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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 10

Mircosoft Game Dev

Another couple of weeks, another alpha snapshot from the development branch, this time with 4.0 Adds TileMap terrain center bit to support "connect" and "path" draw modes ( GH-61809 ). Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

alpha 1 ― the first official alpha build of our upcoming major milestone, enabling all interested users to try it out and report bugs, as well as provide feedback on the new features. branch, we're going to release new alpha builds every other week, so that testers can always have a recent version to test the latest changes.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.1 alpha 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

alpha 3 last week, and it's now time for another alpha build, 3.1 We plan to have a last alpha build within one week, and then we should be ready to move into the beta stage, where we only merge critical bug fixes until the branch is stable enough for the final release. development build. is released.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

But the "1" in beta 1 means that it's only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we're going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. 2D: Make TileMap terrain painting not change neighbors centers bits ( GH-67390 ). NET 6 build (C#, GDScript, GDExtension). We released Godot 4.0

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

But the “1” in beta 1 means that it’s only the first step of the journey, and like for the alpha phase, we’re going to release new beta snapshots roughly every other week. 2D: Make TileMap terrain painting not change neighbors centers bits ( GH-67390 ). NET 6 build (C#, GDScript, GDExtension). We released Godot 4.0 Known issues.

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Physics progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

First I've been working on building a test suite for physics. In order to solve this problem, we use an algorithm similar to Bresenham's line algorithm, which had been implemented in Bullet by Zylann , a Godot contributor who is also behind the Godot Heightmap Terrain plugin. To get ready for an alpha release of Godot 4.0,

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Optimize Vegetation Generation

Mnenad

Since the last post I’ve been working on the terrain’s vegetation. First off: I learned a lot about Unity’s build in batching system. The foliage shader has an alpha cutout value and uses a texture + culling set to off (it is visible from both sides of the planes). Draw call batching.

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