Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2021

A few regressions made their way among the many bug fixes of 3.3.1, Notably, Windows users could experience crashes when baking lightmaps. Games exported with a ZIP data package could also trigger a crash on exit. Additionally, this release includes a number of non-regression bug fixes to various areas of the engine.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 15, 2022

is a huge release that requires a lot of work, and because we're committed to providing dev snapshots frequently so that pre-release testers can quickly access the new features and bug fixes. 3D: Add support for saving lightmap as multiple images ( GH-61861 ). Rendering: Initial TAA (Temporal Anti-Aliasing) implementation ( GH-61319 ).

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Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

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. x updates with bug fixes, but also new features as long as they don't require breaking compatibility. Dynamic BVH for rendering and GodotPhysics.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: A ton of fixes for all rendering backends, and missing features implemented for the OpenGL3 one. GUI: Add a Font import option to pre-render all glyphs required for the translation ( GH-68448 ). Physics: Implement adjusting the maximum number of physics steps per rendered frame ( GH-65836 ).

Beta 92

Beta Dev Render Alpha 92

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

has an entirely new rendering architecture, which is divided into modern and compatibility backends. The modern one does rendering via RenderingDevice (which is implemented in drivers such as Vulkan, Direct3D 12, and more in the future). Rendering is significantly more efficient in Godot 4.0, Low level rendering access.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rendering: A ton of fixes for all rendering backends, and missing features implemented for the OpenGL3 one. GUI: Add a Font import option to pre-render all glyphs required for the translation ( GH-68448 ). Physics: Implement adjusting the maximum number of physics steps per rendered frame ( GH-65836 ).

Beta 40

Beta Dev Render Alpha 40

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

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 ). In-depth documentation is available.

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