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Joan Fons is hired to work on Godot's rendering

Mircosoft Game Dev

Here you can see some screenshots: Comparison between no indirect lighting (top), and baked indirect lighting (bottom) in the TPS demo. My first task will be integrating an occlusion culling system into the new Vulkan renderer. Debug output of the prototype implementation. Cornell box test using baked indirect lighting.

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

The Dodge The Creeps C# demo running on the iOS Simulator. Such pointer could be reported as valid even though the memory it points to was not, or worse, that memory could now hold a different object, leading to hard to debug situations. Thanks to the work of Pedro ( RandomShaper ), debug versions of Godot (e.g. feature set.

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

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Raise errors when accessing deleted objects in debug. Web editor running the "Ninja Adventure" demo from the eponymous CC0 asset pack by Pixel-Boy and AAA. Raise errors when accessing deleted objects in debug. but going one step too far: in debug builds in 3.2.3, Various light culling fixes.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

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The multiplayer demos have been updated with this change, and you’ll find a new reference implementation for WebSocketServer and WebSocketClient nodes in GDScript that should ease the transition to the new API. target=template_debug : Debug template, optimized, with debugging code.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

The multiplayer demos have been updated with this change, and you'll find a new reference implementation for WebSocketServer and WebSocketClient nodes in GDScript that should ease the transition to the new API. target=template_debug : Debug template, optimized, with debugging code.

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Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

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Rendering: Portal occlusion culling. 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. Portal occlusion culling. Core: Promote object validity checks to release builds.

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