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

Mircosoft Game Dev

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. More rendering improvements.

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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. Additionally, Godot 4.0 Screen space GI can be used to enhance the realism even more.

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Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

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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, Visual Scripting. No lightmaps or anything of the sort are required, providing a very quick and efficient workflow. GPU particles.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

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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 ). iOS: Add pen pressure support for Apple Pencil ( GH-47469 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

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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: 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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