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Joan Fons is hired to work on Godot's rendering

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release, and should make lightmaps a viable option for 3.2. Debug output of the prototype implementation. Not long after that, I got a job as a Godot consultant at Prehensile Tales, which I kept till last Friday. My latest big contribution to the engine is the new CPU lightmapper, which will be landing with the 3.2.4 Red: depth buffer.

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.3.2

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Notably, Windows users could experience crashes when baking lightmaps. Physics: Fix crash on debug shapes update if CollisionObject is not in tree ( GH-48974 ). was thus subject to this crash when baking lightmaps. A few regressions made their way among the many bug fixes of 3.3.1, API documentation updates.

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Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination

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SDFGI is something akin to a dynamic real-time lightmap (but it does not requiere unwrapping, nor does it use textures). There are also some new debug modes to visualize how SDFGI is working: SDFGI Cascades: Show the world as SDF, helps you understand what voxel sizes are, so you adjust your geometry to work better with those voxel sizes.

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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. Raise errors when accessing deleted objects in debug. but going one step too far: in debug builds in 3.2.3, The biggest difference with the old lightmapper is that the new one features proper path tracing, which results in better looking lightmaps. New CPU lightmapper.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

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Rendering: Add optional UV2 logic for lightmapping to primitive shapes ( GH-67975 ). Rendering: Fix several render issues found while debugging XR ( GH-68102 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET This release is built from commit 89a33d28f.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

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Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ). Core: Add detailed error messages to release builds (used to be debug-only) ( GH-53405 ). Editor: Fix logic for showing tilemap debug collision shapes ( GH-49075 ). Editor: Add custom debug shape thickness and color options to RayCast ( GH-49726 ).

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

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Rendering: Add optional UV2 logic for lightmapping to primitive shapes ( GH-67975 ). Rendering: Fix several render issues found while debugging XR ( GH-68102 ). The downloads for this dev snapshot can be found directly on our repository: Standard build (GDScript, GDExtension).NET This release is built from commit 89a33d28f.

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