4 years of development.
12,000 merged pull requests.
7,000 fixed issues.
1,500 individual contributors across engine and docs.
The Godot 4.0 release is by all metrics our biggest release so far.
No stone has been left unturned, all parts of the engine have been
modernized, refactored, overhauled, rewritten, redesigned.
Our work is far from done. Many areas still have significant known issues,
and will require focused work from all willing contributors to fix blocking
bugs, implement missing features, optimize for performance or compatibility,
and improve the user experience.
But Godot 4.0 marks the start of the new, modern Godot Engine, and a solid
foundation for us all to build upon. Future 4.x releases will come with a
much faster cadence, enabling us to iterate quickly on new features and
improvements to what we already provide.
To all of you who were involved in making Godot 4.0 what it is today, however
big or small your contributions were:
THANK YOU!
This was a massive undertaking, and you all participated in unique and
wonderful ways to build a free and open source game engine for everyone to
use and enjoy. You are breathtaking! <3
The default environment already includes everything we need to build
all our configurations.
Remove custom SwiftShader setup as lavapipe should now be good enough,
but we need to install the latest one.
As many open source projects have started doing it, we're removing the
current year from the copyright notice, so that we don't need to bump
it every year.
It seems like only the first year of publication is technically
relevant for copyright notices, and even that seems to be something
that many companies stopped listing altogether (in a version controlled
codebase, the commits are a much better source of date of publication
than a hardcoded copyright statement).
We also now list Godot Engine contributors first as we're collectively
the current maintainers of the project, and we clarify that the
"exclusive" copyright of the co-founders covers the timespan before
opensourcing (their further contributions are included as part of Godot
Engine contributors).
Also fixed "cf." Frenchism - it's meant as "refer to / see".
Follow-up to https://github.com/godotengine/godot-cpp/pull/960.
Fix exit code for --dump-extension-api and --dump-gdextension-interface.
Removed the planned API validation step as we still didn't implement
anything, and maintaining a stub isn't useful.
Non-exhaustive list of case-sensitive renames:
GDExtension -> GDNative
GDNATIVE -> GDEXTENSION
gdextension -> gdnative
ExtensionExtension ->Extension (for where there was GDNativeExtension)
EXTENSION_EXTENSION ->EXTENSION (for where there was GDNATIVE_EXTENSION)
gdnlib -> gdextension
gdn_interface -> gde_interface
gdni -> gde_interface
Add export options to set Settings and Notification icons on export.
Automatically fill background of the app store icon instead of failing (with warning).
Update development region to use `en` instead of `English`.
- Removed empty paragraphs in XML.
- Consistently use bold style for "Example:", on a new line.
- Fix usage of `[code]` when hyperlinks could be used (`[member]`, `[constant]`).
- Fix invalid usage of backticks for inline code in BBCode.
- Fix some American/British English spelling inconsistencies.
- Other minor fixes spotted along the way, including typo fixes with codespell.
- Don't specify `@GlobalScope` for `enum` and `constant`.
It was failing due to generated files being referenced in
.NET projects but the files are missing because they are
generated by `godot --generate-mono-glue` or
`build_assemblies.py`.
Uses html-eslint for HTML file and eslint-plugin-html for inline
JavaScript.
Use HTML5 (not XHTML), remove CDATA and trailing slashes for self
closing tags.
Add format checks to CI.
Implements https://github.com/godotengine/godot-proposals/issues/3371.
New `target` presets
====================
The `tools` option is removed and `target` changes to use three new presets,
which match the builds users are familiar with. These targets control the
default optimization level and enable editor-specific and debugging code:
- `editor`: Replaces `tools=yes target=release_debug`.
* Defines: `TOOLS_ENABLED`, `DEBUG_ENABLED`, `-O2`/`/O2`
- `template_debug`: Replaces `tools=no target=release_debug`.
* Defines: `DEBUG_ENABLED`, `-O2`/`/O2`
- `template_release`: Replaces `tools=no target=release`.
* Defines: `-O3`/`/O2`
New `dev_build` option
======================
The previous `target=debug` is now replaced by a separate `dev_build=yes`
option, which can be used in combination with either of the three targets,
and changes the following:
- `dev_build`: Defines `DEV_ENABLED`, disables optimization (`-O0`/`/0d`),
enables generating debug symbols, does not define `NDEBUG` so `assert()`
works in thirdparty libraries, adds a `.dev` suffix to the binary name.
Note: Unlike previously, `dev_build` defaults to off so that users who
compile Godot from source get an optimized and small build by default.
Engine contributors should now set `dev_build=yes` in their build scripts or
IDE configuration manually.
Changed binary names
====================
The name of generated binaries and object files are changed too, to follow
this format:
`godot.<platform>.<target>[.dev][.double].<arch>[.<extra_suffix>][.<ext>]`
For example:
- `godot.linuxbsd.editor.dev.arm64`
- `godot.windows.template_release.double.x86_64.mono.exe`
Be sure to update your links/scripts/IDE config accordingly.
More flexible `optimize` and `debug_symbols` options
====================================================
The optimization level and whether to generate debug symbols can be further
specified with the `optimize` and `debug_symbols` options. So the default
values listed above for the various `target` and `dev_build` combinations
are indicative and can be replaced when compiling, e.g.:
`scons p=linuxbsd target=template_debug dev_build=yes optimize=debug`
will make a "debug" export template with dev-only code enabled, `-Og`
optimization level for GCC/Clang, and debug symbols. Perfect for debugging
complex crashes at runtime in an exported project.
- `_DEBUG` is MSVC specific so it didn't make much sense to define for
Android and iOS builds.
- iOS was the only platform to define `DEBUG`. We don't use it anywhere
outside thirdparty code, which we usually don't intend to debug, so it
seems better to be consistent with other platforms.
- Consistently define `NDEBUG` to disable assert behavior in both `release`
and `release_debug` targets. This used to be set for `release` for all
platforms, and `release_debug` for Android and iOS only.
- Due to the above, I removed the only use we made of `assert()` in Godot
code, which was only implemented for Unix anyway, should have been
`DEV_ENABLED`, and is in PoolAllocator which we don't actually use.
- The denoise and recast modules keep defining `NDEBUG` even for the `debug`
target as we don't want OIDN and Embree asserting all over the place.
When going from version 14 to 15 it would introduce a tiny change in
`websocket_macros.h` just before the comment re-enabling clang-format,
but this can be solved by just letting it do its work.
Bonus cosmetic change in `math_fieldwise.cpp` where clang-format isn't
used, and bump recommended versions for pre-commit hook to [13; 15].
We want to replace libnethost as it gives us issues with some compilers.
Our implementation tries to mimic libnethost's hostfxr_resolver search
logic. We try to use the same function names for easier comparing in
case we need to update this in the future.
Use isutf8 instead of recode to detect invalid UTF-8 sequences.
Also add the necessary dependencies to run the static checks locally
using act (https://github.com/nektos/act) with the Medium size image.
This was removed in #63481, and we confirmed that it's better like this,
but we add back the possibility to strip CR as an option, to optionally
restore the previous behavior.
For performance this is done directly in `String::parse_utf8`.
Also fixes Android `FileAccess::get_line()` as this one _should_ strip CR.
Supersedes #63717.
This script can be used to make Godot easier to compile on a fresh
macOS installation, including on CI platforms and containers where
the Vulkan SDK isn't preinstalled.
This is automatically enabled on all platforms including
Windows 10 and later, whenever a TTY environment is detected.
In non-TTY environments such as CI, this can be forced using the
`--color` command line argument.
- Print all StringNames, not just the top 100.
- Print statistics at the end of the list of StringNames,
with unreferenced and rarely referenced StringNames.
- List the CLI argument in `--help` and shell completion.
`--profile-gpu` was renamed to `--gpu-profile` for consistency with
`--gpu-abort`.
This also updates the shell completion files to the latest `master`
branch.
This has been superseded by GDExtension so this code is no longer useful
nor usable.
There's still some GDNative-related stuff in platform export code which
needs to be adapted for GDExtension (e.g. to include GDExtension libraries
in exports).
Add localizable string (Dictionary<Lang Code, String>) property editor and property hint.
Add localized "app name" property to the project settings.
Add localized permission and copyright properties to the macOS and iOS export settings.
Remove some duplicated ("app name") and deprecated ("info") macOS and iOS export properties.
Using codespell 2.2-dev from current git.
Added `misc/scripts/codespell.sh` to make it easier to run it once in a
while and update the skip and ignore lists.
All iOS devices since the iPhone 5S support ARMv8 (64-bit).
The last iOS version supported on ARMv7 devices is 10.x, which is
too old to run Godot 4.0 projects since the minimum supported
iOS version is 11.0.
Use an offline first approach, where we prefer the cached version over
the network one.
This forces games using PWA to always re-export the project and not just
the PCK, so that the service worker version gets updated correctly, and
the end-user cache is correctly cleared on update.
Follow-up to #55785.
In `black_format.sh`, the `--exclude` switch was wrongly used. It's a misnomer
that only excludes _untracked_ files, arcane pathspec patterns should instead
be used to exclude _tracked_ files.
Using this newfound knowledge, we can also simplify the other scripts.
Threads are required for the web editor to function. If the web server
is not correctly configured, threads won't be available.
This makes troubleshooting easier for people looking to self-host
the web editor.
The logo's maximum width is now dependent on the viewport height
in addition to the page width. This prevents the "Start Godot editor"
button from overflowing the page on mobile devices (although the
"Clear persistent data" and "Web editor documentation" buttons will
still overflow for now).
This makes for a more seamless-looking address bar/status bar
when using the web editor on a mobile device, either directly
in the brower or installed as a progressive web app.
This also specifies a theme color for the web editor's offline
fallback.
The new default project theme uses StyleBoxFlat extensively for
a more modern design and better scalability to multiple resolutions.
SVG icons are now used in place of PNG icons. While this does not
allow for true vector-based icon drawing (icons are still rasterized
at load-time), this makes the design work easier for contributors
and opens the door to vector drawing in the future (e.g. with polygons
or SDFs).
Like for editor icons, the SVG header file is now built automatically
when a SVG file is changed. This removing the need for running
`make_header.py` manually (TODO).
The "Use Hidpi" project setting has been removed in favor of a
"Default Theme Scale" project setting, which allows creating the
default theme at a higher/lower scale than the default.
This can be used when designing GUIs with a high base resolution
to ensure crisp visuals.
Co-authored-by: Yuri Sizov <yuris@humnom.net>
This fixes window management issues across platforms on hiDPI monitors.
The `--low-dpi` command line argument has been removed as similar
functionality (forcing low-DPI mode on DPI-aware programs) is
already provided by Windows and macOS itself.
Note, the editor build requires the mbedtls module to be manually
enabled, as it is currently needed as a ResourceUID dependency.
This will need to be addressed in a separate PR.
This prevents errors when encountering options which have been defined in newer
versions of clang-format, and are invalid in the YAML for the old version.
Bump minimum supported clang-format version to 12 (where `--Wno-error=unknown`
was added).
Use clang-format 12 on CI (13 is not available yet on the Ubuntu 20.04 images).
Disable minimum amount of spaces in comment prefix for now, as it otherwise
modifies the whole codebase. That's something we probably want to use as it
matches our convention, but we should look into fully converting these
comments to our style guide at the same time.
Default is "Auto", but can be forced to a specific WebGL version if the
automatic detection fails.
The game and editor canvas are now replaced with a new one in the exit
hooks. This helps the browser do some context cleanup, and allow us to
create a new context of a different type (WebGL/WebGL2).
This allows to generate the `VERSION_HASH` constant with the Git commit hash
even when building from a source tarball which is not a Git repository (and
without dependency on Git itself).
Found via `codespell -q 3 -S ./thirdparty,*.po,./DONORS.md -L ackward,ang,ans,ba,beng,cas,childs,childrens,dof,doubleclick,fave,findn,hist,inout,leapyear,lod,nd,numer,ois,ony,paket,seeked,sinc,switchs,te,uint`
These are the entitlements we define for official macOS editor builds since
Godot 3.3.
Users making custom builds of the engine can use those files with `codesign` to
sign their own builds. E.g.:
```
codesign --force --timestamp \
--options=runtime --entitlements editor.entitlements \
-s <your key> -v osx_template.app
```
We used to only generate the favicon if it was specified in the user
project settings, now it's optional, will export it to `NAME.icon.png`,
(falling back to the default project icon if none is set in project
settings), and the `<link>` tag is added using the `$HEAD_INCLUDE`
instead of being hardcoded in the template.
- Consistently use double quotes in the HTML markup.
- Define English language to assist screen readers and search engines.
- Add missing `alt` text for the logo image.
- Remove duplicate `id` for the preload project ZIP input.
This modal dialog displayed when the page is loaded. It can be
dismissed permanently by clicking the "OK, don't show again" button.
Clicking outside the modal will only dismiss it once.
This dialog is used to remind people that the HTML5 editor is still in
release candidate stage and isn't considered production-ready yet.
With a very nice hack, a new hidden configuration option that delays
dropped files removal at exit.
This still leaks while the project manager is running, but will clear
memory as soon as it exits or load something.
(reminder, dropped files are reguarly removed after the signal is
emitted specifically to avoid leaks, but I prefer hacking the HTML5
config then the project manager).
This allows to install it as an app, and provide offline support (after
the first run).
Practically, this boils down to adding a JSON file as a manifest, an
offline page to be displayed when the cached files are not avaialble,
and a JS file to cache resources and return them.
The reason for the "first run requirements" is that some browsers, will
emit an "install" by just visiting the page (to see if the JS code is
compatibile), and we do not want to force casual visitors to just
download the 10 MiB+ compressed editor WebAssembly file without pressing
the start button.
Special thanks to Hugo Locurcio (Calinou) for the initial work.
We used to have it like `$GODOT_VERSION` which caused inconsistencies
between different scons versions when substituting it.
It's now `@GODOT_VERSION@`, which is safe on both scons3 and scons4.
- Darken the header tab background to match the default editor
background color.
- Hide the distracting focus outlines for the editor and game canvas.
- Use a pure black background for the game canvas to better distinguish it
from the editor and provide a more neutral background.
- Use a bold font weight for the Start Godot editor button on the
loader page.
- Link to the web editor documentation on the loader page.
- Clarify what happens when clicking "OK" in the persistent data removal
warning dialog.
- Tidy up the HTML template by removing obsolete attributes.
Three canvas resize policies:
- `None`: Godot window settings are ignored.
- `Project`: Godot handles the canvas like a native app (resizing it
when setting the window size).
- `Adaptive`: Canvas size will always adapt to browser window size.
Use `None` if you want to control the canvas size with custom JavaScript
code.
This makes it possibly to run Linux binaries compiled with udev support on
Linux systems which do not provide udev (typically systemd-less distros).
If udev is missing, we fall back to parsing `/dev/input` like when compiled
without udev support (`udev=no`).
Also adding some verbose debug statements to know which method we're using
when debugging Linux joypad issues.
The libudev so wrappers were generated on Mageia 8 with libudev 246.9 using
https://github.com/hpvb/dynload-wrapper:
```
./generate-wrapper.py --include /usr/include/libudev.h --sys-include '<libudev.h>' \
--soname libudev.so.1 --init-name libudev --omit-prefix gnu_ \
--output-header libudev-so_wrap.h --output-implementation libudev-so_wrap.c
```
By generating stubs using https://github.com/hpvb/dynload-wrapper we
can dynamically load libpulse and libasound on systems where it is available.
Both are still a build-time requirement but no longer a run-time dependency.
For maintenance purposes the wrappers should not need to be re-generated
unless we want to bump pulse or asound to an incompatible version. It is
unlikely we will want to do this any time soon.
This closes#20978
Until we provide a cross-platform pre-commit hook that can perform those changes
on Windows, this only leads to a lot of frustration from Windows contributors.
The UTF-8, newline and EOF and BOM checks are still good to keep as those are
issues that we'd otherwise have to point out manually in the review.
The removed changes are mostly cosmetic and should be handled by clang-format
ideally, or by some self-developed cross-platform tooling.
- Add MIME definitions for resources, scenes and scripts
- Remove the "weight" property, which defaults to 50, a much saner value than the previous 100, which was a bit excessive.
- Changes their icon names in order to follow the XDG icon naming conventions.
We used to only persist specific sub-folder of /home/web_user/ when
running the Web Editor. This resulted in bad UX about default project
creation path etc.
This PR makes the whole folder persistent, move the zip preloading to a
different folder (to avoid persisting it), and automatically prompt the
user to import it if present.
Happy new year to the wonderful Godot community!
2020 has been a tough year for most of us personally, but a good year for
Godot development nonetheless with a huge amount of work done towards Godot
4.0 and great improvements backported to the long-lived 3.2 branch.
We've had close to 400 contributors to engine code this year, authoring near
7,000 commit! (And that's only for the `master` branch and for the engine code,
there's a lot more when counting docs, demos and other first-party repos.)
Here's to a great year 2021 for all Godot users 🎆
Moved previously builtin modules 'GameCenter', 'AppStore', 'iCloud' to separate modules to be represented as plugin.
Modified 'ARKit' and 'Camera' to not be builtin into engine and work as plugin.
Changed platform code so it's not affected by the move.
Modified Xcode project file to remove parameters that doesn't make any effect.
Added basic '.gdip' plugin config file.
No need to waste time downloading all this when it's readily available :)
Also use the official action to setup Java 8.
Also build both architectures (armv7 and arm64v8) and generate the APK,
so we can upload it.
Remove now unused and outdated `misc/ci/android-tools-linux.sh`.
Enabled ARC for iOS.
Weakify/Strongify macros for objc blocks.
Removed old version checks.
Specific types for ObjC++ modules to exclude unneeded bridging.
Separate DeviceMetrics class for device specific data.
Replaced old/deprecated functionality.
It's too hard to get compatibility between GNU and BSD sed,
so let's just use perl oneliners.
And improve it to also remove trailing tabs, not just spaces.
Add VMA to iphone platform Use linkflag for iphone building to enforce static linking. Works fine with dynamic '.framework' library
Updated xcode project to use '.a' static library
"Bundle Identifier" is more well-understood among macOS and iOS
developers and is less ambiguous.
This is a slight breaking change as export presets will need to be
updated to account for this change.
See https://github.com/godotengine/godot-docs/pull/3295.
There's a builtin `toolpath` option we can use for that, so no need to hack
around a custom `scons_site` path.
The script requires SCons 3.1.1 or later, so we enable it conditionally.
Follow-up to #32848.
This tool is originally from mongodb.
- Updated CPPSUFFIXES to use scons suffixes
- objective-c files will also be loaded into the compilation database where the compiler / tooling is available to compile the files.
Known limitations:
- This will not work with msvc as your compiler.
Configured for a max line length of 120 characters.
psf/black is very opinionated and purposely doesn't leave much room for
configuration. The output is mostly OK so that should be fine for us,
but some things worth noting:
- Manually wrapped strings will be reflowed, so by using a line length
of 120 for the sake of preserving readability for our long command
calls, it also means that some manually wrapped strings are back on
the same line and should be manually merged again.
- Code generators using string concatenation extensively look awful,
since black puts each operand on a single line. We need to refactor
these generators to use more pythonic string formatting, for which
many options are available (`%`, `format` or f-strings).
- CI checks and a pre-commit hook will be added to ensure that future
buildsystem changes are well-formatted.
As per #36436, we now need C++17's guaranteed copy elision feature to
solve ambiguities in Variant.
Core developers discussed the idea to move from C++14 to C++17 as our
minimum required C++ standard, and all agreed. Note that this doesn't
mean that Godot is going to be written in "modern C++", but we'll use
modern features where they make sense to simplify our "C with classes"
codebase. Apart from new code written recently, most of the codebase
still has to be ported to use newer features where relevant.
Proper support for C++17 means that we need recent compiler versions:
- GCC 7+
- Clang 6+
- VS 2017 15.7+
Additionally, C++17's `std::shared_mutex` (conditionally used by
`vk_mem_alloc.h` when C++17 support is enabled) is only available in
macOS 10.12+, so we increase our minimum supported version.
`git diff-tree` used to fail on the `3.2` branch (and other non-master
branches) as Travis doesn't actually check that branch from the remote:
```
fatal: ambiguous argument '3.2': unknown revision or path not in the
working tree.
```
The exit code would still be 0 so we'd miss badly formatted commits
targeting stable branches.
We do it manually to ensure that it's going to work as we want it.
