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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

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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Animation data rework for 4.0

Mircosoft Game Dev

In game engines (or even when exported from the 3D modelling application), animation data is baked to a simpler representation because, for games, processing beziers and IKs is way too expensive for real-time. A transform matrix is no longer used. They now do. Improvement in compatibility with non-uniform scaling.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

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 ). The whole API is now a lot more flexible than it used to be. x one, or adopt the new API from 4.0.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

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 ). The whole API is now a lot more flexible than it used to be. x one, or adopt the new API from 4.0.

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Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 8

Mircosoft Game Dev

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 ). The whole API is now a lot more flexible than it used to be. x one, or adopt the new API from 4.0.

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.5 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

This adds support for obstacle avoidance using the RVO2 library, and navigation meshes can now be baked at runtime. To help with the common task of accessing specific nodes from scripts, Juan Linietsky ( reduz ) added the concept of "scene unique names" for nodes in the master branch ( GH-60298 ), and Tomasz backported it for 3.5.

Beta 52
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Godot 3.1 is out, improving usability and features

Mircosoft Game Dev

If you use and enjoy Godot, plan to use it, or want support the cause of having a mature, high quality free and open source game engine, then please consider becoming our patron. Use baked lightmaps instead. is not a fallback but a different platform you should target your game for. GIProbes of course don't work.

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