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New improvements for GPUParticles in Godot 4.0

Mircosoft Game Dev

They are dynamic and can be moved around in real-time, colliding with any particle system which matches the cull mask. This type of collision works over a large area and is ideal for terrain, as well as for excluding rain, snow, smoke, etc. Likewise, Sphere and Box colliders are supported. Baked SDF Collision. from interiors.

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Optimize Vegetation Generation

Mnenad

Since the last post I’ve been working on the terrain’s vegetation. Doing it before starting the actual game would mean to already generate all the content that needs to be batched at the beginning, which is no solution for a theoretically “endless procedurally generated” terrain.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

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. Editor: Allow right-click to erase TileSet terrains and TileMap autotiles ( GH-65903 , GH-66656 ).

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

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. Editor: Allow right-click to erase TileSet terrains and TileMap autotiles ( GH-65903 , GH-66656 ).

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Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

It parses your code and automatically understands what you are trying to do (such as writing to alpha for transparency, reading from screen, etc.) This new implementation is based on Tiled Editor 's Terrains and is fully compatible with previous TileSets. In Godot 3.0, writing shaders is very easy! Auto-tiling in tile maps.

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