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Godot 4.0 will get a new, modernized lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

Lightmaps offer significant advantages over any other technique when the following requirements are met: Performance above anything else (for mobile, lightmaps are still a must-have). If these requirements are met, then lightmapping is probably the best for you. Most scenes bake in seconds instead of minutes or hours.

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

If you use and enjoy Godot, plan to use it, or want support the cause of having a mature, high quality free and open source game engine, then please consider becoming our patron. macOS: ARM64 build, code signing. macOS: ARM64 build, code signing. Thanks to all of you patrons from the bottom of our hearts!

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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 It's also very easy to use. In Godot 3.0,

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How to Use Unity Cinemachine Virtual Cameras

Game Designing

Coding camera angles for games and animation has been a pain … Until now. Before Unity Cinemachine, camera movement needed to be directly keyframed or, using code, had to be carefully scripted. In short, the Unity Cinemachine is a game-changer. What Is Unity Cinemachine? What If You Aren’t Using Unity?

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Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Mircosoft Game Dev

If you use and enjoy Godot, plan to use it, or want support the cause of having a mature, high quality free and open source game engine, then please consider becoming our patron. all rendering code was rewritten to use the more modern OpenGL ES 3.0 / OpenGL 3.3 Use baked lightmaps instead. The Godot 2.x

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The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

As users, please report all bugs that you encounter and provide as much detail as you can (including screenshots, code, and where possible, a minimal reproduction project). beta just yet as we expect the engine to be unstable until we have more testing done. the sooner we can start the next feature development cycle for 4.1!

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

GDScript: Ignore property groups and categories in GDScript code completion ( GH-54272 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Shaders: Prevent shaders from generating code before the constructor finishes ( GH-52475 ). if something that worked fine in 3.3.3

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