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Often writes the least code overall among the engineers, but the code she writes is also the most mission critical because she has the best understanding of how everything fits together. Writes shaders, writes scripts, works with code. Environment Artist : Models, textures, and places the stuff in the game levels.

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Godot core budget meeting report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Hiring a generalist contributor for editor UX and web dev. Hiring Matias Goldberg to help him create GPU-based texture compressors. One of the main problems we have in Godot is the time it takes to import textures. we want to move our texture compressors to GPU using compute shaders. To work around this, for Godot 4.0,

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Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

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To simplify some of the most common constructs in input handling code for character movement, Aaron Franke ( aaronfranke ) added two new helper methods : Input.get_axis() and Input.get_vector(). Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). This makes it easier to support multiple keyboard layouts. normalized().

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GSoC 2019 progress report #1 (part 1)

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As announced previously , Godot is participating for the second time in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) programme, which lets students from all over the world work for three months on specific projects thanks to a Google stipend. We are now at the middle of the coding period, so students have around 6 weeks left in the GSoC programme.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 3

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Note: Breaks compatibility for users of this plugin, but it's easy to adapt your code. Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). GLES2/GLES3: Add support for OpenGL external textures ( GH-36342 ). GLES2/GLES3: Reset texture flags after radiance map generation ( GH-37815 ).

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.2 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). GLES2/GLES3: Add support for OpenGL external textures ( GH-36342 ). GLES2/GLES3: Reset texture flags after radiance map generation ( GH-37815 ). HTML5: Switch key detection from keyCode to code ( GH-39298 ). Editor: Add rotation widget to 3D viewport ( GH-33098 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.2.2 RC 2

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Files: Improve UX of drive letters ( GH-36639 ). GLES2/GLES3: Add support for OpenGL external textures ( GH-36342 ). GLES2/GLES3: Reset texture flags after radiance map generation ( GH-37815 ). HTML5: Switch key detection from keyCode to code ( GH-39298 ). Editor: Allow duplicating files when holding Control ( GH-39307 ).

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