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Cocos Creator 3.8 Community Beta is now available

Cocos

We also support Compute Shader capabilities. Render Graph The Render Pipeline customization based on Render Graph will be officially available to developers in version 3.8. It will support the implementation of engine builtin Custom Pipeline and the default Deferred Pipeline. AGP upgraded to 8.0.2.

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Introducing the new "last minute" lightmapper

Mircosoft Game Dev

Wait, are we not in Beta? This generally works and looks pretty, but it's quite shader intensive, which makes it not work on mobile or low end GPUs. 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). How does it look?

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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.

Beta 92
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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. Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Highlights.

Beta 52
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Maintenance release: Godot 3.0.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Several new GLSL built-in functions are exposed to the shader language : radians degrees asinh acosh atanh exp2 log2 roundEven. 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. It is now possible to scale an.obj mesh when importing.

Beta 52
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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.

Beta 40
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Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

Mircosoft Game Dev

See Fabio's various progress reports to know more about the rationale, use case and implementation details: first prototype , second prototype , beta version , release candidate , Progressive Web App. The biggest difference with the old lightmapper is that the new one features proper path tracing, which results in better looking lightmaps.