Godot Weekly #146 May 1st 2026

GODOT NEWS

HDR output support in Godot Engine 4.7: what it means and how to enable it

MISCELLANEOUS

How to Improve Testing in Godot Without Losing Momentum

How to Leverage Go Goroutines for Godot Multiplayer Efficiency

RESOURCES

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

New free and open-source Godot Engine-based Material Maker 1.6 released

How to Use a Connected Tileset Template for Autotile 16px in Godot with a Pre-Configured TileMap

SHADERS

Low-poly Water 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.

Triplanar Blood Shader for Godot.

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

Hand-drawn color highlighting shader for blueprints in Godot.

LogₑGrid: Godot shader grid demo with camera and stamps.

How to Use Godot Shaders for Simplified Hand-drawn Hatch Lines in Control Nodes and CanvasLayer Technique

Edge-detection Godrays with Distance Falloff in Shader Raymarching

3D Tree Sway Wind Shader v0.5

New stylized sky shader and pixel cloud tutorials for Godot 4

ASSETS

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

A lightweight, flexible, and easy-to-use 2D virtual joystick for Godot assets

Isolated Godot Game Components Bundle

Qi Gong animations (Motion Cast - FREE02) - Godot Asset Store (Beta)

PLUGINS

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+.

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

Gaussian Splatting in Godot with the GDGS Add-on

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.

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

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

EasyNotify: Godot 4 Add-on

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

Finite State Machines for character behavior in Godot.

How to Build Event Graphs in Godot 4

Godot Symbol Search: Quick search/gotos for all symbols in currently active scripts

PopcornFX for Godot: An independent VFX solution in Alpha.

Daily Reward System Plugin for Godot 4.2+ with customizable reward cycles, streak tracking, and save support

Agentic skills framework for Godot 4.x. Domain-specific skills for AI coding agents (Claude Code, Copilot, Gemini, Cursor)

Create and Save Polygon Rigging Data for Godot Polygons-Based Animated Characters

How to Rig a Polygon-Based Character in Godot with a Visualization Plugin

Analyze and Import Mixamo Animations in 3 Clicks with a Free Godot Plugin

PRO TIPS

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

How to Prevent Misleading Editor Scaling for High-Resolution UI in Godot (Tips)

TUTORIALS

A concise guide to using G.U.I.D.E-CSharp for Godot input detection

PROJECT TEMPLATES

Godot JRPG: A 2D JRPG Framework for Godot Engine