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Joan Fons is hired to work on Godot's rendering

Mircosoft Game Dev

release, and should make lightmaps a viable option for 3.2. My first task will be integrating an occlusion culling system into the new Vulkan renderer. While occlusion culling is not a silver bullet, it can give big performance improvements in a variety of scenes. Debug output of the prototype implementation.

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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. Raise errors when accessing deleted objects in debug. but going one step too far: in debug builds in 3.2.3, The biggest difference with the old lightmapper is that the new one features proper path tracing, which results in better looking lightmaps. New CPU lightmapper.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

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Rendering: Added Viewport canvas cull mask feature ( GH-52350 ). Rendering: Add optional UV2 logic for lightmapping to primitive shapes ( GH-67975 ). Rendering: Fix several render issues found while debugging XR ( GH-68102 ). Multiplayer: Add peer authentication support to the default MultiplayerAPI( GH-67917 ).

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

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Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Core: Add detailed error messages to release builds (used to be debug-only) ( GH-53405 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

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Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Core: Add detailed error messages to release builds (used to be debug-only) ( GH-53405 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Core: Add detailed error messages to release builds (used to be debug-only) ( GH-53405 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Core: Add detailed error messages to release builds (used to be debug-only) ( GH-53405 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ).

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