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An editor theme is a pair of a dark half and a light half.

softbody2d and softbody3d are bodies of particles held together by springs and elastic cells.

The editor's look is a theme file, and the Theme window edits one while the editor wears it.

The render.draw_*_2d verbs take a trailing options table.

A plugin's dock is a subtree the editor makes for it. draw(S, k, host) is handed its path, and S.kit fills it with rows instead of drawing them.

A property can now hold other properties.

Nodes that draw alike now go to the GPU as one call, with a position, a size and a tint per instance.

A file directly under addons/<name>/ is a module every script reaches by path, with no require.

A project that carries the Gamend addon now has a Gamend tab in the editor.

A game's first frames are the ones with nothing to draw: the scene is being built, the textures are being uploaded, and the window is already open.

Dropping a model on the editor used to stop it.

When double clicking Balaur Engine, the Project manager will now show up.

Added support to Balaur for loading / splash screen.

Started with no project, the editor opens on a screen rather than a usage line.

Sponza, read by one balaur import and lit by its own sky.

engine.set_paused(true) holds the tree.

The three row kinds hold many rows now, a table has columns a drag resizes, and none of them builds a row the box does not show. multi lets a list, tree or table hold more than one row.

The editor reads two things about the screen it gets: how much room there is, and whether a finger drives it.

Importing an asset runs on its own thread, so the editor keeps drawing.

A table can be one dynamic body again. collider2d takes a convex_decomposition kind: it cuts the polygon into convex pieces, then grows each piece through the seams it shares.

Menus are scene nodes now.

A label is a picture of its text no longer.

Sponza, imported by running balaur import.

balaur import converts a Godot project: the settings, every scene, the scripts, the theme, and a report of what did not carry. balaur import project.godot --project my-game Ported: Polyglot Pirates, a shipped Godot 4.7 game. 181 scenes, 769 scripts, a the…

engine.set_paused(true) holds the tree.

A misspelled component method used to be found the first time that line ran, which for a death animation or a shop screen could be weeks. balaur check now resolves it against the same table the run time reads from.

⇧⌘\ gives the code the whole window.

0.1.0 is tagged, and it is pre-alpha.

The editor lays itself out for the room it gets, and draws larger under a finger.

Lists, trees, tables and a code editor are widget kinds now.

Marks in a label can be clicked and hovered, a drag selects its text, and a number in it carries units.

Completion, hover, signature help, go to definition, rename and formatting.

A selection set with box select, group, align and distribute. light3d and an environment a scene owns.

balaur export reports what a pack weighs, drops unreferenced assets, re-encodes PNGs, subsets fonts and rewrites WAV as FLAC.

Tile collision as one voxel shape.

text2d and text3d, shaped by the engine the widgets use.

Import settings as a TOML sidecar beside the asset.

FABRIK, CCDIK and jiggle in 2D and 3D.

Ten 3D primitives and six 2D ones.

balaur import converts a Godot project: the settings, every scene, the scripts, the theme, and a report of what did not carry. balaur import project.godot --project my-game Ported: Polyglot Pirates, a shipped Godot 4.7 game. 181 scenes, 769 scripts, a the…

The editor runs in a browser tab, on the WebAssembly module the examples play on.

examples/benchmark is the Godot benchmark suites' physics and scene-tree cases, body for body, run headless, in the editor or on the web.

Textures, models, fonts and sounds reload when saved.

Focus mode gives the code pane the whole window. ⇧⌘\ folds the three docks and the split; the file's hooks stay beside the pane.

Input actions declared in project.toml and rebound at run time.

Skinned 2D polygons and imported 3D rigs deform on the GPU, from a palette of joint matrices.

I also maintain Godot Rapier Physics: Rapier's 2D and 3D physics as a drop-in replacement for Godot's.

One platform module over every store: sign-in, achievements, leaderboards, cloud saves, purchases.

Audio buses: a tree of gains a sound plays through, every chain ending at master.

light2d and occluder2d build a light map every sprite, polygon and tile is multiplied by.