**Godot 4.7 is here!** 
Like a cult classic movie, Godot 4 has only gotten better with age; the 4.7 Director’s Cut offers colors of never-before-reached intensity, helming a bevy of new features to eliminate any remaining friction between you and your vision!
Aaaaand Cut! That’s a wrap! Great job everyone! Been a pleasure to work with everyone on this, lots of great PRs and triage work! And the blog proofreading gets ever smoother!
Very cool! Thank you for all your hard work! I am most excited about Drawing on Textures, 3D Vertex snapping, One Way Collision Support for any direction, the Improved Tree Drag-and-Drop, the PopUp Menu search, AtlasTextures in TextureRects, Following Objects in the 3D Editor, Copying and Pasting Sections in the editor (makes copying transforms so much easier), the MeshLibrary Editor (which might be enough to get me to try GridMaps again), the 2D Scene Painter, the Show Custom dialog filter, the script reveal feature, trackball rotation in 3D, the improved built-in help readability, collapsible Animation editor nodes, the tween_await() for signals, the partial download for export templates (which has already saved me tons of time in dev/beta/RC), the built-in virtual joystick, and ignoring gamepad when the game isn’t focused. Wow that’s a lot.
It would be nice if we could link to those sections like we could in previous blog posts. I often send people to specific sections of previous blog posts when they ask a about a newer feature, or functionality that a newer feature provides, and there’s not much information on it yet.
Wow, this version is particularly huge. I dabbled with the 4.7.dev versions a bit already, but I can’t wait to properly dive into these features now.
I like the new AreaLight3D. But be careful with them, they seem to be expensive.
Godot 4.7 is my most favourite release soo far!
Really liked the Only download the templates you need thing.
@conz3d
Are you talking about these?
NO,They are NOT xD
Just don’t replace all your OmniLights in your project with AreaLights…
My first use case of an AreaLight3D, an entrance to a mine shaft. Just an emissive plane and an AreaLight:
Very nice! I’ve been holding off playing around with Godot 4.7 until the stable release version.
I of course had to play with the new area light as well.
As impractical as it is, I attempted to light a scene entirely with area lights. Not bad, though I had to set soft shadow quality to max in order to get a decent result.
is the DrawableTexture2D the same has the old gamemaker studio “surface” ?
Still hanvent quiet figured it out but i think the user will have to make an editor to be able to draw on screen…
