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Updates to NVIDIA’s Unreal Engine 4 Branch, DLSS, and RTXGI Available Now

Nvidia

New tools New debugging tools like the BVH viewer and Ray Timing Visualization allows developers to get a handle on ray tracing cost in their scene and get it tuned for speed. Inexact Shadows (beta) Deals with potential mesh mismatches of ray traced and raster geometry. NVIDIA RTX UE4.26 The new NVIDIA UE4.26

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

Notably, Windows users could experience crashes when baking lightmaps. Import: glTF: Improved error handling around invalid images and invalid meshes ( GH-48904 , GH-48912 ). Physics: Fix crash on debug shapes update if CollisionObject is not in tree ( GH-48974 ). was thus subject to this crash when baking lightmaps.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Mircosoft Game Dev

OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). Export: Fix missing "debug"/"release" export presets feature tags ( GH-71274 ). Navigation: Fix for navmesh baking when parsing StaticBody colliders ( GH-70904 ). Fix Tab key usage in the inspector ( GH-71271 ).

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Mircosoft Game Dev

OBJ mesh import now supports vertex colors as exported by Blender ( GH-71033 ). Export: Fix missing “debug”/”release” export presets feature tags ( GH-71274 ). Navigation: Fix for navmesh baking when parsing StaticBody colliders ( GH-70904 ). Fix Tab key usage in the inspector ( GH-71271 ).

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Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination

Mircosoft Game Dev

Ensure your meshes are marked as "Static Bake", then enable SDFGI in the Environment settings. There are also some new debug modes to visualize how SDFGI is working: SDFGI Cascades: Show the world as SDF, helps you understand what voxel sizes are, so you adjust your geometry to work better with those voxel sizes.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

Mircosoft Game Dev

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. And for more advanced use cases, there is now also TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add Word Art to your scenes ;). and backported to 3.5.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. And for more advanced use cases, there is now also TextMesh to generate 3D meshes from font glyphs, so you can add Word Art to your scenes ;). and backported to 3.5.

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