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

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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. Additional funding will enable us to hire more core developers to work full-time on the engine, and thus further improve its development pace and stability.

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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

supports advanced global illumination techniques such as lightmapping (including SH lightmapping), Voxel GI (which is fully real-time) and SDFGI (which is a single click, open world GI solution). Core engine. The core engine has been significantly optimized, especially on the memory and data-oriented areas. GDExtension.

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Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

After more than 18 months of development, all Godot Engine contributors are proud to present our biggest release so far, Godot 3.0! It brings a brand new rendering engine with state-of-the-art PBR workflow for 3D, an improved assets pipeline, GDNative to load native code as plugins, C# 7.0 Visual Scripting. GPU particles.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). VisualScript: Allow dropping custom node scripts in VisualScript editor ( GH-50696 ). VisualScript: Expose visual script custom node type hints ( GH-50705 ). iOS: Add pen pressure support for Apple Pencil ( GH-47469 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). VisualScript: Allow dropping custom node scripts in VisualScript editor ( GH-50696 ). VisualScript: Expose visual script custom node type hints ( GH-50705 ). Input: Exposed setters for sensor values ( GH-53742 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

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Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). VisualScript: Allow dropping custom node scripts in VisualScript editor ( GH-50696 ). VisualScript: Expose visual script custom node type hints ( GH-50705 ). Input: Expose Input::flush_buffered_events() [link].

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

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Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). VisualScript: Allow dropping custom node scripts in VisualScript editor ( GH-50696 ). VisualScript: Expose visual script custom node type hints ( GH-50705 ). Input: Expose Input::flush_buffered_events() [link].

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