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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

using data oriented algorithms to process the culling of objects and both secondary command buffers and automatic batching to efficiently submit the draw primitives. returns to its own physics engine which, despite not being a high end physics engine like PhysX, aims to offer a lot more flexibility and “just works” capabilities to users.

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Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

Mircosoft Game Dev

in January 2020, we switched the development focus towards the upcoming Godot 4.0 , which is a major, compatibility-breaking rewrite of the engine's core and rendering. Additional funding will enable us to hire more core developers to work full-time on the engine, and thus further improve its development pace and stability.

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Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

Donations and corporate grants play a vital role in enabling us to develop Godot at this sustained pace, since they are our only source of income, and are used 100% to pay developers to work on the engine. Rendering: Portal occlusion culling. Platforms: Android: Scoped storage, Play Asset Delivery, input responsiveness.

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Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

After more than 18 months of development, all Godot Engine contributors are proud to present our biggest release so far, Godot 3.0! It brings a brand new rendering engine with state-of-the-art PBR workflow for 3D, an improved assets pipeline, GDNative to load native code as plugins, C# 7.0 New asset workflow. SVG support.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

Some big changes since the previous beta are the promotion of object validity checks to release builds (no more "dangling pointers" release surprises), initial support for Android Play Asset Delivery , and a new ACES Fitted high quality tonemapper. Android: Add initial support for Play Asset Delivery ( GH-52526 ). Highlights.

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The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

beta just yet as we expect the engine to be unstable until we have more testing done. Throughout the last two years the core of the engine has seen a lot of improvements and refactoring to bring it to the next level in terms of maintainability, reliability, and performance. We don’t recommend migrating large projects to the Godot 4.0

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

Android: Add initial support for Play Asset Delivery ( GH-52526 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Android: Add initial support for Play Asset Delivery ( GH-52526 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). The main changes coming in Godot 3.4 beta 5 and beta 6.

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