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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. was still far away, so we tasked Joan Fons ( jfons ), as part of the GSoC program, to write a new CPU lightmapper for Godot 3.x. Back in summer 2019 we already knew Godot 4.0 More rendering improvements.

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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. writing shaders is very easy!

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

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Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Scene: Write node groups on a single line when saving a.tscn file ( GH-52284 ). VisualScript: Expose visual script custom node type hints ( GH-50705 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

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Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Scene: Write node groups on a single line when saving a.tscn file ( GH-52284 ). VisualScript: Expose visual script custom node type hints ( GH-50705 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

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Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Scene: Write node groups on a single line when saving a.tscn file ( GH-52284 ). VisualScript: Expose visual script custom node type hints ( GH-50705 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Scene: Write node groups on a single line when saving a.tscn file ( GH-52284 ). VisualScript: Expose visual script custom node type hints ( GH-50705 ).

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GSoC 2019 progress report #1 (part 2)

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We're now in the middle of the GSoC 3-months coding period, and we asked students to write a progress report to present their project and the work done so far. Improvements to the Visual Scripting System by Swarnim Arun. The engine sees a normal file interface which it can use to read, write and seek within a file.