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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

using data oriented algorithms to process the culling of objects and both secondary command buffers and automatic batching to efficiently submit the draw primitives. returns to its own physics engine which, despite not being a high end physics engine like PhysX, aims to offer a lot more flexibility and “just works” capabilities to users.

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

Mircosoft Game Dev

stable branch in January 2020 as a major update to our free and open source game engine. Since we previously did not version our Android plugin systems, this new one is now labelled v1 , and is the starting point for the modern Godot Android ecosystem. Better handling of Variant s pointing to released Object s.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Notable changes are in-editor class reference translations (so far Chinese (Simplified), Spanish, and some French), some new rendering features (high quality glow mode, 3D point light attenuation option), and a number of C# marshalling fixes. Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add new 3D point light attenuation as an option ( GH-52918 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ). 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 ). Rendering: Add new 3D point light attenuation as an option ( GH-52918 ). LineEdit: Double click selects words, triple click selects all the content ( GH-46527 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

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Godot 3's renderer design explained

Mircosoft Game Dev

Godot uses a considerably different approach to rendering (and rendering abstraction) than other, popular, game engines. Rendering engineers are rare to find, so this can be a starting point. Most game engines nowadays start with HLSL or CG as a base and offer it to the user directly. Shader abstraction.

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