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Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

Mircosoft Game Dev

Rendering: Portal occlusion culling. Portal occlusion culling. Up till now a significant missing feature in the renderer has been the ability to cull (prevent rendering) objects that are within the camera view, but occluded by another object (for instance a wall). Core: Promote object validity checks to release builds.

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

Improved Inspector sub-resource editing. Various light culling fixes. Improved Inspector sub-resource editing. Users of Visual Script and Visual Shaders, as well as developers relying on graphs in their game projects and editor plugins, will find this little UX improvement in Godot 3.3. Fixes to KinematicBody collisions.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

Our script editor maintainer, Paul Batty ( Paulb23 ), implemented initial support for multi-caret editing in TextEdit, which is therefore usable in the GDScript and shader editors, as well as any other multi-line text field in the editor. See this demonstration made by MewPurPur : Improved ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ).

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

Our script editor maintainer, Paul Batty ( Paulb23 ), implemented initial support for multi-caret editing in TextEdit, which is therefore usable in the GDScript and shader editors, as well as any other multi-line text field in the editor. See this demonstration made by MewPurPur : Improved ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ).

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). In-depth documentation is available.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Editor: Fix MeshInstance2D edit rect ( GH-54070 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Editor: Fix MeshInstance2D edit rect ( GH-54070 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

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