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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Mircosoft Game Dev

Every supported renderer option is now selectable from the project creation screen, which means you can create OpenGL 3 ("Compatibility") projects without using the command line ( GH-70028 ). The illustration picture for this article is from Raffaele Picca 's car scene , rendered in Godot 4.0 Jump to the Downloads section.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Mircosoft Game Dev

Every supported renderer option is now selectable from the project creation screen, which means you can create OpenGL 3 (“Compatibility”) projects without using the command line ( GH-70028 ). The illustration picture for this article is from Raffaele Picca ’s car scene , rendered in Godot 4.0 Jump to the Downloads section.

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Cocos Creator 3.8 Community Beta is now available

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Render Graph The Render Pipeline customization based on Render Graph will be officially available to developers in version 3.8. We also support Compute Shader capabilities. For now, you can refer to the pipeline test project to learn how to use them. AGP upgraded to 8.0.2. AGP upgraded to 8.0.2.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 12

Mircosoft Game Dev

As always, a bunch of nice rendering fixes! Navigation: Fix for navmesh baking when parsing StaticBody colliders ( GH-70904 ). Rendering: Only disable depth writing in opaque pipelines ( GH-71124 ). Rendering: Fix multiple issues that make the normal roughness texture unusable ( GH-71130 ). See the list below.

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Godot 4.0 will get a new, modernized lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

The new lightmapper is GPU based written mostly on Compute shaders (meaning it does most of the heavy lifting using the GPU, via Vulkan). Most scenes bake in seconds instead of minutes or hours. Efficiently packs all texture objects in the lightmap to a texture array, to avoid state or material changes during rendering.

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Cocos Creator 3.7.3 comes with an update to Cocos Effect

Cocos

ENGINE Features ● Custom Render Pipeline based on Render Graph supports for GLES backend ● Deprecated interfaces, such as addRasterView, addComputeView, etc., Fixed Toon shader data issue on iOS Wechat. Fixed crash issue when baking high-precision Lightmap for the terrain. Cocos Creator 3.7.3 from the Cocos Dashboard.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

This RC 6 has a few notable changes compared to the previous build: In RC 4, async shader compilation and caching was enabled by default on desktop, but several users reported issues with it on some hardware. You can enable it in the Project Settings ( rendering/gles3/shaders/shader_compilation_mode ). and backported to 3.5.

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