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Cocos Creator 3.8 Community Beta is now available

Cocos

we have completed the transformation of the engine-builtin Custom Pipeline using RenderGraph. It will support the implementation of engine builtin Custom Pipeline and the default Deferred Pipeline. Download Links (Ver. 061006) Windows macOS Key Updates Custom Pipeline Integrated with Post-Processing Effects In version 3.8,

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Introducing the new "last minute" lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

Wait, are we not in Beta? The biggest challenge of this workflow is not the lightmap itself, but the fact that it should be easy to use (which is Godot's #1 design priority). Lightmapping is a very cheap operation, so it should run fine even on low end mobile. The smaller this value, the bigger the lightmaps will be.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 10

Mircosoft Game Dev

Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. There will likely be breaking changes between this release and the first beta release. 3D: Add support for saving lightmap as multiple images ( GH-61861 ). 2D: Fix terrains for isometric tilemaps ( GH-61998 ).

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

beta 1 in September, and that was a big milestone on our journey to finalize our next major release – be sure to check out that blog post if you haven't yet, for an overview of some of the main highlight of Godot 4.0. Since then, we've been releasing new beta snapshots every other week, and this is now the 5th beta. What's new.

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.0.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Another new CLI option is --quit which will quit the engine after the first main loop iteration. The lightmap baker will now use all available cores on Windows like it does on macOS and Linux. We released a Beta 1 build a week ago. Godot can now be started with --build-solutions on the command line. Type icons are back!

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

in January 2020, we switched the development focus towards the upcoming Godot 4.0 , which is a major, compatibility-breaking rewrite of the engine's core and rendering. Additional funding will enable us to hire more core developers to work full-time on the engine, and thus further improve its development pace and stability.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

This beta 6 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. If you already reviewed the changelog for the previous beta, you can skip right to the differences between beta 5 and beta 6. And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Highlights.

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