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

Mircosoft Game Dev

New vertex formats allow many more custom shaders and cases to take advantage of batching than before, and optional 2D software skinning has been added which should allow using 2D skeletal animation on a far wider range of hardware than was previously available. More rendering improvements. Uģis' original proposal.

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

The features offered are also a lot more reminiscent of AAA games, such as far more material options and advanced visual effects (including circle DOF , volumetric fog, AMD FSR, etc.). Visual scripting. GPUParticlesMaterial resource (or even an optional dedicated shader). Additionally, Godot 4.0 Specialized artist UIs.

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Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

which would have included new multiplayer networking, visual scripting and many other improvements) because we realized that projects using the new features would no longer work in 3.0, Materials and shaders. Visual Scripting. For low-end systems or mobile devices, we provide a more classical lightmapping workflow.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ). Lightmapper: Add an editor setting to configure number of threads for lightmap baking ( GH-52952 ). Particles: Fixed rotate_y property of particle shaders ( GH-46687 ). Shaders: Add support for structs and fragment-to-light varyings ( GH-48075 ).

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