Godot Weekly #145 April 24th 2026

GODOT NEWS

HDR Output Arrives in Godot 4.7: High Dynamic Range Rendering Now Supported on Windows, macOS, iOS, visionOS, and Linux (Wayland) with Forward+ and Mobile Renderers.

RESOURCES

Master Godot with an all-in-one bundle to level up your game development.

SHADERS

LogₑGrid: Godot shader grid demo with camera and stamps.

Hand-drawn color highlighting shader for blueprints in Godot.

Particle Rope (Godot 4): Improvements and a Fully Contained Demo Scene.

Triplanar Blood Shader for Godot.

Frutiger Aero Shader for Godot with Fresnel, Gradient, and Top Highlight.

Realistic JPEG Artifacting Shader for Godot using a fullscreen ColorRect and BackBufferCopy.

Low-poly Water Shader for Godot.

ASSETS

Lucide Icons for Godot: Open-source icons for the Godot Asset Library

PLUGINS

Finite State Machines for character behavior in Godot.

Godot AI: Connecting MCP-compatible AI assistants to a live Godot editor via MCP.

EasyChat: Godot 4.3 add-on for in-game chat.

EasyNotify: Godot 4 Add-on

Godot-specific text formats break silently when edited by AI agents, causing UID desync and sub-resource ID collisions.

AI assistant integrated into the Godot 4 editor for generating and inserting GDScript code.

Godot Advanced Logger: A high-performance, structured logging framework for Godot 4.x C# projects.

Gaussian Splatting in Godot with the GDGS Add-on

Godot Firebase iOS: A GDExtension-based SwiftGodot plugin for Godot 4 on iOS.

Godot AI connects MCP-compatible AI assistants to a live Godot editor via the Model Context Protocol.

Lightweight centralized service registry for Godot 4 C# projects with interface-based registration.

Displays details for the selected MeshInstance3D or Mesh in the inspector, including materials, surfaces, and vertex count.

Godot GEQO: Node-based AI environment querying for Godot 4.5+.

PRO TIPS

Separate the two realities of Godot game development by using state machines instead of _process and _physics_process.

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