-Mesh resources now support naming surfaces. This helps reimporting to identify which user-created materials must be kept.
-Several fixes and improvements to SurfaceTool.
-Anti Aliasing added to WorldEnvironment effects (using FXAA)
-2D Physics bodies (RigidBody, KinematicBody, etc), Raycasts, Tilemap, etc support collision layers. This makes easy to group which objects collide against which.
-2D Trigger shapes can now also trigger collision reporting in other 2D bodies (it used to be in Area2D before)
-Viewport render target textures can now be filtered.
-Few fixes in GDscript make it easier to work with static functions and class members.
-Several and many bugfixes.