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

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was still far away, so we tasked Joan Fons ( jfons ), as part of the GSoC program, to write a new CPU lightmapper for Godot 3.x. The biggest difference with the old lightmapper is that the new one features proper path tracing, which results in better looking lightmaps. Various light culling fixes. More rendering improvements.

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

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using data oriented algorithms to process the culling of objects and both secondary command buffers and automatic batching to efficiently submit the draw primitives. They only write what is needed (no redundant information), keep the ordering of sections and are simple enough to understand changes by just looking at the diff.

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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

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Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

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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: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

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Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

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Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Core: Fix read/write issues with NaN and INF in VariantParser ( GH-47500 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

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