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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

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This means contributors are encouraged to focus their efforts on fixing regressions and other outstanding bugs. We wont risk merging any new features or risky bug fixes until after we release 4.4 Weve unified the code to make sure it works the same on both platforms, and weve fixed some bugs. and begin preparing for 4.5.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 3

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Lightmap baking improvements Clay John changed the logic for baking direct lighting in LightmapGI to spread it over multiple frames, avoiding a spike of computation that can lead the OS to trigger TDR , resulting in a crash of the GPU context ( GH-102257 ). See the GitHub issue tracker for a complete list of known bugs.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

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Navigation: Fix for navmesh baking when parsing StaticBody colliders ( GH-70904 ). See the GitHub issue tracker for a list of known bugs in the 4.0 Bug reports. As a tester, you are encouraged to open bug reports if you experience issues with this release. Import: Add vertex color support to OBJ importer ( GH-71033 ).

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 2

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Weve been keeping busy these past two weeks squashing the bugs that cropped up in 4.4 feature freeze, so our energy has been focused on addressing any new regressions or the aforementioned bugs. Were still aiming for a release sometime next month, but that all depends on how effectively new bugs get reported during this period.

Beta 60
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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

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Core: Handle corner cases for curve baking ( GH-69726 ). See the GitHub issue tracker for a list of known bugs in the 4.0 Bug reports. As a tester, you are encouraged to open bug reports if you experience issues with this release. Buildsystem: Rename float=64 SCons option to precision=double ( GH-67399 ).

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Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

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Editor • Support baking high-precision lighting maps to get a better baking effect. When the user turns on high-precision lightmap baking, 16-bit colors are used instead of 8-bit colors, and AO channels are baked separately. Improvements • Move the Light Bake entry from the top item settings menu to the panel menu. •

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Joan Fons is hired to work on Godot's rendering

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Here you can see some screenshots: Comparison between no indirect lighting (top), and baked indirect lighting (bottom) in the TPS demo. Cornell box test using baked indirect lighting. My latest big contribution to the engine is the new CPU lightmapper, which will be landing with the 3.2.4 Scene by NHodgesVFX. finish line.

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