Godot Daily: Animation Revolution - Major Performance Wins and Editor Polish
Today brought us 17 merged pull requests featuring massive animation system improvements, including a major AnimationTree optimization that's giving developers serious performance gains. We also got vertex snapping in the 3D editor, improved Wayland support, and a bunch of quality-of-life fixes that make the animation workflow so much smoother.
Duration: PT4M18S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from Godot Daily.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Godot Daily
- Published: 2026-03-15T10:24:45Z
- Audio duration: PT4M18S
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Good morning, Godot developers! Welcome back to Godot Daily. I'm your host, and wow - do we have an exciting episode for you today, March 15th, 2026. If you're working with animations in Godot, you're going to want to grab that coffee and settle in, because today's changes are going to make your life significantly…
Let's dive right into the star of today's show - a massive pull request from Ryan that's literally titled "Optimize AnimationTree, Improve internals & Editor & Node process_thread_group safety." This isn't just a small tweak, folks. We're talking about 1,441 lines added and 886 removed across 29 files. Ryan has been…
But that's just the beginning of our animation story today. We've got a really cool improvement to the animation editor where folded node groups now show aggregate animation keys at 30% opacity. It's one of those features that sounds simple but makes such a difference when you're working with complex character rigs.…
Speaking of the animation editor, there were several polish fixes that caught my attention. Animation keys won't visually shift around during selection anymore - you know that little annoying jump they used to do? Gone. BlendSpace editors got…
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