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Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

Rendering: Portal occlusion culling. Such use-after-free access needs to be guarded with is_instance_valid(obj) , but this has been surprisingly difficult to get right due to a number of bugs and inconsistencies between debug and release builds. Portal occlusion culling. Godot is a complex piece of software and is not bug-free.

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Godot 3.5: Can't stop won't stop

Mircosoft Game Dev

Most of work was aimed at implementing missing features or fixing bugs which are critical for publishing 2D and 3D games with Godot 3.x, Since then, smix8 has taken over the custody of this area, fixing a lot of bugs and improving the feature set greatly, with the help of Pawel Lampe ( Scony ) and lawnjelly. Early adopters of 3.5

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

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

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Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

A new software skinning for MeshInstance to replace the slow GPU skinning on devices that don't support the fast GPU skinning (especially mobile). CSG: Various bug fixes. MeshInstance: Add option for software skinning ( GH-40313 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. Bug reports. pcre2 10.36, tinyexr 1.0.0,

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Release candidate: Godot 3.3 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

A new software skinning for MeshInstance to replace the slow GPU skinning on devices that don't support the fast GPU skinning (especially mobile). CSG: Various bug fixes. MeshInstance: Add option for software skinning ( GH-40313 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. Bug reports. pcre2 10.36, tinyexr 1.0.0,

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Release candidate: Godot 3.2.4 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

A new software skinning for MeshInstance to replace the slow GPU skinning on devices that don't support the fast GPU skinning (especially mobile). CSG: Various bug fixes. MeshInstance: Add option for software skinning ( GH-40313 ). Physics: Various bug fixes for 2D and 3D. Bug reports. mbedtls 2.16.9, zstd 1.4.8).

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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. 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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