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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

Add transparency support for LightmapGI Currently when baking lightmaps users have to choose between transparent objects casting shadows as if they were fully opaque, or not casting shadows at all. This has been a major limitation in both the quality of lightmap baking and the ergonomics of the lightmap baking workflow.

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Beta Dev Lightmap Baking

Shaping the Future of Graphics with NVIDIA Technologies in Unreal Engine 5

Nvidia

APRIL 5, 2022

Unreal Engine is an open and advanced real-time 3D creation platform. Evolving from its state-of-the-art use in game engines into a multitude of industries, Unreal Engine is an open and advanced real-time 3D creation platform. NVIDIA Omniverse Unreal Engine 5 preview 2 Connector tutorial. Courtesy of JSFILMZ.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Technology Engine Engineering

Maintenance release: Godot 3.5.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). Navigation: Fix TileMaps placing baked NavigationPolygons with wrong offset without a Navigation2D node ( GH-66262 ) [regression fix]. Thirdparty libraries: libpng 1.6.38, GameControllerDB from 2022-09-18. API documentation updates.

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Render Baking Bug Collision

Maintenance release: Godot 3.5.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). Navigation: Fix TileMaps placing baked NavigationPolygons with wrong offset without a Navigation2D node ( GH-66262 ) [regression fix]. Thirdparty libraries: libpng 1.6.38, GameControllerDB from 2022-09-18. API documentation updates.

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Render Baking Bug Collision

Release candidate: Godot 3.5.1 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Navigation: Exclude disabled StaticBody collisions from NavigationMesh baking ( GH-65775 ). Thirdparty libraries: libpng 1.6.38, GameControllerDB from 2022-09-04. Navigation: Fix wrong method called when setting NavigationRegion travel_cost ( GH-64068 ). Networking: Prevent HTTPRequest from polling invalid client ( GH-64472 ).

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Bug Render Collision Animation

Making a Top Gun and Star Wars-inspired fan film in Unreal Engine

CG Spectrum

JANUARY 3, 2023

As the excuses he devised not to follow his passion faded, Anthony quit his full-time job to dedicate his efforts to exploring filmmaking within a game engine. So in April 2022, I quit my job to work on making animated short films full-time. However, he soon realized there was only so much that YouTube tutorials could teach him.

Film

Film Engine Engineering Rigging

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 28, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Rendering: CPU lightmapper: Account for ambient light settings when baking lights ( GH-62260 ). pcre2 10.40, CA certificates (2022-03-31), SDL GameControllerDB from 2022-07-15.

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Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 7

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 22, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Rendering: CPU lightmapper: Account for ambient light settings when baking lights ( GH-62260 ). pcre2 10.40, CA certificates (2022-03-31), SDL GameControllerDB from 2022-07-15.

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Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Rendering: CPU lightmapper: Account for ambient light settings when baking lights ( GH-62260 ). pcre2 10.40, CA certificates (2022-03-31). UWP: Fix exporting GDNative DLLs ( GH-61262 ).

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 8, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. Rendering: CPU lightmapper: Account for ambient light settings when baking lights ( GH-62260 ). pcre2 10.40, CA certificates (2022-03-31). UWP: Fix exporting GDNative DLLs ( GH-61262 ).

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 18, 2022

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. pcre2 10.40, CA certificates (2022-03-31). Jake Young ( Duroxxigar ) backported the refactored and much improved navigation system that Andrea Catania ( AndreaCatania ) implemented for Godot 4.0 back in 2020!

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Render Shaders Console Culling

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 1, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. pcre2 10.40, CA certificates (2022-03-31). And then a lot of old and new navigation issues have been fixed by smix8 and Pawel Lampe ( Scony ). Thirdparty library updates: bullet 3.24, freetype 2.12.1,

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Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. pcre2 10.40, CA certificates (2022-03-31). And then a lot of old and new navigation issues have been fixed by smix8 and Pawel Lampe ( Scony ). Thirdparty library updates: bullet 3.24, freetype 2.12.1,

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 17, 2022

The new NavigationServer adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. pcre2 10.40, CA certificates (2022-03-31). Then smix8 took over the custody of this area, fixing a lot of bugs and improving the feature set greatly, with the help of Pawel Lampe ( Scony ).

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Render Shaders Mesh Console

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

with 17 alpha builds distributed in 2022, and continuous development effort since 2019. Last but not least, lightmaps baking is now done using the GPU to speed up the process significantly. The new NavigationServer supports fully dynamic environments and on-the-fly navigation mesh baking. It has been a long road to Godot 4.0

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Shaping the Future of Graphics with NVIDIA Technologies in Unreal Engine 5

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Release candidate: Godot 3.5.1 RC 2

Making a Top Gun and Star Wars-inspired fan film in Unreal Engine

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

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