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Documentation changelog

The documentation is continually being improved. New releases include new pages, fixes and updates to existing pages, and many updates to the class reference. Below is a list of new pages added since version 3.0.

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This document only contains new pages so not all changes are reflected, many pages have been substantially updated but are not reflected in this document.

New pages since version 3.3

C++

• C++ usage guidelines

GDScript

• GDScript documentation comments

New pages since version 3.2

3D

• 3D rendering limitations

About

• Troubleshooting

• List of features

• Godot release policy

Best practices

• Version Control Systems

Community

• Best practices for engine contributors

• Bisecting regressions

• Editor and documentation localization

Development

• Introduction to editor development

• Editor style guide

• Common engine methods and macros

• Validation layers

• GDScript grammar

• Configuring an IDE: Code::Blocks

Editor

• Default editor shortcuts

• Using the Web editor

Export

• Exporting for dedicated servers

Input

• Controllers, gamepads, and joysticks

Math

• Random number generation

Platform-specific

• Custom builds for Android

• Plugins for iOS

• Creating iOS plugins

• HTML5 shell class reference

Physics

• Collision shapes (2D)

• Collision shapes (3D)

Shaders

• Shaders style guide

Scripting

• Debugger panel

• Creating script templates

• Evaluating expressions

• What is GDExtension?

• GDScript warning system (split from Static typing in GDScript)

User Interface (UI)

• Control node gallery

New pages since version 3.1

Project workflow

• Custom builds for Android

2D

• 2D sprite animation

Audio

• Recording with microphone

• Sync the gameplay with audio and music

Math

• Beziers, curves and paths

• Interpolation

Inputs

• Input examples

Internationalization

• Localization using gettext

Shading

• Your First Shader Series:

  • Introduction to shaders

  • Your first 2D shader

  • Your first 3D shader

  • Your second 3D shader

• Using VisualShaders

Networking

• WebRTC

Plugins

• Creating Android plugins

• Inspector plugins

• Visual Shader plugins

Multi-threading

• Using multiple threads

Creating content

Procedural geometry series:

• Procedural geometry

• Using the ArrayMesh

• Using the SurfaceTool

• Using the MeshDataTool

• Using ImmediateMesh

Optimization

• Optimization using MultiMeshes

• Optimization using Servers

Legal

• Complying with licenses

New pages since version 3.0

Step by step

• Using signals

• Exporting

Scripting

• Static typing in GDScript

Project workflow

Best Practices:

• Introduction

• Applying object-oriented principles in Godot

• Scene organization

• When to use scenes versus scripts

• Autoloads versus regular nodes

• When and how to avoid using nodes for everything

• Godot interfaces

• Godot notifications

• Data preferences

• Logic preferences

2D

• 2D lights and shadows

• 2D meshes

3D

• Prototyping levels with CSG

• Animating thousands of fish with MultiMeshInstance3D

• Controlling thousands of fish with Particles

Physics

• Ragdoll system

• Using SoftBody

Animation

• 2D skeletons

• Using AnimationTree

GUI

• Using Containers

Viewports

• Using a Viewport as a texture

• Custom post-processing

Shading

• Converting GLSL to Godot shaders

• Advanced post-processing

Shading Reference:

• Introduction to shaders

• Shading language

• Spatial shaders

• CanvasItem shaders

• Particle shaders

Plugins

• Making main screen plugins

• 3D gizmo plugins

Platform-specific

• Custom HTML page for Web export

Multi-threading

• Thread-safe APIs

Creating content

• Making trees

Miscellaneous

• Fixing jitter, stutter and input lag

• Running code in the editor

• Change scenes manually

Compiling

• Optimizing a build for size

• Compiling with PCK encryption key

Engine development

• Binding to external libraries