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While not actually released yet and not due until later this year with Godot Engine 4.0, the Vulkan parts have now been merged into the main Godot project.

In a new blog post on the official site written by Godot's Project Manager, Rémi Verschelde, it goes over what this means. In short: it's all highly unstable but now it's in the main branch, they can continue pushing Vulkan forwards and updating all parts of Godot required for it.

We plan to rework a lot of Godot's internals (core) to allow fixing long-standing design issues and improving performance (including GDScript performance improvements). Moreover, our long-awaited port to C++14 will also happen now that the vulkan branch is merged into master, and many other codebase-wide changes were waiting for this: code style changes, Display/OS split, renaming of 3D nodes to unify our conventions, etc.

Rémi Verschelde

Having the Vulkan code in a separate branch could only work for so long, before it would cause too many issues. Going forward, they're going to remove the GLES3 support and port GLES2 to the new RenderingDevice API as the backup for devices that don't support Vulkan. If you missed why they're using GLES2 instead of GLES3 that was explained a while ago—terrible driver support being the main issue.

They're also going to be doing some cleaning up, closing all current pull requests and asking the authors to make sure it's still needed and approved by their Godot Improvement Proposals staging area. Well, that's one way to clean up hundreds of lingering pull requests.

Learn more about Godot Engine on the official site. It's free to use to make games and applications, with no need to pay royalties to Godot like some other game engines require.

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morgancoxuk Feb 11, 2020
Would be good to see an Godot openGL Vs Vulkan benchmark..
Purple Library Guy Feb 11, 2020
Quoting: morgancoxukWould be good to see an Godot openGL Vs Vulkan benchmark..
Might be best to wait until it's a tiny bit less experimental. Don't even know if it works yet.
BielFPs Feb 11, 2020
I hope once Godot Vulkan becomes stable, someone will put a Killer game made with Godot to encourage more devs to use it.
Shmerl Feb 11, 2020
I wonder if some engines will use WebGPU as a higher level over Vulkan, though probably for engines it makes sense to go as low as possible to have more control over performance.
Kimyrielle Feb 11, 2020
Quoting: BielFPsI hope once Godot Vulkan becomes stable, someone will put a Killer game made with Godot to encourage more devs to use it.

It will probably be more an evolutionary process. I can't see anyone making a AAA production with it quite yet, but I guess we will see more and more small developers picking it up, so the engine can make a name for itself and eventually gather the attention of larger studios.
TheSHEEEP Feb 12, 2020
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What is happening is now that 3.2 is out of the door, all the projects that were being worked on already for 4.0 are being merged into master.
This, the NavigationServer (new navigation, yay! unfortunately too late for me as I want to use Godot 3.2 and am rolling my own navigation: https://github.com/TheSHEEEP/godotdetour ), and I have no doubt more will be merged with master in the coming months.
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