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Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

Rendering: Portal occlusion culling. More rendering improvements. 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. More rendering improvements. and Godot 3.3.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

In the past two weeks since beta 2, we had over 250 PRs merged , many of which fixed bugs reported by beta testers. See this demonstration made by MewPurPur : Improved ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ). The second part of her work has just been merged, and should significantly improve the ColorPicker’s UX. Lots of rendering changes.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

In the past two weeks since beta 2, we had over 250 PRs merged , many of which fixed bugs reported by beta testers. See this demonstration made by MewPurPur : Improved ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ). The second part of her work has just been merged, and should significantly improve the ColorPicker's UX. Lots of rendering changes.

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GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Here are the 3 projects/students with links to the relevant sections in this post: Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker by Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ). Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker. Project: Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker. Project: Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker. UX updates. apply_theme().

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

release with bug fixes in 3.2.1 2D batching for the GLES2 renderer , thanks to lawnjelly and Clay ( clayjohn ). The new 2D batching is only implemented for the GLES2 renderer, so if you use GLES3 you will not be able to benefit from it. As the GLES3 renderer is being deprecated by Vulkan in Godot 4.0, GLES2 2D batching.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). Thirdparty library updates: embree 3.13.0,

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The Top Game Test Automation Tools You Need to Know About

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These games have high-quality visuals, animations, and sounds, which renders 100% manual testing infeasible. This makes it easier to identify errors or bugs in your game. Also, they ensure a seamless user experience (UX) regardless of the device used by the player. As the gaming world evolves, testing has become more complex.