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Introducing the new "last minute" lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

Wait, are we not in Beta? The solution to these problems is to add support for a more traditional lightmapper (pre-baked light texture). Light is precomputed offline and rendered to a texture, which is then used by the geometry. Lightmapping is a very cheap operation, so it should run fine even on low end mobile.

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

See Fabio's various progress reports to know more about the rationale, use case and implementation details: first prototype , second prototype , beta version , release candidate , Progressive Web App. It was reusing parts of the code for baking GIProbes, and that made it quick but not great in terms of quality. New CPU lightmapper.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

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This beta 6 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. If you already reviewed the changelog for the previous beta, you can skip right to the differences between beta 5 and beta 6. Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ).

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The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

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Today we are pleased to announce that the first beta for the much-anticipated release of Godot 4.0 beta just yet as we expect the engine to be unstable until we have more testing done. The beta comes with a work-in-progress conversion tool that does part of the conversion work from 3.x beta 1 now! is set in stone.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

With this first Release Candidate , we completely freezes feature development, and comes after a long series of beta builds to fix a number of bugs reported against previous builds (as well as against previous stable branches). If you already reviewed the changelog for beta 6, you can skip right to the differences between beta 6 and RC 1.

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