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Joan Fons is hired to work on Godot's rendering

Mircosoft Game Dev

release, and should make lightmaps a viable option for 3.2. My first task will be integrating an occlusion culling system into the new Vulkan renderer. While occlusion culling is not a silver bullet, it can give big performance improvements in a variety of scenes. Cornell box test using baked indirect lighting. finish line.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

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Rendering: Added Viewport canvas cull mask feature ( GH-52350 ). Rendering: Add optional UV2 logic for lightmapping to primitive shapes ( GH-67975 ). See the GitHub issue tracker for a list of known bugs in the 4.0 Bug reports. As a tester, you are encouraged to open bug reports if you experience issues with this release.

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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

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using data oriented algorithms to process the culling of objects and both secondary command buffers and automatic batching to efficiently submit the draw primitives. First of all, most of the new features still have significant bugs and performance problems that will not be solved in time for the upcoming 4.0 Additionally, Godot 4.0

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

Rendering: Added Viewport canvas cull mask feature ( GH-52350 ). Rendering: Add optional UV2 logic for lightmapping to primitive shapes ( GH-67975 ). See the GitHub issue tracker for a list of known bugs in the 4.0 Bug reports. As a tester, you are encouraged to open bug reports if you experience issues with this release.

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

x updates with bug fixes, but also new features as long as they don't require breaking compatibility. x), we're going back to a stricter application of semantic versioning and those releases will only contain bug fixes and usability/documentation improvements. When we released Godot 3.2 This led us to have a quite feature-packed 3.2.2

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

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This beta 6 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Animation: Fix bugs in AnimationNodeTransition's behavior ( GH-52543 , GH-52555 ). HTML5: Fix bug in AudioWorklet when reading output buffer ( GH-52696 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

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With this first Release Candidate , we completely freezes feature development, and comes after a long series of beta builds to fix a number of bugs reported against previous builds (as well as against previous stable branches). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). The upcoming Godot 3.4

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