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Maintenance release: Godot 3.2.2

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The Dodge The Creeps C# demo running on the iOS Simulator. Such pointer could be reported as valid even though the memory it points to was not, or worse, that memory could now hold a different object, leading to hard to debug situations. Thanks to the work of Pedro ( RandomShaper ), debug versions of Godot (e.g. feature set.

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Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish

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Such use-after-free access needs to be guarded with is_instance_valid(obj) , but this has been surprisingly difficult to get right due to a number of bugs and inconsistencies between debug and release builds. You can try it out in the Third Person Shooter (TPS) demo which has been updated to use the ACES Fitted tonemapper.

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

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Raise errors when accessing deleted objects in debug. Web editor running the "Ninja Adventure" demo from the eponymous CC0 asset pack by Pixel-Boy and AAA. Raise errors when accessing deleted objects in debug. but going one step too far: in debug builds in 3.2.3, HTML5: Threads, GDNative, AudioWorklet.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 3

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See this demonstration made by MewPurPur : Improved ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ). The second part of her work has just been merged, and should significantly improve the ColorPicker’s UX. 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

See this demonstration made by MewPurPur : Improved ColorPicker UX ( GH-62910 ). The second part of her work has just been merged, and should significantly improve the ColorPicker's UX. 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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GSoC 2019 progress report #1 (part 1)

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We also have adopted some UX tips from Unreal Engine 4 for the initialisation of a VCS in a new project, however since Unreal Engine uses an external editor for C++ code by default, we found ourselves looking at something similar to what we already have in Visual Studio/Visual Studio Code. Demo clips of the progress so far.

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Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority

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C# version of the Dodge the Creeps demo running in Firefox. our contributor Yuri Roubinsky did a huge rework of the new visual shader's UX , and eventually assumed full maintainership of the feature. Gilles Roudiere did another pass at improving UX based on user feedback, with a pull request improving the anchors and margin workflow.

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