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Joan Fons is hired to work on Godot's rendering

Mircosoft Game Dev

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

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branch, but it grew to become a feature-packed update well worth of opening a new stable branch. As such, most of the focus was on implementing missing features or bugfixes which are critical for publishing 2D and 3D games with Godot 3, and on making the existing features more optimized and reliable. update to the 3.2

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Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

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Engine • Added DebugView at runtime UI control rendering debugging function. See the documentation “Render Debugging - Run Time Using Render debugging”: [link] • When the node animates, add the tween ‘destroySelf’ method to destroy the front nodal point. Still, the disadvantage is that it will increase the lightmap package.

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GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

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Along with the basic feature and controls, some integrations were done: When the Script editor is undocked, the last selected Viewport is shown. The next step is to implement most of the feature available for the code editor to the docks (which are already undockable). Test the implement features and fix bugs. Current progress.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

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Rendering: A ton of fixes for all rendering backends, and missing features implemented for the OpenGL3 one. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: Android: Upgrade Android gradle plugin to version 7.2.1 ( GH-68497 ). Rendering: Added Viewport canvas cull mask feature ( GH-52350 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

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release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 With this first Release Candidate , we completely freezes feature development, and comes after a long series of beta builds to fix a number of bugs reported against previous builds (as well as against previous stable branches). The upcoming Godot 3.4

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

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release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 This beta 6 build provides additional features and fixes to bugs reported against previous builds. Animation: Add animation "reset" track feature ( GH-44558 ). Core: Complain if casting a freed object in a debug session ( GH-51095 ).

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