Godot Daily: Non-Allocating Physics, Touch UI, and WebXR Reach
Physics queries gain non-allocating methods to cut per-frame garbage, while the editor adds native touch support and crash fixes. WebXR also drops its Layers API requirement to run on more browsers.
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- Show: Godot Daily
- Published: 2026-09-23T06:04:24Z
- Audio duration: PT2M15S
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Good morning, it's September 23rd, 2026, and this is Godot Daily.
The lead story is less garbage at runtime. Merged PR 113970 adds non-allocating physics queries for two-D and three-D space state, letting you pass in a typed result object instead of getting back a fresh dictionary and array every call. For raycasts, point checks and shape queries done every frame, that means fewer…
That same performance thread shows up elsewhere. PR 123701 removes an extra variant copy in G-D script setters, which should speed up property writes. And PR 115653 lets the decal atlas update a single texture instead of rebuilding the whole atlas, which unlocks animated decals using drawable textures without the…
Second theme: the editor gets more stable and more touch-ready. PRs 122960 and 123576 add native touch support to the tab bar and pop-up menus — tap to open, drag to scroll, long-press for context menu and drag-and-drop. Alongside that, PR 123693 switches the inspector and connections docks to object I-Ds, fixing a…
Third: X-R on more browsers and headsets. Merged PR 123642 drops the requirement for the Web X-R Layers A-P-I, which was missing or broken on some browsers like Pico, so projects no…
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