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

Mircosoft Game Dev

Improved Inspector sub-resource editing. The biggest difference with the old lightmapper is that the new one features proper path tracing, which results in better looking lightmaps. Also, the new lightmapper brings support for denoising using Open Image Denoise , which results in better-looking lightmaps in the same bake time range.

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GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Like in previous years, Godot is participating again in the Google Summer of Code program for its 2022 edition. Here are the 3 projects/students with links to the relevant sections in this post: Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker by Vitika Soni ( Vitika9 ). Refactor and UX updates of ColorPicker. UX updates.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Editor: Fix MeshInstance2D edit rect ( GH-54070 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Editor: Fix MeshInstance2D edit rect ( GH-54070 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ).

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Scene: Fix loading packed scene with editable children at runtime ( GH-49664 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Editor: Improve the editor feature profiles UX ( GH-49643 ). Editor: Improve the UI/UX of the Export Template Manager dialog ( GH-50531 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Scene: Fix loading packed scene with editable children at runtime ( GH-49664 ).

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