Godot Daily: UI Material Inheritance and Animation Fixes
Major UI system update ensures internal children inherit parent materials, while animation and OpenXR systems receive critical bug fixes. Documentation corrections address project settings versioning.
Duration: PT2M4S
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- Show: Godot Daily
- Published: 2026-04-28T00:00:00Z
- Audio duration: PT2M4S
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Good morning, this is Godot Daily for April 28th, 2026.
Calinou merged a documentation fix correcting the Godot version reference for stretch mode project settings changes, updating the version number from an incorrect reference to properly reflect when the default behavior changed.
The development team processed several significant commits today. A major UI system improvement from YeldhamDev ensures internal children of built-in nodes now properly inherit their parent's material properties. This affects eight core UI components including GraphEdit, ItemList, RichTextLabel, and TextEdit,…
Animation system stability received attention with Ryan's fix moving dirty filter state from AnimationNode to AnimationNodeInstance, preventing parameter clearing issues that could affect nodes with similar names. The team also resolved a first-time error when retrieving blend point names in animation blend spaces.
OpenXR users benefit from dsnopek's crash fix for the frame synthesis extension, addressing issues that emerged after Godot 4.7-dev5. Additionally, a single-character typo fix now allows proper 3-button mouse emulation for 3D viewport panning.
Will Thompson expanded GDScript access by…
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