Documentation changelog

The documentation is continually being improved. The release of version 3.1 includes many new tutorials, many fixes and updates for old tutorials, and many updates to the class reference. Below is a list of new tutorials added since version 3.0.

Note

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

New tutorials since version 3.1

Note

This section only includes tutorials which have been added in the latest branch and backported to this 3.1 branch. Some more tutorials specific to later Godot releases are available on the latest branch.

2D

• 2D Sprite animation

Math

• Beziers, curves and paths
• Interpolation

Inputs

• Input examples

Internationalization

• Localization using gettext

Shading

Your First Shader Series:

• What are shaders?
• Your first CanvasItem shader
• Your first Spatial shader
• Your first Spatial shader: part 2

Plugins

• Inspector Plugins

Multi-threading

• Using multiple threads

Creating content

• Procedural geometry generation

Optimization

• Optimization using MultiMeshes
• Optimization using Servers

Legal

• Complying with Licenses

New tutorials since version 3.0

Step by step

• Signals
• Exporting

Scripting

• Static typing in GDScript

Project workflow

Best Practices:

• Introduction
• Godot scenes and scripts are classes
• Scene organization
• When to use scenes versus scripts
• Autoloads versus internal 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

• CSG
• Animating thousands of fish with MultiMeshInstance
• Controlling thousands of fish with Particles

Physics

• Ragdoll system
• SoftBody

Animation

• 2D skeletons
• AnimationTree

GUI

• Containers

Viewports

• Using a Viewport as a texture
• Custom post-processing

Shading

• Intro to shaders: 2D and 3D water
• Migrating to Godot’s shading language
• Advanced post-processing

Shading Reference:

• Shaders
• Shading language
• Spatial shaders
• CanvasItem shaders
• Particle shaders

VR

• VR starter tutorial

Plugins

• Making main screen plugins
• Spatial gizmo plugins

Platform-specific

• Customizing the Web export HTML page

Multi-threading

• Thread safe APIs

Creating content

• Making trees

Miscellaneous

• Fixing jitter and stutter
• Running code in the editor
• Change scenes manually
• Differences between GLES2 and GLES3

Compiling

• Optimizing a build for size
• Compiling with script encryption key

Engine development

• Binding to external libraries