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Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.2

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A few regressions made their way among the many bug fixes of 3.3.1, Notably, Windows users could experience crashes when baking lightmaps. Additionally, this release includes a number of non-regression bug fixes to various areas of the engine. x releases , focuses purely on bug fixes, and aims to preserve compatibility.

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Joan Fons is hired to work on Godot's rendering

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release, and should make lightmaps a viable option for 3.2. Debug output of the prototype implementation. Not long after that, I got a job as a Godot consultant at Prehensile Tales, which I kept till last Friday. My latest big contribution to the engine is the new CPU lightmapper, which will be landing with the 3.2.4 Red: depth buffer.

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

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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. Raise errors when accessing deleted objects in debug.

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Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

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Engine • Added DebugView at runtime UI control rendering debugging function. See the documentation “Render Debugging - Run Time Using Render debugging”: [link] • When the node animates, add the tween ‘destroySelf’ method to destroy the front nodal point. Still, the disadvantage is that it will increase the lightmap package.

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GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

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Also, there are some bugs to be fixed. Test the implement features and fix bugs. UV2 Texel Density Debug Draw Mode. x CPU lightmapper and adding a new debug draw mode for visualizing the texel density of lightmaps. Previously every LightmapGI node used to store its lightmap atlas in a single large image.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

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Rendering: Add optional UV2 logic for lightmapping to primitive shapes ( GH-67975 ). Rendering: Fix several render issues found while debugging XR ( GH-68102 ). See the GitHub issue tracker for a list of known bugs in the 4.0 Bug reports. Rendering: Add 2D shadows and canvas SDF to OpenGL3 renderer ( GH-67639 ).

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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. Animation: Fix bugs in AnimationNodeTransition's behavior ( GH-52543 , GH-52555 ). Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ).

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