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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

Our SCons setup used to have tools and target options that were combined to build either the editor or the export templates, and define whether it’s a “release” or “debug” build. The “debug” term in that setup was quite ambiguous however and the source of a lot of confusion, as described in godot-proposals#3371.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

Our SCons setup used to have tools and target options that were combined to build either the editor or the export templates, and define whether it's a "release" or "debug" build. The "debug" term in that setup was quite ambiguous however and the source of a lot of confusion, as described in godot-proposals#3371.

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Why does Godot use Servers and RIDs?

Mircosoft Game Dev

Rendering, while mostly a sequential process (GPUs are sequential), can be parallelized in a few places, like frustum culling and (in modern APIs such as Vulkan, Metal or DirectX12) creation of command lists. generating terrain), because each thread can create content, then register it via a single channel. How is this achieved?

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