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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 10

Mircosoft Game Dev

Another couple of weeks, another alpha snapshot from the development branch, this time with 4.0 Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. alpha builds. alpha in general, have a look at the detailed release notes for 4.0 We're getting in 2-digit territory, both because 4.0

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

Rendering: Use opaque rendering pipeline for alpha hash materials ( GH-61884 ). Rendering: Add optional UV2 logic for lightmapping to primitive shapes ( GH-67975 ). Rendering: Fix alpha hash by correcting typos and doing calculations in object space ( GH-68673 ).

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

Rendering: Use opaque rendering pipeline for alpha hash materials ( GH-61884 ). Rendering: Add optional UV2 logic for lightmapping to primitive shapes ( GH-67975 ). Rendering: Fix alpha hash by correcting typos and doing calculations in object space ( GH-68673 ).

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Maintenance release: Godot 3.0.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

The lightmap baker will now use all available cores on Windows like it does on macOS and Linux. C# support is still in alpha so backward-incompatible improvements are still allowed in this branch (and will happen). Fixed issues. Here are some of the more visible bugs fixed in this release. See the full changelog for details.

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Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

No lightmaps or anything of the sort are required, providing a very quick and efficient workflow. For low-end systems or mobile devices, we provide a more classical lightmapping workflow. It parses your code and automatically understands what you are trying to do (such as writing to alpha for transparency, reading from screen, etc.)

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The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

with 17 alpha builds distributed in 2022, and continuous development effort since 2019. You may have already seen some of this content on social media, in blog posts, or in alpha release notes. Last but not least, lightmaps baking is now done using the GPU to speed up the process significantly. Check out the video! What's new?

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GLES2 and GDNative, progress report #6

Mircosoft Game Dev

alpha is planned to be soon, so those features will hopefully be ready to test by then. Done May 2018. enviroment relections. cubemap filtering. implement BRDF. omni lights. lambert+phong. normal maps. rewrite OAHashMap to use RobinHood hashing. improved C++ bindings compilation workflow. fixed a GDNative binary compatibility bug.

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