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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

Breaking changes Animation Audio C# Core Editor GDScript Import Input Physics Platforms Rendering and shaders XR New in Beta 1! 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.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

Lightmap baking improvements Clay John changed the logic for baking direct lighting in LightmapGI to spread it over multiple frames, avoiding a spike of computation that can lead the OS to trigger TDR , resulting in a crash of the GPU context ( GH-102257 ). Animation: Fix incomplete FPS spinbox display in sprite frames editor ( GH-101798 ).

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

Mircosoft Game Dev

supports advanced global illumination techniques such as lightmapping (including SH lightmapping), Voxel GI (which is fully real-time) and SDFGI (which is a single click, open world GI solution). Animation streaming : Modern games have long cinematics, which require a lot of animation data. Additionally, Godot 4.0

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Cocos Creator 3.8 Community Beta is now available

Cocos

AGP upgraded to 8.0.2. AGP upgraded to 8.0.2. AGP upgraded to 8.0.2.

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Cocos Creator 3.7.1 Released

Cocos

(engine#14218) [XR] AR engine module update Fix shadowmap lowp with huawei and reflection probe brightness (engine#14058) Fix shader compilation error with the new version of lightmap (engine#14071) Fix unsynchronized model data issue when adding lod levels dynamically (engine#14054) Fix the issue that lod is not working properly when forced to use (..)

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Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Cocos

See the documentation “Render Debugging - Run Time Using Render debugging”: [link] • When the node animates, add the tween ‘destroySelf’ method to destroy the front nodal point. When the user turns on high-precision lightmap baking, 16-bit colors are used instead of 8-bit colors, and AO channels are baked separately.

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NVIDIA RTX, Unreal Engine 5 Define Future of Game Development and Content Creation

Nvidia

UE5 represents a generational leap in both workflows and visual fidelity, extending the engine’s support for DirectX Raytracing, NVIDIA DLSS, and NVIDIA Reflex, and adding new features such as Nanite and Lumen that make it faster and easier for games to implement photorealistic visuals, large open worlds and advanced animation and physics.