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

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The biggest difference with the old lightmapper is that the new one features proper path tracing, which results in better looking lightmaps. Also, the new lightmapper brings support for denoising using Open Image Denoise , which results in better-looking lightmaps in the same bake time range. Various light culling fixes.

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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. Visual scripting. What we realized is that visual scripting really shines when combined together with the premade behaviors mentioned in the previous section.

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Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

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which would have included new multiplayer networking, visual scripting and many other improvements) because we realized that projects using the new features would no longer work in 3.0, Visual Scripting. No lightmaps or anything of the sort are required, providing a very quick and efficient workflow. GPU particles.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). VisualScript: Allow dropping custom node scripts in VisualScript editor ( GH-50696 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). VisualScript: Allow dropping custom node scripts in VisualScript editor ( GH-50696 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). VisualScript: Allow dropping custom node scripts in VisualScript editor ( GH-50696 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

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Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). VisualScript: Allow dropping custom node scripts in VisualScript editor ( GH-50696 ).

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