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

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It was reusing parts of the code for baking GIProbes, and that made it quick but not great in terms of quality. Also, the new lightmapper brings support for denoising using Open Image Denoise , which results in better-looking lightmaps in the same bake time range. Various light culling fixes. New CPU lightmapper.

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Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

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which would have included new multiplayer networking, visual scripting and many other improvements) because we realized that projects using the new features would no longer work in 3.0, Visual Scripting. Just set up the probe bounds and do a fast pre-bake of static objects. Visual Scripting.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

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Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). VisualScript: Allow dropping custom node scripts in VisualScript editor ( GH-50696 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). VisualScript: Allow dropping custom node scripts in VisualScript editor ( GH-50696 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). VisualScript: Allow dropping custom node scripts in VisualScript editor ( GH-50696 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). VisualScript: Allow dropping custom node scripts in VisualScript editor ( GH-50696 ).

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