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Joan Fons is hired to work on Godot's rendering

Mircosoft Game Dev

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 first task will be integrating an occlusion culling system into the new Vulkan renderer. Scene by NHodgesVFX. finish line.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon. Bug reports. beta 2).

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. This beta 4 is a small update with just 83 commits excluding merges, focusing on fixing bugs to stabilize the current feature set for 3.5 Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Bug reports.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. This beta adds what should be the last batch of new features (together with a lot of bug fixes, as that's our focus at this stage), with scene unique node names and the new SceneTreeTween backported from Godot 4.0.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

beta builds every other week to ensure that new features can be tested, bugs can be reported and bugfixes can be validated. This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Bug reports. Like with 4.0

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Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

Mircosoft Game Dev

Then smix8 took over the custody of this area, fixing a lot of bugs and improving the feature set greatly, with the help of Pawel Lampe ( Scony ). The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

Then smix8 took over the custody of this area, fixing a lot of bugs and improving the feature set greatly, with the help of Pawel Lampe ( Scony ). The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view.

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