Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 26, 2020

2D batching for the GLES2 renderer. While most rendering work was postponed for the 4.0 release with its new Vulkan-based renderer, our contributors lawnjelly and Clay ( clayjohn ) decided to give some more attention to the 3.2 Thanks to the work of Pedro ( RandomShaper ), debug versions of Godot (e.g. feature set.

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Debug Point and Click Bug Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

in January 2020, we switched the development focus towards the upcoming Godot 4.0 , which is a major, compatibility-breaking rewrite of the engine's core and rendering. Dynamic BVH for rendering and GodotPhysics. Raise errors when accessing deleted objects in debug. Rendering: Unified 2D batching. New CPU lightmapper.

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Collision Lightmap Baking Render 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Portal occlusion culling. More rendering improvements. 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. More rendering improvements. and Godot 3.3.

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UX Feature Culling Mesh 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Notable changes are in-editor class reference translations (so far Chinese (Simplified), Spanish, and some French), some new rendering features (high quality glow mode, 3D point light attenuation option), and a number of C# marshalling fixes. Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ).

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Mesh Render Shaders Animation 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

GLES3 renderer). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). Highlights.

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Mesh Render Shaders Animation 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

GLES3 renderer). Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). Highlights.

Mesh 52

Mesh Render Shaders Animation 52

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Rendering: Rooms and portals-based occlusion culling ( GH-46130 ). Rendering: Add a new high quality tonemapper: ACES Fitted ( GH-52477 ). Rendering: Fixes depth sorting of meshes with transparent textures ( GH-50721 ). Rendering: Add soft shadows to the CPU lightmapper ( GH-50184 ). In-depth documentation is available.

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