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 🎆
(cherry picked from commit b5334d14f7)
Happy new year to the wonderful Godot community!
We're starting a new decade with a well-established, non-profit, free
and open source game engine, and tons of further improvements in the
pipeline from hundreds of contributors.
Godot will keep getting better, and we're looking forward to all the
games that the community will keep developing and releasing with it.
The DynamicFont implementation currently in use is based on
FreeType, which provides much better visual quality.
This old implementation wasn't exposed anywhere, so this shouldn't
break compatibility.
This decreases binary sizes by a few kilobytes.
Fixed a bug introduced in my previous PR involving CharFXTransform not
allowing the use of type hinting. Should now work properly. This should
also help with Godot Mono issues...
Added a new ItemFX type to RichTextLabel which supports dynamic text
effects.
RichTextEffect Resource Type was added which can be extended for more
real time text effects.
This is a new singleton where camera sources such as webcams or cameras on a mobile phone can register themselves with the Server.
Other parts of Godot can interact with this to obtain images from the camera as textures.
This work includes additions to the Visual Server to use this functionality to present the camera image in the background. This is specifically targetted at AR applications.
Some used 'is_valid()' checks, others not. Validity is already checked in 'unref()',
and 'remove_resource_format_*()' has an ERR_FAIL condition on 'is_null()' already
(which shouldn't happen since we're only unregistering things that we previously
registered.
Also add missing GDCLASS statement in ResourceFormatLoaderVideoStreamGDNative,
missed in #20552 which was last amended before #19501 was merged.
It's shared by both 2D and 3D particles (+ CPU ones), so it makes sense
to have as a common resource. It also allowed to disable compilation of
Particles (3D) when using 'disable_3d'.
Also cleaned up includes in SpatialEditorGizmos and some other places,
as well as dropped dead code in material_editor_plugin.cpp.