Godot 4.0 Alpha 16 Released With More Vulkan Renderer Improvements

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Godot 4.0 Alpha 16 Released With More Vulkan Renderer Improvements

Ahead of the upcoming Godot 4.0 Beta, this impressive open-source game engine has been tacking on a few more improvements in another Godot 4.0 alpha build...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Godot-4.0-Alpha-16

[luno]

how is Wayland support of Godot ? last time I checked it was not good

[cl333r]

luno imho it will be not good for a long time because if experience shows anything is that switching from X11 to Wayland is a lot more painful than previously estimated, e.g. KDE plasma is known for having a lot of releases each mentioning "Wayland fixes".

[piotrj3]

how is Wayland support of Godot ? last time I checked it was not good

It should be much lower priority then Vulkan support and in general working 4.0 engine. Simply saying for majority of programs switching to wayland is too painful expierience for too little gain for too few users.

[shmerl]

luno imho it will be not good for a long time because if experience shows anything is that switching from X11 to Wayland is a lot more painful than previously estimated, e.g. KDE plasma is known for having a lot of releases each mentioning "Wayland fixes".

It should be much lower priority then Vulkan support and in general working 4.0 engine. Simply saying for majority of programs switching to wayland is too painful expierience for too little gain for too few users.

It was an OK attitude like 10 years ago. That's not an acceptable attitude for today. Unless you are a fan of IPv6 transition kind of rate of progress.

[Snaipersky]

It was an OK attitude like 10 years ago. That's not an acceptable attitude for today. Unless you are a fan of IPv6 transition kind of rate of progress.

IPv6 deserved it, as it *still* breaks plenty of business and government critical tasks like standard VPN usage. The change would have been over and done with if they just switch to the larger address space, but no, it was built with datacenter wants at the fore.

On topic though, xwayland is a useable alternative, and godot also supports a number of other, larger targets, all of which would benefit from vulkan, and none of which would benefit from wayland, so it's a simple prioritization to make.

[cl333r]

It was an OK attitude like 10 years ago. That's not an acceptable attitude for today. Unless you are a fan of IPv6 transition kind of rate of progress.

It's just how it is, my personal attitude has no influence.

[eagleoneraptor]

how is Wayland support of Godot ? last time I checked it was not good

In active development AFAIK: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/57025

[Quackdoc]

It was an OK attitude like 10 years ago. That's not an acceptable attitude for today. Unless you are a fan of IPv6 transition kind of rate of progress.

or unless you simply are not a fan of wayland itself

[shmerl]

or unless you simply are not a fan of wayland itself

That's not any better. If you aren't a fan of Wayland - Linux isn't something to use.