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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

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Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 3D: Switch Mesh surface indexing to start at 0 so string name matches integer index ( GH-70176 ). Editor: Add one-way indicator to tile collision editor ( GH-67283 ). Editor: Improve tile editor selection appearance ( GH-60892 ).

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Mircosoft Game Dev

Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 3D: Switch Mesh surface indexing to start at 0 so string name matches integer index ( GH-70176 ). Editor: Add one-way indicator to tile collision editor ( GH-67283 ). Editor: Improve tile editor selection appearance ( GH-60892 ).

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Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 2

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seen as small bumps between tiles on a GridMap). The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. You can move the polygon with the node transform, drag the corners to reshape it, add delete points. This should show up initially as a quad.

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Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

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Auto-tiling in tile maps. Still, this workflow is easy and efficient as 3D objects get a second set of UVs generated on import, and baking works with instantiated meshes, scenes and even GridMaps. This does not let you use SVGs directly as 2D meshes yet, but it's on the roadmap for future releases. Bullet Physics backend.

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Atlas support returns to Godot 3.2

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When working on tile-sets, it's normal to have everything already drawn to a single texture but if the level uses a lot of separate images, then using an atlas may make sense to improve performance. This cuts a polygon around the used part and packs it, resulting in considerably more efficient packing. Here are such cases: Batching.