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The transition to live services continues | Opinion

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New platforms brought with them higher fidelity assets, the need for new solutions to technical problems, and consumer expectations of larger, more detailed, and more interactive game worlds – all of which meant that starting to work on a new console generation was expensive, and didn’t get much less expensive as time went on.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

In this build, we also built it for 32-bit platforms (armv7 and x86) as there was some demand for it, so you'll find the APK is a bit heavier. Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

Mircosoft Game Dev

Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Core: Fix platform-specific issues with OS.set_current_screen() ( GH-63192 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

We switched it back to disabled by default for all platforms. Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

Following on from the addition of OccluderShapeSphere in 3.4 , lawnjelly now brings us a more adaptable and easy way to add basic occlusion culling in the form of the OccluderShapePolygon. Anything behind the polygon will be culled from view. Core: Fix platform-specific issues with OS.set_current_screen() ( GH-63192 ).

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Core: Improve the console error logging appearance: ( GH-49577 ). Physics: Fixing 2D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

Physics: Fix 2D and 3D moving platform logic ( GH-50166 , GH-51458 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Windows: Fix platform file access to allow file sharing with external programs ( GH-51430 ). Core: Improve the console error logging appearance: ( GH-49577 ).

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